Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-19
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A DAY OF FIGHTS.
House Again Kills the Bangor
Hospital Resolve.
Senate Passes Resolve for Soldiers
Home at Newport.
Two Sessions on Teday's Programme. and
Probably Saturday Session.

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rushing business now at the Capitol
and they are planning on an extension
OF the same programme. Today two
sessions of both bodies will be held In
the forenoon. at 10 o'clock and in the
afternoon at o'clock. The same or
der, which passed both branches yes.
terday, provides for one session Satur.
day and one Monday. and thereafter
TWO sessions daily until another Sat.
urday, unless final adjournment IL
reached before.
thursday was a busy day with the
lawmakers, though not so lively and
iull OF exciting incident as the previous
day. 1t was full Of interesting debate
and much real work was done. In the
House 1t was voted without debate to
reconsider the previous action on the
state college resolve, and on motion of
Col. Stetson Of Bangor, it was voted
to concur with the Senate vote of $50,
GOO annually for 10 years with tuition
to be engrossed. There was almost
no new business in the House. There
was mass of committee reports, sew
eral committees reporting finally A
feature of the session was an exciting
tin between Hamilton and O'Niel, both
OF Biddeford, regarding certain amend
ments to the city charter OF Biddeford,
The House finally supported the posi-
ton taken by Mr.. Hamilton. Repre-
snetative Dudley of Brockton and
Hurd of Northport, were excused from
furtherm attendance. making seven
members thus far excused
The event of the day around which
moot interest centered was the contin-
ued debate on the Eastern Maine In
sane hospital resolve, the pending
question being the motion to indefinite
ly postpone. The motion was carried
after two and a half hours of debate
by vote of SO to 81, and for the sec
ond time of the session the House had
killed the measure. The debate was
opened at about II o'clock by Judge
t'hilbrook of Waterville, for the re-
solve. and his long speech was fol-
lowed by able and eloquent speeches
by Talbot of Lewiston, Palmer of Ban
gor. Fogler of Rockland. and Pearl of
Bangor. for the resolve; and Pattengall
of Machias, Walton of Skowhegan,
Smith of Pressure Isle, and Hamilton
of Biddeford against the resolve. At
A'o0 AVA ShC iiOco VI OIdlOIy SuUSlueQ
and vote was reached. The interest
was intense. five times the vote was a
tie. and up to the last few votes Of the
tally no man knew which side would
win. The motion to indefinitely post
rone was carried So to 81. and the re-
solve goes to the Senate from the
House in exactly the same shape as it
did after the debate and vote Of Feb
ruary %, though not killed by so large
a majority. The speeches, which We're
of unusual excellence and interest, are
found with the report of the routine
business in the stenographic report
The Senate also had it's quota of in
teresting features, though it's session
closed earlier than the House, and did
not draw so large crowd of specta-
tors. The resolve for the soldiers home
at Newport was the matter that
brought out the speeches. Senators
Morrill, of Cumberland and Billings of
Waldo spoke in favor of the resolve.
and it was opposed by Reynolds of
Cumberland and Walls of Knox.
When it came to vote the Senate re-
fused, is to II, to concur with the
House in Indefinitely postponing the
resolve, and passed it along through
its several readings. Now it comes
back to the House for another battle
The majority and minority reports
of the judiciary committee on the mat
ter Of State aid for sectarian institu-
lions were presented in the Senate,
and tabled.
Among new business in the Senate a
big batch of petitions from different
Grand Army Posts throughout the
State in favor of the Soldiers Home at
Newport, came in. Head of Kennebec
presented an act providing that the
trustees Of the State College of Agri-
culture and Mechanic Arts shall re-
ceive $500 day for their regular visits
at said institution and the same sum
for every 20 miles of travel. Stearns
of Aroostook presented an act in rela-
ton to interpretations, providing the
name of every company organized
and doing business in this State shall
be CT such distinctive form as to show
plainly that such corporation is not an
individual nor a co-partnership firm.
If on trial it shall appear that the
name is of form likely to deceive and
that the plaintiff has been deceived,
the stockholders in such corporation
shall be liable according to the Law
governing partnership liability.
There were no hearings, Thursday
afternoon, but several committees met
in executive session and disposed of
bills before them. There will be more
committee work of similar nature,
today, and possibly a little the first of
the week.
The judiciary committee spent
Thursday afternoon in executive ses-
sion and acted on a number of meas
ures. 1t was voted ought to pass on
the bill relating to the packing of lime
in bags, the bill relating to highway
taxes, and the bill relating to the Leb-
anon Water Company. The committee
voted ought not to pass on the bill in
troduced, Wednesday, by Mr.. Fernald
Of Levant. relating to lobbyists. The
bill relating to stenographers for grand
juries was referred to the next Leg
islature. One or two minor changes
were made in the bill introduced by
Mr.. Moore Of Deering prohibiting the
use of diseased meat for domestic pur-