Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-03
STATE: HOUSE.
Commissioners and Delegates
to Be Named by Governor.
Annual Examination Of Maine Savings
Banks Begins.
House Cleaning at capitoi-Fast Day,
April 23-Notss.


April 23-Notss.
The house c1eaning season has ar
rived at MaInesA Capitol and for the
next two months the big building will
have a compfete overhauling and thor
ough scrubbing from the cupola to the
basement. Work began, yesterday, in
the third floor room occupied during the
winter by the committee on legal af-
fairs, and from there the housekeeping
crew will move from room to room till
the basement Is reached. This particu-
lar room will be occupied during the
summer by the special point legislative
committee on the revision Of the Stat
utes which will move in. next week.
During the session, this committee has
occupied room No. Z, which Is in the
basement, under the rooms Of the State
treasurer. At present the committee
is having a recess from its work, but it
will reassemble next week, and has
enough work to keep it busy most Of
the time until the Legislative meets in
September.
In the house cleaning process which
usually consumes most of April and
May. every carpet comes up and every
picture comes down, and the washing
and busting are Of a most thorough
character. Under the efforts Of Col.
Stevens force the Capitol is kept a
model Of cleanliness Two scrub wo-
men are now busy with this work, while
the men do everything that mere men
are capable Of on such occasions. 1t is
ryofa or ho
the lawns and terraces outside the Cap
itol. t-~
Thursday, April %. has been officially
designated as Fast day, and the proc
lamations of the Governor are being
sent out from the executive depart
ment. In the agitation for the abolish
ment Of Fast day. the fact came to the
surface that Fast day has no legal ex-
istence among our holidays. The APP
pointment of the day is time-honored
custom; and away from that custom
Governor Hill does not deem 1t advis-
able. to break this year. The commit
tee on legal affairs, to which the matter
was referred, was unwilling to express
an opinion. one way or another as re-
CARDS the continuance of the custom.
AS Is well known. an attempt was made
y, IL
Place Of Fast day, as was done in
Massachusetts, but the Legislature did
not take kindly to 1t. The need Of a
general spring holiday Is admitted by
all, and those in authority feel that
Fast day comes nearest to filing the
bill, although the old-time observance
Of the day is now no more.
In the near future Governor Hill will
have numerous appointments to make
as the result of commissions created
by the list Legislature. One of these
is the State board of examiners of en-
balming. Another Is the list of dele
gates to the Good Roads convention t.
be held at st. Louis April q. % and 30
Then there are the county inspectors
of insane criminals. These will be ply
sicians and there will be one to eacl,
county. Still another commission to be
appointed Is that to have in charge the
erection of a monument to the Maine
soldiers who died in that infamous pris-
on pen at Andersohville. Georgia. Near
ly all the states OF the North are to
erect such monuments and for this pur-
pose the Legislature appropriated
5000.
The special committee appointed in
the closing days of the session, to re-
wise the joint rules of the Legislature
will have some work on it's hands be-
fore the bodies meet again in Septem-
Der. This committee consists of Sena-
tors Virgin, Manley Stetson and Good
win and Representatives Smith OF
Pressure Isle, Drew of Portland, and
Page of Skowhegan.. There were
changes made In the joint rules which
governed the last Legislature. but they
did not work as well as was expected
The problem of devising rules which will
avoid the difficulties in which the Leg
islature found itself near its close Is a
serious one, and will command the
earnest thought of the members on the
committee. They will report when the
Legislature meets in September.
Bank Examiner f. E. Undertake and
his assistant. w. G. Ellis, are entering
upon the annual task of personally ex-
aiming the banking institutions of the
State. The savings banks at Bruins
wick and Lewiston have been visited
this week. and the work will be carried
forward through the spring and sum-
mer as fast as the papers can be pre-
pared and the banks visited. There
are now 81 savings banks In the State
So loan and building associations and
Is trust companies. Since the last an
nual examinations were made. there
has been a new loan and building as
ISOLATION established at Lewiston ane
new trust company at Bath. 1t l!
understood that a new trust COMPANY
will shortly be established at Pittsheld
and there Is talk of a new saving
bank in Aroostook county. AS usua
the Legislature passed a number %
special acts giving charters to trus
companies, but in few II any instances
will the organisations be completed.
The railroad commissioners are nov
moving back into their private once
which has been occupied during TN
winter by the clerk OF the House. MI
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