Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-03-31

1870 NhhA wv
BY unanimouse consent the rules
We're suspended and the following
Senate order was received out of or
der.
when the Senate and House adjourn,
they adjourn to meet Monday. March
81. at 40 F. NJ.
The order received . passage in
concurrence.
Papers from the Senate disposed
Of in concurrence.
Communication from the Governor
Gentlemen Of the 10th Legislature:
At the very time when the victory
Of national prohibition is being cele-
brated and Maine is rightly hailed as
the pioneer in this great human well
fare movement, we are in grave
danger of stumbling into a pitfall
which will bring US into unenviable
notoriety throughout the country.
For lack of precise definition re-
garding the percentage Of alcohol in
non-malt alcoholic beverages. our
courts have held the question wheth-
er such a beverage was intoxicating
to be in each instance question OF
fact In the case of non-malt liquors
containing less than three per cent %
alcohol proof Of actual intoxicatiOn
has been required in order to show
the beverage to be intoxicating liq-
uor. In practice such evidence is al
especially In search and seizure
cases and the result has been immun-
ity for purveyors of various near
beers" containing less than three per
cent alcohol.
The places where such beverages
are sold otter center for distribution
Of stronger intoxicants whenever
these can be struggled into the
state. The sale Of such beverages.
even if confined strictly within the
ostensitle limits of marble - tends
among boys and young men who
would not otherwise acquire it.
So far as / know. Maine is now the
only dry" state which perm,1 the
sale of beverages containing so large
a per cent of alcohol. In my address
at the opening of the session l con-
fidently appealed TO you to take &C.
ton which would make the definition
of Intoxicating liquors in this re-
spect harmonic with that of other
dyr states and the Federal govern
ment. The New Hampshire legislat-
ure has just refused to legalizc the
of d. ;nr @
two and three quarters per cent al
cohol. You have had before You q
till defining the percentage of alco-
no! in intoxicating liquors. I hope
that the unfavorable action taken on
this bill in both branches may be re-
considered and the standard Of our
Maine law brought up to that Of our
neghboring state of New Hampshire.
tSigned) CARL f. MILLIKEE.
Governor
Dated at the
Executive Chambers
March %. 1919
This communication comes from
the Senate. that body extending q
vote Of thanks to the Governor for
his communication, and ordering 500
copies printed
Thereupon the House voted that
the communication be placed on file.
From the Senate: Resolve to amend
resolve in favor of the Augusta
state hopsital for the construction of
new building for patients
This comes from the Senate. read
twice under suspension of the rules.
and passed 70 be engrossed without
reference to committee.
The House thereupon voted to sus-
pend the rules. and the resolve was
given it two several readings and
passed to be engrossed III concurrence.
From the Senate: Resolve authorize
ing construction of a building for
the care Of tubercular soldiers, sail
Ors and marines.
This comes from the Senate, read
twice lnder suspension of the rules. and
pasi ell to be cngrossed without refer
ence 10 committee
Tie House thereupon votel to sus-
pend the rules, and the resolve was
gwen is two several readings and pass
ed to be engrossed in concurrence.
From the Senate: Ordered. the House
concurring. that the chairman of the
Judiciary. the chairman of the legal
affairs and the chairman Of the COM
mttee On library. on the part of the
Senate. and the chairmen of the same
committees on the part OF the House,
Re- authorized to act as a special COM
mittee to examine certain manuscripts
now in the custody Of the secretcry OF
state for examination. relating to the
proceedings of various legislatures from
the year 1880 to the year 1920. said COM
nlittec to report to the present legisla-
ture by b..l or otherwise
This comes frem the Senate indef-
nitely postponed.
In. the House indefinitely postponed
In concurrence.
From the Senate: Finnl reports OF
the Joint standing committees on edu-