Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-25
MUCH WORK DONE.
Many Measures Passed and
Also Many Killed.
Final Adjournment Now Assured for
This Week.
A Summary Of tho Vast Amount Of Work Done,
Wednesday.

"wednesday.
How they worked, Wednesday!
There were two long sessions in both
branches and in morning and after
noon the spirit of hustle prevailed.
There were speeches by the score and
more measures were handled than on
any previous day of the session. A
mass OF them were passed, and many
were laid away under the cold sod to
see the light no more forever The
House and Senate fail to agree on
several important matters and half
dozen committees of conference are
trying to effect compromises Two
sessions, today. and two, tomorrow,
with perhaps an ending session thrown
in or possibly Saturday session, and
the 6Sth Legislature Of Maine will be q
thing Of the past. Nearly all agree
now that the final adjournment will be
reached, this week. This means work.
but it can be done. The stenographic
report elsewhere gives complete ac-
count of the work of Wednesday in
both branches.
The tax rate for 1897 and 1898 is
/ settled at "a mills. The committee re-
ported, Wednesday morning, and the
order passed both branches without a
word OF comment or objection 1t will
be struggle. they say, to carry the
State along with their rate unless a
temporary loan is resorted to.
The liveliest debate at the morning
session of the House was on the bill
to change the name of the State college
to the University of Maine. The speak
ers were Philbrook of Waterville and
Blanchard of Wilton against the bill:
and Stetson of Bangor, Pattangall of
Machias, Dickey Of Fort Kent, Shep-
herd Of Buxton and Talbot of Lewiston
in support of it, The bill passed the
House SO to 40, and this morning, will
be considered in the Senate. The bill
carries with it the whole fight on the
resolve for the college with additions
and variations.
The Australian ballot law will not
Isuffer single change, this winter. The
bill embodying the changes recon-
mended by ex-Secretary of State
Nicholas Fessenden, was indefinitely
postponed in the House after passing
the Senate. The Senate has insisted.
the House adheres and the bill dies.
1t provides for ballot commission, for
filling vacancies among representa-
tives-elect, and made a few minor
changes.
For the third time of the session, the
House has voted to indefinitely post
pone the Bangor Hospital resolve, and
now a conference committee is strug
Cling with the matter. The resolve as
it passed the Senate, appropriatin-,
SITE, 900 and doing away with the COM
mission, met no favor in the House
and the vote was 81 to five against it.
The anti-cigarette bill which has
been on the House table for over three
weeks, was given passage, yesterday,
after several amendments had been
rejected. 1t will come up in the Sen
ate, this morning, where considerable
opposition awaits it. The caucus bill,
in it's reduced and amended form, also
Ipassed the House to be engrossed.
Two new bills, both the outcome of
the recent Carson City fight, appeared
in the House, Wednesday. one pre-
scented by Davis of Steuben and the
other by Andrews of Garland. After
some discussion relative to passing
one or the other without reference,
they were referred to the judiciary
committee by vote of 50 to TO- The
first reads as follows: ANY person
exhibiting publicly any Photographic
or other reproduction of a prize fight
shall be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding $500" The other was entitled
"An act to prevent any exhibition OF
the Corbett- Fitzsmmons mill at Car
son City through the agency of the
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the bill recently introduced in the
Massachusetts Legislature and there
referred to the next Legislature. II
|provides that whoever gives or pro-
: notes a public or private representa-
ton, for which an admission fee is
charged, of prize fight. boxing match
or sparring exhibition by the kineto-
scope or by any other mechanism oil
process, shall be punished by fine moi
exceeding 5000 or by imprisonment fol
not more than three months or by
1both. The judiciary committee met il
the afternoon, and at the session unan
imously reported ought to pass on thu
first and shorter bill. The report wa
e accepted and under suspension of thu
y rules the bill was given three readings
and passed to be engrossed by a vot'
Z of IS to %. 1t was the quickest TIM
made by any measure thus far, and it
friends, who are much in earnest, sa.
it will pass the Senate without opposi
4 ton. No prize fight or representation
lof prize fights for Maine people.
The spirit of murder prevailed in tn
House, Wednesday, in spite of the anti
lprize fight feeling, and numerous pc
= measures were relentlessly killed. Tn
most important of these was the bicy
Gle bill. After hearing an amendmen
tackled on that left little or nothing Q
the bill it was indefinitely postpone
by a vote of Ill to seven. The bl
providing for travelling libraries me
the same fate without division. IN
bill regulating the width of tires to D
l. used on highways was likewise kllle
IS uitho,t a vote in its favor. AnOthe