Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-31

qualifications Of judges. clerks and re-
corders Of municipal courts.
BY the Aroostook delegation-Ought
to pass in new draft on act to author
ize Aroostook county to repair and en-
large the courthouses at Houlton and
Caribou.
The conference on act for the regis
tration Of resident hunters reported un-
able to agree.
IN THE SENATE.
The committees on interior waters
and public health presented their final
reports.
The committee on education report
ed ought to pass on act to designate
truant officers as attendance officers.
The committee on legal affairs re-
ported ought to pass on act to provide
for the transfer to the reformatory for
women for women serving in the State
prison, any county jail or in any house
of correction.
The committee on military affairs re-
ported ought to pass on resolve pro-
posing an amendment to Art. of the
Constitution relating to military: and
ought to pass on resolve for a me-
mortal in honor of Major General
Hiram G. Berry at Augusta.
The committee on ways and bridges
reported ought to pass in new draft
on act relating to operation of motor
vehicles. The new draft provides that
no person operating a motor vehicle in
the central part of city or town shall
at any time open the muller cutout
nor permit such motor vehicle to make
any unnecessary noise. The penalty
for violation is fixed by fine of not
more than 500 for each offence.
The committee on ways and bridges
reported ought to pass in new draft on
resolve appropriating money for pur-
pose of obtaining information in re-
gard to wild lands for the purposes of
taxation, the resolve appropriatinS
$4,000 for each of the years 1917 and
1918 for that PURPOSE.
The committee on, military affairs
reported ought to pass in a new draft
on act to revise We military laws, the
new draft eliminating the section
which requires a draft TO make UP any
quota of National Guard companies.
The committee on education reported
ought to pass in new draft, the sec
'ond one, on an act to establish mill
tary training in the public schools.
The second new draft provides that the
course of military training in high
schools in the State in cities and
towns in which the experimenting
school committee may vote to intro.
duce the same may follow In addition
to the plans outlined such other plans
as may be approved by the State sup
erintendent of public schools.
The committee on taxation, to which
was referred the act to establish a uni
form tax on intangible personal prop
erty, recommends the passage of an
amendment to the constitution to allow
the Legislature to enact an income tax
law and says that the passage OF the
proposed act is inexpedient.
The resolve reported proposes an
amendment to the constitution so as to
give and grant full power and author
ity to the Legislature to classify prop
erty and to impose and levy tax on
income Such tax may be at different
rates upon income derived from differ
ent classes of property. but shall be
levied at a uniform rate through the
State upon incomes derived from the
same class of property; provided, how
ever, the Legislature may subdivide
intangible property into different class
es and levy Il tax at different rates
upon the incomes derived from the
different classes. The Legislature may
tax incomes not derived from prop
erty at a different rate than incomes
derived from property and may grant
reasonable exemptions and attachments.
Any class of property, the income of
which is taxed under the provisions OF
this article may be exempted from
the imposition and lovying of proper
tional and reasonable assessments,
rates and taxes as at present author
lied by the constitution. Full power
and authority are hereby given and
granted to the Legislature to sub
divide intangible property into classes
land levy tax upon the intangible
property in the different classes at diff
ferent rates as the Legislature deems
wise and equitable without regard to
the rate applied to other classes of
property. This article shall not be
construed to limit the power of the
Legislature to impose and levy duties
and excuses.
,, HOUSE REPORTS.
ne committee VI SOlllGlCiSS VII etSs
| to provide FOR the registration OF resi-
dent hunters reported that it is unable
TO agree. The report is signed by Sen
ators Chick of kennebec, Gillin of Pen
| obscot and Marshall of Cumberland
| and Reps. Barnes of Houlton, Berry of
Waterville and O'Connell of Millinock-
| ct.
The committee on ways and bridges
reported ought to pass on act to au-
| thoriZe the county of Piscataquis to re-
| imburse.the town of Brownville to the
extent of 80 per cent. of it's disburse-
ments in the construction of a bridge
across Pleasant river.
The committee on pensions reported
ought to pass on resolve granting $500
per annum for 1917 and 1918 to Mary S.
Hillman of Island Falls. Mrs. Hillman
is the widow of the late Harold c.
Hillman. who was a deputy sheriff for
the county of Aroostook and who, it is
| believed was killed at Island Falls by
reason OF his diligence in enforcing the
prohibitory liquor law. Mrs. Hillman
has a family of six children.
| The committee on military affairs
! reported ought to pass in new draft
on resolve appropriating money for the
care and maintenance of Fort William