Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-25
Senate BUSINESS
WEDNESDAY With
ONLY ONE SESSION
AdhereS to Position on Woman
Suffrage and Live Stock San
itary COmmissioner-Amend-
ments to 54-Hour Law Offer
ed by Sen. Emery - Defeats
Carriage Lights-Sustains
Governors Veto After Receiy.
ing Assurance of Action

In quick succession the Senate acted
day morning without debate. In concur
renee with the House the measure pro-
Tding for a new laboratory of hygiene
was indefinitely postponed; on motion Of
Senator Moulton the Senate insisted upon
its position in the adoption of the favor
able report on the measure providing
that the livestock sanitary commissioner
shall be veterinary surgeon; on motion
Of Senator Walker the Senate adhered
10 It's position on the wonan's suffrage
resolve, the resolve having been passed
by the Senate with only four opposing
ton the Senate concurred with the House
IN indefinite postponement of the resident
hunters license law.
Amend 54-Hour Law
Senator Emery of York held out the
4-hour law as it WAS about 10 be passed
to be enacted and asked the Senate TO
reconsider the vote whereby the bill was
b''I7SNo ~ NC t!lS4o SStd III OTueF In2l he
might offer two amendments. Senators
FIaherty and Murphy were both opposed
10 this action, but Senator Flaherty's mo-
. ton TO table was lost in yea and nay
vote - to II. Senator Emery explained
that he offered the amendments in good
faith apd with no plan to delay or en-
danger the bill. The amendment known
as Senate amendment 4 changes the earl
lest hour at which women and minors
may be employed from O'Clock to $50
o'clock.
Senate amendment r eliminates the Sec
ton which provides for the keeping of an
open payroll book.
Both amendments were adopted bv a
yea and nay vote Is to II. and Senator
Anes offered amendment c, which pro
Tides that the law should not become eff
fectlVe until Jan. l. 1916, in order, he said
that manufacturers might be allowed the
several intervening months in which to
adjust their contracts and their business
, to the conditions of the new law. This
amendment was defeated by rising vote
II to g.
No Lights on Carriages
The Senate defeated by vote of ls to
l. the measure providing for lights on
certain vehicles at night. The Senate
had voted to postpone indefinitely before
the House acted favorably upon this
measure. and when the act came to hand
as amendment in the House Senator But
Ter Of Knox moved to adhere to the in
definite postponement and after a short
debate the motion prevailed.
Governors Veto Sustained
The Senate failed TO pass over the Gov
ernors veto the resolve appropriating
$1,000 for the Commission of Pharmacy,
but the failure lacks significance for the
reason that Senator Ames explained be-
fore the vote was taken that the matter
had been adjusted and the resolve would
later be introduced in better form Upon
this assurance that the appropriation
would be taken care of the Governors
veto was sustained.
Resolutions Of Sympathy
Senator Allen introduced a resolution
expressing sympathy for Senator David
r. Hastings of Androscoggin, who has
been Ill during the greater part Of the
session. and extending best wishes for
his early recovery. The resolution was
passed with an order to present one copy
of it signed by each senator to Senator
Hastings.