Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-02-20
STATE soLONs.
Legislative News of Interest to Ham
cock County Readers.

Legislative News of Interest to Ham
cock County Readers.
The House bill to incorporate the Union
Trust Co., Of Ellsworth, reached the Sem
ate Wednesday. Passed to be engrossed
Thursday. Passed to be enacted Monday
in the House and yesterday in the Senate.
A bill to legalixe certain acts Of the
town Of Stonington was introduced in the
Senate by Mr.. Mills Wednesday.
| The bill to incorporate the Somesville
Water Co. was read and assigned in the
Senate Wednesday
| The Senate bill to prohibit the sale OF
trout in Hancock reached the House We'd
nesday. Passed to he engrossed Thurs
day. Passed to be enacted Monday in the
House and yesterday in the Senate.
| In the House Wednesday Mr.. Hartman
presented . resolve in favor OF the town OF
| Verona.
The act in relation to the Hancock
Transit Co. was passed to be enacted in
the House Wednesday and in the Senate
Thursday.
The bill for bridge at Robbins bar, Deer
Isle. was PASSED to be enacted in the
House Wednesday and in the Senate
Thursday.
| In the House Thursday Mr.. Wood pre-
sented bill to extend charter of the Blue
hill and Bucksport Electric Railroad Co.
Referred to committee on railroads.
A bill to extend the charter Of the Mt.
Desert Trust Co. was presented in the
House by Mr.. Joy Thursday. Referred to
| committee on banks snd banking.
| The bill to authorize the town Of Swans
Island to assist in laying telephone cable
was reported adversely by committee on
| legal affairs in the House Thursday.
In the House Friday Mr.. Herrick in
| troduced bill to permit II. D. erie to ex-
tend fish weir from the shore at Castine.
In the House Friday Mr.. Hayey, for the
Hancock county delegation, on bill for the
relief of the register of deeds for Han
cock county. reported that the same be re-
| ferred to the next legislature. The report
was accepted and sent to the Senate.
| Among new bills introduced in the Sen
ate Monday were the following by Mr.
Deasy:
1 Act TO incorporate the Castine and
Brooksville Ferry Co. The company pro-
poses to establish ferry from Castine to
Brooksyille, across the Bagaduce river.
The incorporators are John NJ. vogel and
Charles T. Tapley.
| Resolve in favor of the town of Maria
vile giving the town 500 for maintaining
roads and bridges.
| Act to incorporate the Ocean and North
ern Railroad Co. This is for charter Il +
railroad from Winter Harbor to No. SO
plantation.
| In the House Monday Mr.. Herrick in
| troduced bill to prevent the hauling of
heavy teams on the highways OF Brooklin
from March Is to May 10.
| In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Deasy pre-
| scented another bill in relation to the Mt.
| Desert Transit Co. The act confers intsd-
| dition to the act previously granted the
| right to produce and use steam power or
any other motive power that may have
been heretofore or may hereafter be dis
covered, invented or devised for operating
| its cars and trains. The act authorizes
lluS SOupdAS W SSll VI tease lis EdllIudu
| franchises now owned or hereafter ac-
| quired to any railroad company operating
in the State of Maine.
| In the House yesterday Mr.. Hartman
presented resolve in favor of the town of
Buoksport to aid in repairiag or rebuild
ing of Verona bridge.
| NOTES.
Legislature has completed the seventh
| week of its deliberations, and it is safe to
say, completed half it's Journey. Even at
| the first, when the great machine had
hardly become s.tuned up" to the work
before it, a vast amount of private and
| special legislation was sent through the
mill, and finally came to the governor for
his signature. This is evidenced by the
fact that Gov. Cobb has already signed
forty resolves, seventy-five private and
special laws and eighteen public laws.
The liquor agencies seem doomed to be
a bone OF contention in the deliberations
of the legislature this year, whether the
| friends OF that system for dispensing
liquor for mechanical and medicinal pur-
poses would have it SO or not. Members
| OF both parties are concerned in the move
ment, some to investigate persons. others
to inquire into conditions. democratic
member introduced an order some time
| ago, calling for thorough investigation
OF the State, city and town agencies,
though no specific charges were made
against any individual. The same sub
| jet matter was the cause of the introduce
| tiOn of order nv &anotnr Il
/ ing that the temperance committee in
| quire into the expectancy of legislation to
further regulate the agencies.