Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-04

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were tabled for printing under the
joint rules.
! I'm motion by Mr.. Baxter Of Cum
berland, Senate Document No. 215, IAN
Act relating to returns of corpora
tions,' was taken from the table; and
on further motion by the same sena .
tor, Senate Amendment A was adopt
ed, and the bill as amended was passe,.
| 10 be engressed.
Mr. LOONEY of Cumberland: Mr.
| President: I desire to call the atten-
| ton of the Senate to the bill IAN Act
| to amend Chapter is of the Revised
Statutes, relating to the State Board
| of Health. This bill passed to be ell.
crossed and passed to be enacted and
was sent to the Governor for his sig
! nature and approval. 1t has now been
returned FROM the Governor and 1 de-
| lire to offer an amendment.
On motion by the same senator the
Senate voted to reconsider the vote
whereby The foregoing bill was passed
to he enacted ana also the vote where
| w the bill was passed to be engrossed;
| and or his further motion Senate.
Amendment A WIS adopted, as fol-
lows: Amend by striking out the
| words Six thousand in the fifth line
| Of Section l and substituting the words
| 'Eifty-five hundred" On further mo-
| ton by tie same senator-the bill as
amended vas passed to be engrossed,
ard passed., lie enacted Z
| On motion by Mr. Macomber of Ken
Hebec, House Document No. 40, "An
Act to appropriate moneys for the
.,f CHI
| the Introduction and ravagcs Of dan-
gerous insects and Diseases" was taken
from the table. On further motion Ky
the sar1e senator, Senate Amendment,
y as offered by Mr.. Smith of York.
was adopted as follows: amend Sec
ton 1 by striking out in the sixth line
| thereof the words Thirty five and in
sorting in place thereof the words
'Twenty-fiVe AS amended the bill
was passed to be engrossed.
| On motion by the same senator.
House Document No. 244, can Act to
! amend Section 25 of Chapter SO of the
Revised Statutes relating to necessary
| regulation of street railroads by ml !
| nieipal officers, was taken from the
table. ..
Mr.. MACOMBER of kennebec: MI:
President: This bill is An Act to
amend law relating to regulations Of
street railroads by municipal officers.
L understand that the provisions in
| this bill are embodied in another bill,
House Document No. 259, which went
| through this body yesterday; and that
this IS simply duplication Of the
same proposition. l move, Mr. Presi-
| dent that this House Document No.
PA be indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. BAXTER of Cumberland: Mr.
President: l think the senator from
kennebec is under miSapprehension.
| The bill to which he refers relates
merely to instances where streets are
sprnliled in cities and towns which
| do municipal street sprinklng but this
bill relates to any street railroad and
| IS much broader. 1t seems to me the
provisions of the bill are perfectly fair.
1t merely leaves the question to the
municipal authorities subject to the
approval of. the railroad commission
| eTs, and understand there are some
places III the State which may benefit
| by the passage of this act where the
towns do not do municipal sprinking
Therefore, 1 hope the motion of the
vail
Mr.. MACOMBER: Mr. President:
Under House Document No. 259, al
| though L have not examined it very
carefully, on lines IA, Is and 16 it
seems to me that practically the same
provisions for the sprinkling of streets
by street railroads are included. L new
er have understood that there was any
proposition to require street railroads
to sprinkle their tracks away out into
the outlying districts; and if this bill
| under consideration is to be considered
fairly by the Senate, l should want to
introduce an amendment that would
cut out the possibility of towns, for
any purpose. asking street railroads
to sprinkle their tracks in the outlying
country districts. OF course, street
railroads today are very different from
what they were some years ago. They
are more like steam railroads, running
fir many miles into the rural sections
of the State; and l believe the inten-
ton of the people behind this bill was
simply and solely to require street rail-
roads in cities to do their share of the
Sprinlling-that is, to sprinkle that
portion of the street which they occupy.
do not understand that any street
railroad objects to doing that; but to
make it clear that it shall not require
them to sprinkle inter-urban railways
is the point | am trying. to get at; and
1t seems to me that under House Bill
259 everything is taken care Of.
Mr.. HASTINGS of Oxford Mr.. Pres
ident: / trust the senator from Ken
nebec will not insist upon his motion
to indefinitely postpone this matter this
morning. 1t is matter which was
heard by the judiciary committee and
this represents the unanimous report
OF that committee. 1t was not heard
hastily OF gone over carelessiy. There
was sub committee of that commit
tee appointed and that committee
conferred with Mr.. Libby of Portland
and other electric railroad men in diff
ferent parts of the State i'll relation to
this very bill and the other bill, and
it is my recollection that after the mat
ter had been tabled a couple of weeks
it was gone over in executive session
carefully and this report was sent in
If the senator is serious in this matter
1 certainly hope that he will defer this
action to some day certain when the