The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-04-14
Summary Of Session.

Summary Of Session.
During the session of the S0th
Name Legislature, which adjourned
Sunday morning, Gov. Baxter vetoed
IA measures. An act relating to when
no succession tax shall be assessed on
the stock, bonds and evidences of debt
of Maine corporations; resolve in
favor of the Austin W. Jones Company
of Veazie for reimbursement for dam
ages to its property caused by fireI
alleged to have been set by George
Stanchfeld, a paroled inmate OF the
Bangor State Hospital; resolve In IA
yor of the Medical School of Maine;
resolve providing for erection OF a.
State of Maine Building at the Eastern
Exposition at Springfield, Mass; re-
solve permitting Michael Burns to|
bring a suit of law against the State
to recover damages caused by the
seizure of his liquor 81 years ago and
which he claims was done unlawfully;
act to regulate boxing in the State or
Maine; Resolve in favor of Cary hos
pital at Caribou; resolve in favor OF
Bates College; act permitting the
shoot ng of sea gulls when found in
the act of destroying property; re-
solve in favor of the Northern Maine
Sanatorium at Presque Isle; act in
creasing the mileage of members of
the Legislature; resolve in favor OF
the University of Maine; resolve forl
the erect on of a central school build
ing at the State School for Boys, and
an act increasing the appropriation for
the investigation of animal industry
Three of the measures, resolve in
favor of the University of Maine, re-
solve in favor of Cary hospital and
resolve in favor of the Northern Maine
Sanitorium were passed over the exc
cutive veto, the resolve in favor OF the
Northern Maine Sanatorium unani-
mously.
The resolves VIII ch were vetoed by
Governor Baxter and which were sus-
tanned by the Legislature carried ap-
propriations of $375,644 and of this
amount $4,000 would be fixed
charges
The LEGISLATURE was in session for
IA weeks. h'ch is an average ses-
s on in recent years. Governor Fred
eric II. Parkhurst, who was elected
last September died during the first
month of the session and he was sue
ceeded by Percival P. Baxter of Port
la9d. President of the Senate. This is
the first administration in a quarter OF
a century where anv apprec able re-
duction has been made in the tax rate,
the rate being II 12 mills for the MS
cal period ending June 80, 1921.
Among the measures passed by the
S0th legislature were acts providing for
a full time highway commiss on, per
mitting savings banks to invest III
railroad equipment obligations, pro-
ding for the payment OF bonus 10
soldiers and sailors of the war win
Spain, jurisdiction of the Public ltih-
ties Commiss on over jitneys, 80
called, TO establish the State scnool
fund and apportionment, to secure es-
Inmates for State library building,
to regulate portable sawmills, to reg
ulate the use of aircraft, authorizing
married women and widows to use
part of the family name by Whch
they shall be registered as VOTERS 10
aid towns in the repair OF Drloges' to
punish bomb outrages and blackhand
activities. provid ing that no bread snail
be sold unless enclosed in SANITARY
wrapper, providing for Temperance
Day in the Public Schools, and max
ing a provision that women may serve
on juries.
Acts were also passed to safeguard
the law providing for the purity OF
clans. oysters and scallops, to repeal
the National Guard draft law, to as
certain the value OF wild lands, pro-
o.. ha tiOn OF lAn0 IN
incorporated places, to exempt the
property of war veterans VINO nave
reached the age Of 70 years from TAXA
ton to the amount OF $500O, 10 extend
the time in which veterans may apply
for the soldiers bonus one year, TO
prob bit the treatment OF world war
veterans as paupers, to hx the maine
law as regards the sale of intoxicating
liquors SO that it will be in harmony
with the Federal law as regards the
manufacture of liquor, requiring po-
ltical advertisements to be signed in
creasing the school age limit, increas-
ing the fee of nonresident fishermen
from So to SO, prohibiting the manu-
facture or exhibition of moving pc
lures depicting cruelty to animals, to
make more stringent the laws for the
protection of deer and moose, to in
clude ice in the law against profiteer-
ing, providing for a monthly settle
ment for town tax collectors. increasAI
ing teachers pensions, and resolve
providing a constitutional amendment
providing for absent voting.
Some of the measures which failed
of passage were acts providing for a