The Portland daily press., 1897-01-05

Representative Jones of Ohirs, afte
looking over the field this evening CON
oluded to withdraw. The other candidate
is Mr.. Chalk, the ex-factory inspector
but Mr.. Neal is regarded as virtually
sure of reelection. His assistant will be
| Mr.. l.. H. Hammond. j. L. Frederick,
Chaplin Lidstone and S. 3. Holbr ook are
again candidates for folders. The two
latter have rival candidates to meet. All,
however. have been faithful and
courteous officers, n fact which counts in
their favor if there ID a contest. R.4C.
n Dyes will again be eoorkepeer WIN
Walter D. Bean as his associate.
Among the early arrivals, Sopay was was
Hon. Seth Il. Larrabee of P6ytifnu, Wno ~
will be the Speaker of the Hous& M. NJ.
Larrabee will live this winter in pis
square room on the ground floor Of tbs
| Augusta house. Here Mr.. Larrabee is
listening to the geutemaen who call TO
tell him what committees they prefer.
Hon. A. R. Day Of Corrinna, who will
be the president of the Senate, has gone
into winter quarters in his old rooms at
Hotel North, which are shared by hepTe-
sentative Littlefield Of Belfast. Mr.. Day
ls tsIUUll0E luhu WIZ lS hCpo pooy =
receptions. In the throngs in the h0tsl
lobbies are other we'll known fgur 9.
Hon. Charles Mccullough of. Calais is
here happy in the thought that 1t Will
not be necessary to fight the Washington
county railway battle all over again IN
the legislature this winter. Hon. "A. Il.
Nickerson of Boothbay Harbor, whose
able leadership In the fights over the nsD-
ing laws in past sessions will be recalled,
is an Interested spectator of the doings
Of tonight. Mr.. Nickerson does not LOOK
for any marked changes in the fishery
laws at this session. Mr.. Rodick or
Eden is among the arrivals, and 30 IS
Hon. Horace Mitchell of Kittery, VINO
was general in chief In that famous legls-
lature battle over the Kittery Point toll
bridge. ~
There is not as yet. much gossip about
probable legislation. 1t seems to be TAX
On for granted, as solearly intimated in
the PRESS that the railroad war is off.
in the eastern coast section there ID a
movement in favor of a renewal in that
never ending controversy over the lobster
law. The law as 1T now stands permits
the Waking of Holsters not less than 10
and ene-half inches in length the year
round. The present movement is for
close time but it is too early yet to tel
whether it will amount to much.
The Maine Sportsmen's Fish and Game
association will hold its annual meeting
here tomorrow and 1T will be awaited
with interest to see if the association will
endorse the demand for extensive changes
In the game laws and a largely increased
appropriation.
There are distant Yumors of battle
over the State college. The status OF that
institution is the subject OF an exhaus-
tive report being prepared by Hon. T..
Dudley Freeman OF the Governors coun-
Gil. This report Is eagerly awaited. This
parties to the coming controversy are
the friends of the institution on the one
hand who want it to be the recipient of
liberal state aid and those, on the other
hand who alGm shat il has drjftao
away from its original purpose. and at
the same time has become great and
increasing expense.
BY tomorrow night the majority Of the
mem bers will be here. In the evening
the caucuses will be held for the n0mi-
nation of Senate and House officers. The
general legislative caucus at which the
f1s hit over the attorney generalship will
be settle occurs Wednesday evening.
There are six lone Democrats this year,
IL In the House.
There is on foot movement to substi
tute for the present Australian secret
ballot an American secret ballot in fact
a method Of voting devised by James H..
Bradbury of Augusta. MIR. Bradbury has
bill which got as far as the judiciary
committee two years ago providing for
an enclosure of some light material n
which shall be placed a table, reposi-
tory for small old fashioned ballots witt
compartments properly labelled. There
will be. IL this bill should become a law,
official envelopes provided by the secre-
tary of state and each voter may select
his ballot enclose i5 In one f these and
come out to the ballot box where he
will deposit it in the usual way.
When Byron Boyd is secretary of state
there will be some changes in that office
according to semi-official announcements
that nave been made here today.
In this &C n 1ection the interest centers
in the statement that Mr.. Boyd will
give an appointment to Sumner j. Chad
bourne formerly Of Dexmont VINO issno W
living in Augusta.