Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-24
STATE HOUSE.
Will Assemble This
Forenoon for 9th Week.
Committees Will Be Very Busy
During Next Few Days.
Millinocket Bill Will Come Up for Con-
sideraticn, Today.


At 1890 O'Clock, this forenoon, the
Legislature will again reassemble after
the usual Sunday recess.
The work will be full of excitement
as it is expected the whole Penobscot
river country will be represented at the
hearing in the Millinocket bill before
the committee on interior waters,
which begins this afternoon, and which
may last into Wednesday and possibly
Thursday.
The other committees offer interest
ing programs for the week, but no mat
ter will arouse so much interest as the
bill to incorporate the West Branch
Driving and Reservoir Dam Co.
Today the legal affairs committee
will hear the petitions praying for a
repeal of the road commissioners law.
This matter has to be threshed out at
every legislative session, and this year
their appears to be pretty well Or
gained movement to secure a change
$50 that towns may do as they please
about raising cash or allowing labor on
their highways.
The committee on taxation will to-
day consider the act to exempt religious
institutions from the collateral Inherit
ance tax. The same committee will
| also consider the proposition to have
the taxes on wild lands collected by the
county commissioners instead of by the
treasurer of State as at present.
The agricultural committee will dis
cuss An Act to regulate the sale and
analysis of concentrated commercial
| feeding stuffs at it's meeting this after
| noon.
| Tomorrow afternoon the judiciary
committee consider the act to enable
the cities and towns of Maine to es-
tablish permanent wood yards.
| AT the same time the legal affairs
committee will consider a log salvage
bin and other matters.
/ The railroad committee will hear the
reasons for and against the act author
lizing steam railroad corporations to
build and operate street railroads, and
will also consider the bill to amend the
Telegraph and telephone laws.
II The committee on banks will give a
hearing ON the bill to authorize the
Augusta Trust Co. to establish branch
at Belfast, and the bill extending the
Granite Trust Co. Of Augusta.
/ The Cook bill, allowing pharmacists
TO sell liquors for medicinal purposes
will be considered by the committee on
| Temperance.
i A large number of matters will come
before the committee on ways and
bridges, and the committee on mines
and mining will hear the reasons for
lappropriati ting $1,000 d year for the topo-
graphical and geological survey, while
The committees on commerce, federal
relations and agriculture will also have
Hearings on various matters.
Thursday afternoon the committees
Twill have much to do. The general
lcaucus law will come up before thc
Judiciary, both the Mills and the Cakes
bills being scheduled for considerations
Legal affairs also will consider several
Imatters of Importance, to different
localities.
The committee on public charities will
Iconsider the resolves in favor of the
Maine Children's Home Society at Au-
lgusta: in aid of the Maine home and
schools for feeble minded children; in
laid of the Maine State Sanatorum as
Isociation and in favor of Knox County
General hospital.
The committee on inland fisheries and
Igame will hear many matters relating
TO fishing in certain streams in various
lrarts of the State, and will consider
whether bounties shall be paid or
lcrows, bears and bobcats.
The act incorporating the st. John
River Dam CO., is booked for Thursday
Iby the committee on interior waters
but it is doubtful if it will come up.
The committees on taxation, educa.
ton, agriculture. and military affair:
will also have hearings Thursday aft
lernoon.
1t will thus be seen that busy days
are ahead of the committee men this
week.