Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-02
BOTH HOUSES HUSTLE
With THE END IN SIGHT.
Senate Passes Mi||iken Bill to Regulate Agencies
And Strike Cider Amendment from One Per
Cent. Bill After Lively Discussion.

he did not think that the presen. re-
solve ought to pass. He moved in
definite postponement.
Senator Gowni Of York informed the
Senate that the most valuable part OF
the town of Old Orchard had been
wiped out by the fire. Massachusetts
had helped towns in a manner SINH
lar to that proposed in the resolve.
Senator Hamilton of York said that
he had voted for appropriations for
other towns for roads and bridges
without objections and he saw no rea-
son why this resolve should not pass
IN favor of Old Orchard. The motion
to Indefinitely postpone was lost by
vote of "a to 3. Senators Lowe,
Shaw and Staples only voted for the
oOStpOnement
The Milliken bill for the regulation
of the State liquor agency system as
reported in 4 new draft by the COM
mittee on temperance was, early in
the afternoon. passed to be engrOSSed
without opposition. The new draft
cuts out the provision in relation to
physicians prescriptions. reduces the
profit to the municipality from 90 to
~ per cent. and also cuts out the pro-
vision in regard to the control of the
bottles after the liquor is sold.
Later in the afternoon a surprise was
sprung by Senator Hamilton Of York
who presented an entirely new liquor
agency bill in the shape of an amend
ment to the present liquor agency law
The Hamilton bill puts the liquor
agencies under the control of the Gov
nd oi1 "a moi
body the right to decide the number
Of brands and kinds of liquor to be
used, the regulation of the percentage
Of profit, and the right to abolish
agencies when deemed advisable.
TIL vote whereby the AIlliken bill
was passed to he engrossed was recon-
sidered and the Hamilton bill was
given second reading. thus placing both
measures for 4 time upon an equal
footing.
Senator Hamilton characterized the
Millikcn bill as impracticable and said
that the bill introduced by himself was
such Il bill as was desired by the Gov
ernor and Council.
The motion If Senator Miliken upon
the passage of his bill to be engrossed
as follows:
YES -Boynton. Donigan, Hill. Howes
Irving. Kellogg. Knowlton. Lowe. Mill
ken. Minott. Mullen, Shaw. Staples
Walker, Warren. Wyman G6).
NO RaXtcr. Eaton. Emery. Gowell.
Hamilton. Hastings, Macomber, Os-
good REYNOLDS. Smith, Looney uD.
Tho Millken bill was then passed to
be ergrosscd aud the Hamilton bill
vas indefinitely postponed. The bill
against pocket peddlers was passed to
be engrOsSe1.
Old Orchard matter2 We're finally dis
posed Of for the dav by the indefinite
pOstponemcnt of the tax rebate re
solve vetoc' IVY the Goverrtr and the
passage to ~ enacted of rfa act es-
tablishing the Ga Orchard Lark sys-
TEN.
The bIf giving assessors of towns
the right of appeal from the county
commissioners in the case of disputed
valuation. which provoked the liveliest
kind of discussion in the Senate
Wednesday was passed by the narrow
est kind of a squeak. Senator Staples
moved its Indefinite postponemcnt and
| a yea and nay vote was taken, which
stood a tie 13 to Is. President Deasy
declared the motion to indefinitely
postpone lost and the bill was then
passed to be engrossed. The vote:
Yes-Donigan, Gowell. Hamilton,
Hill. Kellogg Macomber Mullen, Os-
good, Reynolds, Shaw, Smith, Staples,
Wyman-13.
NO-Baxter. Roynton, Colcord, Eaton,
! Hastings, Howes. Irving, Knowlton,
Looney, Lowe, Millken, Minott, War
ren--13.
The resolve for the immediate main
tenance of the School for the Feeble
Minded was passed in concurrence
with the House as an emergency meas
| ure