Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-02-11

made the same report on bill an act to make
valid the organization of the Somerset Cor
poration. Read and assigned.
MIR. THURLoUGH, form the COMMITTEE on
Agriculture, on petition, reported bill an act
to regulate the gathering of cranberrics in the
town of Lubec. Read and assigned.
Mr.. HAM, from the Committee on Manu-
features, on petition, reported bill an act to
authorize the town Of Wayne to appropriate
money to encourage manufactures. Read
and assigned. G
reported bill an act to incorporate the Sears
port Manufacturing Company. Read and as
signed. grtN fs"T EEtt ~ +
| Passed to be engrossed-An act to prevent
the throwing of edgings and other refuse into
the waters of Medomack river in the town of
Waldoboro'; an act to authorize Erastus {.
Simpson ct ais, to extend their wharf into
the tide waters at West Harpswell; an act
giving authority to Oliver Emery ct ais. of
! Passport to build wharvcs and fish wicrs to
low water mark in said town; an act for the
preservation of fish in Ossippee Lake and its
tributaries.
Passed to be enacted-An act to authorize
Leonard McCobb to extend his wharf into the
tide waters of Boothbay llarbor; an act to
provide for the payment of counsel assigned
to persons charged with capital offences; an
act authorizing Nathaniel Perkins ct ais, to
build wharf into the tide waters Of Kenne-
bee river at Phipsburg.
The House resumed the consideration of
the contested election case, Keegan VS..
| Dickey. The question being on amending
the report by substituting the minority for the
majority.
Mr.. BoNNEY spoke briefly, and brought
forward new testimony to show that the plan
tations of Eagle Lake, St. John, and St. Fran
els, are not legally organized, and therefore
not entitled to be counted This, he said,
would elect Mr.. Keegan, even if Cyr is thrown
out. Gentlemen of the House might adopt
either horn of the dilemma they chose. If
Cyr is thrown out these other plantations
must be, and Mr.. Keegan is elected or if
these plantations are allowed Cyr must be
| allowed, and the result will be the same
| Mr. BRAwS Of Oldtown, said:
| Mr. SpgAKER:-By the courtesy Of this House,
I was upon the committee elections and carefully
investigated this case. My convictions Of right led
me to conclude with the majority Of that commit
tee, that VIM. Dickey is rightfully member Of
this House. Cyr Plantation not counted, be-
cause it had no legal organization. l will not at
tempt to add to the exhausting argument Of the
| gentleman from Augusta upon this point.
| have heard it stated in this House that the
same objection that is made to Cyr must apply to
! other plantations Such is not the fact; there
are two other plantations in the returns Of which
there are some informalities; but count them both
out with Cyr, and the result is the same, and
| Dickey is elected. But, Mr.. Speaker, it is not my
purpose to 90 the legal question so ably pre-
scented by the gentlemen from Houlton, Augusta
and Calais rise Sir, because believe the adyo.
Gates Of Mr.. Keegan upon this foor. have done vi
oenee to the facts, and great injustice to William
Dickey. | do not say that any of them have done
so Intentionally, but when the members Of this
House remember the natural inference to be drawn
from some Of the remarks Of the gentleman from
Stetson and especially the remarks made yesterday
by the gentleman from Presquc Isle II think they
will pardon for rising here in my seat and add
| ing that too am republican as well as they;
that have always been republican, and, as a
| republican, have supposed that 1t was my dnty to
\ observe the laws, and pay proper respect to the
rights Of others. Why it was that that gentleman
should seek to arouse party luminosity and invoke
party prejudice upon this question, is beyond my
comprehension But it has been done, and if such
argument is the best that Mr.. keegans friends can
produce, not sorry to meet it; for Sir, II SYM
patty and prejudice is to be excited here, and this
question is to hinge upon that, then tell me, Sir
who can be more entitled to sympathy and respect
| in this case than William Diekey? |, Sir, have
met him and his sons upon other fields, where dan
! ger terror to him or them He sought dam
ger for the relief of the suffering soldiers. He cared
for them when they suffering and paralyzed in
the hospitals of Morris Island Beaufort, Hilton
Head, and Jacksonville. 1t was then, Mr.. Speak
err our brave boys felt and knew his worth. Ask
the brave boys who were wounded at 0lusta, who
was with them day and night, ministering to their
relief. Was it the son Of keegan that marched
with me to do battle for the Unionf No. Sir, it
was William B. Dickey, son Of our worthy member.
| That boy but seventeen, and he walked one
hundred miles to enlist. He, Sir carried bis mus
ket and knapsack with me. He was for bis good
conduct as . soldier, promoted to quartsrnsstsr
sergeant and again to regimental quartermaster and
transferred to the second South Carolina Regiment
under the brave and impetuous Col. Montgomery.
When say he brave boy fought the
enemy. but repeat what Maj General Terry and
nearly every officer in the Southern department
said when they recommended him TO the department
for promotioe as captain and A. Q. NJ in the Unit
ed States service. He was promoted and ordered
from the South to New Mexico. where he served
with his father his chief clerk until the last gun
was fred and the sword Of Lee surrendered TO our
worthy chief magistrate. ~. u sF go
This is not ALL His second son, less than seven
teen, came to Hilton Head q soldier under Col.
! Montgomery, but had the msary fever and was
sent home from Morris Island, and disabled for a
long time. Capt. Vests company was nearly
raised by our worthy member. He has my best re-
aspects He ministered to our wants when friend
was wanted; he was the soldiers friend. and was
beloved by all. But, Mr.. Speaker and gentlemen
of the House, ask where was his opponent? Where
Sir I'm the Province Of New brunswick. 1t may
be said he was at school, not the brave sons
Of William Dickey at school? and was it not as
necessary for them to attend school for kee-
gan? Where was the father and brother Of this
Peter Chas. keegan during the war; Sure it is,
they not to the front. No, Sir. they were in
the rear-so far in the rear that they some Of
the time over the line-ont the front line, but tho
lines Of New Brunswick.
| Mr.. DIcKEY had not intended saying any
thing upon this matter had it not taken a
wider range than case ever took before on
this floor. AS regarded the organization of
these three plantations, eagle Lake, St.
Francis and St. Joh-.,) he took the opinions
of those fully qualified to know, and among
them former Attorney General of the State.
He did not disclaim having anything to do