Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-30
new ELECTION.
Report Adopted and WaterviIle
Will Try Again.
Other Features Of Fifth Weeks
Opening Session.
Report OF Committee to Examine Treasurer
Accou"ts-.Tuesdays Hearings.

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The fifth week of the 10Th JaD;s
iature opened, Tuesday morning whel
the gavel fell at 1890 The unexpe,.tet
happened IN relation to'the Watervill,
election case. The report and &C
campaigning resolve declaring ina
Waterville made no choice for rep
resentative, and unseating Mr.. Davis
had been assigned for consideration
! "Wednesday morning. AS soon as til,
preliminary business of the morning
| was over Mr.. Carleton of Winthrop
moved to reconsider this assignment,
and consider them at once. explaining
that by agreement of the parties the
matter could be disposed of at once
| me report and resolve were therefore
taken up. and on motion of Chairman
! Dunn of the committee which pre-
SAnted them, 10th were accepted and
| accepted. There was not n breath Of
| opposition. not n word Of debate. and
| IN less than two minutes this matter
when has made so much controversy
was finaliy disposed of by the House.
Al once following this action. bin
was introduced by Mr.. Dunn provid-
ing for special election in Water
vile 10 fill the vacancy Under sus-
p"nsion'of the rules the bin was put
| through its three readings and passed
to be engroSsed. The engrossins he'd
| been done in advance and a little
| later the bin had been signed by the
Governor The bill provides that the
election may be held in seven DAYS.
In sc. A.
held for about two weeks. Neither
Mr.. Davis nor Mr.. Eaton We're at the
capitol. yesterday, both being at home
preparing for their second contest at
the polls. Needless to say great inter-
est centerS in the outcome and in the
meantime Waterville has no repre-
sentative in the Legislature
The session of Tuesday morning was
long one in the House continuing
until 1l.4o. There was not an unusual
amount of new matter nor was there
any discussion to extend the session
but there were a large number of
committee reports and many bills and
resolves on various stages of their
passage. The reading of these takes
time. Assistant Clerk Thompson took
hand in the reading. yesterday. and
allowed Clerk Cotton a Commute
breathing spell. After this week this
part of the daily work will be much
greater and there will be fewer new
measures to be received and referred
Two of the resolves were hung up.
yesterday, pending their second read
ing and tabled for one week. They
We're the resolve carrying the fish and
game appropriation and the resolve
carrying $4,000 to pay Ex-Governor
Powers for money advanced last year
| for building the Bangor hospital. The
| first was tabled by Pumer of Port
| land and the latter by Pattangau of
| Machias.
| The batch of new bills. petitions
and resolves. Tuesday morning. in
Guided several new measures of con-
siderable Importance. Bennett of
Hollis put in bill providing that any
| person detecting and arreSting a person
guilty of murder in Maine shall, upon
| due proof being filed with the Gov
ernor and Council. be paid a reward of
| $500 by the State. If there are two or
more claimants for the reward the
matter shall be adjusted by the justice
| of the supreme judicial presiding at the
| trial of the alleged murderer A bill
appeared providing the town shall
elect selectmen for term of three
years. one new member of the board
| being chosen each year. Another new
| bill compels towns to raise for school
purposes each year 81 for each inhabi-
| tant of the town, exclusive of money
received from the State. from funds.
etc. instead of so cents as under the
present law. A new taxation bill raises
the tax on the business done in Maine
by foreign banking corporations from
one fourth of one per cent. to three
| fourthS of one per cent. The first
| lobster bill of the winter provides that
no lobster shall be caught between
| June | and November ! in the water
adjacent to Lubec and Prescott under
penalty of 81 for every lelJster SO
taken. The first bin relative to the
| Pan American exposition ut buffalo,
next summer. also appeared, carrying
an appropriation of $3.50 to aid the
Maine Pathological Society to make an
exhibit of Maine fruit there.
Two matters of much interest to
Pcnobscot county appeared at Tues
days session. The first amends the
lhiIi Of. 1885 authorizing the ! cities Of
Bangor and Brewer to buy the toll
bridge between the two cities by pro
viding that the county of Penobscot
shall pay half the purchase price IL
is said that if this bill is passed the
bridge will be bought and made free.
There is certain to be an opposition 10
1.-THE bill from outside the cities OF Ban
gor and Brewer. The second bill which
ideeply interests Penobseot county Is
that which authorizes a loan for the
erection of a new court house at fah-
gor. A long petition signed by the
Penobscot bar accompanies the Dill,
A bill appeared annexing the whoie oi
Sheridan plantation to the town Vi
Ashland. The new resolves inciunlne
lone of $3.50 for Madawaska Academy
$1,000 TO repair the Allegash ROAD anu
$1,000 10 rebuild the Plumnaer brlcge ~
the town Of Harrington. The enemies
of bruin were heard from in a nuiioei
of petitions asking for bounty vi
lbears as there was few years aS"
Trese were sent 10 the Committee u
Agricrlture. but later this was req,
sidered ,rd they were sent 10 '"'
lco,,n,;+.aa on Fish and Game Whe!e