Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-31
BUSY WEDNESDAY.
Many New Measures, an Nu-
merous Hearings Held.
Maine at ButfaIo--The Question Of
Equal Suffrage.
t--i t'r., -
e'a0 women watch the Lawmakers Today S
Session at 8 A. NJ.

it was busy day Wednesday at the
oapitoi. Along with the mid-wcek
rush OF the lawmakers who had a long
morning session and many afternoon
committee hearings. there was a. ni~
thrOng ef clubwomen who took nos
session. of the building At the morn
ing session they filled the spare chairs
on the iioor and looked down from the
SailefieS through the haze of smoke.
lheEe We're scores and scores of them
from all over Maine and the lawmak-
erS made them very welcome. In the
afternoon and evening the hall Of The
House was turned over to them. The
members of the Maine Press Associa-
ton were also in evidence and will he
more prominent, today. The morning
session was an hour and quarter
long IN the House, the time being
mainly taken with the dreary reading
of bills and the reference of new mat
ters. The only diversion was when the
House insisted, - to SO. on the refer
ence OF the bear bounty matter to the
committee on fish and game The
Alllfinocket bill. tabled n week ago
was referred to the committee on in
terror waters. The adjournment was
10 the early hour of s A. NJ. today The
sunrise session being i'm order to al
low the committee on the University of
Maine and other members to depart on
special train for Orono at . o'clock.
a large crowd will make the trip.
There was an avalanche of new
measures poured into the legislative
hopper. Wednesday morning. many
more than during any previous ses-
sion this winter In the House an
even hundred bills. petitions and re-
solves We're taken from the box by
Clerk Cotton and referred to the APP
propriate committees. 1t showed the
rush TO get in the private and special
measures before the expira ton of the
time limit. There We're bills to extend
and amend all kinds of old charters
and to create all kinds of new ones
and a mass of bills and petit
lions relating to inland fish and
game matters, herring fishing.
equal suffrage. new bridges. etc. etc.
All these new matters are mentioned by
title in the stenographic report Else
portant will be touched upon here. Mr..
Webb of Portland introduced a bill
providing for the appointment by the
Governor of board of five Maine
managers for the Pan-American ex-
position at Buffalo, this year They
are to serve without pay but their ex-
penseS are to be paid. The bill carries
an appropriation of $4,000 of which
$4,000 is to be expended upon a building
in connection with the other New
England states. to be known as the
New England building. From Cook of
Fassalboro came bill amending the
law of 1887 creating the Board of
Agriculture so that in the future the
secretary of the board will be elected
by the Legislature instead of by the
board as is now the case. Such a bill
was introduced. two years ago. and
failed of passing the House by only
one vote. A pair of railroad bills
authorized the Maine Central to ac
Quire the Knox and Lincoln and the
Androscoggin Railroads. a bill was in
troduced authorizing the Augusta, Hal
lowell and Gardiner Electric Railroad
Company to lease or sell its property
and franchise to the Lewiston. Winthrop
and Augusta Company. The long
looked for bill forbidding railroad com
panies to offer special rates for Sunday
excursions was put in by Foster of
Oakland and went to the committee on
judiciary. Two new banking measures
appea red. one bill Incorporating the
South Portland Savings bank, With
ex-Sena tor Reynolds as the first OF the
incorporators. and the other incorpor-
ating the Cumberland Trust Company
with Arthur W. Merrill. Isaac w.
Over Edward c. Hersey and s.
c. Perry as the incorporators.
The only taxation bill Of the day
was one by McFadden in the
Senate to repeal the law of 1895 taxing
vessel property. Shaw of Bath. who
has extensive lumber interest, put IN
till providing fine of $50 or i'm
prisonment for three monthsifor any
person failing to eXtingluSh. any fire
used for camping or cooking purposes
in the Maine woods. new bin pro-
vides that no police or municipal judge
shall be appointed who is not MEM
| Der of the Maine bar and that no
such Judge shall hold any state.
county or municipal executive once.
| Lincoln county. now without a NUM-
F, cipal court, has bill in for the crea-
| ton of one there. Among the resolves
of the day were those carrying $4,000
for a bridge across the Aroostook
river ut Washburn: $1,000 for bridge
across the Mattawamkeag river al
Bancroft: $500 for Limerick Academy
$3.50 for Eastern Maine Conference
Il Seminary: $3.50 for Leavitt Institute
$500 to be used by the attorney-Seh
eral for the detection of CRIMINALS
1872 to reimburse G.. c. Ryan for money
paid for hawkers and peddiars IL
censes: s1342 to reimburse Portland lo'
money paid on account of soldiers II
|ithe war with Spain: and Sso4 70 rs
simburse Rockland for money Summary
expended. ~I-.,,
Full suffrage for women was 'h
principal theme before the ]uoiclai
committee, Wednesday afternoon. Hai
q hundred ladies were present 10 ,i9tei
m tho able arguments OF their cham