Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-02-15
STATE sOLoNs.
Legislative News of Interest TO Ham
cock County Readers.

Legislative News OF Interest 70 Ham
cock County Readers.
In the House last Wednesday, the act to
grant certain powers to the Southwest
Hsrbor Water Co., and resolve in favor
of Edward E. Chase, jr., were reported
favorably BY committee.
| Resolves in favor of Harvard q. Jordan,
OF Ellsworth, and Otis Littlefield, OF Blue
hill, were presented last Wednesday by
MIR. Shea, of Eden. Resolve in favor Of
Frank L. Hodgkins. of Lamoine, was pre-
sented by MIR. Littlefield, Of Bluehiil,
| Thursday.
MIR. Littiefield also presented remon-
| STRANGE of A. Z. Hinckley and fifty-six
| others against the sale Of certain islands
| in Bluehili bay.
The act to authorize the construction OF
| a weir By Paul T. Small, OF Stonington, in
Casline harbor, was reported adversely
by committee Thursday.
Leave to withdraw" was the report of
| committee on petitions for change OF fish
laws for Bagaduce river, for close time on
Holsters in wat.rs OF Winter Harbor, and
tor dragging for snelts in Bluehill bay.
In The House Friday Mr.. Gross, OF Or
la ID, presented resolve in favor OF the
normal school at Castine, for the purchase
of equipment and for repairs.
MIR. Mace, OF Great Pond presented
resolve in favor of Chick hill road in
Penooscot and Hancock counties, and
petitions therefor. He also presented re-
solve in favor OF plantation No. 80.
The resolve in favor OF Castine was
favorab bly, reported by committee yest.r-
day; also the bill to incorporate Bluehiil
Water Co.
LEGISLATION OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the House last Wednesday, MIR. Pat
tangall, of Materville, introduced a bill re-
lating to compensation OF justices OF the
supreme and superior courts. The bill is
cleveriy worded but poorly yelled effort to
create three vacancies on the supreme
| court bench within the present admins
| tratIon three more offices for democrats.
In brief, it forces all justices who reach
| the age OF seventy years to resign within
| ninety days thereafter, or waive the right
| to half pay on retirement. Chief-J Justice
Emery and Justice Peabody have already
passed the age OF seventy, and Justice
Whitehouse will be seventy hext year.
The committee on temperance last We'd
nesday reported sought to pass in q new
draft" on the bill to repeal the Sturgis
law, and sought to pass' on the bill to
abolish the State liquor agencies.
| A resolve was introduced in the House
| Thursday to encourage the reforesting OF
waste lands in the State. 1t appropristes
H,5O0 for 1911 and q similar amount for
1912, to be expended by the forest COM
missioner for the purpose Of establishing
State forest nursery at the University Of
Maine. This nursery is to supply forest
tree saplings at the cost OF production for
use in planting waste lands throughout
the State.
| The bill for the repeal Of the Sturgis law
was passed to be engrossed by the Senate
Friday morning, and given its two several
readings under suspension of the rules.
Similar action was taken on the bill abol-
ishing State liquor agencies.
An act providing for the distribution Of
the school will fund according to the
average school attendance, appeared Mon
day afternoon in the Senate.
The Maine Senate for the first time in
its history passed the resu omission re-
solve, and by more than two-thirds vote,
the exact vote standing 21-S.
CALLS DEMOCRATIC BLUFF.
Mr.. Peters, of Ellsworth, Friday intro
duced in the House the following order:
Ordered, the Senate concurring, that the
joint special committee appointed to investi-
gate and report upon the financial condition
of the State under the order which passed the
House Jan. "a be authorized and directed to
investigate and report as to whether any dis
honest practices or violations OF Law have ex-
| listed in any department Of the State which
may be the subject OF its Investigation under
said order previously passed; and, to facili-
tie its Investigation, said committee is
authorized to employ such expert assistance
as it may deem necessary"
Concerning this order, an Augusta cor
respondent of the Bangor NeDs says:
Rep. Peters, Of Ellsworth, has called the
bluff OF the democratic politicians who are US
| ing the bipartisan financial Investigation
committee a hatchery for the propagation
of campaign thunder to be used in 1912. He
presented an order in the House Friday
! morning which will compel them to either
show that someone has been stealing or stop
accusing them Of it by innuendo and half
| truth. The democrats of the House were
stu nned by this clever move. and for time 1t
looked as though none Of them would dare
| oppose it, but finally Williamson, of Augusta,
rushed in where angels have heretofore feared
to trean (on Pats special game preserve) and
tabled the order until Tuesday, lin order that
we may know something more about it," he
| said.
When the matter came up Tuesday, after
two amendments had been offered, one by