Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-23
FOR Pure FOOD.
The Bill Is Especially
Severe on Bakeries.
Railroad, Express and Fran.
chise Tax Measure Proposed.
B. L A. R. r. Files Location Of Ex.
tension to st. Francis,

already gone home and the rest left
OH the afternoon trains. Adjournment
was taken to 4.30 O'clock Monday after
noon.
The session of the House Friday
morning was marked by the introduce
ton Of three acts designed to effect the
system Of assessing taxes of express
companies. railroads and corporate
franchises.
The express bill provides that express
companies shall pay annually 5 per
cent. of their gross receipts The 3 per
cent. shall be on all business done in
the State, including q proportional part
on all express business coming from
other states or countries into this State
and on all going from this State to 9TH
or states and countries, provided, how
ever, that nothing shall apply to goods
or merchandise in transit through the
State.
The railroad bill provides that rail-
road corporations shall pay an annual
excise tax on the amount of their gross
transportation receipts. When such av-
erage receipts per mile do not exceed
Of per cent. of the gross receipts:
when the average receipts per mile eX-
coed $500 and do not exceed $2OOO the
tag shall be equal to three-quarters OK
! per cent. of the gross receipts and so
on increasing the rate of the tax one
quarter of l per cent. for such addi-
tional $500 of average gross receipts
per mile or fractional part thereof, pro-
yided that the rate shall in no event
exceed 6 per cent.
The corporate franchise act provides
that every corporation shall pay an an
nual franchise tax proportioned as loi-
lows. For companies whose capltallZ-
alton does not exceed $4,000, $40; up TO
5000 900. $40; up to 100000, $35; up 10
| 81 600 600 SIS and the further sam or
s50 nor wear for each additional mil
| lion dollars.
Senator Parkhurst of Penobscot m
| troduced a measure comforting auoi-
| tional powers to Boards OF Heaitn III
| the enforcement OF pure food laws } nc
| ACT is a drastic one and forDlds me
manufacture, storage, tranSporta'n 'i'
| or sale of diseased unclean, unWllcN-
| some or tainted food of all xmas dlf',
| urovides for the inspection OF places ~
| manufacture storage and SAFE lliclu"-
| ing bakeries and for the registering anu
licensing Of milkmen and dealers III
| milk and cream. The act pays particu-
! lar attention to bakeries, supulaliiis
MANY things in regard to the SANTA
| tion OF the buildings and the ciotHiiiS'
sleeping apartments and health OF PEI
| sons emDloved in bakeries. Penalties Oh
| tnes and Imprisonment are provided lpl
! infractions of the several provisions Oh
| the statute.
| The Bangor & ArOostook Railroad
fIaA at the office of the railroad conf
| missioners Friday plans OF the pro-
| nosed location of the extension from y
| noint in Township 4, Range y, ABOUT
| % miles from Milo Junction to the
| canadian border in the plantation Oh
| g Francis and also the location iof
| ,be cut off from South Lagrange To the
| ro;nt in Township A. Range =, Where
tho extension leaves the main line. ms,
| in connection with the extension, anu
tba Northern Maine Seaport Raiiro"u
| makes 4 continuous line OF iron from
! Cearsnort to St Francis, cutting haiilS
| :, two narts and beside forming Il
| converting line between the two terhl-
| nal noin1s furnishing transportation
| E, c;,ities for q vast stretch OF country
hitherto travelled only by tote Teams
| MIA after mile will be through inc
| finest game country in the world ana
! through wilderness, unbroken. saw" IoF
an occasional camp or sportsman re-
| treat. . 1900 a.,
| The big extension, after it leaves the
main line strikes off to the northward'
n,ssing a little west of South 1Wlii
1 i.lxas thence northwesterly between
| tho loo Mary lakes and Pdmadumcook
Il ,,Lo still in a northweSteriy direction
Il ,Iong N.homakanta lake and stream,
II in between the lower two of the three
i Murnhy ponds then between the low
\ or arm, of Chesuncook lake ana Repo-
Il oan,,s lake along the stream. the ROAD
viii then swing 4 little to the east OF
\ coubuneo mountain, thence northWatn
II oroin nassing within mile OF Neso-
wodnehu,k lake, across the canal De
twoop TolOs and Webster lakes close
! 70 tho former. then curves out around
tho mr. moi Chamberlain lake. between
tho Ieadbetter ponds. passes close 10
tho lower arm of Eagle lake, SWINGS
nortbward again and follows the Ale
cash RI its termination at st. Francis.
1t will be seen that the line STRIKE,
- yearly due north as the character OF
| tho country VIII ItIiiit civ ~
riIv in connection with the CANADA iine'
Tbe second link in the chain is the
Scboodic cutoff, as it has come TO DC
called. This line starts from South
Lagrange and runs due north through
Medford into Lakeview. up between the
Schoodic lakes into Township T. Range
Q to a point about 20 miles above Mic
Junction.
Inst what this great project means
IN the Maine of the future. no one
knows. the sportsmen claim that 1t VII
spoil their hunting grounds, the ium'
her men say that It will be their sal
walton. Just which is right, Is no
known. Perhaps both are right ana th'
state is up against the proposition o
deciding which will be OF tne Ilios
vaire to it in the future, the lumoe'
industry. or the hunter.
A parallel case is that of the somer
set Extension. This road has aske'
nermission to build railroad 10 th'
northernmost point of land in Name
.,x, &c wild and unsettled coun