The Portland daily press., 1891-03-12
THE OPPONENTS GATHERED STRENGTH
And the House Refused the Majority
Report.
Report Of the Valuation Commits.
sion Comes at Last.
Charter VIII Not Be Granted the
Westbrook Railroad.
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Westbrook Railroad.
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AUGUSTA, March 1l.-By vote Of IA to II
this morning, the House OF Representatives
refused to accept the majority report Of the
| judiciary committee In favor Of the Clason
| Australian ballot bill. Immediately after
the result of the vote was announced, Mr..
| Stearns of Caribou moved that the bill be
indefinitely postponed. The Speaker was
unable to decide whether the vigorous shout
| of "Yes," or the lusty cry Of mo" repre-
sented the larger part Of those present. Mr..
| Stearns said that he had supposed there
would be no contest over this motion, and IL
there was to be one he would withdraw his
| motion.
Mr.. Smith of Turner then moved to ad.
journ. and the session Of the day ended with
both the majority and minority reports Of
the committee rejected. but with the matter
of the indefinite postponement Of the bill
still unsettled. The vote In favor of the
bill-71-was today the same in numbers as
it was on last Friday, but three members
ed against the bill. today. They
were Messrs. Lamb Of Westbrook. Morse
Of Rumford, and Marston Of SkOw-
hogan. On the other hand. Mr. Little-
field Of Penobscot, who voted against the
Friday. today voted against the majority re-
port and the bill. This is the only case
where member changed his vote. Mr..
b;s, bh;es,yeSe, who voted with 1.-THE the friends Of the
friends Of the bill also lost the vote of Mr..
Chadbourne OF Biddeford. who was paired
with Mr.. Roberts. Mr.. Roberts did not vote
at the last trial. but he was not then paired.
lost three, leaving the vote at II. In the
matter of the pair of Messrs. Chadbourne
and Roberts, 1t will be remembered that the
latter gentleman Is suffering from broken
brought into the House, and SO pair was
arranged between him and Mr.. Chadbourne,
who was called away by the death Of rela-
tive.
last Friday to IA today BY the presence of
Messrs. Erwin, Gray and Greeley, who were
absent last week and Mr.. Littlefeld's vote.
This would have made their vote 20, but Mr..
Crocker, who was among the opponents of
the vote "a. The vote of last week was con-
sidered a very large, but that Of today ex-
ceeded 1t. there being total Of 145, out Of
membership Of $50. there now being one va
cancy In the House, caused by the death of
Mr.. Trafton. OF the five absentees, two
were paired. Mr.. Dickey Of Fort Fairfield.
one Of the remaining three, Is understood to
have purposely avoided voting on the mea-
vogue voted in favor Of the bill last Friday
and Mr. Crocker against 1t. This Is the vote:
YEAs.-Messrs. Allen Of Denmark, Archibald,
Aver, Bucknam, Burgess, Callahan, Clark, Clason,
iston Eastman, Fuller Of Halloweil, Cannon,
Gentleman. Clifford, Gidden Of Newcastle Gid
den De- Of vinalhayen, Graves. Guptill. Gushee; Ham
cock, Hunt, Jones Of Brighton, Keegan, Kendall,
Lamb, Leighton Of Trescott, Libby Of Bingham,
Merrill of Eddngton, Miller. Moore, Monroe,
Morse Mullen, Nelson, Newell, Nickerson, No.
Pls Pam%sT 0rcutt osgOSd Parker Payyson, Peney.
Shaw of Portland, Stone, Thayer Tilton, Tit.
comb. Trussell, Vaughan, Waterhouse, Webb,
Bird, Brackett. Bradford, Brainard, Brown,
Coolidge, Cummings. % bearing Of WATERFORD,
fremont Sil%oTe, Gould, Gray Greeley, AaT-
johnson, Jones of BroOksyiiIe, Ksierf, Kane,
bsSSS bbsSsS ks%s Measer LesefGn Serp Ct Ct
st. Albans, Mitchell, Mooers, Nash, Newcomb,
Newton. Packard Of oorinna, Packard Of Sears
Fort, Patterson, Peaks, Porter, Rand, Kicker,
Rideout, Ridlon, Rollins, Russell, Sargent, skol-
nsld, Smith OF ~ Turner, Snow, stesrns, TAFT Tot
ABsENr.-Messrs Chadbourne, Crocker, Dickey
OF Fort Kent Leveque, Roberts,.
1t is generally understood that an attempt
Will be made to amend the bill in the Senate
and send 1t to the House restricted to the
cities.
some Of the Debate.
Atafew minutes before II O'Clock. the
speaker announcing ''orders of the day."
Mr.. Clason of Gardiner. moved to take from
the table the reports of the committee on the
Australian ballot bill. The House so voted.
Mr. Clason then moved to accept the major
ity report. He said he would not discuss the
merits Of the bill at this time. This motion
was simply to bring bill before the House.
1t does not commit any man to vote for the
passage Of the bill. but bringing 1t before the
House 1t is subject to amendment In any way
to suit those who are not satisfied with the
bill. ask you gentlemen to put this bill be-
fore the House for consideration.
Mr.. Peaks said 1t was not his intention to
make speech. He hoped and trusted that
every one who wanted to see this matter set
tied now would vote not to accept this report
and end 1t here for this session.
Mr.. Porter OF Bangor said at one time he
intended to vote to let In the majority report
but le ne had changed his mind. for since this
been great and glaring attempt at intimida-
ton. The Argus, Advertiser AID PRESS OF
Portland have tried a system Of bulld0Zng
on every member Of this House. Let every
one OF independence stand up and show his
independence and let this bill be ended
where 1t is.
Mr.. Keegan Of Van Buren, said he voiced
the sentiments and he believed that Il 9
large majority Of the state when he said they
were N favor OF the ballot bill. He believed
there was an Imperative need of such bill
and that the sooner 1t was adopted the better
| 1t would be for all concerned.
MI. Snow OF Brewer, said he had received
letter from brewer saying that unless ne
voted for the ballot bill they would send
someone else to represent them at the legis..
| iature. Stiil he thought the citizens Of
Brewer and Bangor were opposed to the bill.
He was opposed to the bill
Mr.. Noble OF Lewiston, said be was sorry
marks were of partisan nature. This Is a
motion to accept the majority report OF the
committee. In the interest, OF farmers ana
by parliamentary usuage 1t should pc &c.
should be accepted. You have refused to
accept the minority report; you snouio now
accept the majority so as to place one OF
these reports before this House.
MT. Glidden of Newcastie, saia ne knew
nothing about the bill except by hearsay but
as we GOT a large portion of our knowledge
by hearsay we could afford to accept
what was heard about TINS Dill MT; Gid,
made good Arguments In its interest He
said that the enemies Of the bill had tried to
throw discredit upon the petitioners p,Ss for this
bill because they Sa were ,.SdTnng iSaDSTing men II
filled some of the most honorable positions
in this country, and will continue to do so.
fApplanseI He was Republican. and had
never thrown split siSs ticket ct. in no,h his ie
a strsieht ticket il anyone came to him for
one Let the bill pass. o
Mr.. Trusseil Of st. George, in a brief
speech. said that the people Of his section
demanded the A9sssa,.1p1 was psmSycnat yssem i,. MT
proud Of the deeds Of the, Republican party
the the party "a of Abraham Lincoln. But If It
was true that. as had been said. the Republi.
can party was rotten at the core he urged
ing the party; and If 1t was true that the