Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-08

duty. amends the Sturgis law and does
about one thousand and one other
things aimed To make the enforcement
of the prohibitory law easier.
Representative Noyes of Augusta
presented in the House resolve an
propriatinG $1,000 for additional COM
pen<ati"n and wages of attendance ana
laborcrs at the Maine Insane hospital.
The committee Oh salaries and fees
submitted minority and majority re-
ports on the order to injuTe into the
cXIcGicnCy or raising the pay of the
legislators and put them on a plane of
equality with the other State officials
as regards passes. The minority re-
port. which is signed by Senators
Staples and Page and Representatives
Giddings and Reynolds. reported that
legislation thcreol is inexpedient.
The majority report. which is signed
by Senator Sewall and Representatives
Miliiken. SkiGmore, NeWbert and Pea
COCK, submitted an act to amend Sec
ton Of Chapter lie of the Revised
statutes. as amended by Section /
of Chapter 80 of the Public Laws of 1905
relating to compensation of members
of the government. The bill provides
that the salaries be raised from $3.50 10
$500 for the members and that Of The
President Of the Senate and Speaker Of
the House be raised from $500 TO $3.50.
The resolve to reimburse the city of
Augusta III the sum of SS9O.54 for taAcs
paid to :hc state on the valuation in
excess of The valuation placed upon the
property Of the Edwards Manufacture
ing 60. The city paid its State tax on
the valuation put upon the property by
the city. hut the decision of the county
commissioners fixed Il valuation on the
property which reduced the city'S fig
urcs by f&$5G.-16 in the two years. 1895
and 1896. 1t is tile 215 per cent. on
this reduction which the city VIII re-
cOtcr, for Of course the city cannot COL
ieCt It from the defendant corpordtiun
Tie committee on temperance consid-
cred the bill 20 prevent the indiscrimi-
nate distribution Of free samples Of
medicines and the printing of immoral
ana ambiguous advertisements in the
newspapers. Representative Weld of
Old Town, who introduced the bill
spoke briefly in favor of it. and also Dr.
y. G.. Young Of the State Board OF
Health. He said that there was a de-
mani for some such law as this, that it
was similar to the laws in Michigan
and Wisconsin and that the public
health required that something be done
The next matter 10 be taken up was
the bill providing for the seizure OF
teams which are found to be used in
the transportation of liquor intended
for Illegal sale. 1t was suspected that
this bill was drawn for POrtland's ben
eft, but it developed that George d.
Bisbce of Rumford Falls drew it to
protect his own town from the practice
of hauling liquor from stations on the
Grand Trunk. He stated that there WAS
Considerable demand for liquor III his
town ana that il was sent from Lewis
ten ana Berlin to stations Il short dis
tanrn outside of the town and hauled
in by team. lie said that some of the
lroplc of his town had made conSid-
crabie money by letting teams for tn"
rUrpOSc. Some of the offenders had
been caught but in the early spring
and fall as well US in the winter months
If was rather cold for the officers to
stand beside the road and wait for the
cClprits.
No one appeared against the bill, IN