The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-02-24
JUDGES BILL PASSES.
Senate Votes Increase Of Salaries
Asked For.
TWO OF the OPPOSITION WE'RE
ABSENT YESTERDAY.


Friends of Measure VIII Now Make .
Fight I'm the Observation-Disclosures
Department To He Investigated-Ne
Liquor Laws To he Passed.
sYEcIAL TO THE YRRsal
Augusta, February 2-1he absence Of
Senators Hodsdon and Sharp In the Sen
ate today left In the seats fourteen
gentlem IN who favored the judges salary
bin and fourteen who opposed IL. The
result. was that President Ciason cast .
deciding vote in favor Of the bill and IL
passed. 1t now goes 10 the House.
Uptil the last day or two 1t has been
supposed that the measure could not pass
the House but now, Inspired BY their
victory in the Senate, the friends Of the
measure ars not without hope that II
may get through the lower branch.
The bill came up in the Senate BY as
signment and Mr.. Stearns, without
making any remarks, moved that It be
given Its second reading. On this motion
be called for the yeas and nays, which
were ordered, the vote resulting rs fol-
| lower
Yes-Alessrs Adams, Chamberlain,
| Drummond, Dudley, HAmlin Hargraves,
| Head, Hurd, Jones shepherd, Stearns,
vickery. White and Whitehouse-l4.
eIsSoje ss:o, K Ssn0S S. fi P,ssS
Pike. Piumnef. Rsynoids, sawyer,
Weeks, Withnsu, Young-f4.
Senator Clason then cast the decisive
vote in the affirmative.
FOR THE NORMAL SCHOOLS.
Representa- Burns introduced today
resolves sppropriating 1880 annually for
repairs and supplies for the Pennington,
Gorhnm and Castine normal schools,
$500 annually for the expenses Of the nor
NAL school trustees and 5000 for the
Msdawaska Training school
THE SCHOOL FUND.
Yesterday. Representative Virgin Of
Portland gave notice that he should In.
troduoe resolve providing that money
appropriated for the academies should e
taken from the school fund and mil tax.
subsequently MIR. Virgin presented the
resolve and the House voted to refer IL
to the committee on education. Today
| MIR. Virgin Withdrew the resolve. In
doing so, Mr.. Virgin stated that since ht
gave notice of his intention to present
the resolve many members of the Senate
and House had expressed to him the hops
that he would not press the matter al
they believed the passage of the resolve
would work injustice to the smaller
towns Mr.. Virgin said he had presented
the resolve in the interests OF economy
membe opposed to 1t. He moved tina,
| the vote referring the measure be recon
sidered and that Is be Indefinitely post
poned. 1t was SO voted and the Houss
applauded.
NEW MEASURES.
Senator Reynolds introduced resolvs
appropriatipg $1,000 to be used as or
emergency fund during outbreaks O
small pox or other contagious diseases.
Senator Viokery presented a bill making
| close time on deer In Androscoygin
county of four years.
| Senator Shepherd presented bill t
authorize the Waldo street railway to dis
continue its car service in the vintel
months.
INVESTIGATION FEVER.
| The legislature has the investigation
fever and to the measures calling for in
formation on the salaries paid at tn,
University Of Maine, the use OF RAILROAD
passes by state officials, and other matter
there has been added an order calling fo
a detailed statement of the expenses o
| the agricultural department. The orde,
passed the House some days ago and ha
since slum bered on the. Senate table. Or
motion of MIR. Merrill today, that Senate
took 1t from the table and 1t was put up
| on | ts passage.
THE LIQUOR LAW.
| The committee on temperance met thi
noon and voted to report adversely on tn,
bill before them making a number o
changes In the prohibitory law. This Il
| the measure which was the subject OF
| long hearing several weeks ago. at which
time Mrs. l. Nj. n. Stevens. representing
the w. G. 4. u, Grant Rogers, Esq
representing the Good Templars, and
l
The bill was the only one before the com
mittee.
THE LAW AND THE CHARTERS.
| The old question Of the special charter
VS.. tho general law came up again thi.
noon when the committee on railroads
telegraphs and expresses gave hearing
on the petition of the Winthrop Telephon,
company for authority to construct u lin,
from winthrop to Augusta. Hon
Clarence Hale. who appeared for the New
England Telephone and Telegraph com
pany. coDtended that the general law
gives all the necessary. authority. Hon
l.. I. Carleton who appeared for tn,
Winthrop company, said he drafted tn,
general law and as he ought to know
what lie was talking about when he sale
that his line could not built q roc
| without the consent Of the New Engla nd
company, and that consent IL could moi
obtain. He characterized the 10 cal rate.
of the New England company as not only
| exorbitant but outrageous. He claimed
| that for small enterprises special charters