Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-12
WEDNESDAYS WORK.
Short Sessions With Many
New Measures.
Constitutional Amendment Refusing
Aid to Sectarian Schools.
Council Committees Announced Demo Gratis
Will Support Mayor Lord for Senator.

For session that is only week old it
is getting settled down to business in
very nice fashion. The new members are
learning the ropes. The bills and petit
tions are coming in by the score, each
morning. The committees are now or
ganiZed and are getting their dockets in
to form for hearings in the near future.
Yesterday, the members carried off at
noon huge packages of stationery. show
ing their ready understanding of one of
their new responsibilities. The sessions
of both branches opened promptly at 10
A. NJ, Wednesday, with almost perfect
attendance. In the Senate adjournment
was made in half an hour, while it took
the House just twice as long to dispose
of the work before it.
The big pile of measures referred by the
last Legislature to this were taken up
and handed over to the tender mercies of
the appropriate committees. The more
important of these measures were men
toned in Tuesdays Journal. Judge
Smith took from the table the order
placed there after Tuesdays lively debate
and it was referred to the committee on
public buildings. 1t will be some days yet
before Clerk Cotton and Secretary Dun
bar know just where they are at. as re-
CARDS rooms for the session. The pro-
posed constitutional amendment offered
in the House refusing State aid to secta-
rian or private educational institutions is
nothing new, except in it's form. and its
fate can only be cOnjectured. There was
a good grist of new measures, important
and unimportant, in both branches
Those attracting the most interest are
briefly mentioned below.
In the House Perkins of Cornish. pre-
scented a resolve carrying $500 for
each of the next two years Tor
Parsonsfeld Seminary. Murphy of
Lewiston. offered resolve authorizing
the State treasurer to pay those Maine
soldiers in the war with Spain who have
not already received bounty. sum
| equal to that already paid some of them.
This applies to the LIST Maine recruits
and the battery recruits Morey of Lew
| isfon offered a bill directed against
| insurers. 1t limits the interest on loans
| on personal property of less than 5000 to
- ner cent and gives the borrower more
rights than he now has Webster Wooden
Company asks permission to supply the
village of Sabattus with water for mu-
nicipal purposes. McFadden of Dresden
offered an amendment to the State consul
+ution to be submitted to the voters at
tho next State election. 1t strikes out ar
tic,e 3 of the constitution and substitutes
the following: THE educational system
of4+ba State consists of the common
schools. the high schools. the normal
..hoo,s and public libraries. and all these
shall be literally supported by general
40, tom or
ment shall ever be made by the Legisla-
ture TO any sectarian school or other prl-
rate institution of learning. Cherryfield
Academy asks for $500 for the next t"'
,,a,rs Calais Academy asks for $500 fol
next two years There were ten ions pc
t;tions for an appropriation to ana 'h'
C,hildren's Aid Society of Maine az hel
fast. and a resolve carries s2ooo 1or 'hi'
institution Oyer 50 Winterport c'a~eh'
petition that Cyrenus b. Downs OF .n"
town. be reimbursed for money pau
substitute in the Civil war. Two nun
} dred and eighty-five citizens asKs1 S'a'
AID. IN repairing the Seboeis ROAD III re
,obscot and Piscataquis counties, ana al
,ccompanying resolve carries S-'"" ~
D ,bis purpose The Lewiston SISTERS
0 CHARITY asks for $1,000 for. their 'hosplta'
xvaldohOro asks for $444 10 coiieN' an
r ,or in the school returns. Certain Gu
:, ,.ns of Prescott ask to be annexed
Z ,ho town of Edmunds. The Passama
,,,,adv Indians ask for $1,000 to repai
,he;r church. remohstrahce u "
n...ing citizens against annexation
portland was presented by wilson
(,orbom An order was passed askin
:, ta,e legal affairs committee to look int
the expediencyr of providing FUND to = !;
The disposal Of the attorney general
- detection and punishment of Grim
lnals.
T., the Senate Senator Hamln prcsentf
.,,o memorial of Eugene Hale and othel
- tho Hancock county bar in favor
.no increase Of the salaries of the ju
.;nos of the supreme judicial court. Sci
,,or Adams presented a resolve apr
,ri,ting $1,000 annually for the Bang
3 rhiIdren's home. A single word som
t;,,cs makes a lot of difference. The Ia
, legislature passed a law creating the o
- road commissioner in towns. I'll