The Republican journal., 1911-01-26
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Sayings and Doings at Augusta.

Inc nrSC remOnStrdnCe against Tie
passage of the resubmission resolve
came into the House Wednesday morn
ing, January 18th, when Representative
Davies of Yarmouth, presented remon-
STRANGE of the Maine Women's Christ
ian Temperance Union against resubmis
sion which was signed by Lillian M. N.
Stevens, president; Althea G. Quimby,
vice president at large; Isabel H. Stick
ney, corresponding secretary; Clara M.
Farwell, recording secretary; Sarah Lord
Cram, assistant recording secretary, and
Adelaide NJ Johnston, treasurer. Rep
resentative Davies also presented the
petition of Mrs. T. S. Blake of Var
mouth, and 100 others against resubmis-
sion. There are more to follow.
The Enforceme mt Commission has been
removed Governor Frederick w. Plais-
to Henry w. Cakes of Auburn, Andrew
P. Havey of West Sullivan and George
M. Phoenix of Alfred, declaring them
removed forthwith from office. Now we
may expect to see the State as dry as
covered bridge, in fulfllment of the
Governors promises before his election.
Mr.. McAllister of Burnham has pre-
scented an act relating to taking fish from
trout brooks in the towns of Burnham
and Pittsfeld.
Charles Littlefeld of Bluehill, Demo.
,crat, who contested the seat of Frank
L. Hodgkins of Lamoine, was declared
elected January 18th, by the special COM
mittee of the House and was sworn in.
John A. Peters of Ellsworth, Republican,
having won his contested election case,
took the cath Of office and was seated in
place of Harvard c. Jordan, Democrat,
who had been given the certificate of
election
A special to the Bangor News says:
Representatives of the Maine State
Agricultural Society known for short as
the Lewiston Fair, waited upon Commits
-sioner of Agriculture Buckley Jan. 18th
with q proposition to make the Maine
State Fair, State Fair in fact, as well
as in name; in other words a proposition
that the State take over and adopt the
fair at Lewiston as the official show of
the State and run it as such This would
mean. of course, fdding up any deficit
and which, of course, would mean the
creating of a State Fair commission, or
some such board, with subcommittee
on the horse trots, parachute drops, baby
show, inspectors of the hocchie- coochie
shows. measures of pumpkins and
Judges of bulls. This might solve the
problem of what to do with some of the
1867 disappointed office seekers. The
problem arises, however, if Mr.. Pringle
or DR.. Berry should happen to find that
some wicked men were running immoral
shows, or someone was selling beer, or
there was a keno wheel running, to
whom could they complain. They couldn't
ask the State to prosecute itself very
well Then there's the Bangor fair, and
the Watervlle fair, and the Pressure Isle
fair, and the Belfast fair, and the Mon
roe fair, and the Topsham fair, and a
score Of other fairs who might want to
be adopted, too The enthusiasm with
which the Eastern, Northern and West
err Maine delegations will rally to the
support of bill for the adoption by the
State Of the Lewiston show, will no
doubt be something marvellous.
The herring war" will open over a
bill to be introduced prohibiting seining
entirely and completely in all State wat
ers. All the weirmen who can get to
Augusta will be lined up behind the bill
and those who can't get there will be rep
resented by proxy. 1t will be a fight to the
death for the seiners. 1t has been announc-
ed here that some of the sardine pack
ers, who have always been considered as
friendly to the seiners, are willing to
have such law in effect as an expert
ment, for two years, to demonstrate if
SEEMING is really responsible for the scar
city of herring. Such law, it is said,
would mean the building of many addi-
tional weirs, in order to keep up the sup
ply for the factories. 1t is admitted that
weir-caught herring are preferable for
packing, as when they are kept in the
Weirs for a short time they are free of
the so-called ''red feed'' and will not
burn" 1t is not to be supposed that
the seIners, who have thousands of dol
iars invested in nets and boats, will sur
render without a struggle, and COM
promise or restricted seining may pos
siDly be the eventual outcome. At any
rate it looks as though the herring ques-
tlQn viii be settled in some way or other
early in the session.
Representative Thimble Of Calais will
shortly introduce a bill prohibiting the
use of seines on the St. Croix from
ToId's head to the head of tidewater at
the Union dam. SEEMING is now prohib-
tied etween the Breakwater and Todd's
bead
The appropriation bills for the Eastern
Maine Insane hospital at Bangor and for
the Maine Insane hospital at Augusta,
over which there has been such deter
mined fight in years gone by, made their
appearance Thursday morning. The sum
of 1862 900 is asked for the two nstitu-
tons together during the next two
years. The amount of the resolves for
the Bangor hospital is S41O.2OO, while
1852, 600 is asked for the Augusta insti-
tuition.
The resolves in favor of the Eastern
Maine Insane hospital in Bangor were
.introduced..in the House by Rer. Strick-
fand of that city The first resolve ap-
propriates S184.000 for the year 1911.
The second act provides for 1898, 900 for
1912 and the sum of $33, 200 for enlarg-
ing the storehouse and cold storage plant
during the same year.
Senator Noyes of Augusta introduced
the resolves in favor Of the Maine Insane
5r2spital in that city in the Senate The
dirst bill appropriates s233, 100 for 1911.
A second resolve asks for the sum of
S243, 900 for 1912 There is a third re-
solve appropriating s10,O for the insti-