Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-15
CAPITAL CHAT.
,Continued from pas y IL


tensile public building lep. station viii
b,. ut this session. out Cha .rman Ner-
Ger sta ted recently that it must neccs-
l.;arily be considerable. I'll ere is ple.ty
IF money in the tn .asury and n pub
| liz building bills have zen passed for
1.-TWO years. Public bus ness has in
creased enormously in that time and
the facilities for its tran saction are. in
many localities, very ins ieQuate.
! The bill for a public h, aiding at Bar
Harbor. Me, 10 cost $1Gt.O0o. was in
PRODUCED by Gov. Burleis;n. last week.
IL has been referred to the committee
on public buildings and grounds. to-
--ether with other bills for public build
;n,.s in Maine. The Other Maine bills
before that committee now are for
Portland. Augusta and tGlais. An eff
fcrt. will be made TO do as much for
Maine as possible when the subject
COMES up IN committee Nothing has
vet been done to have tfb,se bills taken
up in the Serate. The frst important
thing is to get them through tn"
House. as soon as Speas err Henderson
gives the sign for public building legis-
lation. Ii is not SO diffl cult to reach
public building Legislation in the Sen
ate and - mater Hale and Senator Frye
can be depended upon TO lock after the
! bills, as soon as the House has shown
/ its approval of them.
! Senator Fryc's COMMITTEES on COM
! rlittee Gu commerce is IN aking rapid
! progress towards the cons Iteration III
7 the Senate. of a bill to put the revenue
1 cutter service on a basis. similar 20
! that of the navy. az TO duties and re-
! trementS. There are many very eff
! cient officers uf the revenue cutter ser
| vice. whose native towns ;tre in Maine
I and because Of the extensive duties OF
! revenue cutters along the Maine coast
| the bill is of no little interest up there.
| Lieut.. Mcclellan, the revenue cutter Of
! ficer. who was i'll Charg, Of the life
| saving exhibit at the Pan American
! Exposition at Buffalo. last summer, is
I a native of Brunswick and one of the
Well-knoWn Maine men in the revenue
! cutter service. He aided Buffalo Bill
| in the organization of the life saving
| exhibit, which has travelled with the
, Wild West aggregation.
Representative Allen is much re-
| joiced over securing an agreement for
, Il transfer of the old quarantine build
! ings on an island in Portland harDor 10
| the Marine Hospital service for a COM
pensation of $1,000 Mr.. Allen has been
working IN this subject for some
/ weeks He first obtained the consent
| Of the city Of Portland. the owner of
the buildings. to their transfer and now
! he has completed the other. side of the
! transaction. Portland has come TO be-
| such 4 large harbor and the shipping
interests there are 50 enormous nat IN.
desirability of the Marine Hospital ser
vice having complete control of the
quarantine facilities is fully recognized
by the people of the city
The tier of Northern states begin
ming with Maine and ending with Min
nesota. will follow pretty closely the
developments in the oIeamargerine
he arings. which begin this week. Defor..
the House committee on agriculture /
All those states have large dairy inter
ests. There will be no opposition in the |
House. sufficient to impede the pass /
age of the bill. In the Senate. however. !
the bill viii encounter serious opposi- /.
ton and there are doubts whether i,
can pass in that body. Although the .
measure has many friends in Senate
ARD House. who would like to aid the 4
DAIRY interests every way possible.
many think that if it is correct 10 tax
one industry severely for the benefit of
another there is no telling where Tho
practice might end. Strong pressure is
being brought to bear at both ends Of
The Capitol TO have the bill become \
law at this session