Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-10
STATE HOUSE.
Many important Nominations
Will Be Made, Today.
New Law Was Passed Making State
Support All Tramps.
Manual for Use of County Teachers
sss, Institutes Just Issued.

number of important nominations, to-
| day. The list will be the largest he
has ever placed upon the nomination
hook at any one time. 1t will comprise
judges of municipal courts, trustees of
State institutions, county examiners
Of insane criminals, examiners of en-
balmers. Andersonville monument
commissioners, delegates to good roads
convention. and the usual grist of
notaries public and other minor nomi-
| nations.
The Legislature amended the law re-
lating to insane criminals, and the
| Governor will be obliged in conformity
| with such amendment to name a
physician in each Of the 16 counties OF
the State. The amended law provides
as follows: 1.-The Governor shall ap-
point in each county in the State Il
competent physician, who shall be a
| resident Of the county, to act as an ex-
aminer of insane convicts in the county
Jail of the county. When a convict in
| the State prison or a county Jail be-
comes insane. the warden shall forth
with notify the prison physician, or
the jailer shall forthwith notify such
examiner in the county, of the fact,
and the prison physician or such ex-
aminer, as the case may be, shall
| forthwith investigate the case and
| make a personal examination of the
convict and If the prison physician or
| such examiner, as the case may be-
finds such convict insane he shall
| forthwith certify such fact in writing
| to the Governor and Council, and the
Governor and Council shall cause the
removal of such insane convict to the
insane department of the State prison
kbr to either insane hospital until he
becomes of sound mind"
IsHeretofore whenever an examination
az an insane convict was required a
c6nmission of physicians would be APP
tpSA4ted by the Governor and Council,
fWIlo would make such examination and
En1&ka. their reports thereon. Now, this
dirty Twill devolve upon the county ex-
Edhfhers or the State prison physician.
he latter shall examine convicts in
the prison and the former shall ex-
anime those in the jails.
The Governor will also nominate
chairman of the boards of registration
| in all the cities of the State with the
exception of Hallowell and PASSPORT.
The former has no registration board,
as the law was amended in 1899 SO as
| to apply only to cities having 1000 or
| more inhabitants and Hallowell has
! less than 5000. A vacancy does not
occur in Eastport until May ], 1905. So
| that a chairman will be named in Au-
gusta, Auburn, Bangor, Brewer, Bath,
Belfast, Biddeford, Calais, Ellsworth,
| Gardiner Lewiston Old Town, Portland,
Rockland, Saco South Portland,
| Waterville and Westbrook making IS
in all. These nominations are usually
made upon the recommendations of
citizens of the various municipalities.
| Three municipal court judges will be
named. In Calais the present judge
has no competitor, and the probability
is that Judge William J. Fowler will be
named as his own successor.
In PASSPORT and Auburn, however,
there are contests for appointment
The Legisla ture established a court in
Eastport, none having existed there
before and there are three aspirants
| for the place. The candidates are
John H. McFaul, Calvin MacNichol and
Edwin B. JONAH all of whom are
lawyers. There were three candidates
in Auburn, Harry Manser, James A.
| Pulsifer and II. p. Carver but the lat
ter gentleman has retired from the
field.
| Stephen c.. WhitmOre is the only
candidate for recorder of the Bruins
wick municipal court, and John M.
Taylor of South Portland, has no OPP
position for reappointment as State
steamboat inspector.
| fxyn candidates for the
cancy on the board of trustees of the
University of Maine, occasioned by
the expiration of the term of Hon.
Charles p. Allen of Pressure Isle. Mr.
Allen is a candidate for denomination
and Representative Charles L. Jones of
| Corinna is also a candidate.
| Three trustees of the Bath Military
and Naval orphan Asylum will be
named. Hon. Joshua l.. Chamberlain,
having been elected department COM
mander of the Maine G. A. R., will be
nominated as the official representative
of that organization on the board.
I John o. Shaw, Bath, and David r.
Wylie, West Bath, will be their own
successors.
| The terms of Office of G. A. Robert
son, Augusta, and J. w. Fairbanks,
| F1TfnlnStOn, DIS trustees VI TIE nOfiIltii
schools will expire April "a. They
will undoubtedly succeed themselves.
The three members of the State top
ographic survey commission, Leslie
A. Lee. Brunswick, VIM. Engel, Ban
gor, and Charles S. Hichborn, Au-
gusta. will be again named for this i'm
portant board.
Three delegates will be named to at
tend the good roads convention, which
will be held in st. Louis, Mo-. the lat
ter part of the present month. The
names of Hon. j. w. Dudley, Castle
Hill, Representative H. H. Rice, Farm
ington, and ex-Representative D. E.
Moulton. South Portland, are being
considered as delegates.
Four members of the board of ex-
aminers of embalming will be named.
Two of these must be members Of the
/ State board of health, one of which
shall he the secretary thereof, and two
must be practical embalmers. This
board was created by the Legislature
the past session.
The creation of the Andersonville
monument commission was also au-
thoriZed by act of the Legislature. The
| ppyprnOr is ay -Of71ciO A member of this