The Republican journal., 1915-02-11
Legislative Notes.
What is Said and Done at Augusta,


will tell the warning nations of Europe
just what it thinks of them and war'as a
general proposition, and when the telling
has been finished there will be little doubt
in the mind of the hearer that war is all
that Gen. Sherman said it was. This,
too, despite the neutrality proclamation
of President Wilson. A resolve memoir
alizing Congress in the interest of uni
| versal peace was introduced in the house
Feb. End by Mr.. Mullin.
In the house Feb. 3rd Rep. Smith of
Hampton presented an act, most sweep
ing in its character, for the investigation
of the railways of Maine. 1t asks for
the appointment of special joint COM
mission to ascertain whathe the Maine
Central is being financed by Wall street,
and its connection with the New Haven
and the Boston and Maine. The act en-
powers the commission to employ coun-
sci. 1t is estimated that the cost of such
an investigation would be at least $780,
900.
Commission government for Bangor.
prohibition of the sale Of old cider, and
the privilege of Michael Burns of suing
the State of Maine for damages receiv d
from criminal prosecution in 1887, were
among the bills introduced in the legisla-
ture Feb. 3rd.
By Mr.. Conant of Waldo: Petition of
Everett H. Morse of South Montville
and % others in favor of the Act for the
blind residents of Maine.
Senator Flaherty of Cumberland pre-
sented an Act removing the exemption
of cider from the provisions of the pro-
hibitory law. The act strikes out the
words Except cider" in Section Sc of
the Chapter 20 of the Revised Statutes
and adds in place of the following word
"clder, containing at the time of such
sale not more than three per cent alco-
hol. - In Section 40 the words except or
deposited with intent to sell the same for
! tipping purposes or as beverage are
stricken out and the words containing
more than three per cent of alcohol are
substituted
By Mr.. Corners of Bangor: Petition
of Galen M. Woodcock, M. D., and IS
other physicians of Penobscot county,
for passage of an act to procure State
registration for nurses; also petition of
Ida Washburne and 81 other nurses of
Penobscot county for same.
By Millett of Belfast: Petition of C.
H. Stevens, M. D., and six other physi-
clans of Waldo county for same; also
petition of Bessie Cox Lowell and five
other trained nurses of Belfast for same
BY MIR. Ames of Stockton Springs:
Petition of M. M. Grant and SO others.
residents of Waldo county, asking that
Meadow Brook and its tributaries, stu
ated in Stockton Springs and Prospect,
be closed to fishing.
BY Mr. Millett of Belfast: Resolve to
amend article % of the Constitution, re-
laulng to Imita lions of municipal indebt-
edness
No one appeared in opposition to the
bills for Workmen's Compensation act
before the special joint committee Feb.
3, but there was difference of opinion as
to what bill should be accepted, the one
presented by Senator Aaron B. Cole of
York or the one introduced by Senator
Willis E. Swift of Kennebec. The Swift
bill provides two-thirds of a persons
salary as compensation if injured, while
the Cole bill provides but one half
Messrs. Deasy and Wilson were author
lied by the commi, tee to draft meas
ure for consideration which would en-
body some of the features of both of the
bills presented.
The Committee on Pensions, after a
lengthy hearing Feb. Sd, voted fought
10 pass on the bill to grant pension of
5000 year to the blind residents of the
State.
Bills and resolves were presented Feb.
4th as follows:
By Conant of Waldo: Resolve refund
ing to Gorham P. Grant of Winterport
$500 paid by him in 1868 in lieu of mill
tary service In 1868 Mr.. Grant was
drafted for the Union army, pronounced
fit for duty, and ordered to report at
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paid the $500 and received receipt and
certificate setting forth his non-liability
to service under the draft A little less
than two years later Mr.. Grant attempt
ed to volunteer for military service, but
was rejected owing to the condition of
one of his feet which had been injured
by an axe in April, 1852 Mr.. Grant
maintains that if the defective foot rem
dered MIN unfit for military service in
1865 he was not liable to service at the
time of the draft
Under suspension of the rules Senator
Allen of Kennebec introduced bill pro-
viding for a reformatory for women.
This is a committee draft and provides
for an appropriation of $780, appor
toned into two sums for each of the
next two ensuing year. The plan of the
committee drafting the bill is to begin
woman's reformatory on the colony plan
ard the sum of $780, will be sufficient
to make a good beginning during the
next two years. The dill creates body
of five trustees governing the institution.
The trustees are to be appointed by the
Governor and Council and it will be their
duty to choose site for the reformatory.
The committee has visited similar instl-
tutions in other States and is we'll in
formed on the reformatory work pro
posed. The bill was laid upon the table
pending reference.
By Bartlett of Kennebec: Act striking
out of section of chapter 211 of the
Public Laws of 1918, which regulates
the sale of morphine and other hypnotic
and narcotic drugs, all provisions for
keeping a record of sales and the pur-
poses for which the drug may be used.
This leaves the law so that there shall be
no sales or dispensation of the above de-
] scribed drugs Except in good faith as
medicines for diseases indicated"
By Dunton of Bingham: Act amend
ing the school holiday law so as to include
Patriots day and Labor day when the
school committee of town shall vote to
observe them, instead of their being
compulsory holidays as now.
By Millett of Belfast: Resolve for
pension of SIP per month for Annie L.
Durham of Belfast.
| Amono tho resolves annronriatino