Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-11
A LIVELY START,
IheFirst Real Business Session
Proves a Busy One.
b'ngor Hospital Resolve. --Other I'm
portant Measures.
First Speeches in House Committees Oruan.
'ze-summay Of tuesdays Work.

| ~oAAu WIEN u 04aS WILL MdtH'
Legislature has opened up in live!,
fashion. The session Of Tuesday wa
the first real business session Of tn,
winter. and the members showed tina
they had come back from the foul
days recess loaded to the muzzle will
bills and petitions. The avalanche ha.
begun early and the prospect is thu
1t will continue late. Promptly at 10.St
both branches were called to order
| and 1t was about II when both were
| adjourned until 10 A. NJ, this morning
The shortness of the session, however
did not prevent a good number Of i'm.
portant measures from being intro.
sduced. In the Senate there We're quite
a number of vacant seats. but very
few members of the House were alb.
sent.
Two years ago the session was sew
eral weeks advanced when the frs;
speech was made. but this year the
tank of eloquence has already been
tapped. The occasion of the first
speech making was joint order which
came to the House from the Senate,
yesterday morning. directing the COM
mittee on public buildings to provide
suitable quarters for the use of the
clerk Of the House and secretary Of the
Sonafa 1n6Da INIT Of T.lo
declared in very vigorous language
that this apparently innocent order
was designed to turn the secretary and
clerk out of the rooms they have oc-
cupied for several sessions. and NOV ed
that it be tabled. Guernsey of Dover,
WILDER of Avon, Maxwell of Richmond.
and Macomber of Augusta, all spoke
briefly in favor of referring the order
to the committee. Much interest was
manifested and it was evident that
the matter had been considerably
talked over. The rooms in question are
occupied all the time the Legislature
is not in session by the bank examiner
and the railroad commissioners as
private offices. These departments
feel the need of these rooms during the
session as we'll as other times, and feel
that suitable rooms for the clerk and
secretary can just as well be provided
elsewhere. On a viva vOce vote the
volume, of ayes and noes" seemed
equafs but Speaker Stetson declared
the motion of Judge Smith carried. and
the Srder tabled, and no one asked for
another vote.
An order passed the House naming
January % as the limit of the time to
receive matters of private and special
legislation. This time is usually eX-
tended later In the Senate the feature
of the morning was the resolve for tn"
completion of the Eastern Maine In
sane Asylum at Bangor. This re-
solve was introduced by Senator Plum
mer. 1t carries s225, 900, half to be paid
in 1899 and half in 1900. With the re-
SOlNe Was d lOilS oldleHiCH' u i"~e
regarding the condition of the work
now and the needs for the future.
Among the important new measures
in the Senate were a bill by Senator
Drummond providing for the election
of three women on the Portland school
board. if the city votes in favor of the
change; a bill by the same senator to
change the name of Colby University
| back to the more appropriate one Of
Colby College, which it bore until
| few years ago; resolve of $1,000 an
nually for Wilton Academy; several
| long petitions for increasing the salary
of the supreme court Judges: a bill by
Senator Head allowing street railway
| companies to secure stock In othei
roads. much like the law of 1897 allow
| ing steam roads to do this.
Following is brief mention or the
most important new measures pre-
sented in the House: Judge PhliDrook
presented a bill extending the rights
and privileges Of the Waterviiie
wiscasset r. r. Co. to January /, 1901
The Westbrook, Windham & Harriso;
nv. Co. through Mr.. Burns of West
brook. asked for similar extension D
1.-TWO wears. The Somerset hallway 60
.,s, asked for an extension OF time
eight years for it to locate and eXtehe
IT'S line. The Temporary Home 10
women and Children in Deering ask
Cor s25OO the next two years. Smith o
pressure Isle, presented bill provid
ing for a license for hunters, ~ 10
residents and IS for non-residents
aiming thereby to obtain revenue 10
the protection of fish and game. MI
webb of Portland, presented a resolv
~ favor of the Maine General Hos
n;tal asking for $500 for each of tn
naxt two years. Another resol"
called for $3.50 annually for Pate
Academy for the next 10 years. Their
u,are several petitions for the annexa
, t,on of Deering to Portland. hi
which caused good laugh was prs