The Portland daily press., 1901-01-09
Resubmission Resolve
To Be Submitted.
A Contest for Secretaryship Of
Board of Agriculture.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.1

Augusta, January S-Ihe LEGISLATORS
returned TO the capital today with pock-
cts bullying with bills, pstitions and
resolves, some of which were I'm portant
and some Of which were not. The short
session held this afternoon was almost
entirely devoted to the Introduction Of
these many measures. The demands on
ths state treasury come early and often,
the chief OF those which were made today
being the resolve to appr opriate 100000
to furnish the new insane hospital at
Bangor. The Gorham railroad fight
was begun by the introduction Of the
bill for the extension Of the Westbrook,
Windham and Naples road. With the
matters presented were reports OF others
TO come including a resolve for the
resubmission Of the prohibitcry amend.
ment to the constitution. Lines are being
drawn for q lively contest to dstermine
whether B. Walker blckeen shall
succeed himself a. secretary OF the Board
of Agriculture. The secretary Is elected
by that Board but the contest is one
which exc ties a good deal OF interest
among the members of the Legislature.
THE PRoHIBIToRY AMENDMENT.
Representative Kelley Of Lewiston,
House chairman of the temperance COM
mittee is the man who will probably In
troduce the resubpission resolve and 1t Is
the understanding tonight that 1t viii
make It's appearance In the morning.
Mr.. Kelley, while he Is himself a total
abstainer and has served as the president
of the st. Joseph's Temperance Society
of Lewiston, Is not believer in the
Maine law. The resolve is likely to re-
oeive considerable support more than has
been supposed would be behind it.
THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE.
The annual meeting of the State Board
Of Agriculture will be held here nsxt
week and it will be enliyened by con-
test over the secretaryship. Today Mr.
ID. FL. Knowlton of Pennington an
nounced that he should be a candidate.
MIR. KuowIton Is the secretary of the
State Pathological society and is an
authority OF national reputation upon
neurological questions. The names of
Mr.. John A. r. oherts OF Norway, W. j.
Thompson OF China, lecturer of the State
Grange, and Prof. Goweli Of the State
university have also been mentioned as
probable candidates. Mr.. Roberts Is at
present a member of the board and has
served in both branches OF the Legisla-
ture. The friends OF Secretary McKeen
have claimed that they had strength
- ali Hfrt, bFfe hat xNrag
tore Mr.. knowlton announced his candi-
1acy. The lines may now be drawn anew.
MIR. McKssn said this afternoon that he
was still candidate.
THE SCARBORo WATER COMPANY
|. Representative Webb of Portland pre-
sented today an act to incorporate the
Scarboro Water company to furnish to
the inhabitants OF Scarboro pure water
TOR domestic, sanitary, industrial, NUM-
oipal, and commercial purposes, includ-
ing the exsinguishment of fires and
sprinkling Of streets. The inoorporators
are Ephraim Dyer, Frank L. MARI and
j. Scott Jordan. The corporation is
authorized to take, collect, store, and
uSe water from springs In lands owned
by Ann ID, Jordan and S. Watson GAM
mon in Caps Elizabeth and Edwin "a.
Sylvester In Scarboro The capital
stock shall not exceed 5000, divided into
shares of 80 each. The act shall become
null and void in two years from the time
when the same takes sf1ect unless the
CORPORATION shall have organized and
commenced the construction and opera
ton of its works. The bill was referred
to the committee on Judiciary.
10 VOTE EARLY.
RepreseI tive Webb presented an
amendment TO the election law whereby
the polls may he open as carly as six
O'Clock In the forenoon, but In no case
shall the polls be kept open later than
five O'Clock in the afternoon. The matter
was referred to the committee on
judiciary.
THE EASTERN TELEPHONE COM
PANY.
Mr.. Walls of Vlnalhaven introduced a
hill to amend the charter of the Eastern
Telephone company. The bill incorpor
atss in the act 8 new second section,
differing from the old In an important
particular. In its present form, the
charter gives the company the right to
extend It's lines from islands in Penob-
SCOT bay to towns on the mainland.
The amended charter would give the