Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-02-17

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81 90 per bottle six for $500. D
Il does seem to me that the appropria-
t;on asked for here is not exorbitant. and it
seems to me that having come from the
committee and having reached this stage,
its passage now ought not to be INSTRUCTED.
| hope the motion to recommit will not pre-
vail
Mr.. Sprapue of Monson: | do not dues-
ton but what this is a good. worthy institu-
ton, but lust as good an argument can be
made in favor of every State institution
that know anything about. But the farm
ers and poor people of this State are clam
orine about taxation. 1t seems to me, if
this Legislature is going to make a record
at this session in favor of fair. reasonable
| retrenchment and economy you have got
to commence somewhere, and what can be
a fairer rule than to say that these appro-
priations shall be kept down to wha,
they were two years ago? You
| know well that when Won take
one of these regular institutions
| and raise the appropriation up to a new
| point. that these things will live and flourish
| ike a noxious weed in anv kind of political
| soil in this State. | saw il is dangerous for
us to establish precedent to raise these
regular appropriations ut ALL The state
ment of facts mislead me. if it did no one
else say that it is nothing more than
fair that this should be recommitted
Mr.. Webster of Newport: should not
do Justice to my own feelings if | dill not
say that | heartily endorse the remarks that
have been made by the gentlemen from
Portland. Unfortunately was at one time
in condition to know something about the
condition of affairs in the Maine Eve and
Ear Intirmary. was among that unfortu-
nate class of people in our State and
elsewhere who are suffering from
affections of the eye and while | was not
treated in the intirmary, | became private
patient of DIR. Holt, and spent some eight
weeks in Portland. used TO 20 to the iu-
Urinary and saw there the class of people
that came to receive treatment, many of
them poor people who were utterly unable
to pay for the treatment they needed and
| have the feeling that if the gen, eman
from Monson had been there and witnessed
as | did the large number of peopl, who
came daily, representing the poorer classes
of Portland and the surrounding towns, to
receive the treatment that they needed at
the hands of the able corps of surgeons at
the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, he
would not have any desire to throw
any obstruction in the way of the passage
of this resolve. The poor received the
same attention and the same care as those
,hs. ,,os, orn.r,orrai a,'t'ra =, <.,,r So,
and feel that this House would unan-
mously vote that this resolve should have "A
passage could they understand the matter as
| now understand it. ! hope that that viii
be done
Mr.. Murch of Westbrook This is the
cnly institution We have where people can
he treated free, and general practitioners
do not understand SO well the treatment of
the eye and ear. Practlcing within four or
five miles of Portland, | have had
occasion to send many patients 10
the Eye aud Ear lnfirmary, and
| don't know how they would have been
treated otherwise if we did not have that
institution. There are many poor people
who would not be able to get any Treatment
except for this institution. know very
well about this matter, and | consi Ter this
infirmary much more deserving of this sp-
preparation than any other institution that
can 'hihk OF:
me question peihs on me motion TO re-
commit we resolve 10 the committee on
nnanciai ahairs' DIVISION was Called Tor
a"" 'l'e motion was ios' py vote 81 al
1rha'iye 10 ~ negative. Inc resolve was
'feh hha"y passed..
ORDERS or THE DAY.
~
Ai; ohufeh'li OF raymond move u re-
e,d'Siaer 'he sote whereby House dofnmrnt
no w. J" resari 10 me Ma'awaska ir":n'
/ ing oehooi' was passed 10 be ensros-,'f.
I Wy osJect Is 70 see II the nph-sea'a'ian
=, oiereu ny 'he seh''"h.ah ron
mon, Moi'soi cah''oi DC af"P'c". ana ! would
,lke 10 oe recor"e" IN me ]oarna' OF 'nit
iio"sc rs VOTING IN i'SoF OF mat ''ineni-
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