Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-02-28

House documents 2t2 and 2I3. the majority
md minority reports of the Judiciary Com
mifiee relating 70 woman suf'sfs. vere tax
IN from the table assigned o Tbursisy FEB.
~. lmm sdistely After the close o. the morn
ing Business.
Correction-Ar. B1risizh Of yassalborn
san ~ ported in his sp<sch Of Tuesday a.
| 90, ing ths, for thirty-tv0 years the prese ut
Secretary Of the Board Of Agriculture hal
! held ofhes. This 10 ooyiousls misfzk~-
What Nr. Bu,l4ixh did say was thar III
D,s3es Of secretary of the Board Of Agricui-
sgfs bad be- 10 existence for thiriy-tso
Years. and the then. not present. incumbent
hid rsysr been defeated In election for
efare.
On mo Ion o. Mr.. Tslbo, Of East Msehiz'
House document No. POS, an act TO provide
fsr the employ meni Of persons convicted Of
being usmps was taken from the table
The pending question vas upon amend
nefst "A, :" offered by Mr. kbasl Of Baf sor,
20 Monday. FEB. %. sThs eject Of the
.n,enameft IS TO abolish the solitary cOnfne-
arnt and bread add water provisions of the
bill
Mr Burisigh Of yasssiboro thought tha-
thi, amendment would destroy the potency
~ the law He called for 4 yea and nay
vote.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The question was then upon the adoption
u amendment "a"
Yss-Ad.ms Of limerick. Alden. Barker, sith
r. dsaalsyaras Chaplain tlutis-. e. Ok, Cote
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tari rsds. Gu lis Of Persias. Dane, ponforih
Jinfiey be tdg comb. insrr-on. ti"ld. tt kT
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~ I'D II Of Hail1weil, B-Hl-s, fiasklns, I'''sd
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Warren Of beer lie. " ed, Nsntsorih, " h..irr
bio es IT Portland, wLbar. A1ter. wing
Aisd.uin-g 20.
AD.ent-Aehorn, Chairman, Clark Of Sanger
,er,,u-,p. HarriHg ton. Behbers. Hin key MaiIei'
ys9a u M,,uIt.,u u PaT-Un.h"it, Nash. faln er
farisr. rsass Fr, dietoB, fusington, epofford
ib"na-, lufnsf, lJlFf~Sp
Mr.. Talbot of East Maehis-, moved that
he bill be- iude Snite,y postponed. lie
wish d To know il the definition of The tramp
sas TO be Que Who goes from one house 10
mother in any town asking for food or shell
ter /. punishment To Dc imposed upon that
Unfortunate individual far beyond shat all
hose who are opposed TO capital punishment
conHidered more severe than hanging itself 7
tie ealled for the yeas and nays
Mr. rbalbonrre of Biddeford, said that II
had been hi, misfortune to have some thing
10 DO with the 80 called tramp In the po
ee s-aiion of which he had charge they had
gwen ging To something over four hun
red during the la.t year. They came from
al larts Of the globe, telling all sorts of
.forie. TO excite pity But nth all the ex
erirnce he had hal he wouldn't vote for
lis bill Any more than he would cut OF his
right hand.
ar , hadboarne related an incident of an
unfortunate indi ydual sho had asked for a
chance 10 rest At the pllice station. This
man had wife and family to support, hut
had been thrown out of employment and had
been unable To T. any work SINCE. HIS lit
tie store vas rapidly deserving him He
4 dn't lock that man up; he lodged him H.
his own house. I his was but one of many
| u stances of that nature.
| Every inst utiou in America is diame,ri-
eaily opposed tn such n law. We have NJ
rotf of Russia ia tins country. We may b,
humbugged in some Instances by the pa
h,tic tales of people y no would not work II
thry could but We should consider that il
many eases people who are wiling TO work
srr driven by sheer misfortune ~ ask char
! at our hands. We have ample faci IL
tUr taking care of vicious iranTs and Off
GERS are always ready to protect the people
| from the assaults of ANY criminal class. We
had better be hunbugg,d a little than d,
he great wrong ~hich would follow upon
the enforcement vi this act.
| MIR. Wakefield of Bath spoke of the ser
vices our soldiers had rendered to theu
country. lie cited an Instance in his owl
/ tiN OF an old soldier who was sick AID nn
able TO work snd was obliged TO 20 from
house to house To seek su'Ienance for HIM
.elt and his starving family They wer,
asked by this act to send that man % tn,
lul, and IT. On account of sickness he III pult
be unable to work, that he should be placed
in solitary outinemeut and fed on bread and
sater Could anything be more inhumai
han thati
| MAJ of the tramp tribe are bad, viciou,
men and should be punished, but a
least small proportion of them arr
driven by sheer necessity to ash
/ FOR something to eat
| II : SAID that mans inhumanity to mar
makes countless millions mourn. Would
they carry out that ssyingr Would the!
pass an act in ons 8 cnt With the humanity
aud he chri. lsnity of the age in winch they
ltvedS lie would goas far as any other
gentlemen in the punishment of the tramp
but when they took everybody that wa;
obliged 10 beg for mouthfui of victual'
AID called HIM a tramp. he hoped the House
would either indefinitely postpo the bill Of
t.uummlt 1t to the Committee with instruc
tons Applause.
| Mr. Sprague of Dexter, thought that il
the discussion of these matters it was bes
TO be consistent. For more than nine years
he sad. there had been Law upon oui
statute hook substantially the same as tn,
ne under discu, sion which would imprisor
he tramp in State Prison for fifteen mon hs
| This bill would compel MN to live on bread
aud water only A. means of enforcing The
prison discipline. THIS measure was intend
ed to iutorte obedience. and teach the tramI
to respect commands simply until he com
| pli,d sith the requirements of the prison
| One could not take up paper at the pres
eat day without finding some fearful crime
recorded. assaults by ttanps on farmers Ol
srmers fsmilt S. No Law could be enacted he
- \. tao stringent to rid the country Of
this pest.
- wakefield asked the gentleman from
u, xt,t If he had ever known of a case wher,
a person was convicted under this law
Mr.. Sprague said that he Mad not, because
It vas too severe, aud he had in hrs posses
son letter from the County Commissioner
asking that change be made 30 that tramp
may be imp-i, oned in the county Jail instes'
of the state prison. So the proposed Law
,essenrd rather than increased the penalty.
Mr. Loouey of Portland sad that he Wa,
smsxe,l that any committee of the Nain'
legislature should recommend the passage o
a bill with such pro.isiursas were cOntalntt
IN this He had read of the thumb screw,
aad the rack, and the dungeons OF the span
I.h irquisition. the penai cu,le of ireland sn'
russia, and the provisions of the laws of th'
| Southern States under which convicts wer'
Obliged to work in chain ga .,but some pro
visions OF this bill nouli put to blu h thu
provisions of those penal codes. 1t wOuh
| be disgrace 10 the community 10 enact sucl
| Law Il would be against the manh, oil aus
the christianity of this luminous nineteetl
cenfury-impoltic. immoral, unchnstisn
| He believed that the legislature of thus Stat
would enter their solemn. indignant protes
against the hill And yotp for its indie init,