The Portland daily press., 1893-03-09

manufacture of seines. Mr.. Dutton
thought that their attitude now was
that of men acting as jurors in their
own case. He thought it would have
been better judgment for them to have
left the decision of that matter to the
other eight members of the committee.
The gentleman from Boothbay had been
elected for the purpose of getting such a
law passed. Mr.. Dutton did not believe
the bill would be given a passage, but If
it was he was confident that the man in
the chair would fling it back in the faces
of the legislators without his approval.
Mr.. Maddocks said that he admitted
he was elected to do what he could to
secure the passage of the bill and he
was proud to represent his people in the
matter. This was the great question in
Lincoln county A man who did not
stand right on it, could not get votes
enough to get out of town. 1t was not
a question whether man did or did not
own porgy steamer. But when Mr..
Maddocks was at home to attend town
meeting he said he could hardly get
time to shake hands SO anxious were the
people to find ont what were the chances
for this bill which represented bread
and butter to them.
Mr.. Bird of Portland asked two ques-
tions of Mr.. Maddooks. The first was
why the eastern portion of the coast was
shut off by the bill and the second was
whether if it was attempted to confine
the operations of this bill to Maine peo-
pie, corporations composed of residents
of other states but organized under Maine
laws could came here and fish. AS to
the first question, MI. Maddocks said
that the conditions were so different on
the eastern section of the coast that the
people there did not care to use seines.
AS to the second query, Mr. Maddocks.
not being lawyer, would not attempt to
make reply.
Mr.. Twitchell of Bath asked why it
was that the fishermen of the western
section of the coast did not 60 down on
the eastern coasts with their vessels and
seines. Mr.. Maddocks replied that they
did not want to go east because there was
water enough at their own doors and as
the fish were intended for Immediate
consumption there would Ibe heavy loss
in getting them to port.
Mr. Ross of Cumberland favored the
bill. He thought that the line drawn by
the bill divided Casco bay into two nearly
parts.
Dr. Ferguson of Phippsburg and Mr..
Twitchell of Bath claimed that fishermen
from this section had signed petitions in
favor of legislation to improve their
means of getting livelihood, but they
were not by any means in favor of this
bill which was in the interest OF a few
wealthy men and. concerns.
Mr.. Marston of Skowhegan told of his
experience while staying in coast town.
There he had found men out of work
one of whom had told him that he could
II al hyr fSGhi mr. taao Ia
| of the laws. Mr.. Marston agreed with
Mr. Maddocks that there were no rich
men in the fishery business. He had
| seen enough of it realize that the busi-
| ness was not one where a great deal of
money could be made. He advocated
fhe passage of the bill.
| Mr.. Mitchell of Kittery said that he
came from the extreme southern part of
| the state as far south in Maine as man
1 could we'll come from. The fishermen
| of his section wanted this bill and they
wanted it because under the present law
the industry may in the hands of a few
wealthy men while if the bill passed
| fishermen could club together, purchase
seine and go into business.
| Major Dickey said he came from the
other end of the state but he also favor
ed the bill. Major Dickey told of day
uo OuC0 SpSuO Wlou ASdoSiA etlu VI elI0
MANY things he then learned about
| fishes. He did not believe the supply of
migratory fish was dependent on law and
sized up his view OF the case by saying:
IF you catch them. you've got them and
| if you don't, you haven't
The vote was on the adoption of the
minority report, on motion of Mr.. Cook
| as an amendment to Mr.. MaddockS'S mo-
tien that the majority report be accepted
| The minority report, adverse to the bill,
was accepted, IA to 81, as follows:
| YEAs-Abbott of Hollis, Abbott of Sumner,
Cahili. Carlton OF Rockport, Carlton OF Winter
! port Carville, Cook, Cornish Dow. Drake, Dud-
| ley, Durgin, Dntton, Emerson. Ferguson, Fo-
| gerty, Fuller, Garcelon. Getchell, Harris, Has
Kaler, Keegan, Kent Knowles, Lane, Leyeque,
| Libby of Pittston, Libby of Sanford, Light,
| Littlefield of Poland, Lothrop Mathews, Nc
Kenney of Biddeford. Merrill of Eddington,
urch, Oakes, Penley, Penney, Pinkham, Poor,
| Powers of >orridgewock. Pratt, Preble, Reed,
| Roberts, Rollins, Scott, Shaw of Bath, Shaw OF
| Portland, Smith of Pressure Isle. Sprague, Stod-
| dard, Sylvester, True, TWitchell, Webster, WeS-
| colt, Woodbury-74.
NAYs-Messrs. Abbott of Bucksport, Adams,
| Alden, Barlow. Bean, Belleau, Bonser, Bowman,
Bradbury, Buck, Clark, Coffin, Day, Dlckey.
Hamlin Higgins, Hinkley, Hunt, johnson, kel.
| ley. Lander, Lawrence, Leighton, Libby of
Carthage, Littlefield of prospect, Maddocks,
Marston McCuongh Mckephey hiiynrod OF sprry, n
ers of Houlton, Purington, Rogers, Ross. Rus.
sell. Sargent s wyer of Millbrdge. Sawyer of
Portland. Seward, Spillane, Stlckney, ThurloW,
Varrell. Weber, Weeks OF Fairfield, Welt,
York.-57.
The friends of the bill will renew the
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