Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-28
CAPITAL CHAT.
Many Matters Of Interest to
the People Of Maine.
How the Statehood Bill Holds Up
Many Measures.
Judge Hall in Washington.-Port
Quarantine Station.

partment that all the routes, which
have been examined by special agents
| in the Sd Congressional district and
lapproved will be established in the
spring as soon as the going gets
good. That will be about May 1. The
| department has some work yet to do
| to complete the establishment of the
county system in Kennebec county but
Governor Burleigh has been officially
Informed that that work will also
progress to completion as soon as il is
Feasible which will be before many
weeks.
| The extra routes to be established
Twill be in the other counties of the
third district Mr.. Machen has shown
Willingness to comply with Governor
lBureighs requests in every instance,
where the special agents report is in,
which is very gratifying in view of the
lpressure that exists on the part of
| congressman to secure these facilities
for their constituents.
Representative Allen of the LIST
District, is hustling very actively
lthes4 days for a $4,000 appropriation.
He wants it for the purchase Of land
and for the erection of a quarantine
station in Portland harbor on House
Island. He has been biding his time to
urge the matter with the sub-com-
mittee of the House committee on APP
preparations and has just been be-
fore them with DR.. Walter Wyman,
head of the Marine Hospital service,
who wants the money for an efficient
quarantine service in that rapidly
growing port. Since the hearing Mr..
Allen has been personally working
with the members of the committee
and impressing upon than the i,n-
portance of the legislation.
Last year." said Mr.. Allen, today,
Il got the item put on in the Senate
through the kindness of Senator Hale.
The senator was willing to do every
thing in his power to have the item
retained in the bill but we were more
: anxious to have an appropriation for
3 the construction of a lighthouse on
Ram Island ledge. The senator stood
by me on that and had it not been for
him we never would have secured it,
a but we had to sacrifice the apprOpria-
: ton for the quara ntne station, which
we are trying to get this year"
? Senator Frye, Representatives Bur-
leigh, Powers, Littlefield and Allen
were the guests of Senator Hale at
luncheon. Sunday, to meet his brother,
Judge Clarence Hale of Portland. 1t
Twas a very pleasant and sociable c.
lcasion. among the other guests being
IChef Justice Fuller, a native of Au-
lgusta; Attorney General Knox and
Justice Holmes. the new justice of the
lSupreme court; Senator's Foraker of
Ionic. and Morgan of Alabama: eX-
Senator Chandler of New Hamp-
shire, and Representative Hemenway
lof Indiana. who is the prospective
tchairrnan of the committee on appro-
[ Ipriations in the next House of Repre-
= Isentatives: also Representative Alex
lander of Buffalo. n. Y, another Maine
man; Judge Hale came here, Friday,
from Boston. where he had been en-
: lgaged on some judicial work and had a
;, livery pleasant visit with his brother
!, land the latter's family.
Hon. Joseph H. Marley of Augusta,
lquite a frequent visitor to Washing
ton, has been registered, this week, at
the Arlington Hotel for g, day or two.
The immigration bill, which, as
drawn. is of considerable moment to
Maine and to other New England
states, is having a rocky road in the
Senate. Mr.. Fairbanks of Indiana, who
has been trying to get date set on
= which vote may be taken has been
blocked in several efforts and has now
gone home to Indianapolis to address
the legislature on the occasion of his
recollection for term of six years.
Therefore nothing can be done with the
bill. in all probability before his re-
turn. which will be late the present
week. AS agreed upon the bill pro-
vides a head tax of SO upon all immi-
grants coming into this country,
which will apply to the French
Canadians coming over into Maine to
work for a few months. An effort was
made to put an amendment into the
bill. exempting the Canadians, but it
did not succeed, although the commit
J tee was for it. There is opposition to
1.-THE head tax, in it's present status,
which is one of the reasons that the
ibil cannot be brought to a vote. 1t is
ASSERTED that the cost of administering
!. the immigration law is much less than
. would be collected from a head tax OF
l$3 per immigrant and therefore the
government ought not to impose the
|navuient of so much money upon the
lforeignera who seek cur shores.
# is quite problematical whether the
bill will become a law at this session OF
Congress.
Senator Frye has been assisting in
consideration before the committee on
foreign relations of the treaty for
n,rchase of a strip of land across
, Columbia for Isthmian canal. He has
scrutiniZed the treaty very carefully to
ascertain whether there were any loop
holes by which the Columbians might
get the best of the bargain with US.
The senator has also had hand in the
: consideration of the Cuban reciprocity
treaty, which is now before the Senate
and which cannot be- considered for
}, the present because of the deadlock
4 over the statehood bill.
4 Senator Beveridge, of Ind, chairman
! of the committee on territories, is in
4 frequent consultation with Mr.. Hale as
to the program in the statehood fight.
He does not make an important move
without first asking the advice of the
/ Maine senator. Thus far the tight mas
progressed splendidly and the outlook
| cao,,oS TO be that the statehood Dill VIII