Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-03-15

should not be labeled psuperised but ra,he
/, sleeping BY the generosity of people 70
whom he died" IL called for but a small
/ appropriation two years ago. This year GU
appropriation for that is is necessarily in
creased 5000. Would Cumberland repes
that laws
! Mr.. President, $ commission of honorable
[ gentlemen came before this legislature snt
said that there wac upon the heights OF Fem
sylysniS memorable field where - year,
ago rebellion rolled up against the sol,d
masses of the North aud VAS broken and
| rolled back that there the perpetuity OF the
Union WAS settled forever; that there they
we're erecting monuments to the brave and
gallant sons of Maine that sleep beneath
those hills that their funds were insult
clent. We opened our hearts to them and
said Take $4,000 of our funds 20 GU,
there and erect monuments that shall be q
credit TO the people of the State of Maine
and a mere pittance towards the debt Ne owe
them" Would Cumberland strike tha,
from the increase of appropriations
The city of Bangor came before the
Committee on Financial Affairs and said
You, for wears back, under a construction
of the railroad tax law, have been giving TO
the city of Portland its tax upon the Port
land, Ssc> and Portsmouth railroad, a
leased road orcrsted by another You have
been applying to US different rule of law
and although Ne own stock IN the European
North American railway. is it not right to
treat us ss you have treated even the great
and powerful city of rortland." We gave
them their back taxes to the amount in
round numbers of $50 600 VIII Cumber-
land argue that one rule is to be applied To
nj -,
that justice:
by a unanimous vote We increased the
appropriation for the militia IS 0O0 Was
IL wrong! Let the memory of their LOYALTY
during the dark hours of the count out an-
sWer. W. gave an increase of 81 600 To the
children gathered beneath the walls of the
henehcent Institution at Bath that We have
opened to the orphan children of the old
soldiers of Maine. Was the voice of Cum
berland raised against that: when the
trustees of the reform school came here and
asked us TO give them an appropriation of
$1,000 that they might star, project that
must submit do not believe in the schemc
of attempting To discipline those bows
through the cottage system, and the building
of n cottage at an expense OF Slu,ouu, was
Cumberland arrayri in opposition 10 itY
or were they silent because the none, was
TO ilov INTO the limits of the county of
Cumberland And again, when, without
reference 10 committee with that conf
dencc that We had in my distinguished friend
from Cumberland Mr Poor. he offered
resolve under a suspension of the rules and
asked US to appropriate $1,000 10 buy II new
farm for the reform school, we passed il,
did my friends from Cumberland object? |
did not hear their voices raised IN the inter
est of economy and the taxpayers at that
time. We are obliged by the Constitution to
assess this wear "A new State valuation that
will cost $1,000 To save that Sla. 900 and
meet the necessities of Portland must We
twist and bcnd the organic charter of the
state and refuse TO make the State yalua-
tonf Would they repeal thatY Now | do
strike in this long list one
appropriation, and it is the
only one in the list. that Cumberland opposed
the appropriation OF s26 900 To build new
hospital at Bangor. We fiud the Institution
across the river outgrowing its limits. The
people at Bangor said that there was the
proper place, in the eastern part of the State,
10 establish a new institution. One thousand
insane IN the State are not accommodated
Five hundred accommodated with no posi-
bilIty of accommodating more at Augusta.
taken policy to say T. tloe minds diseased,
IN the eastern part of the State We will begin
now so far as our means will permit, and
there build up retreats in which, if cure can
not come, at least relief may be had for tor
tured minds. Was that wrong II was the
deliberate judgment Of both branches of the
legislature, AMI | believe in both Houses
without a division, that We should enlarge the
Ia.
building of two new pavilion- at an expense
of 500 900. ! believe Cumberland voted
for it, Every member of this Senate knows
that $50 900 Of that is but re-apprOpriatiou
of a sum voted two years ago and because
the trustees of that institution are careful.
accurate and business like IN the manage
men, of the institution that former appTo-
priation lapsed into the treasury they now
ask for its re appropriation, because it was
impossible to erect the building within the
amount of the old appropriation This new
appropriation passed both brauche. by n un-
anmous vote. Is it possible, Mr. President.
that 1872 men sitting here are e1trayagant
upon every vote that they have passedf
And the poor French people living down
upon the waters of the St John who have
been denied Of justice for a. years For
~ years the STATE of Maine has refused IN
its proper charitable and liberal sense to
observe properly the Third Article of the
Treaty of Washington. which commands us
to deal with those settlers carefully in their
primitive state Of life with but little ciyilza-
ton in common with ours strange and a
wondrous people, almost isolated IN those
settlements On the far-away branchr. of the
st. John. When they came here saying
IDEAL with u. even as by SOLEMN treaty with
the mother country you agreed q wears ago
when the hand and pcn OF Daniel Webster
wrote upon the parchment that you woull
deal with Us, according to the most liberal
principles of equity, they presented ca.e
TO this Senate 80 strong that the entire Senate
even including my learned friend from Cum
berland, voted that justice required the pay
mcnt of the debt Was it e1travaganee IN
deal justly with lhst poor ami humble people
that for g. years have been deprived Of their
treaty rights. aad appropriate $50 900, the
bulk of which will come back to the treas
uryf
The State College. the child Of the State,
for which We are but trustees of the tinItrd
States, told US that they needed $50 600 10
do properly their work in the great cdBca
tional problems Of the hour. This Senate
voted for 1t. My friend voted for it. Wa.
that ertravagancef
And We have pending thi. matter That
completes the list Of the cKrayagances Of
this legislature, and all but one have the
enforcement Of my friends from tumber-
land And yet, when after due consilcra-
tion and careful discussion each Of these
resolves ha. been passed upon il. merits NOV
during the closing hours of the session when
the dial in this matter Of the location of the
State House has whirled round. there - in
the history Of this legislature a most remark
able change Of front. Economy has moved
westward and pitched it- tent upon Bramhall
Hi; where three weeks ago the scrried
forces Of eItravagance were ma-sed in mar
tal front
Now, Mr.. President, there ls one part of
my friends argument that have listened TO
with great deal Of interest We did pass
month ago a refun1iug bill. We attempted
under it to refund the State debt was not
satisfied with the bill a, the time, and all
lawyers are apt to he exceedingly technic al
at times. You must have noticed th0t this
morning. While on its passage raised
some legal objections to the bill. The com
mittee brushed me away and said was not
Of that committee and they could take care
Of their own bills. I very humbly "a, down
and the bill vent through When they came
to advertise the bonds sharp and shrcwd
bankers who read carefully every line of
such bills, came here TO bid. (rany Of them
are here to-day and in this chamber Il fore
coming they consulted eminent counsel in
other states who sustained my legal obiec-