Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-16
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
schools, and report by bill or other
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

wise.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The Committee on Governors Mes
sage to which was referred. Order of
the Legislature relating to considera-
ton of Governors message, having
had the same under consideration re-
port that the following portion relating
to the fec system be referred to the
Committee on Judiciary.
Report accepted and so referred.
PASSED TO BE ENGROSsED.
Bill, An act to regulate the ice fish
ing in Thompson Pond in Oxford,
Casco, Poland and Otisfield.
ORDERS OF THE DAY
Mr.. VIRGIN of Cumberland: Mr..
President-Some days ago matter
was presented here relating to the
Camden Water Company, which was
referred to the Committee on Judi
ciary, and sent into the House and
there concurred in. and the following
day the senator from Knox moved to
reconsider the vote whereby it was
referred; and l moved that the motion
to reconsider be laid upon the table.
/ now move that the matter be taken
from the table, and be acted upon by
the Senate at the present time. 1t
would seem that the matter. having
been referred to the Judiciary in both
branches, that that would be the
proper tribunal before whom it should
go for Il hearing; and l hope the
motion TO reconsider will obtain
Mr.. STAPLES of Knox: Mr.. Presi-
dent-A bill for the incorporation of a
charter for the Camden Water Com
pany has never been presented, as yet
l do know that remonstrance was in
troduced in the House; and referred
to the Committee on Judiciary in my
absence, and in the absence of friends
of the bill, last Tuesday afternoon
The friends of the bill objected to it's
being referred to the Committee on
judiciary for two reasons: First, that
no bill had been presented by the Cam
den people, and therefore thought it
was premature that the enemies of the
bill should undertake to get jurisdic-
ton by the Judiciary Committee by re-
ferring it before the bill was presented
to the Senate. l have the bill in my
pocket, that. at the proper time l shall
introduce and | apprehend that the
Senate in courtesy, at the present time.
as always in the past, If | move 1T to
be referred to a proper committee, VIII
coincide with me that it is my right so
to do; and l hope that the motion of
the senator from Cumberland VIII not
prevail. After n matter is introduced
into the Senate it seems to me to be an
unusual thing for a remonstrance to
be referred to the committee for the
very purpose Of getting jurisdiction.
before the bill has been introduced into
this honorable body. When that time
comes when the bill is introduced.
then it is the proper time and the only
time when a remonStrance should be
referred before the bill is introduced.
and / hope the gentleman'S motion Will
not prevail.
Mr. VIRGIN Of Cumberland-My
motion. Mr.. President, simply was to
take the matter from the table.
Mr.. NOBLE, of Franklin-Mr. PreSi-
dent. 1t seems to me that this matter,
referred as it was to the Committee on
Judiciary, is all right, without any re-
consideration.
1t seems to me it is the proper com
mittee to consider a matter of this
sort. 1t is matter of Importance
Il matter involving constitutional
rights and rights of eminent domain.
Certainly the committee on Judiciary
is the committee to grapple with bill!
OF this sort. AS to the fact Of The
matter going in backwards, it makes
no difference. 1t matters not how many
petitions and circumstances go to
this committee previous to tine bills
coming in. If the bill is not put in. it
can certainly do no harm and them
again, | fail to see. and | have not
been informed why the judiciary COM
mittce is not the committee to enter
tain this matter. The gentleman from
Knox suggests that we are trying TO
avoid getting the matter before any
other Committee-nOt necessarily. | do
not understand that there is any such
attempt to avoid getting the matter
before any other committee. 1t is I'M
dcrstood. and generally conceded that
tic committee on Judiciary is the COM
mittee before which this bill should
Re entertained. There is no sugGes-
ton that the committee on Judiciary
arc biased or prejudiCcd in anything
It all about the facts and merits of
the case. There may be Il suggestion
that the gentleman from Knox knows
all about this case, is thoroughly con-
ve;sant with it. probably has made UP
his mind. and. for that reason he
would be unqualified to sit upon a jury
CT even upon q committee that was con-
sidering this matter. For that .'ea-
son if for no other this matter should
not be referred to the Committee on
Legal Affairs but should go. where it
very properly belongs. to the com
rittce on judiciary: and | trust. Mr..
President. this motion to reconsider
will not prevail.
Mr.. STAPLES of Knox: Mr.. Pres
idcnt. The gentleman has no reason to
suppose what committee / may refer
the bill, or ask it to be referred to. In
reply to his insinuations that | know
something about the bill-it comes
from my county, and of course
know something about the bill. | am
not personally interested. | do not
say / shall move it's reference to the
Committee on Legal Affairs. / GER
tainly assure the Senator | shall not
move it's reference to the committee on
judiciary. because there is an intima
ton. from the enemies of the bill
broadcast, for the last four or five
days in this Senate the House and The
corridors. that the enemies of the bill
want il to go to the committee or
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