Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-26
RUSH OF BUSINESS.
a Busy Wednesday in Session
and Committees.
DeerIng Annexation and Other I'M
portant Hearings.
huge Stack Of Bills and Petitions First
6ouqust Session 1t "a. N. To-day.

Wednesday was a working day at the
Capitol. Everything was rush and bustl
from the time the morning session wa.
| called to order until the last commit tie,
hearing was over in the evening. Til
forenoon session in the House was the
longest yet. lasting an even hour and i
, was marked by an avalanche of bills and
petitions that threatened to bury the
speaker and clerk. The number of new
measures introduced was enormous and
many We're of much Importance. In tht
Senate the session was shorter and fewe,
bills appeared. The appearance of the
! Eastern Maine insane hospital resolve IN
the House from the Senate did not make
a ripple, and it went along the even tenor
of its way. The act changing the name
of Colby University to Colby college
| passed the House to be enacted the see
ond bill of the session to be so far adj
vanced. The first was the bill authoriz-
| ing temporary loan of 100000 The gen
eral appropriation bill did not appear in
| the House. as was expect ted. but it will
| be put in this morning.
The first bouquet of the session spread
its fragrance through the hall of the
House. "Wednesday. 1t was on the desk
of Mr.. keefe. the newly seated member
| from Eliot. and the card said simply
from York county friend The hand
writing, however. looked very feminine
The bouquet was made up of handsome
red and white carnations, and was later
| placed in a pitcher on the desk of Speak
err Stetson.
When the two branches adjourned it
was to meet at s o'clock this morning.
This second sunrise session is held in or
der that the committee on the University
of Maine, with such other members as
desire to go, may take the 9.l2 A. NJ.
| train for Bangor. This will be ladies' day
az the Capitol, and the Maine Women's
Federation will have the Representatives
hall this afternoon.
Among the stack of new measures that
appeared, yesterday. the more important
are briefly mentioned here. The official
report in another column tells the detailed
story of the routine proceedings. In the
House Mr.. Manley of Augusta. intro
duced bill amending the laws rcgula.-
ing the organization of corporatio I'M
der the general law so that the $40 600 .003
limit of the capital stock of corporations
so formed, shall be abolished. and no linz
it fixed. This is intended to bring larg,
corporations to Maine to organize and In
crease the State revenues. An act was
introduced allowing the Laconia and Pep
perell companies in BiddefOrd to consOl-
idate. BodWell of Hallowell put in a bill
amending the city charter of Hallowell
so that it shall be governed by a mayor
and council of seven men, one from each
ward and two at large, instead of TWO
boards. at present. and providing that
the city marshal and street commission
er be elected by popular vote. A bill was
introduced raising to 60 days the time in
which notice of an accident may be Civ
| en- to a corporation in order to recover
for injuries from the corporations neg
ligence. kilburn of Bethel. put in an act
creating a municipal court for Rumford
Falls Guernsey of Dover. introduced a
bill allowing women to be appointed reg
| listers of deeds in case of the death or
| absence of the register. Hill of Belfast.
presented a bill giving cities the power
to compel owners of real estate to keep
| adjacent sidewalks clear of snow. Jeffer-
son asks that the doings of its 1897 town
meeting be legalized. defective warrant
having made them Illegal. A resolve
| came in carrying $1,000 to aid in building
| a bridge over ST. CroiX stream in Masar-
dis. The Penobscot judge of probate asks
| to have his salary increased TO 5000. over
! a dozen petitions coming with the bill.
| and the Bangor municipal judge also
wants an increase. Staples of Bridgton.
| put in bill creating a bounty of 81 on
| hen hawks and there were several petit
tions accompanying it. Canton wants the
! State to pay it $3.50 in abatement for " ~
| taxes on pulp mills destroyed by IRE
! April .. 1897. Norway wants $323 to reim-
| burse it for money paid destitute Italian
| laborers. not residents of Maine in 1881.
Some of the residents of FrenchVille want
! to be set off and made town by the
name of ST. Agatha. Gardiner wants S2'l
/ to reimburse it for money paid the fami-
| lies of soldiers in the war with Spain.
| Numerous York county farmers ask for
an act for the determination of weeds.
| Westbrook Seminary asks for $3oo an
nually for two years. Beal of Bangor.
put in a resolve carrying $1,000 for the eX-
| trina ton of diseased cattle during lS!'
land 1900 under the law of 1889. Mlbridge
wants $500 to aid it in repairing a bridge
over the Narraguagus river. Eliot WOOD.
Leroy T. Carleton. Chas. l. Bailey. Il. Il.
Jones, H. f. Foster and Chas. ID. wood
ask to be incorporated as the Winthrop
Telegraph and Telephone Company with
the right to extend lines in Monmouth
Winthrop Manchester and Augusta. me
Aroostook judge Of probate wants MS
salary raised to $1,000. f. NJ. Goodall and
others ask authority to build streci
railway from Biddeford to York Beach.
The Pisca taQuis county attorney wants Il
salary of $500 Guernsey of Dover, put IN
| a bill providing that the money received
| from licensing dogs be used for the sup
mort of free public libraries in cities and
towns. FarnswOrth of Pembroke. put IN
the bill to regulate the sale and analysis
-, food which was published in the Jour
nal a few days ago Brown of faimouth
introduced a bill creating naval reserve
as u mart of the National Guard of Maine
II nrovides that it shall consist of mol
more than one battalion in time OF peace
| and two in time of war. The battallei
shall have four divisions and one engi-
ncer.s division. The line division shat