Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-03-03

At q wild bird. 1t had q brutau3lnf
effect upon the participants and upor
the spectators. 1t incites young boyi
to entrap the pigeons. which hy about the
streets, and dispose of them to the sn-called
sportsmen. Mr. Weeks said that he vas
motion to indefinitely postpone would not
prevail.
Mr.. Stubbs of Franklin thought the objec-
tions raised by the Senator from Kennebec
Mr.. Heath were answered by the last three
lines of the sec. 2. On the whole. in reading
the bill hurriedlv. he was heartily in favor Of
it, and thought it was very we'll drawn.
Mr.. Lebroke of Piscataquis said that the
bill had been carefully drawn by such law
yers as Hon. VIM. L. Putnam of Portland.
and had received the critical attention of the
judiciary Committee. Most of the bill was
simply a re-enactmeRt of the legislation of
1875, with such changes as we're necessary to
give the bill the required effect. 1t would
be passing strange if when most of the New
England States and even New York, which
contains that sink of ioiquity-that great
emporium of wickedness and trafic-New
York city, when these States have
placed such a law on their statute books.
that Maine should permit her soil to be desc
Grated by this crael sport. When the State of
ence with the discussions Of great moral and
constitutional questions, when she has in
corporated in her fundamental law a perpet-
ual inhibition upon the manufacture and sale
of all intoxicants within her borders. when
the marriage relation is being made more sa-
cred and secure, and other great moral and
social questions are receiving the serious at
tention which their importance demands.-is
it possible that the grave Senate will give its
sanction to any such barbarous and demoral-
izing sport as pigeon shooting? The bill is
carefully drawn; it has been revised and
trimmed, and it should become a law. There
is not a syllable in it but what am willing to
stand by. l am not ashamed to own myself
wounded and hurt by the cruelty which sec,
of the bill would sweep out of the State of
Maine. As the poet Cowper says.
al would not enter on my list of friends
Though grsced with polished maaner- and fine
Yet wanting sensbility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon worm"
The cruelty of these pigeon shooting matches
not only Injuries the poor, dumb bird, but has
a reflex and terrible influence upon the par
ticipants and spectators. 1t is especially de-
moralizing and corrupting to the boys who
are attracted by the crack of the shot gun to
the scene. 1t is a matter Of importance to
passing down the declivity of life, and when
am done with its cares and perplexities let
this be my epitaph: "He stood against cruel
ty; be stood for humanity: not alone in the
humble walks in his own neighborhoOd. but
in the Senate of Maine
Mr. Marble of Lincoln then Withdrew his
motion to Indefinitely postpone.
MIR. Heath of Kennebec moved to amend in
the 10th line of sec. 2 by substituting the
word ''act' for section, Carried.
There being no opposition the bill was then
passed to be engrossed without yea and nay
vote.
House document No "a, resolve sppro-
priating $500 to build bridge over the Wy
topitl ock stream in the county of AroostoOk,
was taken from the table, on motion of MIR.
Wentworth of Penobseot. (The bill was
tabled with an amendment Offered by Mr.
Marble of Lincoln, reducing the sum appro-
priated to $400.)
The resolve was discussed by Messrs.
Wentworth of Penobscot, Marble of Lincoln,
Wilson of Penobscot and Rust of Waldo.
Mr. Marble of Lincoln withdrew his amend
ment, and moved the indefinite postpoLement
of the resolve.
On motion of Mr.. Coffin of Washington,
the vote to indefinitely postpone was taken by
yeas and nays. resulting in the affirmative as
follows:
YEA.-Messrs. Bragdon. Coffin. Peath. Hume,
Kimball, Lordi Marble, Maxwell. Pennell, Roak,
Rust, Taber, Weeks.-l3
NAY.-Messrs Clark, COnnor. Lebroke, Parkhurst.
Smith, Stubbs. Wentworth. Weymouth. Wilson's.
House document No. II, resolve appropri-
ating $500 in aid of repairing the bridge
across the Mattaw amkeag river in the town
of Mattaw amkeag, was taken from the table,
on motion of Mr.. Wentworth of Penobscot,
and amended.
On motion of Mr.. Marble of Lincoln, the
resolve was indefinitely postponed.
Senate document No. "a, resolve to appor-
ton the State for senators to the legislature,
was taken from the table. on motion of Mr..
Heath OF Kennebec, and given its first read
ing.
On motion of Mr.. Rust of Waldo,
Adjourned.