Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-26
Afternoon Session.

electric light plant for the Maine state
prison, came from the House amended
by House Amendment A. On motion
by Mr.. Goodwin of Somerset, the bill
and amendment We're laid on the table.
On motion by Mr.. Bryant of Somer-
set bill, resolve providing for the col
lection of information in regard, to
large bridges, was taken from the
table. Senate amendment A was
adopted. and on the same senator's mo-
ton. the bill as amended took it's sec
ond reading under suspension of the
rules and was passed to be engrossed.
On motion by Mr.. Wing of Andres
coggin, House Document No. 421, bill,
relating to Norway municipal court.
was taken from the table; and on mo-
ton by Mr.. Wing of Androscoggin, laid
on the table.
On motion by Mr.. Wing of Andros-
coggin, House bill 429. bill, to amend
law relating to corporations was taken
from the table. and on the same sena-
tors motion. Senate Amendment A was
adopted, and the bill as amended, was
passed to be engrossed.
On motion by Mr. Manley of Kenne-
bee. bill. An Act for the protection of
shore birds. was taken from the table.
The bill took it's first reading. On mo
ton by the same senator, Senate
Amendment A was adopted, and the
bill took it's second reading under sus-
pension of the rules, and was passed
to be engrossed.
On motion by Mr.. Goodwin of Somer-
set. House Document No. 1873, bill in
relation to meridian lines and a stand
ara or length was taken from the table,
ana House Amendment A adopted in
concurrence. On his further motion,
the bill as amended passed to be en-
crossed. t"N
On motion of Mr.. Clark of Hancock,
House bill No. 500, An Act relating to po-
htlcal caucuses, was taken from the ia
Die. Mr.. Wilson of Washington offered
Senate amendment A, and moved it's adop-
ton. Mr.. Staples of Knox, moved that
the bill be indefinitely postponed. The
motion to amend being put to a rising
vote, there were given 10 votes in favor of
the adoption of the amendment and 1G
votes were opposed; and the motion to
amend was declared lost On the motion
to indefinitely postpone, a yea and nay
vote was called for and orderer, and the
''eihAS oSiiiS tethSll resulted DIS lOllOWS.
Those voting yea were Messrs. Buck, Bur-
leigh, Clark, Dudley, Pike, Rankin Sta
pies of Knox, Titcomb, Wilson--9; those
voting nay were Messrs. Alden, Bryant
Burns, Currier, Gardner. Goodwin,
knowlton, Maddocks, Manley, Morrison,
Morse, Philbrook. Pierce, Plummer, Ran
dali, Staples of Cumberland, Stetson,
WinG-1S; and the motion to indefinitely
postpone was declared lost. On motion by
Mr.. Gardner of Penobscot Senate amend
ment b, amending so as to except towns
of less than a000 inhabitants, was adopted;
and the bill, as amended, was passed to
be engrossed.
On motion by Mr. Randall of Cum
berland, bill for annexation of South
Portland to Portland was taken from
the table, the pending question being
the passage of the bill to be engrossed.
On motion by the same senator, Sen
ate amendment A was adopted, and the
bill, as amended, was passed to be en-
crossed.
On motion by Mr.. Wing of Andres
coggin, House 421, bill an Act to amend
Section of Chapter sos of the Private
and Special Laws of 1885, as amended
by Chapter 1874 of the Private and
Special Laws of 1887, Chapter SGT of
of the Private and Special Laws of
1898, and Chapter 425 of the Private
the Private and Special Laws of 1901,
relating to Norway municipal court
was taken from the table, and on fur
ther motion by the same senator, Sen
ate amendment A was adopted, and the
bill as amended, was passed to be en-
,cin of fIn
On motion by Mr.. Wing of Andres
coggin, reports, majority Ought not to
pass) and minority (ought to pass
committee on inland fisheries and game
on resolve for screening lakes We're
taken from the table. On motion by
Mr.. Burleigh of Aroostook, the minor
ity report was substituted for the ma
jority report and accepted; and, on
further motion by the same senator, the
bill took it's several readings under
suspension of the rules, without refer
ence and without printing, and was
passed to be engrossed.
On motion by Mr.. Staples of Knox,
bill, to amend Section IL. Chapter 3,
Revised Statutes. as amended by Pub
lie Laws of 1885, was taken from the
table. On further motion by the same
senator, the bill was Indefinitely post
poned in concurrence.
On motion by Mr.. Goodwin of Somer-
set, bill, in relation to establishment
of Patriots day, was taken from the
table.
Mr.. RANDALL of Cumberland: Mr..
President, 1t seems to me that this
bill should not pass. We have holidays
a plenty, at the present time. l think
Patriots day" misnomer and see no
reason why we should not continue
Fast day. AS 1 understand it, the bill
does not do away with Fast day,
which can be appointed just as 1T has
been in the past. 1 have heard it said
that Fast day is not observed in the
manner that It used to be, and that
people do not go to church, ETC., and
that therefore it should be done away |
with. But it is the same with US on
Sundays-our electric roads and steam-
boats are in operation, and people play
golf, etc. l would move that the bill |
be indefinitely postponed and that the
old Fast day of our fathers be contin-
ued: and l move that the bill be in
definitely postponed. The motion pre-
vailed. -trs
On motion by Mr.. Goodwin of Somer-
set, Senate bill No. 239, bill relating to