Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-02

placed giving voters information as TO VIA
tho bill meant. While there was uniouhtedl,
some corruption in cities, he believed ther'
was some degree of honesty there as we'll =
in the towns and he could not see why the
cities should be singled out and the bill mad,
\ applicable 10 them only. Il hsS
been said that the system which has not beer
adopted in this country has been used ii
7 England and Australia. Are we to admit
that We haven't As rasch intelligence as tho
people of australia Is not our form OF
laws ST least equal TO theirs! But he had
been informed that il had not worked well
where il had been tried and that bribery still
exists. There was no doubt that money lhsd
been used in our elections for speakers and
other legitimate purposes, but not so indis,
criminstely and corruptly as asserted BY the
senator from kennebee. Generally after a
heated contest, and one party or the other
has been beaten, there is naturally cry OF
fraud in the use of money but in nine eases
out of ten the cry is false and comes only
| from some disoderrd brain. As to the IL al.
ers of the republican party, he submitted if
they hadn't been those Of whom the State
and party have been proud to
look to AS their leaders. II there
corruption in the party asserted by the SEN
ator, then let that gentleman be the Moses,
II he will, that will dare lead the party away
from II and see it he eau bring about the re
form that he would have instituted, We are
not TO believe all the cries that are raised
after a heated campaign We are going
TO ruin and that the grand old ship of State
is TO be sunk. No.
I'VE should not fear each sudden sound and shock
kor its OF the wave and not the rock
lrs but the uappiug Of sah
And there Is NO rent made by the gale"
He saw no necessity for the bill, and II
there WAS need of something to suppress the
evils alleged in cities, then in his Judgment
the bill was inadequate for that purpose. lie
believed that if the party was corrupt 1t could
further legislation.
Mr.. Ryder of Penobscot, opposed the mo-
ton to recommit and advocated the majority
report He said tho committee reported
against the bill because at the hearing ii did
not appear that necessity exists for it. Ii
seemed to him that the passage Of such
measure would be an admission that the
magnitcerent republican majority of 10000
last fall was won by bribery and corruption.
The gentleman from kennebec has said
that the Bangor Wing, as might be expected,
was opposed to the bill. lie would tell tina,
Senator that the Bangor Wing is owned and
edited by as true and honorable a gentleman
as ever buckled on sword and went GU, 10
light the foes of the country man who by
his consummate ability has worked himself
from sslaried position on the editorial stan
to the floor of Congress, and he stands their
today without a peer lie would also say 10
the Senator from kenncbec that in 1879
when the Chief Magistrate of the State
surrounded by his bordes seeking for place,
attempted to steal the government OF the
State and overturn the will sf
the people, it was Charles A. Boutelle
and the Bangor Whig and Courier that
sounded the alarm, and II was Charles A
Boutelle, backed by that ring" which the
senator designated here today as set of
"brigsnds, that stood MS firm as rock be
tween the people and that corrupt horde as
they attempted TO override and overturn the
the will of the people.
Mr. Collins of Aroostook replied to the
senator from kennebec (Mr. Heath and de-
Tended the republican party.
Mr. Heath replied briefly.
On motion of Mr.. Heath a yea and nay
vote was ordered and taken, resulting in the
negative as follows;
YEA Mcs.r.. Burrill, Daggctt Free man Iialnes
Heath, Holbfook. Kendall, Merrill, Poor, sargent
NfY.-Mc..rs. Austin. Burgess. CLARK. Collins.
Frost, Harding, nm, Hunt Nash. Ryder. Walker
So the motion to recommit with instruc-
tions was lost.
The majority report was then accepted IN
concurrence with the House.
SPECIALLY ASSIGNED.
land, the bill to provide for free text books,
was taken from the table and assigned for
Tuesday next at II o'clock.
RIcoMMITrlp.
ON motion of Mr.. Rdyer of Penobscot
bill an act to amend sec. 2s of chap. 81 OF
the Il. s., relating to Endorsement of wrts
and other processes, was taken from the Ia
BILE and recommitted to the Committee on
Legal Affairs.
TAKEN FROM THn TABLE.
Bill an act to provide for the employment
of persons convicted of being tramps, was
taken from the table on motion of Mr.
Heath. House amendment "B" was ai
opted and the bill again laid on the table on
motion of Mr.. Wright.
PASSED TO BE ENGRossrp USpnR Susrrs-
Bill an act to amend section q of chapter
376 of the Privs and Special Laws of 1887,
relating to the Bryants Pond and Andover
Telegraph Co.
Bill an act TO amend section 27, chapter
n, of the revised Statutes, relating To proof
Of notice of sale, under licenses of probate
court.
Bill an act to hold the June and November
terms of the superior court of Kennebec
county in the city of Waervlle.
PASSED TO Re ESACTED.
Bill an act to amend section Is. chapter
li2 of the revised statutes relating to the ap-
pointment OF council committee Of the re
form school
Bill an act to FIX the salary of the Adju-
tant General.
Bill an act to incorporate the city of West
brook.
Bill an act to legalize the doings Of the
Baptist Religious Society OF North Var
mouth.
Bill an act to amend chapter l02 of the
Public Laws of 1887 entitled an act to amend
chapter lii Of the Revised Statutes relating
to State pensions.
Bill an act additional to an act to extend
wharf at Winterport.
On motion of Mr.. Daggett,