Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-03-01

Trust Co.
An Act to continue in force the char
ter Of the Van Buren Trust Co.
An Act to extend the charter of the
Wilton Trust Co.
Finally Passed.
Resolve providing for preventing conta-
sious diseases among cattle and horses:
Resolve in favor of marking the grave
of the late Governor Hunton.
Resolve making appropriations for the
Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians.
Resolve making appropriations for the
PaSSamaQuOddy tribe of Indians.
Resolve in favor of the Knox County
General hospital
Resolve in favor of the Maine State
Poultry & Pet Stock Association.
Resolve in favor of the Penobscnt tribe
of Indians for the years 1895 and 1896.
Resolve in favor of Peter F. Neptune
representative of the PaSsamaquoddy
tribe of Indians.
Orders Of the Day.
Mr. POTTER of Cumberland: Mr.. Pres
ident: l move that the Senate reconsider
the vote taken yesterday, whereby the re-
port of the committee on legal affairs
was accepted, il, relation to the act IN re-
gard to the fencing of burial srounds:.
The report of the committee was OusiI'
not to pass"
The matter came here on petition of eN-
Governor Chamberlain and 80 or ~ others
of Brunswick, and was set down for hear
ing sometime last week. Ine peIltioHets
were not present. The reason why the!
were not present is because notlce IN
the Portland paper stated that the hearing
would be today. l have here a copy OF
the notice of the communities on legal ar
fairs, stating that today at clock
there will be a hearing on the petition OF
Joshua l.. Chamberlain and others in re.
lation to the fencing OF burying grounds.
OF course those gentlemen We're to he
hoa r1 nd because
of an error either of the committee or the
printer. and / now move that TINS vote
be reconsidered in order that. II 1t Is not
reconsidered. the matter may be recon-
mitted to the commmittee on legal affairs.
| am informed that the chairman of the
legal affairs committee. the senator from
posed action. and l move that the bill
be recommmitted to the commmittee on
legal affairs. The motion prevailed and
the bill was recommmitted to the COM
mittee on legal affairs.
Mr.. POTTER of Cumberland: Mr.. Pres
ident: This morning the calendar states
that the resolve in favor of the trustees
of the University of Maine is in order
today. 1t was not the intention Of Mr.
Stetson. the senator from PenobscOt, or
myself, tnat the matter should be consid-
the decision of the Senate. that the mat
ter should be set down for discussion for
Thursday of this week. and l therefore
move that it be so assigned
The motion prevailed, and the consider
alton of the bill was assigned for next
Thursday.
On motion by Mt Clark of Hancock.
the secretary was instructed to convey a
message to the House. requesting the re-
turn of Senate document a9.
The secretary subsequently reported that
The PRESIDENT: While the Senate is
awaiting the return of the bill which we
have just sent for. the Chair wishes to
take this opportunity to say to the men,
hprS of tho Sanqfe nroSpnt that np6
the order passed by you some three weeks
ago the official stenoSra pher was 2uthor-
lied to employ such assistance as he
might need for the purpose of revising the
legislative record. He has obtained hi:
assistant. and any of the senators who
may hereafter have occasion to address
the Senate and who may wish to revise
their remarks before they appear in the
State paper. the following morning or
before they are finally Incorporated in the
legislative record, can send one of the
pages or one of the messengers of the
Senate to the official stenographe- at his
office. and such senator may obtain a
tyreWrit,en copy of his remarks. upon
may see fit. and return the same to this
official stenographer and his SO revised
edition will be incorporated in the legis-
lative record.
The Chair takes this opportunity to an.
nounce this to YOU, because the Chair
knows that many Of the senator's did not
know that this could he done.
The Chair will further state as a mat
ter of information to the Senate. that
every word uttered in the Senate from the
time of the fall of the gavel in the morn.
ing until the close of the session. is TAX
en- down by the official stnnOgra pher; and
after the session is over he retires to his
| office. where it is written out and event
ually appears as the legislative record
This is preserved for all time. The work
of the official stenoGraphcr is very try
ing. Errors inadvertently creep in. II
any errors appear in the newspaper re-
port in the morning they are not due tC
| the reporter as much as to the fact that
he has no opportunity to read the proof
office the type not being set up frequent
| ly until from 12 to > O'Clock in the morn.
| ing. The Chair would especially caution
the senators that if they wish future re-
ports of their remarks in the Senate t.
appear correctly. properly punctuated
| and so FORTH they must take pains to sct
| that the manuscript of their remarks i
revised before it is finally printed in tn,
| record. because your children will he glaj
| to know that their ancestors were cor.
The h" so HS has
piled with the request or the Senate rela
tive to the return of Senate document %
being "An Act to amend Sections 1oN ant
1O2 of Chapter % of the Revised Statutes
| relating to State roads.
| On motion by Mr.. Clark of Hancock
the vote whereby the same was passed t.
| he engrOsSed was reconSdered. ON fur
ther motion by the same senator the bill
| was tabled.
On motion by Mr.. Simpson of York. re-
| port of the committee on legal affairs
''ought not to pass on bill to incorpor.
ate the trustees of Harmony Grange No
| 1874, was taken from the table. On motion
| Of Mr.. Bailey of Somerset the bill was
recommitted to the committee on lega
| affairs
| The PRESIDENT: will ask the sen.
ator from Knox if that is acceptable tc
| the committee.
Mr.. STAPLES of Knox: We are salts.
| fed to have it recommitted. 1t seems
| that there is an error which has crept ir
| that 1t is desirable to rectify.
On motion of Mr.. Simpson of York ia
BILE document 1s was taken from the table
| the same being report of committee or
legal affairs ''ought not to pass on bill
Ito regulate the use of boats propelled by
explosive engines. On further motion by
the same senator the report Of the com
mittee was accented.
| Mr.. GARDNER of Penobscot: Mr.. Pres.
ident: Owing to a mistake of the tvpe
| writer who copied the bill here relativ.
to the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Co
| there is part of the section left out
That bill as I understand. passed to its
first reading this morning. I would like
under suspension of the rules. to offer ar
| amendment to this bill. and would move
the adoption of the amendment. and thai
the bill pass to its second reading in or.
der that n day NAV not he lost. as 1t mus
necessarily go back to the House on tbs
Amendment.
| On motion of the senator from Penob
scot the rule was suspended and hill