Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-23
Afternoon Session.
PASSED 70 BE ESAcrEp.

PASSED 70 BE ESAcrEp.
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10 authorize the Lisbon Falls Paper CO. 10 holt
sioca- aud bOA,fs % VthSr corporations
Authorizing the Bowdo.n Paper Co 10 hold
stock and bonds OF other corporations.
The House having under consideration
bill, salaries OF assistant superintendent,
steward and n,atron OF Insane Hospital.
Mr.. Parker of Danforth moved that the
bill be Indefinitely postponed.
After some discussion by Messrs. Brack-
EFT and Parker, the motion MAS lost by
| vote of IS 10 IS.
The bill was then read the third time.
MIR. Parker then called for the yeas and
| nays. The call was not sustained, and the
| bill was passed TO be engrossed.
| Bill, taxation of loan, trust and banking
corporations.
| Mr.. Powers of Iioulton offered amend
ments, strike out all after the WORT shall"
| in the NTH line To the word''be in 2ith line.
| Also strike out all after the word banks
| in 18th line, sec. /, to the word the in
18th line.
| After some discussion by Messrs. Powers,
| White. Roberts, Bracket, Rogers, Fair
banks and Shaw, the amendments were
| adopted and the bill was passed 10 be en-
crossed amended.
| The House having under consideration
reports A and of committee on inland
| fisheries and game, relating 10 the transpor-
tation of game.
| Mr. Fowles of Orneville, moved that re-
port A be accepted as. the report of the
committee report \ being ought to
pass
Mr. Sprague of Monsoon moved to sub
1 st1tuta b. ropnrt r fny r.pnrt He said
| that report is striking at our game laws as
they stand. The present system is as near
right as We can get. All the trouble with
the game laws is that they have not been
fairly enforced. The indiscreet en-
forcement of the laws by
some wardens has caused this preju
dice. These game laws are of vast i'm
portancc 10 ourselves. and as an attraction
to bring these sportsmen here who pay out
large sums of money to our farmers and all
classes III our vicinity and in the vicinity of
Rangely Lakes and elsewhere. As the law
is now, whoever transports game must ac
company that game to his home or market.
4 man can kill one moose, two caribou and
three deer. The law has worked well and
why should we interfere with it;
The game has increased under
| these laws. If we open the doors TO pot
hunters, our game will begin to decrease.
| The law is well enough nov if we have an
enforcement in harmony with public senti-
ment. hope the minority report, which is
TO let the present Law alone, will prevail.
Mr. Narration of SkoW hogan said that he
liint think this bill opened the door to the
destruction of our game. Our sportsmen
| 20 into the woods and shoot moose and
deer and they cannot send a pound of that
meat home to their families without going
| with il the entire journey. 1t they are IN
tile woods two or three weeks and they kill
"A deer the first or second day they
would have to let it rot in the forest under
| this restrictive law. There has been
great deal of complaint made in til, Moose
head region against this law. believe this
amendment should be adopted | say so
in the interest of our sportsmen. want
to see this game 90 home to their friends
and be put to useful purposes.
Mr.. Sylvester of Lisbon said he favored
the report b of the committee. believe
this law which was enacted two years ago
was for the protection of game in this
State. 1t seems to me that under this bill
an Illegal man could 90 INTO our backH GODS
and shoot as many deer as he pleascs and
have them shipped out of the State. II we
pass this bill il will open the door for just
sucli men as these to shoot our game and
transport II to foreign market. hope
the report b will be accepted
Mr.. Fowles of Drnyillc said the question
was narrowed down 10 one point; viii the
adoption of the amendment giving all par
ties the night with certain safeguards 10
transport game in the same manner rs other
goods are Transported be destructive 10 our
game CUR present laws are not ~ sue
cessful as they should be because they dis
criminate against the people of the State at
| large and in favor of the few who are so
situated that they can and do take advan-
tagc of our system to enrich themselves.
The present law depriyes the
people of the State of a vast
amount of their lawful property. Game
when killed beromes the private property
of the person killing it and should be as
much subject to his disposal as any other
private property. They give us the right to
| own three deer, two caribou and one moose.
if killed in open time, each year. But they
say that they will contract your market, de-
prve you of the right to sell any part of
that game unless you sell at a very low fig
urr with the market at your own door, but
We will allow foreign sportsmen to take with
them what they may legally kill and the re-
suit is that the sportsmen can
buy for almost nothing and take
it it'll him out of the State AMI the profits
viii nearly pay his expenses. If this bill
passes it would not reduce the number of
| sportsnen who come to our State; and this
restriction simply throws away about all of
the vast revenue which should come to the
people without any possible preservation
of our game.
The present law is destructive to game
because it is obnoxious to the people and
they have no interest in the protection Of
game which is of no benefit to them Give
the people all interest in our game the same
as any other property. II is claimed that
four-fi fths of our game is killed contrary
| 10 law, and a large proportion of 1t lies in
our forests to rot doing no one any good.
An objection to tins measure is that the
market hunter Will ship large quantities of
/ by using some other name than his own. If
/ they can have an opportunity 10 sell game
/ in open time. If they are market hunters,
| they would refrain from killing in close
time when be could not ship, and so it
would reduce the time of game killing by
those men from ~ months to the lawful
open time II will he for his own interests
to refrain from killing, and a protection TO
the game. One thousand petitioners have
asked for this measure and not one remon-
STRANGE against it. hope report A will be
accepted.
Mr. Huxley of Phillips said fishing and
hunting was an industry of some impOr-
lance to the State of Maine. am not a
representative of the Rangeley district hut
my interests are Identical with theirs. This
I "a. =.