The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-03-11

By MIR. Currier of Camden: Reaoln.
tion of Mt. Pleasant Grange, Represent.
ing membership of AZ, favorine an Act
to amend Chapter 129 of the PublicI avs
of 1918, relating to corporations for the
operation of telegraphs or telephones.
BY Mr.. Mckinley of Jackson: An Act
to amend Paragraph Is, Section ono
Chapter 173 of the Public Laws of 1eo5
relative to the salary of Register n
Deeds of Waldo county. 1t makes the
salary of the Register $1,000, with 500
| for clerk.
The following acts passed the House
March Sd to be engrossed: An Act to
fix the salary of the judge of the Belfast
Municipal Court. An to extend the
charter of the Waldo Street RAILWAY
Company. An Act to amend the char.
ters of the Thomaston Street Railway
Company, the Rockland Street Railway
Company, and the Camden and Rock.
port Street Railway Company.
The Governor. March Sd, signed the
resolve appropriating money to aid in
widening the Turnpike Road in Camden
and Lincolnville, and providing for the
future maintenance thereof-$1, 200.
The Senate March 4th by vote of II
70 IL rejected the majority report of the
Committee on State Prison, ought to
pass, on the bill to erect new State
prison.
The following House measures came
up for first reading: An Act to change
the name of Mark Island, lying in Pc
nobscot bay in the county of Hancock.
about two miles east-southeast of Dark
Harbor in the county of Waldo, and in
latitude A Is 80 N, and longitude 68 81
W., to Resolution Island. Resolve in
favor of James j. Clement of Montyille
Resolve in favor of Peter Harmon of
Thorndike.
Passed the Senate to be enacted: An
Act to fix the salary of the Judge of the
Belfast Municipal Court.
The House by vote of 76 to GO refus-
ed to accept the minority report. ought
not to pass. of the Committee of Legal
Affairs on the resolve proposing the con-
stltutlonal amendment to change the
date of the State election from Septem-
Der to November, and the majority re-
port, ought to pass, was accepted.
The House by vote of 92 to a. refus-
~ ~ hideAliltciy poSlpOH6 the Dill
placing closed time on bull moose, and
the act was given it's first reading.
Mr.. Watts of South Thomaston pre-
sented resolutions from a number of
Oranges favoring an Act to amend Chap
ter l29 of the Public Laws of 1913, re-
latlng to corporations for the operation
of telegraphs or telephones; among them
South Montville Grange, representing
membership of 107, and Granite Grange,
representing membership of 1922
The House, March 5th, after debate
on the act that would repeal the direct
primary law, by vote of three to one.
or to be exact, 81 to 80, decided that the
people of the State ought to be allowed
to keep the primary law little longer if
they wanted to. All the members VINO
spoke did not favor the law, not by any
means, for there were several from both
city and country who thought the meas
ure for all it was still an infant in Maine,
had outlived its usefulness. That there
is disposition to give the matter lit
tie longer trial was shown by the vote,
which was almost as strong as the one
taken in theSenate. When the members
of the upper House voted on the propo-
sltlon two weeks ago, they stood q to
In support of the law.