Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-01

| relating to burying grounds.
| An Act to amend Section of Chap
ter 80 Of the Revised Statutes. as
amended by Chapter 202 of the Pub
lie Laws of 1917, prohibiting the treat
ment of World War veterans as pau
pers.
! An Act to amend Section 81 of Chap
ter 219 of the Public Laws of 1917, as
amended by Chapter 131 of the Public
Laws of 1919. relating to the protec-
ton of moose.
An Act to amend Sections l and of
Chapter 81 of the Private and Special
Laws of 1915, relating to Winthrop
Water Company.
An Act to amend Section IL of Chap
ter III of the Revised Statutes, as
amended by Chapter 249 of the Public
Laws of 1917 and Chapter 1913 of the
Public Laws of 1919, relating to the
salaries of stenographers of Cumber-
land and Kennebec superior courts.
An Act to amend Section 139 of
Chapter 16 of the Revised Statutes as
amended, relating TO the appropria-
ton for industrial education.
! Resolve to reimburse the town of
South Thomaston for amount paid for
free high school tuition for year end
ing July first, 1919.
Resolve to amend a Resolve provid-
ing for aid in the payment of premiums
awarded by the Eastern Maine State
Fair.
Resolve authorizing the Governor
and Council to adjust claims for dam
| Nv Tc-
land in the Penobscot river.
Resolve in favor of Lorenzo d.
Wright of Montville for State pension.
| Resolve providing for certain State
pensions.
/ Resolve in favor of the erection of
a State of Maine building on the
grounds of the Eastern States EXPOSE
ton at Springfield, Massachusetts,.
Resolve in favor of the town of
Boothbay for military aid furnished
the wife of Herbert H. Thurston and
four minor children under age of Is
years.
Resolve to reimburse the town of
Milo for money advanced under the
soldiers dependent law.
Resolve to appropriate money for
the purchase of a history of York.
Orders of the Day
(Speaker Barnes at this point re-
sumed the Chair.)
i The SPEAKER: The Chair will
state that under the heading of ''or-
ders of the day." unfinished business
of yesterday has precedence. House
Doc. No. 344, Bill, An Act relating to
municipal elections in the town OF
Houlton, will again be tabled until
the so-called "Holley bill' is an
, nounced to have become a law
The Chair will also state that the
next four measures on the calendar
under the heading of unfinished bus
j, mess" House Doc. No. $40, Resolve
in aid of navigation on SchoodiC
Grand Lake; House Doc. No. 342, Re-
solve in aid of navigation on Moose
, head Lake; House Doc No. 339, Re-
solve in aid of navigation on Levy
Long and Big Lakes and House Doc
No. 337, Resolve for lighting NarroWs
between Upper and Lower Richardson
. Lakes, will again be laid upon the
table.
!, The Chair will present the next
the Portland delegation on Bill, An
Act relative to the two platoon sys-
TEN in the Portland Fire Department
the report of the committee being
Ought not to pass"
Mr.. Brewster of Portland moved
that the bill be substituted for the
, report of the committee.
The motion was agreed to.
: Mr.. Dodge of Portland then offered
House Amendment "A"
The SPEAKER: The Chair will in
quire of the gentleman from Portland
. Mr.. Dodge, if the proposed amend
ment ha sthe support of the Portland
delegation?
it is possible that the Portland dele
cation should offer an apology to the
House for having held this matter on
the table so long. 1t is matter
which has required some little dis
cussion on our part, and some time
has been taken up in this discussion
but we have finally come together
upon the proposition as presented.
The SPEAKER: The gentleman
from Portland, Mr.. Dodge, offers
House Amendment "a" to the bill by
striking out all of said bill after the
enacting clause, and inserting in
place thereof the following: Section
/. Any ordinance creating a two
platoon system of the fire department
of the city of Portland shall not take
effect until accepted by the voters OF
said city at a regular municipal cleo
tion," and thereafterwards providing
for aA'eferendum.
The question being on the adop-
ton of House Amendment "a" the
bill was tabled on motion by Mr.
Rounds of Portland.
The SPEAKER: The Chair will
state that the next two matters, be-
ing Resolves in favor of navigation
on lakes withint he State, will again
be tabled.
The SPEAKER: The Chair pre-
sents for consideration, House Doc
No. PAT, Bill, An Act Incorporating
the Allegash Improvement Company,
On motion by Mr. Weeks of Fair
field, the bill was again laid upon the
the table.
The SPEAKER: The Chair pre-
sents for consideration, House Doc
No. 1913, Bill, An Act to provide for
local inspection of slaughter bo,,cac