Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-18

voted to report ought to pass on the
following:
Maine Insane Hospital, $4,000 for
1903 and $4,000 for 1904; Eastern
Maine Insane Hospital, $30,425 for 1903
and $3O.425 for 1904; Lee Normal Acad-
envy, $1,000 year; repairs of tomb or
Gov. Lincoln. $1,000; soldiers monument
at Andersonville, Ga, $4,000 for 1904;
preservation of Fort William Henry,
$3.50 each year; in favor of Lyman e.
Smith, $55S; Maine State prison, $29,-
636.16 for 1903 and $500 for 1904: in aid
of town Of Cutler $3.50 each year;
Maine Children's Home Society, Au-
gusta, $3.50 a year; county attorney,
Washington, $3.50 year; county attor-
ney. Piscataquis, $500 a year; county
attorney. Somerset, $500 a year.
The committee on agriculture voted
ought to pass on the bill increasing the
stipend for agricultural societies from
one cent per inhabitant to one and one
quarter cents an inha bitant This
means an increase of $1750 a year,
The taxation committee considered
the bill to repeal Section % of Chapter
of the Revised Statutes, relating to
the taxation of lands, property and
stock of manufacturing corporations.
Turner Boswell of Scion, and M. l..
Merrill of st. Adams, representing the
Grange, appeared for the bill. A large
number of lawyers and other persons
interested in the measure was in at
tendance. The bill is a somewhat COM
plcated affair. Hon. Seth M. Carter,
Hon. L. c. Cornish, Hon. H. M. Heath
and others appeared against the bill.
The committee on sea and shore fish
cries gave hearing on the bill to al
low the catching of all fish, except
smelts and alewives, by purse or drag
seines In the Damariscotta river from
April !, to October l. Captains Huff and
Burnham of Boothbay, favored the bill.
A large delegation was present from
Newcastle and Nobleboro, among the
gentlemen being Selectmen r. T. York,
Clarence Jones and George D. PASTORS
of Nobleboro, J. E. Mulligan and Ben
jamin York of the same town and John
Glidden of Newcastle, all of whom OPP
posed the bill, as their towns We're in
terested against the, same. After a
long and quite interesting hearing the
committee voted ought to pass on the
bill in ANEW draft allowing the use of
purse seines in the river from July 1
to Nov. l, thereby protecting the ale
wives and smeltS in their season.
Representative NeWcomb Of Eastport,
addressed the committee in favor of
an amendment to the present law re-
Of rIip CO that
steaming shall be required. He also
introduced an amendment shortening
the close time SO that the open time for
herring shall be from April Is to Dec.
instead of from May 1 to Dec. 1. The
matter was tabled and a hearing or
dered.
The committee on interior waters
voted ought to pass on a bill to incor-
pOrate the Duck Lake Dam Company.
on the bill to incorporate the Kibbie
Dam Company; ought not to pass on
bill to authorize James H. Hayes to
erect piers and booms in the st. John
river at Grand Isle in ,Aroostook coun-
ty; ought to pass in new draft on bill
to amend the charter of the Penobscot
LAUNDERING Association on bill to au-
thorize the Portage Lake Mill Company
to build and maintain piers and booms
in Portage lake, on bill to incorporate
the Madunkeunk Falls Dam and I'm
provement Company.
The committee also heard the bill to
incorporate the Penobscot River Dam
Co. This is a project to divert the
waters of the Penobscot river from
above Old Town through Pushaw
stream into the lake of the same
name and thence across Red Bridge
brook into the main river above
Bangor. The company is capitalized at
100000 and it is planned to estab-
lish a volume of 100000 horse power for
all kinds of manufacturing purposes.
w. r. Pattangall and Fred T. Dow APP
peared in favor of the bill and Cakes
of Milford. spoke in opposition.
The committee on legal affairs
voted ought to pass on bill to change
time of holding sessions of the county
commissioners in Aroostook county, on
bill to incorporate the Fraternity
Temple Company, on bill to legalize the
doingS of the selectmen of the town of
Waltham, on bill to prevent incompe-
tent persons from conducting the BUSH
ness of pharmacists, on bill to amend
Section of Chapter H. Revised Statu-
ties. as amended by Chapter 1873 of the
Public Laws of 1898, relating to nuis-
ances; ought to pass in new draft on
the bill in relation to assaults upon Of
ficers. On the bill defining and en-
larging the duties of juries in trial of
misdemeanors there were two reports
five members of the committee voting
ought to pass in a new draft, namely
Messrs. Staples, Kelley, Barker, Camp
bel. and McFaul. The report ought not
to pass was signed by Messrs. Clark,
Manson. Pierce, Newcomb and Cakes.
The committee on education has
voted ought not to pass on the resolve
in favor of Bates College and on the re-
solve in favor of St. Josephs Academy,
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