The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-01-24
At Augusta.

NORM of Embden, petition to aid in re.
pairing the road between The Forks and
Parlin Pond. Petition asking for
change in law relating to election of
highway commissioners.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Shaw of
Bath, provides for the incorporation of
the Little Churchill Stream Dam oom-
pany with the privilege of deepening,
widening and otherwise improving Lit.
tie hurchill stream and maintaining
dams thereon in Holden and Jackman
townships, Somerset Co., for the pur.
pose of making said stream floatable
and raising head of water to drive logs
and other lumber. That the corpora
| ton may demand and receive as toll
the sum of l5 cents for every 1000 feet
of logs which may pass over the i'm
provements and dams of said stream
Referred to the committee on interior
| waters.
The women who want TO vote are
making themselves heard and petitions
in favor of granting them the suffrage
are coming in by the score, Friday a
petition was presented bearing the
names of several hundred women living
in Gray and near by towns.
A large number of petitions were pre-
sented. Thursday, for aid to academies
and other schools in this class
One of the most important hearings
of the legislative session was that begun
before the committee on taxation,
Thursday evening 1t was on the vari-
Gus measures increasing the taxes paid
by the railroad companies, and contin
ued until Tuesday.
AT the meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture, Thursday, 10 minute talks
were made by members, among which
was one on organization by Ansel Hol.
way, the Somerset member A meeting
of the executive committee was held at
the State House, August 20, 1900. The
business under consideration as com
mittee was in relation to holding an all
day meeting at the State Fair. Voted
that we consider it not advisable. Your
committee also met, January 10, 1901,
as directed by the Board, to examine
the books and accounts, compared them
with the vouchers and have found that
they are correct
The feature of Fridays session was
the introduction by Represe ntative Ben
nett of Hollis, of a bill establishing
provides that the punishment for muir
der in the first degree shall be hanging
unless the jury recommends imprison.
ment for life. MIR. Bennett, coming
from the southwestern part of the state,
sometimes referred to as "the murder
belt" feels strongly that capital punish
ment is necessary to check the series of
atrocious murders which have shocked
ha - ata in, ha act fa
the particularly deliberate and brutal
Gorham murder of week ago it has
been well understood that such bill
was coming and it has revived the talk
pro and con which was heard in the
famous fight when capital punishment
was abolished in 1887.
After the morning session, Friday,
practically all the legislators left for
their homes to spend sunday, so that
the Capitol was deserted and very quiet
in the afternoon. There were no com
mittee hearings. Governor Hill was at
the executive department little while
to look over his mail He also attached
his signature to the Bangor hospital re-
solve, the first resolve of the session to
be signed.
Another batch of resolves in favor of
academies in various parts of the State
were referred to the committee on edu-
cation, Friday.
Both branches adjourned from Friday
noon until Monday afternoon at 4:30
O'clock.
In the Senate, Monday, was presented
by Mr.. eeks of Somerset-Resolve in
favor OF Somerset Academy at Athens.
In Ia Inv To l. Af
Pembroke-Bill, an act relating to the
taxation of telegraph and telephone
companies.
1t is said that the Legislature will be
asked TO help out the isolated and un-
organized townships in the matter of
providing suitable educational facilities
The lack of suitable school accommoda-
tions in most of these townships has
caused much perplexity. In some of
them there are schoolhouses, mostly of
a primitive character, built by private
individuals to accommodate occasional
terms of school supported by private
expense.
Tuesday there were presented in the
House by Walker of Starks, resolve
granting $1,000 annually for the term of
ten years to Arson Academy.
BY Nj. Davis of DISQUALIFICATION
of Charles E. Matthews and 100 others
relating to narrow guage railroad
from Pennington to " eeks' Mills; of f.
G.. Thayer and 81 others; of A. l.. Rose
and 81 others; of o. S. Tarbox and 80
others of alais; of o. NJ. Sibley and q
others of Oakland; of Messalouskee Ma
tional Bank and SO others of Oakland;
of Howard Crowell and % others of
Smithfield for same.
In the House, Wednesday, Farnsworth
of Pembroke presented an act to amend
the laws of 1895, relative to collateral in.
rate from two and one-half to four per
cent. on ali sums above $500 Also act
to regulate the taxation of corporate
franchises
Greene of Madison presented remon.
STRANGE of l. &. Williams and "a others
setting off certain lands of r. b. Weston
from Madison village corporation.
Beal of Bangor presented resolve in
favor of appropriation of $780, 900 to re-
deem outstanding pledges of the Eastern
Maine Insane Hospital Accompanying
the resolve was statement Of facts in
letter from ex Governor Powers, this
money being to repay the Governor for
the sums which he advanced to com.
plete the hospital.
A large number of petitions were in
favor of the act to incorporate the Wis
casset, Waterville and Pennington Rail-
way Co.