Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-02-08
that the friends Of the measure had

commended that the friends Of the measure had
acknowledged that the road was not required
IS public necessity. In reference to lobby,
he said lobbyists were here from Auburn and
Lewiston in such swarms that they had to be
nut to roost where chickens 60 to roost-up
10 the Rarret.
| Mr.. FARwELL explained in regard to the
statements before the committee. He then
referred to the difficulties experienced - the
people Of Oxford county, and on the line OF
he Grand Trunk in reaching Lewiston and
AUBURN Then when persons go to Portland
rom Lewiston and Auburn they are Obliged
o walk mile and half, or get out at West
brook and ga over in the horse cars. IT the
people could go in on the Grand Trunk as
hey used to do and as they wished now,
hey would be left short distance from
| where they wished to GO It would be nearer
| the Boston boats, which would be great
| 'anefit to those who wish 10 do business in
Boston and New York.
| Considerable had Deen said about a lobby .
Lewiston and Auburn had not a single man
| lere under pay and they have had no one
| iere except as witnesses before the Railroad
Committee Regarding the Maine Central
lobby" he stated as a fact, that yesterday
! IN the House during the session, a member
| If the Maine Central 'lobby" was sitting
upon the floor of this House and lobbying
,gainst this bill now under discussion.
MIR. +. concluded his remarks after touch
| ing upon the questions of flares" and the
| delays in the forwarding of grain from Dan
vile junction to Lewiston and Auburn.
Mr.. WEBB thought the first question that
should be asked is whether it is, right. First,
aas the State or some legislature preceding
us guaranteed the faith of the State to the
Maine Central Railroad Company against
| II : hat Ia rod
in the negative, then he was ready to vote for
the charter; but if a preceding legislature has
bound succeeding legislatures to keep good
faith with the Maine Central, and to the
thousands of persons who have put their
money into that corporation to build it, then
this legislature is bound, as honest men, to
protect those creditors and the Maine Central
Railroad, and preserve the rights which the
Legislature gave to that company. Did mem
bers suppose that the persons who built this
road from Danville to Waterville would have
put their money into it if they had sup
posed that parallel line would have been
chartered? These subscribers put their
money into that stock with the understanding
that the road should run there end not be in
tefered with so long as it performed its duties
to the public. There are men owning stock
in that road to- day in various sections of this
! State, and it is fact that the Maine Central is
not earning money enough to-day to pay its
interest and running expenses. The stock OF
this company is owned by the widows and or
phans. Every Savings Banks in the State has
its bonds; yet ii is proposed by this bill to take
$3.50, 900 out ofthe Treasury ofthat corpora
ton SO that these stock holders shall not geti
and put it into the hands of a corporation
owned and managed in London. 1t is not be-
tween the directors of the Maine Central and
tla Cknko I,,t - xn.t 10 Ia t., lp1r
this stock that we are to act.
He did not believe in granting parallel char
tiers unless they were granted at the same
time. And he stood up to-day to speak for
his constituents who hold stock in this road.
An old man now 50 years old, in his town,
had So 900 in that stock, and last year he
reached out his hand to grasp his dividend,
but the accident at Bangor brushed it out OF
sight and he must wait another year.
lie reviewed some of the improvements
that the Maine Central has made, and spoke
Of new cars, built at an expense OF $4,000
for the accommodation OF the public. He
thought it right the bill should be postponed
10 the next legislature and leave these parties
at the beginning of the next legislature just
where they stand to-day, and if the Maine
Central is not true to its faiths not true to
the interests of Lewiston and Auburn, he
would go for giving this charter.
Mr. PERKINS of Auburn replied briefly to
Mr.. Webb.
Adjourned.
PETITIONS, BILLS, &c, PRESENTED AND RE-
FERRED.
BY Mr.. PHnLIps-Petition of Nathan Nick
erson ct ais, for divieion of the town of Or.
rington; remonstrance of f. NJ. Fowler and
others against same. Referred to the next
| legislature.
By Mr. WILSON Of Thomaston-Bill an
act to amend chapter &C of the Revised Stat
utes; also bill to authorize George Starks and
Alvin Fogg to extend and maintain causway
in St. George.
| By Mr.. LEDRoKE-Bill an act to declare
the construction of chapter lS9 of the public
laws of 1870 relating to interests.