Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-29


liz street. sisilroad 1oHipAay, Sud 10 authorize
| the obstruction VI iht -aine aeross RaVisahls
tide waters
I To iheur;oT the t'l1len Water, illuminating
AMI Pnws' 60.
/ 10 Incorporate tat uaHiariscosta & Randolph
| Kai4ay o.. and saihprl1e the eoa-iraetlol
vi ts.s -srts acfess nav gable tide waters,
FINALLY PASSED..
EESoLNE
Fer III. tay,ren, Of witnesses. mag, traies. OF
drer-, and DISBURSEMENT Of the coHiiait p un
election. in thu Philips contested .lsstiun
ease.
Making appropriation for the fasssmAqaodiy
In favor OF The Penobsoot tribe of Indians
In tas3- Of the tos" OF C1tl-r in Washington
county Tor aid in building roads and bridges.
In favor Of The ro~nof Wales.
Ia favor ot tsdesilah Elliott OF Baldwin.
Fixing the number OF copies Of certain reports
10 be printed Al the expense OF The STATE.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
On motion of Mr.. Thatcher of Penobscot
the Senate reeonsidered the vote whereby it
passed to be engrossed bill an act authoriz-
ing the city OF Bangor TO construct bridge
over the kenduskeag stream. and adopted
Senate amendment offered by the same
senator, and passed the bill to be engrossed
as amended.
On motion of Mr.. Thatcher of Penobscot
an act relating TO the taxation of loan and
bull ling associations was taken from the
table and passed To be enacted.
On motion of Mr.. Hill of kennebec an
act relating To the taking of fish and game
by non-resiients of the State was taken
from the table and referred to the next
/ Legislature.
On motion of Mr.. Libby of Androscog-
gin an act relating to the assignment of
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indefinitely postponed.
On motion of Mr.. Libby an act relating
to the naturalization OF foreigners was
taken from the table.
On motion of MIR Peaks of Piscataquis
the Senate insisted on its former action and
called for committee of conference. aud
the Chair appointed Messrs. Peaks of
piscaiaquis, Libby of Androseoggin and
Mayo of Penobscot on the committee on
the part of the Senate.
On motion of Mr. Swanton of Sagala-
hoe an act additional to chap. 30 Revised
Statutes, relating to notaries public, pro-
tests, days of grace and demand on notes
and bills was taken from the table and
passed TO be enacted,
ON motion of Mr.. Hersey of oxford re-
solve to provide for the insane of the State.
Nttlllt iUtuuitul lJf, WAS tthtH lTbHl lilt
table, and the resolve was read first time.
Mr.. Hersey: 1t is probably well under
stood by every senator present that the care,
custody and management of our hospital
across the way is ia the hands of board of
trustees appointed by the Governor, TO
whom. and only to whom we are to look for
advice in relation to their needs. In De
cemher lsss, the trustees reported to the
Governor and Council, and through them to
the Legislature and the people of Maine,
that the insane hospital across the way was
in a crowded condition and needed ad Ii
tional buildings. as follows "The Lcgis-
lature " i'll he obliged to make an appropr-
alton of SiOo Ooo to enlarge the present
hos spItal or 10 erect new one at cost of
from five to ten times that amount, with the
additional expense of separate board of
ofiicers' TO which report the Legislature
of 1883 Immediately responded and passed
resolve of 500 900. Ard at that same
Legislature, by force of circumstances, was
appointed commission to take into con-
sideration q new insane hospital. to be
called the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital
as fully appears in chap. 207 of the Re
solves OF 1889. That commission was com
posed of pr. Robinson and Mr.. Porter of
Bangor and MIR. jasper IIutchins of
Brewer. They investigated much in rcla
ton to the model form of hospital and re-
ported here to this Legislature in 1891. \
cut of the plans we probably all have seen
in the lobby this winter and the winter of
ISAl. They also reported to the legisla
turc that they had purchased lot of land
in Bangor, pay ing therefor the sum of So
Wn. The Legislature of lNol was
asked To grant considerable
sum of money towards the
erection of the Eastern Maine Insane Hos
ptal to which the Legislature has seen fit
to deny an appropriation. In December,
1890 before the Legislature met in 1891,
the sam" board of trustees that We as peo-
pl AMI asa Legislature look to for advice in
this matter say that same board of trns-
tees indirectly reported that there was no
necessity of any new buildings, because
certain payiions, certain buildings had
been made by the appropriation of 1885?
thereby relieving the crowded condition of
the hospital. And have no doubt but
what the report of those faithful officers
the trustees largely infucnced the Legisla-
ture in 1891 in their action.
Now, in December, lsa2 last December
Just before our assembling here, we have
this from this same board of trustees THE
heretofore crowded condition of the hospi-
tai has been greatly improved by the new
improvements and finished apartments Of
the Harlow and Sanborn payiions. We find
manifest indications of greater neatness and
comfort. The patients when unduly
crowded together are restive and uncom-
Portable, in which condition we find more
noise. excitement and complaint, and less
discipline. 1t would be unfortunate to re-
turn TO the crowded experience of former
iavs.
say, Mr. President, that this board Is
the only board from which we should take
our advice as tn the condition of affairs at
the insane hospital, and when they report n
condition of that kind, that the overcrowded
condition of things has heen changed for
the better, ! say il is not becoming in us as
Legislature to grant large sums of money
to a changed plan And, Mr.. President, I
have no doubt but what the report of this
board OF trustees has TO great extent been
the guide of the present Senate in the ac-
tion it has taken upon the appropriations of
this present Legislature. There are very
many reasons to my mind why appropria-
tions that are not absolutely necessary
4 should not be made. In the first
place, the finances of the State
| do not permit them. The taxpayers
Of the State do not desire it. They desire
/ their money which they earn, and which
/ they place IN the treasury, to be expended
( for nothing but necessities, and these
! necessities the people of Maine can cnrr
/ for. So many appropriations were made
J by the Legislature of 1891 that to my mind
/ in the last campaign it was not question
of Republicanism or Democracy: 1t was r
question of the taxpayers and the people :
money. and that was the issue which the
I Democracy raised in the last campaign
/ To my mind it was virtually Democratic
success and for the first time in twenty or
thirty years tile Republican party was pm,
upon the defensive 10 Dc feud very many Of
the appropriations.
/ Now, at the beginning of this Legislature
many ard many people cane here desiring
appropriaiions-three bridges within 30
miles on one liver in the State of Maine
very mauy appropriations, amounting 70
over sloa 900, which were not necessitrs.
because in the light Of facts we have seen
tiat thev have faded awav without pas
/ sage. say tha, the different appropria-
tions that were brought in here. together
with the appropriations in one sense, of
'Hll"'VH' "hFF htfe Ahtt 5uStisF dppIoptih-
tion for the Eastern Maine Insane Hosp
tai, together, say, Mr. President, all of
these appropriations, the situation of affairs
To my mind became alarming. There was
TO be no retrenchneut, NJ reduction in the
taxation rate nothing for tiie safety of the
taxpayers and the tax-payiog people of
Maine. And a message vas sen. 10
this Senate and iIouse of Rep
presentatves by the Executive dated March
= ls.,3. ami this message has seemed to
cali OF uauy destinations and accusations
and some acrinlony. EXPRESSED by some in.