Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-03-11
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tffeff fSStuftts VII HIVE W ttfSS, AMI We
regret this slso if il M a fact. Bat this
property will net be u total .s,ss. The State
If Maine Is not in thai ceststition. but what
if Properly esnnst he use for our purposes.
Nov We come TO TIE itAl part of this
question the inanri,l part. that part which
s.,vuki be considered with al eanaor ON the
one hand and on the other taking the inter
Get of our State and The interest of the
lobster catcher, and in The interest of the
csuner they are all entitled 10 our consider
alton. and We want To Interfere with no one
ans more ti,au What justice demands, but
We cannot please every body. this is impos-
sible. Now or the one ifani we are told
by the Gamers if they cannot have these
nine inch HOLSTERS they mast go our OF the
business. TN the other hand we are tola
| By tho-c thu, seera TO know, If they do
have them. they can continue the business
bur a very short time, because there will be
no Holsters to catch. Nov it appears by
| this evidence that they must get out of
business ia a very short time it iiiosed to
use the uine inch lobster. and not only the
Gamers 20 utt ot business butt the whole OF
the lobster business will he exterminated
or nearly SO, ami this app.ars reasonable,
think. to any thou htful person. We as a
State do not want this business extermin-
ated, and il is not only the privilege
of this Legislature. but duty of its mem-
| bers to do tina, which is just and right ami
It is our duty as Legislators 10 legislate for
the whole people OF the State of Maine,
and not the owners of few canning fac
tories against the State of Maine.
now come to the most vital part of the
matter, and it is this The evidence is that
l..., E. I
| | IL cents. and in nine months this same
lobster grows enough SO that its worth is
| from cents to : - cents, or in other
words 2-ineh lobster is worth but or
| | - cents, while 10 IL inch lobster is
worth from > to : - cents.
| Now it is said that these Gamers bough,
| Si20 900 of ain Holsters last year, and it
these same Holsters had not been caught I'M
| til nine months later, they would have grown
to have been worth at least Stoo000. Stop
| and think of this for a momene-Sl2o,00 900,
becoming without any expense 5000 900 in
niue months. Now, shall the State of Maine
allow this loss to go on right here in our
State and not heed il:
| Close up the canning factories! What a
statement before these facts. A common
school boy would know better than to har-
Dor such thought. Why, gentlemen, we
would have To build more factories in nine
months, and the longest time that these fac
tories which now exist could be closed
would be two months-just the two months
of one season-and then after that they
would have to enlarge or else the countr,
people would have five times more Holsters
yearly than what the canneries put up now
besides what they already have.
Gentlemen we should stop this great
waste. What kind of business would you
think anyone was doing if they should sac
rfice $500 900 in nine months for the sake
of Sl20 900, making Il loss of Sis0,000.
That is what the State of Maine is doing
today. We should stop this grea. waste,
for it is nothing less than waste, and it il
not right to do this, and there is but a
small injury done if any at all to any inter
est. 1t is no. against the Gamer because
after the first nine months he will have in
his two months of canning Holsters the pro-
duct of 5000 900 to can instead of Sl20,000
that he now has, and this money will be tn,
peoples that are engaged in this industry.
MIR. Ferguson of Phppsburg: have /,
letter which voices the opinion of yer,
MANY fishermen in the vicinity of Casco
bay, which will read.
SMALL PoiNr HARnoR, March 6.
DIR. NJ. II. Ferguson,
Dear Sir-I live as You know on the east
shore of Casco bay. | want to say to you
the statement has been made in Augusta
this winter as regards the fishermen here
wanting law permitting SEEMING or tn,
catching of small Holsters is wholly false
know all the small boat fishermen art
opposed to either. | have fished for lob
sters 90 years and boat fished part of the
wear for some time and know that seining
or catching small Holsters is great evil IL
me and all other fishermen and we are to I,
man opposed to it.
Yours respectfully,
SEru WALLACE.
1t las been suggested here that this law
should not pass because certain people
would break it. Is a law to be annulled
because certain people will break il:
Would il not be more advisable to make
that Law so severe that they would not dare
to break it? | wish to place myself right
with the fishermen of my section.
The question being of the substitution o,
the minority report for the majority repor,
the majority report being Ought not to
pass, the yeas and nays were ordered.
fca.-Aycr, Bonser, Bradbury Brewer, Brown
Cahil, Cook, Em"rs"n, Ferguson: Fngrriy, u >
kell Holines. Hoy, kaler. Kent, Knowles. Light
I.ittlrfeld of Poland. Mekenncy Of Bddeford
Mitchell, Morrill, of Madison, Morrill, of Pori
land. midget. oHkes, Pare, Prehle, Russell, SHAW
| of Bath, shaw Of Portland, smith OF Prcrqu'
Isle, Spiane. sylvester, rwitchell, Narrell-3I.
Nays-Messrz. Abbott of Bmcksport, Adam
Bailey, Barlow, Beau Beedle, Beilfau, Blasdcl
Bowman, Bnck, Carlton Of Rockport, carleton OF
| Wu'crport, Clark. Coffin, Cornish. bow, DRAKE
Dudley, Durgn. Eaton. Fairbanks. Farrand
f"Nies, Fuller, Gates tietchell, Cover, fiamn
Hanson, Harris, Higgins, iIinkley. iiopsin. Hunt
| Johnson. Kelley. Lawrence. Leighton, Libby OF
carthagr, Libby of i'iitstoa. Lothrnp, Mnddock-
Mar-,ou, Mathews, Mccullough, Mckenncv Of
SnrrN, Merrill Of E.idington, Merrill of Farm
fenley, Penney, ibilbrodk, Pinkhnm. f'oor
Powers Of Norrdgewock, rurngton Reed Rob
crtS. Rogers. Rollins, Ross. sargent. Sawyer %
Niltrdge, SAWYER Of Portland, Scott, Seward
| Sni'h of Portland, Spragur, stickney, stoddard
TIM low, Wehper Weeks of Fnirield, Welt We
rott. white, Iork.--o
tbsent- Messrs. Abbott Of Hollis Albeit ut
>umner, Alden. Bird. Hoodv, boothby, Bracket
Gar, ille, G. an,beriain, Churchill, Day. Delauo
Dickey. Drew, Dutton, French. Garcelou, Isinc
son, Jisnn, Jones, ko"gan. Lander. Lane, L.
| vogue, Libby of sanford, Littcfeld OF Prospect
Ms7g2r M"rs o~er W.. o. io|i,%s IN rrn'
wocdbury-35.
Tie question now being on the accept,
ancc of the majority report, the report was
ace. pied. Applause
Mr. Shaw of Bath moved to Indefinitely
postpone bill propagation of HOLSTERS. The
mot. on was agreed TO.
o, motion of Mr.. Higgins of Limerick
bill, trademarks, labels, etc, vas assigned
for Wednesday of next week after the morn
ing hour.
I'm motion of Mr.. Higgins, report of the
| joint select committee on printing and bind.
ing was assigned for Thursday of next
| week.
I'm motion of Mr.. Parker of Danforth
the motion TO reconsider the vote whereby
the majority report of the committee on
ways and bridges was refused acceptance,
was assigned for Tuesday of next week.
Resolve, insurance of reform school
buildings. The pending question being the
adoption of amendment A. the amendment
was adopted by a vote of 81 to 81. Mr..
Higgins of Limerick moved to indefinitely
postpone the bill The motion was agreed
| to by a vote of 81 to 30
| On motion of Mr. Morrill, of Portland the
vote was reconsidered whereby the majority
and minority reports on the police bill were
assigned for Tuesday of next week. and on
further motion they were assigned for
Wednesday of next week.
| Bill. relating to the Consolidated Electric
Light and Power Company came from the
Senate non-eoncurred in. The bill had
been indefinitely postponed by the House
the Senate non-coneurred and passed the
| bill to be engrossed
On motion of Mr.. Higgins the House re
cedled. Mr.. Higgins offered an amendment
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