Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-01-12
FRIDAYS WORK,
a Bill to Tax Railroads On
Capital Stock.
bangor Hospital Resolve Passes the
Senate.
House Ruies claa3,d Aiourncd 10 TUESDAY
Electors Meet. Today.

4"e seccnd Week OF the 10Th Lesis-
nature closed with an hours session
iluay morning. 1t was a busy
session, although only a few inaoo~tant
new measures wee iati.oduced Tho
matters introduced in each BODY We're
ciSposec OF IN concurrence in the othe,
81 'o 10 nave the slate as clear as
dl the opening of the third
~ the House quite / portion OF
the TIME was devoted to the changin o
VI e"o OF the important rules govern
liS inns Dody, and at the close there
""' an amusing series of attempts to
- me ORDER Tor adjournment prom
efIy framed ana satisfactory to All
ieh the adjournment was made at II
A NJ. II was until 1880 next Tuesday.
"A" III the meantime, except for the
meeting of the presidential electors
TO-DAY and Monday. there will be little
gong on at the Capitol except the
routine work OF the various depart-
raents.
IN the Senate, McF&ddcn Of Lincoln
lred TO hold UP the resolve carving
St0,o00 for the furnishing and prepara-
ton of the Eastern Maine Insane Hos
pital which had been reported favor
ably by the committee There was n
short debate but he had no slpnortors
and the resolve had its readings. was
passed to be engrossed and went down
to the House where il was given its
first reading. The most important bin
of the day was introduced in the
Senate by Mr.. McFadden. and it pro-
Vldes for the taxation of railroads on
the basis of their capital stock. This
IS an entirely different scheme from
that OF the bills introduced by Farms
worth and Gardner in the House. 1t
provides that the railroads shall make
d return OF their capital stock. giving
the names OF ali shareholders and the
amount held by each. The State
Assessors shall ascertain the true
value of such stock and from the total
shall deduct the value of all real estate
which bears municipal taxation Upon
the balance the railroad company shall
pay tax at the rate of one and one
half per cent for the year 1901, and for
each year heleafter the rate shall be
the same as the average rate of
municipal taxation through the State
as aScertained by the State Assessors.
One-half of the tax shall be paid before
July l. and one-half before December
81. One-half the tax thus collected
shall remain in the State treasury for
the use of the State. and one-half shall
be paid TO the cities and towns in pro
portion to the amount of stock held IN
each. This bill. like the others, was
sent to the Taxation Committee.
In the House considerable time was
devoted n t,,-o rh in
proposed by Chase Of Portland of the
Committee on Rules. The first was an
amendment providing that all bills.
petitions. resolves. etc, shall be in the
hands OF the clerk. or deposited in a
box already placed in front of the
clerks desk for the purpose, before )
O'Clock of the day previous to the one
on which they are to be introduced.
This will allow the clerk to arrange
them by committees. and viii greatly
help the dispatch Of business at the
morning session. The second amend
ment changes the rule which provides
that all resolves apprOpriating money
shall! have their second reading on the
Wednesday following their first read
ing. by giving the House full power to
name any subsequent day for their
second reading. Mir. Chase explained
the object of these two amendments
and both were unanimously adopted.
The cause of woman suffrage re-
ceiVed aid in the House through a
petition signed by Turner Grange and
the Turner w. G. 7. t., SOB names in
all. A bill was introduced repeating
the law for the protection of deer in
Cumberland. Sagadahoc and York
counties and placing them under the
general law. The first town division
matter appeared in the form of
petitions for part of Wellington TO be
annexed to Cambridge. \ bill was put
in forbidding any building to be moved
across a railroad track without IS
hours notice to the company. Daniel
H. Lambert OF OronO. who spent $50 in
frutless contesting the seat of Marion
H. Tyler in the 69th Legislature, asks
the State to reimburse him. Five re-
solves appeared in the House carrying
respectively $1,000 annually to the } u
gusta City Hospital; $1,000 to the
Maine Central Institute; $50 to Patten
Academy $500 to Freedom Academy:
and 81 900 to repair the road from
Patten to Grand Lake.