Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-19
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MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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owned, controlled, operated or man
aged in connection with or to facili-
tate the diversion, development, stor-
age, supply, distribution, sale, furnish
ing, carriage apportionment or meas
urement of water for municipal and
domestic use
The motion was agreed to and
Amendment c was adopted
The CHAIRMAN: The Chair lays
before the committee for considera-
ton Senate Amendment Gil
Mr.. COLE: Mr. Chairman, that
amendment seems to have been put
in through a misunderstanding of the
definition of express companies.
The general impression seems To
have gone out that every little stage
line under this bill becomes a public
utility
1t is not so. Perhaps a word of ex-
PLANTATION on the part of the commit
tee will show why that was put in
after careful consideration and sever
al long painful hours in the commit
tee. There were members of the com
mittee who realized that there were
conditions in several sections of the
state which warranted the including
OF this term in the bill. 1t does not
include the stage itself. 1t does in
elude the express company which max
use a stage for forwarding express,
If it was doing. business betewen Ros-
ton and Augusta over railroad lines
and maintained an Office on the rail-
road lines and its express matter was
for IF.lr6p1 frpp,
try town, prepaid. using the stage line
as a carrier That is, the stage lire
so FAR as the express company is con-
eerned under regulation of express
matter for that stage, becomes a part
of that public utility. 1t is only when
the stage is used for carrying through
express from The point of shipment
TO the point of destination. something
Tor persons ten miles in the country.
where they do not maintain an office.
ana the express line stops at Augusta
and the stage driver of his own yotf-
tion, pays the express charges there.
the stage driver could not be COM
PEELED to take the packages, but he
does take them, gets the money and
puts 1t I'D his pocket. Per chance if
large bundle came, he is not Obliged
TO take it.
III Is only when the express company
guarantees to deliver and expects
money for payment that that word
stage has any bearing whatever.
:; we must include this,
IN order to control the express COM
panies and make whole bill. 1t was
NAM, to tl,a W M" .hs express COM
tinatio, ,,6o.a - e.ii Vi 'lieif aes-
AL 'iie eApIess company
Mr. AtopFv.
sact;on raads &C si,,. mani tiie
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usad i, H. 80 oiipaiy Wlleh
otio,, -, -. every cor
tees ,.aof,i,.dss, .Aeii iessees' trus-
nv an, o5,,,.t - - uotsea appolhtea
no ,saoti,, a., $500 eiisdseu III OF
in,, o., -. .! transport
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re = - t,t,,'
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[ tba rro,,1 ..staao - go ~ iiiiu WIN
sbo,ld ho ,,,,1n' -. N''ilh /.
taip -, 90 g esiiiii,e anu Ger
word STAGE -. i, n'" tie
sectior Ill ,aa,'a az :. ie'.,ins Vi tliis
on,nina go ;e - =, 30 -.ial man
commoditr far ,,ira - s'ai,spolts any
nanI, - on eAPiess COM
t. i ;s ,nto,ao, =. -.
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paadeoId -, ',ie 10 man irom
aoa - s.'',' q ''ase 10 Aususta
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-, ., -. mo, i''i5 anu bringing
e','u 50 ilueil
seo,io,, :. - lo4 uo'ns H. ohuer that
10 ,r,,i5 80 que e-e 'i i'i put Whit
NM, .,,,a gu press conf
I' .',"..e " puoiic utiiity! Ihere
ot,,,t,,. ..f'..i ms .hious iout tie
transnortina, frais.,,t BUSINESS anu
II tb.. ,,,,, VII -, I'm leiiSa ION
raoei,.as ,,,,,,aalo,, ~ - si'e stage iiiie
dastinatia, ~ H. ~ ng carried 10 the
line or anvxybora 80 = ' :. s.ase
him direeti,. witI,i,' - MS, =, :. , oiliiss
This sectian - 49,, ,,at ~ VI