Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-06
|Or Else Measures Will Be Rushed
Through Half Digested During
Closing Week OF Legislature.
CYRUS R, UPPER may Be
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE.
Great lnterestM Manifested in Proposed Farm
ington=Augusta Electric R. R.==May Mean
the Standardizing of Sandy River and
Rangeley Lakes Narrow Guage Road.

from the last Legislature to make uni
form the law relating to the sale Of
goods. and act to make uniform the
law Of warehouse receipts. Two i'm
Dortant hearings are assigned for
Thursday One is the act to prevent
the pollution of water supplies and
their sources. which is likely to meet
with strong opposition from certain
sources, and the other is the resolve
providing for an amendment to the
|ccnStltution empowering the Governor
to remove sheriffs
me act to establish the Yorkshire
| municipal court Is scheduled for a
| hearing before tn committee on legal
affairs Tuesday afternoon but will un-
| d0nbtedly be postponed until a later
| date in order that it may be heard at
the same time with the bill providing
| tor system of four municipal courts
Tor York county. which was introduced
| last week by Representative Wey-
| moIth of Sacu. Tie legal affairs COM
| Hlttea will give u Tearing on the same
| dry 81 an act To amend the law re-
iating to the packing and branding
OF apples, act relating to the mark
ing of historical sites as Well as A
| number of local measures. The act to
! regulate the practice of Ostsopathy
! VIII come before the committee on
! legal Affairs Wednesday together with
| the act relating to the construction
! OF booths in polling places. act relat-
ing to liens on land and several other
| measures of minor Importance. The
| Bangor and Brewer Highway bridge
| bill is scheduled for Thursday before
! the committee en- legal affairs.
The usual number of resolves for
hospitals and other charitable insti-
! tutions will come before the committee
on appropriations and financial affairs
during the coming week. Acts re-
lsting II the appropriation for State
highways, the appropriation of money
for military purposes, and the disposal
of money received from fines and pen
alties for violation of the fish and
game laws will be heard Wednesday,
The resolve in favo~ of the Knox Coun-
| ty General hospital, which WAS re-
| assigned from Thursday, Feb. will
| also be heard on Wednesday as well
! as the resolve in favor of the Maine
! State Sanatcrtm Association. The
act relative to the retirement of GER
tain veterans in the service of the
State, which is sci edulcd for Thurs
! day is likely to develop an interesting
hearing.
Two acts relating to the hunting of
| gInY squirrels will be heard Wednes-
! day before the committee on inland
! fisheries and game. y number of pc
titl"Ns in regard to hunting ANA fish
ipg in various localities will also be
| heard on that day, among them the
| petition of w. S. Whitmore Of Gar
| diner and others for a law prohib
| itlng The shooting of rifles and pistols
| OF over D. calibre around the shores
OF Lake Colsbosacecontec.
The committe" IN school for the
| feeble minded will on Wednesday hear
two resolves IN ronnection with that
institution and ON the same day six
resolves in regard to individual pen
| sions will be hearl before the com
mtttee on pensions. The committee
on banks and barking will give a
! hearing Wednesday upon an act re-
lating to the trustees of savings banks
giving bonds. The matter of compe.
titlve bids for the State year book
VIII DC taken UP Tuesday before the
| committee on year book. Acts extend
| ing the charter Of several insurance
companies will come up Thursday be-
| fore the committee on mercantile af-
| fairs. The committee on state lands
and State roads Will on Thursday hear
a petition for the amendment of the
present law in regard to roads in unin-
| corpCrated townships also the act in
troduccd by Representatives Skehan OF
| Augusta iE regard to the Improvement
| OF the State park opposite the State
| House, q resolve IN favor of the town
! Of Millinockot. and act authorizing
the conveyance by the State of Goose
! Cove rock in Bluehill bay and Turnip
| Island in Bristol, Lincoln county.
The committee on sea and shore
| fisheries will give hearings Tuesday
on act relating to the taking of smelts
, in Sheepscot river, petition for close
time on Holsters. act to. repeal the
| Yarmouth clam law, petition or the
change Of the present law in regard
to protection of sturgeon. petition for
. repeal of act prohibiting the drag
ging for smelts in Bluehill bay and
acts for the construction of weirs in
several localities. !
The hearing on the general herring
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