The Somerset reporter., 1905-03-09
At Augusta.

/ spoke in favor OF the referendum.
In the Senate on Thursday a com
munication from Chief Justice Wisgell
of the House giving the opinion of the
court regarding Vaughan's bridge which
was ordered printed.
The Clark insurance bill repeating the
compulsory arbitration clause in the fire
insurance policy contract passed in the
Senate. This question has been fought
out in every Legislature since the law
was passed establishing this policy in
1895 and until this year the insurance
companies have always been victorious
The resolve appropriating s24 900 for
the University of Maine passed to be
engrossed.
On Friday the Senate by a vote of Is
to three voted to accept the report of
the majority of the committee on lem
perance, fought not to pass" on the re.
solve to resubmit the prohibitory liquor
law to the people
Senator Stetson presented an order
for the payment of 5000 to Hon. George
q. " eeks for services as counsel for the
committee on salaries at the present
session.
Representative Milliken of Island
Falls has prepared new draft of the
bill providing for the proper labelling of
proprietary medicines to be heard
Wednesday afternoon by the com
mittee on Temperance. The new draft
is applicable to alcohol, opium and
it's compounds, choral and cocaine,
only. 1t excerpts physicians prescrip
tions and does not apply to remedies for
external use 1t makes the manufac-
turers liable for false statements on label
and goes into effect July l. 1905 instead
of Jan. l, 1905.
On Friday in the House Mr.. Merrill of
Skowhe9an presented an act to secure
proper and uniform records in munich
pal courts. The act provides for the
appointment by the governor of COM
mission composed of two municipal
court judges and one clerk or recorder
whose duty it shall be to prepare forms
and blanks and a form of docket for
municipal courts, both criminal and
civil; also forms for keeping all records
of said courts. the commission is also
authorized to establish or recommend
rules of practice and procedure in such
courts subject to the approval of the
supreme court. The bill further pro-
vides that the expense of the commits
sion shall be paid by the State and that
the expense of furnishing blanks and
record books shall be paid by the sever
al counties.
A large number of petitions were pre-
sented asking for the passage of the act
providing for the labelling of proprietary
medicines containing alcohol and mar
cote drugs.
The committee on Taxation presented
two reports on the Merrill bill which
provides for higher tax on railroads.
The committee breaks, eight to two, the
majority voting to report fought not to
pass" and the minority to report fought
to pass in new draft" The new draft
reduces the limit from 10 per cent as
provided in the original bill to six per
cent.
Brief sessions of both branches of the
legislature we're held on Saturday, but
few members being present in either
hall and no business was transacted and
adjournment was had to 10 80, Wednes-
day A. M.
Governor Cobb and the members of
the staff, General Davis, col. Crockett
and Major Kelley, who took part in the
exercises attendant upon the Inaugural
ton of President Roosevelt. last Satur-
day, returned. Monday evening on the
720 train from the west During the
evening Governor Cobb went to the
executive department of the State
House where he attended to a large
amount of routine business that had
accumulated in HIS absence.
The transfer of the United States
Arsenal property in this state to the
State of Maine through the passage of
the Burleigh bill was general topic Of
conversation among Augusta citizens
and much satisfaction was expressed
thereat
On Tuesday in the Senate Senator
Bailey of Somerset presented the
petition of Rev l.. d. Libby and 81
others, citizens of Brighton, urging the
passage of an act providing for the
proper labelling of proprietary medicines,
also of r g. Davis aud - others of
Norridgewock requesting the enactment
of the Milliken bill; also of w. H. Lang
and 3S others for same; which we're re-
ferred to the Committee on Temperance.
The following bills passed to be en-
acted In the senB,e:
An act to regulate the sale of milk
and cream.
An act to regulate the sale of imita-
ton dairy products.
An act to regulate the duties of the
Commissions of Agriculture, relating
to the manufacture and sale of dairy
products and their limitations.
An act to extend the charter of the
! Caratunk Power Co
An act to amend Section Is Of Chap
ter 128 OF the Revised statutes relating
to malicious mischief
Requisition papers were issued by
/ Governor Cobb, Tuesday forenoon, for
the extraditon OF armine Navarro. an
Italian, who s now held in New York,
on the charge of numbering Alphonse
| Rummn, also an Italian, i'll Portlan i,
Feb. 81 The TeqIslton papers were
issued on the complaint and war.
rant of County Attorney Vim. {. Eaton
! of Portland
The committee on judiciary spent the
greater part of Tuesday evening dis
cussing ia executive session the c0nsti-
tutional resolve In favor of the referen-
dun A majority of the committee
believe IN the principle of the resolve
and their only diff ulty va iu agr eelng
on a plan which will produce practical
resuts The committee finally voted
ought not to pass on a bill to establish
peoples veto through the optional ref
erendum
The committee also voted to allow the
petitioners for women's suffrage "leaye