Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-01

Commissioner of Publicity and to de-
fine its duties.
Be it enacted by the people of the
State of Maine as follows:
Section /. The office of State COM
missioner of publicity is hereby created
and established. Said commissioner
shall be appointed by the Governor by
and with the advice and consent of the
Council. He shall hold office for a term
of two years and shall draw salary
of 1880 per year. In case a vacancy
occurs at any time the Governor, by
any with the advice and consent of
the Council, may appoint n person to
fill such vacancy.
Section 2. Article 1. 1t shall be the
duty of said commissioner to collect,
carry on file. and disseminate statistics
of all possible information as to the
industrial, agricultural and resort OPP
portunities and advantages of the
State, it's counties, cities and towns, to-
gether with printed descriptive matter,
treating of its summer resorts, hotels,
woods, camps and other places of pub
lie entertainment.
Article 2. He shall cause to be in
serted in standard publications of Ma
tlonal circulation, advertisements tell
ing of such resorts of the State, it's at
fractions for summer visitors and it's
opportunities for engaging in business.
Such advertisements shall be especially
planned to induce home seekers to set
tie within it's borders. adopt it's
abandoned farms, and develop it's re-
sources; and seekers after rest, recrc-
alton and recuperation, to visit it's
summer resorts and woods camps.
They shall contain an offer to supply
advice, information and descriptive
matter to anyone, who shall apply, and
shall be signed by the commissioner.
Article 8. He shall eXpend in adver-
Using as provided in the foregoing
article, not to exceed $4,000 in any one
year.
Section 8. The sum Of $4,000 be and
is hereby appropriated for the year 1909
to 1910 and a further sum of $4,000 for
the year 1910 to 1911, from which shall
be paid the salary of the commissioner,
the cost of the advertisements, hereto
fore provided for, clerical help and 9TH
err necessary office expenses incident to
properly carrying out the purposes OF
this act.
The Legislature will resume it's ses-
sions at 40 p. M. today, and it is eX-
pected that the present work will be
the busiest one thus far Of the session
A number of important committee
hearings will be held during the week
Wednesday is assigned as the day for
the hearing upon the Act to prohibit
the use of automobiles in the towns
of Eden, Mt. Desert fremont and
Southwest Harbor on the Island of Mt
Desert. Another important committee
hearing this week will be the one
Thursday afternoon before the commit
tee on ways and bridges at which the
Chase and Donigan bridge bills will
come up for consideration. Both meas
ures aim to provide for State aid in the
building and maintenance of bridges,
but they are radically different meas
ures and both have their enthusiastic
adherents.
The interest is widespread among au
tomObile men throughout the State in
regard to the proposed act prohibiting
the use of automobiles in four towns
on Mt Desert Island and other pro-
posed legislation along the same line.
In this state there is no central auto
mobile organization as in most other
states so that the acton against the
enactment of these laws of necessity
must come from local clubs and lndl-
viduals and a large number of petit
tions have already gone in protesting
against the enactment of the measure
introduced by Representative Joy of
Eden, prohibiting the use of automo-
biles in the towns Of Eden, Mt. Des-
ert. fremont and Southwest Harbor.
The protest is in great measure
based on the ground of legislative pre-
cedent, which the petitioners might
be carried logically to other parts of
Maine and as result divert autoho-
bile tourists to other states on &C
count of such prohibitive measures.
A well-known automobile owner of
this State, who has followed the mat
ter carefully, stated Sunday that in
his opinion the agitation started over
nrohibitive automobile legislation
would undoubtedly result In the FOR
nation of a Maine Automobile Asso-
citation with organization like that of
similar bodies in other states. The to-
tai number Of automobiles registered