Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-07

| its possession dynamite, powder OF
other explosive, shall within "A hours
| file with the clerk of the town a writ
ten statement under oath setting forth
the amount. kind, location and IN case
Of sale. giving the name OF the pur-
chaser, date OF sale, amount purchas-
ed, ETC., and filing copy or the same
with the secretary of State with a
recording fee Of 10 cents. a penalty or
$500 or Imprisonment for not more than
one year is imposed for failure to
comply with the. law. The, bill was CIV
en- its several readings and passed to
\ be engroSSed.
The seven war measures introduced
/ into the house in the morning came
/ into the Senate and upon motion OF
Sen. Holt the rules were suspended ana
the bills given their several readings
and passed to be engrossed
4 The Senate was asked to appoint
committee of conference TO act with
the House on the resolve for the erec-
! ton of two monuments, one to MAY
! Gen. Howard and one to Gen. Cham
berlain at Gettysburg. and another
committee relative to the resolve IN
favor Of General Knox Chapter, ID. A.
the subject matter and report back to
r., at Thomaaton, to investigate fully
the next LEGISLATURE.
/ Sen. DeerinS tabled both reports re-
lating to the legal length Of Holsters
in York, Cumberland and Lincoln
counties.
Sen. Deerins started the move TO
accept the So called Baxter amend
ment to several of the water power
charters which brought forth vigor-
Gus protest from Sen. Davies, who said
it was absurd after the Senate had al
ready refused to concur with the
House to now recede from its action.
Sen. Deering moved that the act re-
lating to Bog Brook in the Dead Riv-
er region on which Guy P. Gannett and
Blaine S. Viles propose to erect dam
and establish water power faclllt1es
for making electricity be passed, after
the Senate had receded from its former
action. Sen. Davies said If the senate
receded they we're accepting the Bax-
ter amendment,
Sen. Gilln moved to adhere to for
mer action hut on a voice vote the
paws won and the Senate refused to
adhere and receded accepting the
amendment to the charter.
Sen. Deering followed the same ac-
ton with the Gould Electric Co. He
said this company would do almost
ANYTHING to get their charter and that
while no man had more antipathy FOR
/ the Baxter amendment than he did. he
was willing to accept it SO that these
people may not lose their charter
! Sen. Burleigh said he understood the
corporation did not oppose now the
Baxter amendment and was willing to
accept it.
! Sen. Gillin brought up the act re-
( lating to the amount Of tax on rail-
! roads and how ascertained. Sen. Holt
/ gave an idea Of tho act which had
raised the ratei of taxation on certain
roads from 81 TO per cent.
Sen. Gillin said this hits the Maine
/ Central, Boston & Maine and Canadian
| Pacific. He said these roads pay to
| the State almost a million on taxation
on its franchise and real estate. He
! said the AdamSon law meant an add1-
| tional burden of $250,000 and no one
knew the extent of it's application to
| the railroads. He spoke of the ROADS
being great public servants and II the
| LEGISLATURE increases their taxation,
! The roads would be obliged to increase
| tho freight rates. He said they hadn't
! increased the rates on telephones and
telegraphs and while he had always
been opposed to the Maine Central he
was sick and tired of people who are
| continually driving the railroads. for
more money. He asked II they We're
going to tax these roads and let the
others go free and he hoped the mo-
A., ton to indefinitely postpone would
| prevail.
Sen. Merrill of Somerset gave the
precise situation as he understood it..
outlining the bill and what it proposes
and made long argument against
taxing those roads and leaving out
others and said 1t was 1.-The most
| damnable bill introduced at this ses
| sion"
Sen. Davies spoke against the meas
ure as did Sen. Butler of Knox and
there was long discussion in which
the various phases of the situation
were spoken of pro and con but on
the vote, the bill was indefinitely
postponed, y to 2.
The Clark Power Co. was taken up
| by Sen. Deering, who asked the same
! action as that taken in the previous
power companies. namely the attach
ment of the Baxter amendment and
again Sen. Davies spoke against the
Senate receding but the Senate re-
coded, tackled on the amendment and
passed the bill to be engrossed. This
bill allowed the transmission of cleo
tricity into the parish Of Clair, New
Brunswick and Sen. Deering said the
House would allow this, it having been
provided in the Baxter amendment.
When the act relating to the cutting OF
timber on wild lands came from the
House with Senate amendments eliminat-
ed, Senator Davis of Piscataquis moved
that the Senate adhere to its original &C
ton, which was voted
Senator Burleigh Of Aroostook moved
recon sideration of the vote by which the
Senate voted to adhere to its former &C
ton relative to the Fort Kent Electric
Co. Upon his motion the Senate con-
Cured with the House in adopting House
Amendment B, which permitted the com
nany to transmit electricity to st. Clair.
n. B.
Senator Holt took from the table the
act to regulate the practice Of osteopathy.
proyiding for a board of examination,
x,o,,a5 that ha minority report.