Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-04
A Busy Week Is in Store
For the Legislature.
Marine, Fire and Life Insurance
Summaries for 1906.
Life Insurance Had Sharp Decline
...0thers Increase.

1t is not unlikely that the coming
week will be even more strenuous
than last in the legislative halls.
Several debates are assigned for the
week and without doubt there will be
number that are not down on the cal
endar. The committees have a large
grist of matters TO turn off, especially
the Committee on judiciary, which has
so hearings assigned for Friday alone.
in addition to very respectable list
Tor the other three days.
On Tuesday the Committee on
Judiciary will give hearing on an
act additional to and amendatory of
the act to incorporate the Kennebec
Light and Heat Co. 1t will also give
nearing on the resolves in favor Of
DeForest Reyes and Herbert L. Kim
ball for sums of money paid to the
State for tax deeds. These cases were
aired at the last session of the Legis-
lature and received considerable atten-
lion in the press at that time. The
gentlemen named bought Maine wild
lands at tax sales and paid for the
deeds. but when they came to look for
the land they couldn't seem to find
where the land surrounding theirs left
u
ves.igation failed to reveal, not only
the boundaries, but the bulk also. The
I'D Legislature declined to reimburse.
Another matter which this committee
has assigned for Tuesday is the act to
provide for an indeterminate sentence
| fer criminals This manner of pun
! ahment is in use in some of the other
states and the friends of the bill de-
| clare that it has passed the expert
| mental stage and been found to be
good thing. BY it a criminal is SEN
| fenced to Il term not less than the
| minimum prescribed by law and not
more than the maximum, though the
| limits within these two bounds may be
| fixed, to a certain extent by the discre-
| ton of the justice presiding
The Committee on Legal Affairs will
| consider the bill to establish the office
| of surveyor general for the PenobScot
river. The bill provides that the sur
y,.yor general shall maintain an office
at Bangor and appoint deputies 70
| prosecute the work. All logs driven on
| the penobscot must be surveyed by
| the. surveyor general or his deputies.
A hearing which will contain more
OF. less of interest, without doubt, will
|
nrorriations and Financial Affairs on
| the order to inquire into the adVisabll-
lity- Of recurring supplies purchased by
the State for State institutions 70 De
purchased on the basis of competitive
| bids.
Among the matters which the COM
noittae on judiciary will consider on
"Wednesday is the bill to prohibit the
|
second bucket shop BILL" that is, the
bill which was introduced after the
buclxet shop bill and SO drawn as TO
| include all stocks sold on Margin
whether sold in a bucket shop o: else
where ON Friday the bucket shop
| billr itself will come up for hearing pc
| fore tire same committee.
! The committee on legal affairs Will
give hearing Wednesday afternoon on
The pure food law recently introduced.
which deals so severely with bakeries
\ and other Dlaces where food intended
L for sale is cooked. The bill confers
i additional powers upon boards OF
| health. that they may prevent the
| manufactures storage, transportation
or sale. of diseased, unclean, unwhole-
H some or tainted food of all kinds and
that they may inspect all places OF
Il manufacture, storage and sale, includ-
H ing bakeries and also provides Tor the
|: licensing of mikmen and dealers in
Il milk and cream.
\ Another act which will be heard the
same day is that to provide for the
II propcr labelling of medicines contain
II ing alcohol and narcotic drugs and to
Il prevent the manufacture and sale or
"A X.
Il bin closely follows the national pure
II food law 50 far as drugs are concerned.
The committee on temperance will
II consider on Thursday an order to in
Il ouire into the expediency of providing
by law for the seizure and forfeiture of
II horses and carriages found engaged in
the transportation of Intoxicating
liquors when the same is intended for
Il illegal sale within the State, when the
II owner of the teams, his agent or
servant have reasonable grounds to
Il know or believe that said team or
II teams is to be used for the purposes of
said transportation.
II The committee on railroads and eX-
presses was unable to complete the
hearing in regard to the compulsory is
suance of transferable two cent
mileage in books Of small denomina-
ton on the Washington County Rail-
II road and this matter will be brought
/ up on Wednesday. The matter was
| pretty thoroughly covered on general
principles at the last hearing, but it is
| not unlikely that strong arguments will
1 be made on this specific case by both
parties.