Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-14
GASOLINE TAX BILLS
HEAD FLOOD DUE FOR
HEARING next WEEK

The various acts increasing the
tax on gasoline, the act creating the
Maine Power Authority, the act pro-
viding for an excise tax on power
corporations, the bill providing for an
excise tax on auto transportation
companies and the act stpulatlns
that all moneys appropriated by the
LEGISLATURE for charitable. benevo-
lent or educational purposes shall be
expended only under the direction
and with the approval of the Cover
nor and Council, are included in the
food of measures which shall be
considered by the committee of the
Legislature during the coming week.
The resolve ratifying the pro-
posed amendment to the constitu-
ton of the United States granting
Congress the power to limit, regulate
and prohibit the labor of persons un-
der IS years of age, and the two re-
solves for rejection of the proposed
amendment are also scheduled for
hearing next week, being assigned
for the committee on labor at two
o'clock Thursday afternoon.
The six gasoline tax bills will be
heard by the joint committees on
ways and bridges and taxation at
1880 Tuesday evening, Mar. II while
the bills and resolves for a highway
and bridge bond issue viii be taken
up by that same committee on Mon
day evening. Mar. %.
Maine Building at Springfield Expo
sition
The committee on Maine publicity
will hold a hearing at =. NJ. next
Thursday on the act providing for
the nomination by the Governor of
successors of the committee of five
which now has and shall hereafter
have charge of the erection, opera
ton and management of the build
ing erected by the State of Maine on
the grounds of the Eastern States
Agricultural and Industrial EXPOSE
ton at West Springfield. Mass.
Taxation of Forest Property
The committee on State lands and
forest preservation will hear argu-
ments at two o'clock Thursday aft
ernoon on the act presented by Rep
resentative Hale of Portland provid
ing that all forest growth shall be
exempt from taxa ton after Mar. 81.
1926, until cut. and that all land on
which such forest growth stands
shall be assessed at a value not to
exceed its value as stripped land
and shall he taxed in the same man
ner and at the same rate as other
real property.
Board of Juy Commissioners
The act providing for a board of
jury commissioners, the act which
would take storage dams from the
provisions of the mill act. and five
other measures will he considered by
the judiciary committee at 2:30 Il.
NJ. next Tuesday. Among the ten
acts to be heard by that committee
on Wednesday afternoon is the act to
prevent travelling peddlers. dealers,
statesmen and solicitors or orders for
punch boards. seal cards or slot gam
bling machines.
State bureau of Criminal Identifca-
ton
The committee on legal affairs will
hold two hearings next week. among
the matters assigned for $50 Wednes-
day afternoon being an act to permit
towns to be divided into polling dis
tricts for the election of municipal
officers, and the act to establish a
State Bureau of Criminal Identiica-
ton and Investigation. Five meas
ures relating to the city of Lewiston
will be discussed on Thursday after
noon.
The committee on Indian affairs Will
take under consideration on Wednes-