Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-25

State and which believe. when the expls-
nations are made, no member of this Housv
~ll oppose. II il would be in order, Mr.
Speaker, move that the bill De taken up,
! item by item. Any explsnaiior, If any is
desired, the committee Will be very glad to
furnish 10 the House.
!. The Speaker then read the several heD.
as requested. In explanation of the item
| Trustees Insane Hospital. deficiency, 81.
zoo Mr.. Msnley said The law of the
State vests the management of the Insane
Asylum in . board Of six trustees, who have
the sole management of that institution.
The Law fixes their pay At two dollars per
dAy and travelling expenses The annual
appropriation has been Sl20o, and it has been
found 10 be adequate. During the past year
an epidemic has broken out at the Insane
Hospi al. and the trustees of that Institution
believed il was their duty 10 be in attendance,
that is. those members of the board ~ho are
physicians. This item of $1,000 is TO pay the
two dollars Per diem and the travelling ex-
penses for the attendance of the trustees over
aud above the sum which was appropriated
The law vesting the sole management of the
institution in the hands of the trustees, OF
course il is al their discretion TO say how
much Of their time il is necessary for them
to be in attendance to properly transact the
business of the institution. They felt thai
while this epidemic was raging that they
would be dershct in their duty if they did
not use every means in their power TO crush
it. and this deficiency WAS increased, ac-
cordingly, in this way.
In reference 10 the item Advertising
laws. deficiency, $500" Mr.. Manley said
Mr. Speaker, the la~ authorizes and com
pels the Secretary of State to have the laws
passed each session distributed through the
several newspapers of the State, one copy TO
| each subscriber. The committee in making
the appropriation two years ago was gov
erned by the appropriations which
had been made two years prior,
and supposed that $1,000 WAS sufficient
/ TO cover it. of course it was impossible
to tell just the sum that would be needed be
cause the committee were unable 10 state
whether any new newspapers had been estab-
lished or whether the circulation of the old
papers had been increased. This deficiency
occurs because the newspaper circulation
was much larger than il was two years be
| fore.
Mr.. Talbot of East Mschias, said that he
understood that there had been
no appropriation for work in
1857, to which MIR, Msnley replied that he
had been informed bs the State Treasurer
that these were the usual appropriations for
the distribution of the laws, and if there was
not an appropriation that year 1t must have
been through neglect, because the laws had
been distributed for years IN accordance with
the requirements of the statutes.
| The Sea and Shore Fisheries deficiency,
Ss25," called forth the following explana-
ton from Mr.. Manley This and the two
| following items occurred in this way BY
one of the laws of the State all appropria-
tions which are not expended by the first day
| of January lapse back into the treasury.
Two years ago the appropriation for the sea
and shore fisheries was g. BOO On the first
day of January Mr.. Counce, the Commis
sioner, had not gIt his bills before the Gov
ernor aud Council for the last quarter and
ss25 lapsed back into the treasu y. Those
| oils were due and If they had been presented
the day before warrant would have been
drawn for them. After they lapse into the
treasury the bills cannot be paid until the
money is re-appropriated. That is the fact
in the next item and in the following item
Inspectors of Steamboats, deficiency
Mr. Speaker his item, Printing de-
fciency and the item following, the Bind
| ing and stitching deficiency, constitute the
greatest utuCltHtN. lNb YEARS ago itRls-
| lature made contract with Messrs Sprague
4 Son to do the public printing upon stated
terms. They were to have much for
the work performed After that contract the
legislature Gated the Bureau Of Labor and
ordered a large amount of printing to be
done to establish that bureau. They also
ordered the printing of large number of
the reports of the Labor Commissioner for
| distribution and they ordered in addition to
that large number of the reports of the
| Cattle Commissioners on the case of tubercu-
| losis hich was agitating the people of the
State at that time The expense of this
| printing, together with the increased size of
the report of the Secretary of the Board of
| Agriculture make up this deficiency. OF
course the committee, when they fixed the
! sum two years ago, were unable TO state
what amount was required, as they had no
| information placed before them which
would give them any means of arriving at a
sum that was necessary TO pay for the print
ing and binding and they placed in the appro-
| priaton bill the amount that was in two years
before. These bills have all been incurred
under the authority of law by the instruction
of the law-makng power of the State, and
they have been incurred under the contract
with the State. In addition to that all these
bills were audited by Governor Marble and
| his council. and audited for the Governor
and Council by Mr.. Stephen Berry of Port
| land, whom many mem Jers of this House
know; practical printer and gentleman
against whose integrity no question was
| ever raised These bills are now due and
| due under the co tract, and they occurred in
the way in which have stated.
Mr. Manley explained the State insane benef-
| Charles de efficiency, $4,000, as 70 lows The
| law requires the officers of the Insane sylum
toreceive into that institution any patient
who comes there with the proper legal certi-
1cates-The Law also makes the State pay
80 md per week for every patient in the
hospital Two years ago, in appropriasng
the sum that the committee thought necessa-
ry, they appropriated s4s 900. Much to the
| surprise of everyone the number of insane
patients who have been admitted during the
past two years was beyond the expectation of
the officers of that institution. aud this de T.
cheney occurred by reason of the increase of
patients, and has been due to the institution
for some time by the State. The same rea-
son applies to the next item, the support of
paupers 1t is in excess of the sum appro-
priated, the bill for their support having been
that much larger than the sum that was ap
propristed by the legislature. Now, Mr..
Speaker, the next item, the Maine Industrial
School for girls, is rather singular case.
The committee has placed it in the report
as deficiency We hardly knoF whether
to call it deficiency or an error. Two years
ago the Maine Industrial School came before
the legislature and asked for an appropria-
ton of S. 900 year. Ths resolve passed
this House giving them 81 900 year, it
passed the Senate, and amended by
striking out seven" and inserting Ave" II
came back to the House, the House insisted
and appointed committee of conference. II
went back to the Senate. the Senate receded
and coneurred with the House in passing the
resolve as originally reported, giving the
school 81 600 year, The papers were sent
to the printer TO be engrossed, and the Sec
retary of the Senate in sending the papers
noted upon them in lead pencil to have the
engrossed bill printed from the printed copy
which contained the amendment az it wa.
passed in the Senate. The bill as en-
crossed came back to the legislature en-.
crossed at So 900 instead of 81 600
aud it passed beth branches of the legisla.
ture at 5 instead of :, no one detecting the
error which was not detected until after the
the adjournment of the Legislature / have
the original papers that were taken from tht
files in the office Of the Secretary of State
: l. Mr.. Talbot said that this matter was of a.
! much Importance as any that would com.
before them during the session. a. il was