The Portland daily press., 1889-03-14
THE LEGISLATURE HAS GONE HOME.
FareWeiIs Said In the House and SEN
ate Yesterday.
A Very industrious Legislature as
:the Record Shows.
What 1t HAS Done and What Some
Other Legislatures Have Done.
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AUGUSTA, March 13-The two branche.
adjourned sine die this afternoon, after &
session OF 73 days, exactly the length of the
session OF two years ago. The closing exer
cises were more interesting than usual The
last two legislatures have adjourned very
late at night and the last words have beer
spoken hurriedly and at the heels of the un-
dignifed horse play of the mock session
But the House had its mock session last
night, and was ready this forenoon to ad.
1ourn decently and in order. In the House
this forenoon the usual resolutions of thanks
TO the Speaker were presented by Mr.
OBrien of Thomaston, and seconded by
Mr.. Chadbourne of Biddeford, Mr.. Taylor of
Unity, Mr.. Robie of Gorham, Mr.. Poor of
Sebago, Mr.. Wiswell of Ellsworth, Mr.. Tai
bot OF East Machias, Mr.. Stearns of Carl
bou, Mr.. Looney Of Portland, Mr.. Hovey of
Pittsfield, Mr.. Grindle of Mount Desert, Mr..
Pattengall of Pembroke, Mr.. Turner of
Somerville, Mr.. Burnham of Hollis, Mr.
Sprague of Dexter, Mr.. Purington of Minot,
Mr. Goodwin of Skowhegan, Mr.. Manley Of
Augusta and Mr.. Fogg of Portland Reso-
lutions thanking the clerk and assistant
Kent, and seconded by Mr. Tilton of Cape
Elizabeth. Mr.. Robie introduced a resolu-
tlon thanking the chaplain. All of these
resoluti ms were adopted by rising vote
10 the resolution thanking the Speaker, Mr..
Dow replied:
II can find no fitting words in which to ex-
press the thanks / would otherwise gladly
offer for the resolution which you have Just
adopted, and your kind and fiattering re-
marks in which its passage has been urged
w nm Ia " q ahh ond
But If have been able to realize to any de-
gree your just expectations as to presiding
officer, shall look back upon the hours
which have spent in this chair as among
the most satisfactory of my life, and for your
confidence which originally placed me here,
and your forbearance and continued courtesy
which has kept me here, believe me | am
most profoundly grateful. A few weeks
since, weeks which as We look back upon
them seem almost to have shortened into
days, we met in this hall, most of us for the
first time as strangers. Today we are to
part as friends.
"It is not within the range of human prob
ability that we shall ever all meet again, but
believe me that whether my days shall be
few or many, there will rise up before me
from time to time. your faces as have seen
them here, while In my memory l shall hear
again your voices Familiarity recalling to nv
mind these scenes in which have experience
ed from you all invariable courtesy and kind
ness have ouce more to say thank you.
must express the earnest desiIes that
spring from my heart, that fortune will at
tend each and all of you. and bid you all
Godspeed."
The benedlction was pronounced by the
venerable Father Randall at the close OF the
speeches.
The farewell exercises did not take place
in the Senate until afternoon, and were
somewhat interfered with by the absence of
many Senators who had already taken the
train for home. The resolution Of thanks to
the President was presented by Mr.. Libby
with few appropriate remarks, and was
seconded by Senator'S Haines, Heath and
Walton. President Lord replied in brief
and appropriate speech, and the Senate was
then ready to join the House in the act of
final adjournment. which came at 4 p. m.
With the proceedings SO fresh in the pab-
lie mind, 1t may not be necessary to comment
upon or review the acts of this legislature.
The people of Maine know the things that it
mas done and the things that 1t has not done.
1t has certainly been very industrious leg
Hon. S. j. Chadbourne, Deputy Secretary of
State, shows in his Office at the Capitol a
huge roll of laws made this session, which is
larger in bulk than the bundle of the laws of
any other legislature of which he remem-
bers in his long experience as puhlic officer.
IL the wisdom of laws were measured Dy
their bulk this legislature had been a very
wise assemblage. But the number and bulk
dustry If not of the wisdom of legislatures;
and by this test the late assemblage may
fairly claim the fame of industry 1t has
passed 165 acts of public nature, 269 of a
private or special nature, and 125 resolves.
1t is interesting to go back nearly twenty
years and compare the work of this legisla-
ture, in respect of the number OF its acts
and resolves with its predecessors.
Mr.. Abel ID. Russell, of the Secre-
table: