Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-27
STATE HOUSE.
Today the Legislature Will
Once More Assemble,
Memorial from the Maine Federation
Of Women's Clubs.
Miscellaneous Requests Asked for
Ts Amount to Nearly 100000. &

the weeks work. The sessions will not
be long, for the committees have some
thing to do in the afternoon, which will
prevent the introduction of new meas
ures in any number or the lengthy con-
sideration of bills now pending.
The coming week will be busy, not sc
much because of the influx of real
legislative business but on account OF
various exercises arranged by the
Federation of Women's Clubs, the
meeting of the Maine Press Association
the reception by Gov. and Mrs. Hill to
members of the Legislature and others
and the memorial to the late Thomas
B. Reed.
The Reed memorial will take place,
Wednesday forenoon, the Women's
Clubs will come that afternoon. The
editors will come, Thursday, Gov Hill
reception will occur, Thursday even
ing, and Friday, the busy editors will
d1sport themselves about the Capitol.
Nearly all the committees have ar
ranged for hearings during the after
moons of Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday.
This afternoon will take place the
hearing before the committee on tax
alton on the bill reducing the tax on
savings banks. This hearing will take
place in the Senate chamber at P. NJ.
1t is expected that there will be a large
attendance at this hearing.
Wednesday afternoon the committee
on legal affairs will consider the propo-
sition to change the Australian ballot
law so that the use of stickers pasted
over printed names on the official ballot
may be declared legal; and the next
afternoon the committee will hear the
reasons for passing an act enabling
tax paying women to vote in municipal
elections. At this hearing it is under
stood a delegation of women will ap-
pear and advocate the measure.
The following memorial from the
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs is
being circulated among the members:
"As a body of women devoted to the
best interests of our State, and anxious
for its advancement in Righteousness
and beauty, intelligence and material
prosperity, we are led to give earnest
thought to the subject of Forestry.
We recognize that in the New For
estry we have a great national move
ment. in which the State of Maine is
at present behind the van. It seems to
US that there are few subjects of such
vital Importance upon which so gen.
eral ignorance prevails, and that the
beginning of progress must be knowl-
edge. The methods of foreign coun-
tries and of other states are said to be
more or less unsuited to conditions in
Moi, W. g.
and exhaustive study of the conditions
and possibilities of Maine forestry, and
the evolution of principles and meth
DDS adapted to our own State.
THE forests of Maine are an i'm
perial inheritance from the past Upon
them depend giant industries that
make the life of towns and cities.
Upon them depend for support, directly
or indirectly, large part of the popu-
|lation of the State. Upon their per-
manence depend the regular flow of
great rivers, and the fertility of broad
acres. To enjoy their beauty, and be
refreshed by their health laden breez
es. summer army, larger every year,
invades the State, bringing to it new
source of profit. We cannot but be
convinced that the prosperity of Maine
would pass with the passing of the for
ests, and that with their conservation
and the increase in value which may
be expected from an enlightened for
estry. would come to the State in
creased prosperity and new develop
ment. II seems to US, therefore, as
women interested in the future Of
Maine. that there is no department
outside the public schools, upon
which at the present time a portion of
the public money may be more wisely
spent.
Moved by these considerations, and
by an abiding love for the old Pine
Tree State. we beg to offer for your
careful attention the following petit
ton:
I'VE ask that you grant a sufficient
appropriation to the Department of
Forestry so that a trained forester can
be employed, who shall give his entire
time to the study of Maine Forestry
and the spread of practical information
in regard to it.
I'VE also ask that you make appro-
Driation for a department of Forestry
in the University of Maine
lie llitulOiidl 10 SlSiCu ny
Dow Armstrong, the president of the
Federation, and by Eunice Nichols
Frye, Ella Jordan Mason, Lizzie Jew
ett- Butler, Alice Mary Bradbury,
Louise Fl. Coburn, Gulielma Penn San
born. Anna Sargent Hunt, Edith F..
Woodman and George A. Glover. The
last five are members of the forestry
committee of the Federation.
The Union River Light, Gas and
Power Co. located at Ellsworth, has
increased the number of it's directors
from five to seven.
The whole amount of money asked
for up to the present time in aid of
various State institutions, hospitals,
homes. orphan asylums, roads, bridges
and the like aggregates s476,292.52 for
the year 1903, and s323,079,00 for the
year 1904. The largest sums included
in this apitulation are the resolves
in favor of the Maine Sanatorium, in
aid of the University of Maine and in
favor of Colby college. These re-
solves amount to a total of s160,000.
The following companies have filed
articles of incorporation at the Office
of the secretary of State:
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