Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-26
Both Branches Had Two BUSY
Sessions, Yesterday.
Louisiana Exposition Gets $4,000
to Advertise Maine.
Colby Resolve, Granting $4,000, Passes
the Two Houses.


| forenoon and the other in the after
noon.
These sessions We're particularly no.
| table from the fact that many divided
| committee reports We're presented. In
some instances the majority reports
prevailed, but in most cases the YER
| dict of the minority was accepted.
For instance, the Senate accepted
| the minority report of the committee
on taxation, which was in favor of the
bill to devote five-eighths of the Saw
1ngs Banks tax to the use of the pub
| lie schools, instead of one-half as at
present and the House followed suit
| by vote of 104 to II.
The House voted by a large majority
in favor Of granting $4,000 to provide
| TOR Names representation at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at ST.
Louis.
The Senate accepted the minority re-
port of the committee on inland fish
cries and game, and placing a bounty
| of S. on all bears killed in Oxford
| county. Not only are the bears of
| old Oxford to be annihilated, but the
protective features of the rabbit bill
are not to extend to the county of Han
| cock, and it will be permissible, if the
House concurs with the Senate, to hunt
chase and kill the festive hare or rab
| bit from Bucksport to GOuldSboro.
While the Senate was in the mood, yes
| terday morning, Senator Staples of
Knox, secured the passage of a law to
protect squirrels and chipmunks in the
county of Knox, under suspension of
the rules. The senator from Knox said
| that the bill was asked for by many
women in his county, who objected to
| the ruthless slaughter of the beautiful
gray squirrel.
Hallowell and Bangor had bills pre-
scented in the House to exempt those
cities from the operation of the law
| prohibiting the same person from fill
! ing the Office of collector and treasurer
| These measures will place these cities
with Augusta in this particular, Mr.
| Dudley of the latter city, having Sc
| cured the passage of a law applica BILE
| to this city.
| The act authorizing Lincoln county
to assume the ownership and mainte
nance of the Wiscasset bridge went
| through the Senate, after the amount
of money the State is to give, was in
|
it got into the House it struck a snag.
Clarke of Nobeboro, tabled it in the
| forenoon.
Colby College came in for a share of
| the States bounty, yesterday. The
Senate accepted the majority report of
the committee on appropriations and
| financial affairs, granting the college
| $4,000, the vote in favor of so doing
1 l,1;, 1 To hn G
passed to be engrossed. The House
| concurred in the action Immediately af-
| ter. So that now two of Names COL
| leges will get a total of $4,000 from
the State treasury during the next two
years.
| At the afternoon session of the Sem
| ate a short but lively discussion en-
sued on the general caucus bill. This
| discussion was participated in by Sena-
tors Manley, Goodwin and Stetsoh for
| the bill, while Senators Wilson, Pike.
| Clark Staples of Knox. Dudley and
| Gardner offered the measure. The bill
| was passed by q vote of 16 to 10, and
| then was amended so as to apply only
| to towns OF more than 1000 inhabitants.
| A new draft of the bill to correct
| clerical errors in certain fish and game
laws has been presented. This bill
provides that no registered guide shall
be employed at the same time by more
than five non-residents of the tSate.
1t came from the fish and game COM
| mittee and has been under considera-
ton for some time, a former draft hav-
| ing been presented several days ago.
Several adverse reports of the COM
mittee on appropriations and financial
affairs in favor of bridges in different
parts of the State were turned down IN
| the House, yesterday afternoon, and
the resolves substituted for the reports.
The Senate also rejected the commit
tees report on the resolves in favor OF
granting $1,000 for the Bangor Chill
drens Home and $4,000 for the Eastern
| Maine General Hospital for building
Il purposes. substituting the resolves 1or
Il the reports, just as the House dlu oh
/ the bridge bills.
L The Senate rejected the bill to tax
/ the shares of corporations according
/ to their market value, by vote OF 10
Il to 10.
Il An attempt was made in the House
| to abolish the office of State factory IN
Il spector, and the attempt almost sue
Il ceeded. The judiciary committee maze
two reports on the proposition, Mr..
II Littlefieid of Rockland, submitting
/ minority report in favor of abollshlng
the office. Reynolds of Winslow.
| made strong speech in support OF the
minority report. 1t was rejected, how
II ever. by a vote of SO to as, and then
the majority report was passed, SO
II to SO.
The judiciary committee had a meet
/ ing, yesterday afternoon, and reconsid-
H cred its action of the day before in re-
|! lation to the resolve regarding the cleo
Ii ton Of United States senators by the
Il people. The result was that the mem
bers divided on the matter and sub
| mitted three reports. Manley, Guern-
II sew and Weeks voted ought to pass;
II Littlefieid. Potter and Wing voted
ought not to pass, and Drew, Smith
and Allen voted to refer to the next
Legislature. Libby of Mechanic Falls
the other member Of the committee
was not present.