Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-17
THE LEGISLATURE,
Resolve for a Yearly Epidemic
or Emergency Fund.
10 Be Used in Cases Such as Present
Smallpox Outbreak.
Other Measures and Incidents of In
terest at Capitol.

terest at Capitol.
+ Oile OF the most important measures
presented at yesterdays session of the
LEGISLATURE was the resolve which
senator Hyde introduced in the Senate
approprlating $4,000 year as an cpl
i oemic or emergency fund. This resolve
IS asked for by the State Board of
Health and the money is needed to
ndnule the many cases of smallpox
now prevailing in the interior counties
OF the State. Two years ago the Legis-
iature appropriated $500 year for this
purpose. but the State Board of Health
members are anxious that it be in
4 creased to the above sum- This is an
increase of $500 year over that which
the Legislature of 1901 provided; but
the condition which confronts the peo-
Die or Maine is SO dangerous that
possibly the smallpox epidemic now
!, prevailing will require every dollar of
the amount asked for before it is sup
pressed or even controlled.
:. The resolve is accompanied by a
} statement of facts, as follows:
The special reason now urgent for
the appropriation of an epidemic or
, emergency fund to aid the State Board
of Health is that smallpox is prevalent
In many places and in many unorgan-
lied townships. The inspectors of the
State board have recently discovered
that smallpox has also been present
for some five months in five towns in
Aroostook county. Five physicians
and five nurses are now at work for
the State Board of Health. Still more
help is needed. Bills necessarily in
j Cured remain unpaid Unless the
. State Board is quickly provided with
means for prompt and speedy action
/ at various different points in the State
smallpox will undoubtedly appear in
about every part of the State. The re-
/ sulting cost and loss would then be
immense
In addition to this regular appropri-
I alton the Legislature has been asked to
provide a special fund of $4,000 for inn
mediate use. The total amount asked
I for by the State Board Of Health for
emergency cases aggregates $4,000 for
the two years 1903 and 1904.
During the Senate proceedings, yes
terday, question of some interest was
/ raised by the introduction of an order
|
} the Governors address relating to the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition be re-
ferred to the committee on Appropria-
! tions and Financial Affairs. Presi-
dent Virgin raised the point that on ac-
count of the new joint rules adopted
! bv the last Legislature it would not be
proper to refer any resolve calling for
money to that committee until after
| vi fn WIT Too bod cd
upon the matter. 1t was suggested
that it be sent to the Committee on
I Commerce. but finally the hard-work-
ing Committee on Federal Relations
was given the exclusive jurisdiction of
/ handling the matter.
A resolve was introduced in the
i. Senate. yesterday, providing that the
State appropriate $4,000 for the
propagation and protection of fish,
Heretofore this sum has been set apart
each year for the culture of fish and
the protection of game. Today's re-
solve. presented by Senator Staples Of
Cumberland the chairman of the
COMMITTEE on Inland Fisheries and
Game. contemplates the use of all this
money for the development of the in
Hand fish of the State. The money for
the protection of game will probably
be provided through the enactment of
a license tax upon nonresident hunt
Iers.
Up in Dover lives a man who served
as a soldier in the AroOstook war. 1t
was a bloodless war; to be sure, but
the hardships and signs endured by the
warriors of that famous campaign
lhave appealed to the tender sympa-
thies of Senator Guernsey of Piscata-
quis, for yesterday he presented re-
solve granting 81 amonth to Ebeneezer
10. Gerry of Dover, who served in that
army This pension is not very large
hut it would be Of great help to the
LACED applicant.
An act was introduced in the House,
yesterday, establishing municipal
court in the city of Eastport, and up in
the Senate an act amending the act
creating a municipal court in Skowhe-
gan was presented.
| Senator Libby of Kennebec, yester-
Iday, presented An Act amending the
good roads" law of 1901, so that viii
tlage corporations as we'll as cities,
towns and plantations may take adj
Vantage Of its provisions
| In the Senate, yesterday morning,
Senator Staples presented An Act re-
latinr to the taxation of corporations.
1.-THE act is as follows:
Section Livery corporation doing
business in the State of Maine and in
lcorporated under our laws shall annu-
Ially between the first and fifteenth day
Iof April of each year return to the as
lsassors of the city or town where loca-
ted. under the oath of its treasurer, the
amount of the capital stock of the cor
lporation, the number and par value OF
Its shares, and complete number OF
Tits shareholders with their places Oh
residence, and the number of shares
belonging to each shareholder on the
first day of April next preceding, and
all of said shares of stock shall be sub
1iect to taxation the same as other
property in manner as follows