Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-03
Water Power Commission.

| An act creating the Peoples Water
| Rights and Power Commission has
| been introduced in the Senate by Sen
atOr Hastings of Androscoggin. 1t
| is the aim Of the act to place directly
| in the hands of the peoples govern
ment all the water powers in the
State in order that the citizens of the
State may benefit as whole as heirs
to Names natural resources. The act
| takes the control of existing water
powers from the control Of the Public
Utilities Commission. 1t creates the
| new commission and states explicitly
their duties and the method Of ad-
ninistration Of the water powers of
the State. f.
The Smith Lever act passed by the
federal Congress. May s. 1914, is re-
cognised and embraced in a resolve
| introduced by Representative Drawn
of Bradley.
Resolve making an appropriation for
cooperative agriculture work between
the college of agriculture of the Uni
versity OF Maine and the United States
department OF, AGRICULTURE. Tha work to
be done is deffeG in section of the
Smith-Lever act The ACCOMMODATING
statement Of facts says that the purpose
of this si-,,eesure Il. through field demon
strations, ru1liestons and otherwise to
aid in diffusitig useful and practical in
formation on subjects relating to agri-
culture and home economies. The fed
eral act provides a permanent appro-
priation to the State OF $4,000 annually
| and contingent upon the appropriation
Of like amounts by the State or other
wise additional appropriations of 1859
for the second year and each succeeding
! year thereafter for seven years an ap-
preparation increasing by $3G57 the
amount appropriated for the succeeding
year. The Bradley resolve appropriates
sa3s9 for the year beginning July /. 1915.
and sS0i7 for the year beginning July
1916
Mr.. Bradley also offered resolve
which formally assented to the provis-
ions of the Smith-I.ever act on the part
of the State of Maine.
Labor and Industry.
An act to amend the laws Of 1911
relating to the department Of industry
and labor was introduced in the House
Tuesday, by Representative Wescott
If Blue Hill.
This act fixes the annual appropriation
for the operation of the department ex-
elusive of the commissioner, deputy
commissioner and stenographer at 5000
instead of at s4500 as at present
The statement of facts accompanying
the act is as follows:
STATEMENT Off FACTS ACCOM-
PANYING AMENDMENT TO CHAP
TER 65, PUBLIC LAWS OF 1911.
To the Honorable Senate and House OF
Representatives of the. State of Maine
in Legislature Assembled.
Gentlemen:
The Department of Labor and Industry
requests that annual appropriation made
for its operation, exclusive Of the sal
aries of the Commissioner, deputy COM
missioner and stenographer, be in the fu-
ture placed at $1,000 year instead of
$45oO as at present in order that the de-
partment may properly perform the dus
ties set for it under the statutes and that
the people of the State of Maine may get
tae full benefit of the beneficent labor
laws that have been enacted.
The Department of Labor and Industry
was created in 1911 and since that time
number Of duties have been added to
those originally planned for the depart