Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1909-03-24
STATE sOMDNs.
Legislative News of Interest to Ham
cock County Readers.

town of Bucksport and annex it to Ded-
ham was passed to be enacted in the SEN
| ate Wednesday.
The act to confirm title to Ram island,
Hancock county, was passed to be enacted
| in the Senate Wednesday.
The bill to provide for bounty on bears
| in Washington county has been amended
! to inoluce Hancock county. Passed to be
engrossed in the House Thursday. 1t
| came back from the Senate Monday, in
definitely postponed. The House refused
to concur and asked for committee of
| conference, in which the Senate Joined.
The resolve in favor of screening Teddy
pond, in Hancock county, and Spring
River lake in Hancock and Washington
counties, were given first reading in the
House Wednesday. Passed to be engrossed
Thursday. Read and assigned in Senate
Friday. Passed to be engrossed Saturday.
Finally passed yesterday.
The House voted Wednesday morning.
70 TO SO, to substitute the bill introduced
by Representative Hersey, OF Houlton, re-
garding the regulation of railroad rates by
the railroad commissioner for the report
sought not to pass" of the committee on
railroads and expresses upon the bill.
The amendment proposed by Represent
alive Slower, Of brunswick, cutting out
the $50 900 appropriation for dcrmitory
from the University OF Maine, was voted
down and the resolve passed to be en-
crossed.
The committee has reported favorably
on the Deasy bill, which creates tax dis
trict for wild lands, and provides for tax
of 1 1-2 mills on the valuation, to be ex-
pended for fire protection. This tax will
yield q revenue OF about 81, 200.
The act to regulate the taking Of cells
in Taunton bay was read and assigned in
the Senate Thursday. Passed to be en-
crossed Friday. The House voted to in
definitely postpone. The Senate receded,
and concurred with the House in indefinite
postponement.
Thursday reported sought not to pass"
on the act for protection OF smelts in Ben
jamin river.
The resolve authorizing the land agent
to convey Three bush island to Joseph c.
Harmon, Of Stonington, was reported fsv
orably in the House Thursday. Read and
assigned Saturday. Passed to be engrossed
in the Senate yesterday.
The act to prohibit the hunting OF sea
birds in Eggemoggin Reach and Bluehill
bay by use OF power launches, was passed
to be enacted in the House Thursday and
in the Senate Friday
The act legslIzing the assessment and
commitment OF taxes OF Ellsworth for
the years 1908 and 1904, was passed to be
enacted in the House Thursday and in the
Senate Friday.
The act to authorize the Bar Harbor L.
Union River Power Co. to acquire the
property and franchises OF the Ellsworth
Power Supply Co., was passed to be en-
acted in the House Thursday and in the
Senate Friday.
Amid dramatic scenes the Eaton amend
ment to the constitution giving the gov
ernor power to remove delinquent sherins
and automatically repeating the Sturgis
law in case it was adopted by the people,
failed to get the necessary two-thirds by
two votes, the vote being 96 to 81 Rep
resentative Peters, of Ellsworth, then Of
fered an amendment to the Eaton amend
ment, which provided that upon it coming
to the notice of the governor OF the State
that sheriff is delinquent in his dnties,
he may order a special election in the
county where the fault lies, and that when
a successor to the delinquent official is
elected, the delinquent sheriff ceases to
hold Office. The House declined to give
this substitute the necessary two-thirds
by the same vote, 90 to 81.
Resubmission was put to a yea and nay
vote in the House Thursday without de-
bate, and was defeated SO to 50. 1t came in
the shape OF motion to substitute the
resolve for the adverse repor. of the com
mittee.
In the House Friday the Judiciary COM
mittee reported tavorably on bill to create
board of trustees for the Sullivan Frank
lin bri ige. Read and assigned Monday.
Passed to be engrossed yesterday.
On the same day the committee on
bridges reported favorably on the resolve
to extend State aid in the building OF the
Sullivan Franklin bridge. Passed to be
engrossed yesterday.
The committee on sea and shore fisher
les on Saturday, on bill to prohibit erect
ing or maintaining OF weirs in the Baga-
duce river, reported same in new draft,
under title, IAN act to regulate fishing in
the Bagaduee river and its tributaries, in
the towns of Castine, Penobscot and
Brooksville, and that it ought to pass.
Pissed to be engrossed IN the Senate yes
terday.
The &C. TO regulate the taxing of ale
wives in Patterns pond stream, Surry, was
passed to be enacted in the Senate yester-
day.
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