Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-03-06
STATE soLoNs.


Legislative News of Interest to Ham
cock County Readers.
| The oct to incorporate the Winter Har-
Dor q Eastern Railroad Co. reached the
Senate wednesday.
Act to change the time OF holding the
January session Of the court Of county
commissioners for Hancock county.
Passed to be engrossed in House Wednes-
day. Passed to be enacted in Senate yes
terday.
/ Act to abolish the January term of the
supreme judicial court for the county of
| Hancock. Passed to be engrossed in
House Wednesday. Passed to be enacted
in Senate yesterday.
| The committee on legal affairs reported
in the House Thursday on act granting
Charles H. Scott the right to maintain .
ferry across Eggemoggin Reach, that same
ought to pass in new draft.
The act to extend charter of the Mt.
Desert Trust Co. was favorably reported
in the House Thursday. Passed to be en-
crossed yesterday.
In the Senate the co mmittee on legal
affairs on act to authorize the Benvenue
Granite Co. to erect and maintain wharves
and docks on the shores of Crotch island
and Green head, Stonington, reported
same in new draft under same title, and
that it ought to pass.
The committee on temperance Friday
reported ought not to pass on the bill
which would empower druggists to sell
intoxicating liquors on physicians pre-
scriptions.
The act to prohibit the hunting OF foxes
| by dogs on Swans Island was read and
assigned in the Senate Tuesday.
The act relating to BluehiIl Water Co. was
favorably reported in the Senate Tuesday.
favorabiy reported by committee yester-
day.
REsUBMIssIoN.
The sensation of the session was the
adoption by the Senate Thursday of the
minority report on resubTission. The
minority report, it viii be remembered,
was in favor of the measure. The vote in
/ the Senate was 10 to 6. Both the Ham
cock senators go on record as against re-
submission, Senator Mills leading the op-
position in debate on the floor of the
Senate
| The vote came as a surprise. No one
had supposed that it would be done, and
the silence which prevailed when the vote
was announced was intense, but was
broken in a moment by bedlam of noise
in which the resubmissionists showed
their pleasure at the result.
Contrary to the custom in previous
years, party lines were thrown to the
winds, the democrats clinging close to
theirs, while many republican senator
voted in favor of the minority report.
The two reports OF the committee, which
had been on the table for several days,
were taken up by Senator Staples, of
Knox. Senator Brown, of Kennebec,
moved the substitution of the minority
report and gave way to Senator Heselton of
the same county, who spoke in favor of
the substitution of the minority report.
He said it was well recognize by many
that there was demand for the people to
be given an opportunity to vote on the
question of retention of the fifth amend
ment. He believed it was for the benefit
of the republican party so to vote. 1t was
in accord with the principles of Ameri-
cans. 1--WE always took the people into
our conferences and allowed them to set
tie all questions" He believed in the
principles OF prohibition, but he believed
the people ought to be given a chance to
say if they wanted 1t.
He SAID the result in september last,
when the republican party won by a
small majority, showed that the demand
for result admission had grown. He believed
! if resubmission were denied, the thou
sands Of republicans who voted this DEM
ocratic ticket last year, augmented by
thousands more, would vote the same
way at the next election.
Senator Mills said that he had no desire
to take the time of the senators to discuss
local option. He commended that the re-
publicans could not consistently resub-
nit. To his mind, the failure of the State
convention to adopt resubmission plank
was a tacit promise that there should be
no resubmission.
In the Senate yesterday the committee
on public buildings submitted two re-
ports on the question of the removal OF
State capitol. Each of the reports is
| signed by five members Of the committee.
Senator Curtis, of Portland, Senator
Clark, OF Nobleboro, and Reps. Pike, of
Eastport, Snow, of Brunswick, and Has
kell, of Deer Isle, favor removing the cap
| itol, and Senator Barrows, of Newport
and Reps. Allen, of Richmond, Danforth,
| of Skowhegan, Farrar, OF Corinth, and
Lynch, OF Washington, are against re-
moval.
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