Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-29
the 18th maine LEGISLATURE.
Stenographic Reports Of Yesterdays Sessions Of
The Senate and House Of Representatives.

| The communication was placed on
| file.
The following resolve was presented
and referred:
| Appropriations and Financial Affairs.
BY Mr. Colby of Somerset: Resolve
in favor of c NJ. Conant.
Senate Bills in First Reading.
Resolve in favor Of stenographer to
the committee on military affairs.
Resolve in favor of the clerk to the
| committee on railroads and expresses.
Resolve in favor of providing suita-
bic storehouses for military property.
An Act to incorporate the Sanford
Investment Company.
Resolve providing for an epidemic
or emergency fund.
Resolve to provide for indexing
House and Senate papers in Senate
office for session Of 1913.
Resolve to provide for reindeXing
! House and Senate papers now on file
in the Senate office.
An Act authorizing the secretary of
State to prepare and publish a list of
corporations delinquent in payment OF
their franchise taxes.
An Act TO amend Section t6 %
Chapter Is of the Revised Statues.
as amended, relating to the withhold
ir.S of State school funds from deln-
quent towns.
/ An Act to amend Chapter 256 of the
Private and Special Laws Of 1907. in
relation to the Cumberland County
Power and Light Company.
Al Act TO amend Section II of Chap
ter 10 of the Revised Statutes, rs
amended by Chapter 1876 of the Public
Laws of 1911, relating to the jurisdie-
ton of the superior court for Cumber
| land county.
Reports Of Committees.
Mr.. Conant from the committee on
ways and bridges. on bill, An Act to
! provide for the appointment of road
/ commissioners by select men, reported
same in new draft, under the same
title, and that it ought to pass
The report was accepted, and the
bill was tabled for printing under the
| joint rules.
The following joint standing commit
tees submitted their final reports
Committee on Ways and Bridges.
Committee on Indian Affairs.
The reports were accepted.
| Passed to Be Ensrossed.
| An Act to amend Section of Chap
| ter 11S of the Revised Statutes of tn
| State OF Maine relating to personal
property bargained and delivered to
another, which shall remain the proper
ty of the seller till paid for
| An Act for the Improvement of
streets in the thickly settled portions
of cities and towns.
| An Act to amend Section 10, para
graph of Chapter of the Revised
| Statutes relating to the taxation OF
personal property as amended byChap-
! ter SO of the Public Laws of 1909.
Ar Act amending Section ~, Chap
ter 49, of the Revised Statutes relating
to the protection of life in buildings
| used for public purposes.
| An Act to amend Section ] of Chapter
! 1875 of the Public Laws of 1909 as
amended, relating to the school equali-
cation fund.
| An Act to provide for the reconstruc-
ton of Portland Bridge
An Act prohibiting marriages in GER
| tain cases.
| The PRESIDENT: The Chair will
call attention to the fact that this bill
| in relation to prohibiting marriages in
| certain cases was yesterday assigned
| for second reading this morning.
| Mr.. HERSEY of Aroostook: Mr..
| President, when this bill came up on
| the report Of the committee, l had the
honor of presiding over the Senate,
and by being in that place anG my at
| tention being distracted by the honors
| ce the situation, and also somewhat
| by the eloquence of the genial senator
| from Penobscot, Senator Bailey, who
| brought before the Senate such a beau
| tiful picture of the human race when K
had been purified from all weakness of
the flesh and when the fittest had sur
vived and only they were allowed to
marry in that beautiful dream, l didn't
interfere, but voted with the Senator
| from Penobscot that the report of the
committee should be adopted.
| But after | had left the chair, Mr..
| President and had a chance TO get
| back to the duties of a senator. AMI
| had looked over the bill, for the first
| time. | began to study how the thing
would work, and it seemed to me that
| while all due regard should be had To
the senator from Pcnobscot for the tine
| and eloquent speech that he made TO
| the Senate and the sentiments therein
| expressed, that | ought not, as one
member of this Senate to vote for the
| further passage of this bill and to SEM
| II 10 the House with our endorsement
| I think before we do that the name OF
| the act should be changed. The title
which reads AN Act prohibiting mar
riages in certain cases should read
| IAN Act to prohibit any marriages III
Maine"
There is nothing. MIR. President IN
| this act which prohibits parties, even
| fools, going outside of the State OF
Maine and getting married and COM
ing back and doing business, NOW
while we all admit that sometimes fools
marry. there are people, a great many
people. who take the position, whether
right or wrong, that all who marry
are fools. And ROW this tries to regu-