The Portland daily press., 1893-03-02
FILIBUSTED.
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while he was member of the minority
party, he had not knowingly followed
the standards of the filibustering army.
Indeed he had not known that there was
| any filibustering. Nor had he known
| anything about this bill until he had
| been told of it this morning. Others
| might have filibustered but he had not.
Artillerist Scott also did not know yes
| terday that he was flibustering. He
| said that he had made several motions to
adjourn yesterday because he was hun
cry and wanted to 60 home to dinner.
Mr.. Belleau of Lewiston began an at
tack on the bill ignoring the fact that the
first skirniish must be on this question
of taking the bill from the table. Mr..
Belleau had proceeded far enough to al
lude to the mayoralty bee which he
thought might be buzzing in the bonnet
of the gentleman from Portland Mr..
Shawl At about this time, however, he
Twas driven back from his outpost by
Mr.. Shaw who made the point of order
that the gentleman was not talking on
the motion to take from the table.
The Speaker said that the gentleman
must proceed in order, and Mr.. Belleau
proceeded for few minutes with his
speech, when the point of order was re-
newed, and this time Mr.. Belleau's adj
vance guard fell back on the main body
of the flibusters.
A flank movement was then made by
the supporters of the bill under the
leadership of Captain Lane of Augusta.
He moved the previous question and so
members seconded the motion. The
motion to take the bill from the table
was then passed.
Immediately Mr.. Bird moved that the
i'm nil r>T hn pnr
legal affairs adverse to the bill be sub
stituted for the majority report.
Mr.. Shaw hoped that this motion would
not prevail and told the House some
things about Gallagher's gerrymander in
Portland.
1t was at this point the Scott's batter
les opened fire. Mr.. Scott went way
back to the first introduction Of the bill
and told his version of it's history since
then, repeating much of Col. Bradbury's
talk before the legal affairs committee
and favoring the House with arepetitipn
of Mr. Looney's ideas as to the manner
in which the bill was introduced in the
Senate Mr.. Scott said that the Senator
from Cumberland, who had fathered
the bill had not ssventured to introduce it
himself. 1t had instead been presented
under misleading title by a senator
from Penobscot and referred to the COM
mittee on legal affairs. Why had not
they sent it to the Judiciary committee?
Couldn't they handle that committee?
Mr.. Scott then rehearsed the calling of
the hearings and told the House several
times that the bill had been railroaded
and pushed with indecent haste. This
reference to railroading Mr.. Scott en-
phasized by frequent repetition through
out his remarks.
Then Mr.. Scott went back to 1860 and
began an elaborate disquisition on the
formation of wards in Portland in parti-
cular and in all cities in general. He
said that the ward lines in Portland had
not changed since 1860.
Commander-in-Ch Chief Bird interrupted
his lieutenant to say that the city had
been re-distrieted in 1872, but Mr.. Scott
replied that that redistricting amounted
to nothing. He then quoted figures as
to the new system of wards proposed by
the Portland Democrats. Mr. Scott's
figures are somewhat amusing in view of
the facts of the case. He said that the
redistrictinC would give