Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-02-28


not pesvsil, bsiis wing, y do, that ibis lav |
md the penalty to enforce II 10 needed
Whoever Knowingly or desigredly |
painss or disgaises . hofse or en- |
iefp hin in 4 class which he has no |
rishs to eater shall be punished BY = |
ine NOT exceeding $500. Now. this mort ,
gage question deesns appear to me % be |
Of any cor sequence compared with having i
our faifs ard horse tro.a, to which pre-
sumo We ~ ike to 20 and see fais play. |
The mxn Who hss . mortgage muss LOOK
after his property. There are some bur
Giens u2on the mortgage in every case.
Let him take care Of his horse. Let hum
take il home and put il in his own stable.
Nov the fns il not exceeding $500 sas has
already beea stated to You. The party may
be fined $40, even if tbs fine Is left u
$500, but II. in the courts judgment the
emergencies in the case require $500, LET
Us ieave Il 30 that the court can impose
that amount Of fne. There 10 demand for
such bill ia this Sxts. The leading papers
are asking for it. They have copied this
presen. bill ard commented upon it IA
vorably. The Turf. Field and Farm, q
leading paper, the Horse AID Stable, the
New York Sportsman, Chicago Hofseman
and other isadiDg papers throughout the
United States all Join in saving that every
state in the Union should have such law.
Now, let US not pass law and leave 1t in
operative 20 that . man would take his
chances to ecme into the State Of Maine,
a. know personally man did last fall
with horse whose record was 2.17 and
fraction, and who travelled through our ag.
riculsural fairs in this State in the 30 and
2 40 classes and carried away the first or
second premium in about every race in
which he entered his horse. In case OF
that kind, where they deliberately paint
and disguise and enter horses in
a class in which they do not
belong, let US have penalty
50 that they will not see fit TO take the
chances of paving Q fine OF less than $500,
but hope, az said, that this will be left
at $500, to be levied in the discretion Of
the court.
Mr.. Chadbourne-I am not at all strenu-
Gus With reference to amendments "a
and "B'' 90 far a. the size of the penalty
is concerned, hence, with the permission OF
the House, will withdraw those amend
ments.
No objection was made and the amend
merits were withdraw.
Chsir-The question now comes upon
wbs. has been known as amendment &C
MIR. Chadbourne far as the
las. amendment, is concerned l feel
6 great deal more concern. l
can very easily see how, through
the conniyance Of q horse jockey who be-
fore has had the perfect confidence OF the
owner Of the horse, the owner may lose
his horse without q remedy. Now. you
know as we'll as that if l owned q fast
horse could not drive him. / should be
over weight. Now l have got to confide in
someone TO drive that horse. and what per-
certage Of the jockeys today who are driv-
ipg horses DO you want to place implicit
conf ience in to the extent of allowing
them TO take your horse, manage 1t
and have the opportunity Of doing that
which shall forfeit your horse? You
msy say let the owner look out for
his horses. There are hundreds and
hundreds of owners of fast horses, who de-
Light in them, who are bigh-t0ned gentle
men and who indulge in it as mere sport,
who come down here into Maine from
Massachusetts or New York, watching
every move of the men in whose hands they
have entrusted their valuable property.
Now, is il right that these jockeys should
have the poser of forfeitirg these MassA-
chuseits horses, or perhaps entering into
com6ins,i IN with some spotter and pur-
posely end designediy entering these
horses in the wrong class. or psinting a
white coat red for the very purpose
of forfeiture of that borse to
the court. and putting the horse
into their own hands at q very low price?
Isn't it possible and altogether probable
iha. it may be done? Ii seems to ME that
this act puts too much power into the hands
of What is too often the case, an irresponsi-
bic class of men. l behave in the pro-
lection of the horse tro:, but it seems to
me that this doesn't offer the protection
which it is mean. to offer. that it opens the
way that for an innocent owner of val
liable h3rse to be punished extremely more
than he deserves; aye, that he may be pun
ished where he ought not to be punished at
all. That is the way that it strikes me. l
believe that the bill should be 80 amended
that the horse trot shall have all the pro-
lection thst is required, all that can be res
soDabIy expected. all that can be had, and
have in view fair dealing with innocent
people
Mr.. Hersey-Mr. Speaker, would like
to say few words in relation to this
amendment &C.. The gentleman from
Biddeford talks about honest, fine gentle
men, who own horses in Massachusetts and
send them down here to iro.. | am aware
OF the fact that great many gentlemen
Who own trotting horses and trot them are
homes ST and cultured men. All l have to
say in snswer to the gentleman from Bid
deford is this: Let thst honest owner en-
gage An honest man for hi, driver, and
then they wont come to the State of Maine,
paint their horses legs, or paint white
stripe in the forehead and set them going
here in a 30 or 40 class, when they have
record Of II 4. This Law is not made
to apply to honest men. 1t is made
to apply 10 the class Of rogues, thieves aud
rsscals who do that very business Of psint-
ing snd Disgusting their horses and set
them goiog at our agricultural fairs, while
you, gentlemen, and I, perchsnce, may be
going to gee the trot. Do we care to be
imposed upon by such fellows? Not one
of us. There lie considerable talk about
the poor, honest fellow. Honest men don't
get into this scrspe. 1t is the dishonest
fellows, apd I say to you that the horse in
the instance | cited TO you should never
have got back to his owner in Massachu-
sets. | believe tina. we should fix PEN
atty with this law that shall stop such prac-
tica now and forever.
Mr.. SMITH vas rather surprised at the
| remarks Of the gentleman from Ruckfeld
in reply to TIE questions as to what re-
course An homes. man would have who
o-ns horae, or has y mortgage on horse
il the horse was forfeited. He says that
the man must employ an honest driver to
handle him. did not suppose that gentle
man had the confidence in human nature
that we would infer that be has from hi.
remark. Gentlemen, we employ honest
men in our savings banks, 1hich is alto
geiher different business from horse racing.
and the first thing We know, instead Of that
honest man being honest, and faithful and
just to the depositor,, he is an embezz'er,
r criminal, ard is convicted and sentenced
to imprisonment. Such logic as that is
astonishing. 1 can see reason myself why
this clause should not be adopted, and it is
for the protection of honest men and hon
eat breeders This raintnp and dispuising