Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-13
LONG SESSIONS DEVELOP IN
LEGISLATURE, ON WEDNESDAY.
Woman Suffrage Meets With Disconcerting Reception
==fiouseaNow Against Massachusetts, Ballot--Cor-
poration Sole Bill Observation-Disclosures Passes
Bar Harbor Bill With Emergency Clause.
JUDICIARY NEAR END.

Wednesday afternoon was the last
big DAY of the judiciary committee for
the present session. There viii he
other meetings but they will be short
and Will be for the consideration of
minor affairs.
AT the session, Wednesday after
noon. there was a wide variety of
subjects taken up. The marriage law.
automobiles, charities and erntilayment
agencies were only few of The mat
tiers treated. Some Of the measures
mot with strong opposition. both from
the committee and from the interested
ones II attendance, while Others found
no one appearing either for or against
| them. Those that provoked no dis
| cussion were an act TO amend the
| enarter of the Scarboro Water CO.
act to provide charter for the city of
| sentn Portland; act to prevent perjury
IN the trial of civil causes before a
! Jury in civil actions: act relating to the
appointment of two auditors; act re-
| lat!ng to trial terms of the supreme
Judicial court
TIE first discussion came over two
automobile bills one, presented by
Senator Bailey Of Penobscot, would
make it q misdemeanor for anyone to
| take an automobile from garage
without paying the bill due for re-
pairs, storage, supplies. etc. The other.
prepared by Carroll s. Chaplin of
Portland for the Portland Automobile
Dealers Association. would provide
liens on automobiles 50 that the man
| ayers and owners of garages could be
I
gentlemen who prepared these bills
spoke in their favor and pointed out
the need that garage keepers had for
protection against people who refused
to pay their bills. No opposition devel-
oped
Marriage Licenses.
WEen the act to require out-of-
! STATE couples to wait FIVE days before
they could get a marriage license IN
| the State of Maine Games up. there
were signs Of opposition at the start.
for Hiram T. Waterhouse. city clerk
OF Portland, whb has been doing
rushing business in marrying Massa-
ehnsetts couples, was lowering on the
outskirts of the crowd.
The Rev. c. z. owen, secretary of
the Christian Civic League of Maine.
appeared in favor of the bill. He said
it was the purpose of the measure to
make those coming from out of Maine
lee subject to the same provisions as
the residents of the State of Maine. He
read letter from the Rev. NJ. Joseph
Twolney, pastor of the First Baptist
church in Portland, in support of the
bill and declared that Mr. Twomey
married more people in year than
any other Protestant clergyman in
Maine. The letter said that the act
would protect the fair name of
Maine" would prevent the State from
being called IA Greta Green, as it had
| been and that uniform marriage law
was necessary if a uniform divorce law
was ever secured. The BILL too, would
prevent runaway marriages which u.s.
| ually end in the divorce court.
Mi. Waterhouse spoke against the
| Law He said that in Portland, where
| he had performed many marriages. he
| had found more cases to object to
among the residents of the city than
among the people who came from
away. He declared that so per cent. of
those who had come to him from out
of the State 10 be married were as fine
| a class Of people as the ministers mar
~ rhe atmosphere has changed for
the better since the Massachusetts
/ law, requiring a five-day notice. went
into effect. Fully - per cent. of those
coming from away he said. give good
| reasons for not wanting to be married
at home. Many of them wish to save
the expense of a wedding where friends
have to be invited. Mr.. Waterhouse
said ne could point out six mistakes
in the letter of Mr.. Twomey. He frrth-
er declared that the women clerks in
his office who had had long experience
in the matter were opposed to any
change in the present law.
Portland's city clerk declared that
the only satisfactory solution OF the
question was the enactment Of ma
tional law. For his part he would
leave the law of 1909 just as it is.
Representative Spencer of Berwick
also spoke in favor of the BILL
Plumbing inspection.
An act to repeal the law of 1911 in
relation to plumbing inspection met
with nearly opposition. Senator Morey
of Androscoggin advocated the repeal.
lie READ sections OF the ia" " sttoN it's
claim of injustice. He painted out
that it was wrong to specify that a
practical plumber should be a member
of boards of health in cities and towns
as this gave a class the right to die
tate who should be on the board. He
; referred to a section of the law which
he interpreted to mean that a man
must have permit from the municipal
officers in order to make repairs to his
hot water pipes.
4 f. w Goss of Lewiston. conducted
the opposition on the part Of the
plumbers He replied to Senator Morey
ann said TIM permits Wore rennred