Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-03-17
STATE soLoNs.
Legislative News of Interest to Ham


Harbo and Eastern Railway Co. was read
and assigned in the Senate Wednesday
Passed to be engrosed Thursday. Passed
to be enacted yesterday.
| The act regulating the open season or
| deer on Swans Island was passed TO bt
engrossed in the Senate "Wednesday
| Passed to be enacted Saturday.
/ The act regulating fishing in tributarie:
| OF Phillips lake was passed to be engrosseo
in the Senate Wednesday. Passed to be
enacted in the House Friday and in the
Senate Saturday.
| The resolve in favor of the town of Ire
| mont, and the resolve authorizing the
State land agent to convey Ccnary's Nub,
| in BIuehill bay, were finally passed III the
Senate Wednesday.
| The bill for the relief of the register OF
| deeds of Hancock county was reported ad-
versely in the House Wednesday.
| The committee on inland fisheries ana
game, on petition of y. z. Cole and others,
| OF iSroolllin, praying for Law regulating
| the hunting of sea fowl in the waters OF
| Bluehiii bay by use OF power boats and
| launches, reported bull entitled to regulate
| the hunting of ducks and other water
| fowl in Bluehill bay and Eggemoggin
a
day. Rad and assigned in Senate Mon
day. Passed to be engrossed yesterday.
The act to extend charter of the Bluehill
Trust & Banking Co. was passed to be en-
crossed in the House Wednesday. Read
and assigned in Senate Thursday. Passed
to be engrossed Friday. Passed to be en-
acted Saturday. Passed to be enacted In
the House Monday and in Senate yester-
day.
The act to prohibit the swelling of seal
Tops by artificial means was passed TO be
engrossed in the House Wednesday. Read
and assigned in the Senate Thursday.
Passedlto be engrossed Friday. Passed TO
be enacted yesterday.
The act regulating the taking OF ale
wives in Patterns pond stream, Surry, was
read and assigned in the Senate Thursday.
Passed to be engrossed Friday.
The act to confirm title OF Ram island,
Hancock county, reached the House
Thursday. Passed to be engrossed Friday.
Passed to be enacted yesterday.
The Mount Desert automobile bill,
which WAS speciSlly assigned for Wednes-
day in the Senate, was given its first and
second readings and passed to be engrosscd
without division. Sen. Staples, OF Knox,
who had tabled the measure, took it from
the table and stated that he had intended
to oder an amendment, but had changed
his mind, and merely wished to make
brief remarks. He spoke against the
measure, saying that he doubted its consti-
nationality. Sen. Walker then moved that
the Senate accept the report of the judici-
airy committee, fought to pass" on the
bill, and that the bill be given its first
reading which was done. Sen. Osgood, OF
Androscoggin, then moved that the rules
be suspended and the bill be given its
second reading and passed to be engrossed,
and this action was taken without Oppo-
sition. The bill was passed 10 be enacted
in the House Thursday and in the Senate
Friday.
Sen. Baxter, OF Cumberland, on We'd
nesday, offered a new draft of the county
bridge bill, as the minority report of the
committee on bridges relative to the Dom
igan bill is known, and the matter was
tabled pending printing. The new draft
cuts out the ten-foot class and makes the
county take over and build bridges hav-
ing span twenty five feet or more be-
tween abutments. The county is to share
two-thirds OF the expense and towns in
terested the other one-third. Liability
for damage is placed on the towns.
Mr.. Harmon, of Stonington, on Thurs
day presented q batch OF remonstrances
against close time on Holsters on the
coast Of Maine.
The Senate on Thursday, by q vote of
twenty-five to seven, refused to submit to
the people the question of repeating the
constitutional amendment against the
manufacture and sale OF intoxicants. The
vote was taken on the motion to accept
the majority report, ought not to pass, OF
the committee on temperance on the re-
solve for resubmssion.
The bill to set of a lot OF land from town
of Bucksport and annex same to town OF
Dedham was read and assigned in the
Senate Friday. Passed to be engrossed
Saturday.
The resolve in favor OF the city OF Els
worth was finally passed in the Senate
Wednesday. On Friday the resolve was
sent back to the House by the Senate, and
the votes were reconsidered whereby this
resolve was finally passed and passed to
be engrossed, and recommitted to the COM
mittee on claims.
The committee on shore fisheries, on Pc
tition OF j. p. Carter and others praying
for an act to prohibi drag SEEMING in the
waters OF Benjamin's river, Sedgwicll, re-
ported that petitioners have leave to with
draw.
The act legalizing tine assessment and
commitment of taxes in the city OF Els
worth for the years 1903 and 1904 was given
first reading in the House Friday. Read
and assigned in Senate Monday. Passed
to be engrossed yesterday
The resolve in favor of Bucksport semi
nary was finally passed in the House FRI
day and in the Senate Saturday.
After long debate Friday the Senate
passed TO be engrossed the resolve appro-
prlating S350,0o0 for the enlargement of
the State house or the erection OF a separ-
ate office building adjacent thereto. The
proposition was made to reduce the appro-
priation to S200,009, to provide that the
money should be spent for separate Ii
brarv building and to do away with a
building commission, but the Senate voted
down the amendments one after another
left the resolve in the identical form in
which 1t passed the House two weeks ago.
1t must now receive its final passage in
both branches, but il is not likely that il
Will encounter any particular danger on
us way to the governor. The only danger
IT runs is ia possible negative at the
hands of the people under the referendum.
The committee on sea and shore fisheries
on Friday reported leave to withdraw on
the petition to prevent non-residents
from becoming lobster fishermen until
they have been residents of this Sta tie one
year.
The committee on inland fisheries and
game reported ought to pass in a new
draft on the act to prohibit the use of
boats or launches propelled by steam, gas
oline, naphtha or electricity in chasing,