Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-11

| East Livermore for reimbursement on
account of pauper claim. The claim
was presented to the Legislature of
| 1901 and the sum of $685. was awarded.
The town refused to accept this sum
and came to this Legislature with
claims amounting to $1,000. The COM
mittee, yesterday, voted to give the
town $1422.
The committee voted ought to pass
on the resolve granting Lyman E..
Smith of Brunswick, $5.5S for attending
Il committee hearing in 1901.
Ought not to pass was voted on the
resolve in favor of John Cassidy of
| Bangor and the resolve in favor of
| Frank Kilborn and others of Pressure
| military affairs.
| Before the committee on legal affairs,
Tuesday afternoon, Charles f. Wood
ard, Esq, of Bangor, appeared in favor
of an act providing that whenever a
| town and Il railroad company fail to
| agree on the location of a sewer
| crossing the railroad property, the
board of railroad commissioners shall
determine where the sewer shall be To-
Gated. No one appeared in opposition.
Representative Mills of Stonington,
appeared in favor of the bill providing
that the selectmen of towns and the
municipal officers of cities shall before
| the first day of September, furnish the
| Governor and Council with a list of all
the deaf and dumb. blind, insane and
| feeble minded in their town or city,
giving their name, age and SEX The
! committee voted to report ought not to
pass.
Representative Clarke of Nobleboro,
| appeared in favor of an act providing
] that whoever neglects his wife or MINI
or children shall be punished by a fine
not exceeding $40 or Imprisonment not
more than six months. The committee
voted to report ought not to pass.
| George D. Bisbee, ESQ.,, of Rumford
| Falls, spoke in favor of an act provid-
ing that whoever assaults, intimidates
or obstructs any sheriff or other officer,
shall be punished by a fine not exceed
| ing 500 nor more than 10 years i'm
| prisonment
Representative Clarke of Nobleboro,
| spoke in favor of an act to authorize
| Frederick j. Merrill of Damariscotta,
] to construct a tide wheel in the tide
waters of the Damariscotta river. The
| committee voted to report ought to
| pass.
! Herbert +. Foster Esq, of Winthrop,
| spoke in favor of an act making the
| Winthrop municipal court a court of
| record. The committee voted to report
| ought to pass in n new draft.
| The committee voted to refer the
| employers liability act to the next Leg
| iSlature.
The committee on commerce has vot-
cd to report ought not to pass on the
| act to tax vessels on their net instead
of their gross earnings.
Before the committee on interior wa
| ters there We're several matters dis
| cusSed and the session occupied sew
| eral hours. Senator Goodwin address,
| ed the committee at some length in fa-
| vor of his bill to create a water stOra ge
| commission for the purpose of looking
| after the interests of the water courses
| Of the State. He was followed by Prof.
Grover of the University of Maine, who
,iso favored the proposition and who
| described the work of the United States
| hydyogra phical survey in Maine.
| Senator Guernsey addressed the
committee in favor of the resolve to
improve navigation on Moosehead lake.
| The resolve carries $3.50 annually for
the purpose. Mr.. Pettingill of the COM
mittee. thought that an appeal to the
general government might be success
| fully made in this matter.
Bertram L. Smith, Esq. of Patton,
1ppaarnd in favor Of tho act tO ant hOr-
ize James H. Hayes of Caribou to erect
piers and booms in the ST. John river
ut Grand Isle. Mr.. Hayes and Alex
ToZier of Grand Lake spoke in favor
of the bill and p. C. Keegan of Van
Buren,. and Florent Sanfacon and Pat
rick Therriault of Grand Isle, opposed
the same.
l. The new draft of the bill to incorpo-
rate the East Branch Improvement
Co, which the committee has unani-
mousy voted ought to pass, provides
that the company shall not increase the
height of the dam at the outlet of
Chamberlain lake or enlarge the Telos
canal as constructed years ago by the
Telos Canal Co.
| The committee has voted ought not
to pass on the two bills to repeal so
| ulutI VI the 1ilfdle l<lWS vi lStO anu
1852 as authorize the diversion of the
waters of Telos, Chamberlain and He
ron lakes from the Allegash into the
East Branch of the Penobscot river.
The new draft of the bill incorporating
the East Branch Improvement Co. it is
thought, will preserve the rights of the
people of Aroostook who object to any
further diversion of the Allegash wa
tiers. ------.---s
/ The committee on interior waters held
an executive session. last evening. but
did not settle the West Branch or
Millinocket matter. The representa-
tives of the two contending interests
got together and arranged that the
West Branch Co. should have control
of the upper portion of the river, and
that the Penobscot Log Driving Co.
should take charge of the lower part of
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