Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-01
A bill to increase the pay of jurors.

A bill to increase the pay of jurors.
Among the ought not to pass" bills
were:
The bill to provide for taking the
temperature of the different ponds and
lakes with a view to ascertaining if
the fish are comfortably quartered.
The bill to provide that the State fur
nish fertilizer to the farmers at cost.
An Act to provide a bounty on lynx
and wild cats.
An Act to provide for the taxation of
railroads on their cost value.
An Act to make January l a legal
holiday
A joint resolution in favor of the
election OF United States senators by
direct vote of the people.
An Act TO provide for the election of
railroad commissioners by the people.
An Act to provide for the screening
of Lake Auburn.
A resolve in favor of Bates College.
An Act for the better protection of
workingmen in dangerous occupations.
An Act to abolish the office of inspec
tor of factories, workshops, mines and
quarries.
All LAtl W dDOliSI Tie OlAIt VI SoIli-
missioner of industrial and labor sta
tistics.
An Act to establish a board of trus-
tees for the Superintendent of the
Maine State library.
An Act to define and enlarge the
powers of juries in the trial of misde-
meanors, this being the Jury bill,' So
called, that so aroused the temperance
interests.
An Act to provide for tax on direct
inheritances.
An Act to permit tax paying women
to vote in municipal elections.
An Act to make nine instead of 10 the
legal limit on Holsters that may be
lawfully taken.
An Act to simplify the Australian
ballot law.
An Act to provide for the repeal of
the constitutional amendment against
the manufacture and sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors.
An Act to provide that the State
printing be done by contracts on ad-
vertised bids to be submitted to the
Governor and Council.
Legislation inexpedient' is another
endorsement which is a general fav-
orite in getting rid of troublesome mat
terS. Among those so endorsed by tht
list Legislature We're:
A petition for a law compelling resi-
dents removing from one town to an
other to notify the town clerk.
An order to secure the suppression
of foul brood in bees.
An order looking to county support
Of all paupers now supported by towns.
An Act to stiffen the statutes against
prize fights.
An Act for the establishment of a re-
formatory prison for women.
An Act for the employment of a ma
iron at the State prison.
To provide for the election of the in
surance commissioner by the people.
To provide for the use of the label
Of the International Typographical la
bel on all State printing.
The motion to indefinitely postpone
is the epitaph on the tombstone of the
really dead bill. Among this winters
victims were:
The act to provide for insurance
policies which shall be uniform with
other states.
An order to provide for commits
sioner to investigate. salaries paid to
State and county officials.
The act to authorize steam railroads
to own and operate street railroads.
An Act to create a water storage
commission.
a resolve to provide an auditing
clerk to the Governor and Council.
A bill to give State detectives the
same rights and powers which sheriffs
and their deputies have in their own
counties.
An order looking to an increase of the
taxes on express companies.
An Act to prevent the use of horns,
COW bells and cymbals in hunting deer
in the county of Hancock.
Yesterday, the railroad commission
ers ordered q hearing on the petition
of the municipal officers of Auburn
praying for a highway crossing over
the Grand Trunk Railway at Danville
Junction. The hearing will be held at
the latter place on Wednesday, April s,
at 10 A. NJ.
The committee on the revision of the
statutes occupy the room of the legal
affairs committee, and will soon be
domiciled there.
The next meeting of the Governor
and Council will take place on Friday.
April II. So far as4nown no very i'm
portant matters are waiting considera-
ton.
The following new corporations have
fled certificates of organization with
the secretary of State:
Albert and ]. NJ. Anderson Manu-
featuring Co, organized at Portland
for the purpose of manufacturing and
dealing in electric motors, with $780,
000 capital stock of which $500 is paid
in. The officers are: President Al
bert Anderson of Boston, Mass; treas
urer, Johan M. Anderson of Boston,
Mass.
Chelmsford Foundry Co., organized
at Portland, for the purpose of con-
Quoting a general manufacturing and
mercantile business, with 100000 cap
ital stock of which $500 is paid in. The
officers are: President, Joseph Cav