Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-20

ppn-ailOtl 10 me Tor aHfitfttG / uiift tone
as Aroostook county.
\ vote being taken on tile 'u5,ion 10 ~
consider, the motion MAS los.
4 message Was received from the Senate
proposing Il joint convention in Represen-
tatises Hall at / o'clock for the purpose of
clecting two State assessors.
On motion of Mr.. Dclano of Abbot, the
House voted TO concur in the proposition vi
the Senate. and tie clerk Of the House was
directed TO bear the message TO the Senate.
IN CoSsr>rius.
Tie members of the Senate entered the
hall of the House at / O'Clock, and the two
bodies in convention proceeded 10 hai+ot for
| two members OF the State boar,l of asses
( sors, one for two years un,i one for six wears.
| TN motion of Senator Wool of kennehec,
| the presiden, appointed as 4 committee to
| receive. sort ami CUNT votes. Woo. of
Kennebec, Deering of York, on tie par,
of the Senate Adams Of Bangor. lothrop
of Leeds, Light of Appleton. Kelley OF
| Boo,hbay, and Cahill of Brunswick, on the
| part Of the House.
I Tn the ballot beng taken for State as
SCISSOR to serve two years, the committee re-
/ ported tle whole number of votes cast To be
/ lRb. ANtttSshlF IVA AiipstNs litH.
! Hall c. Burleigh received Ii2 and Hon
1 George Poitle received one ami Hon. Hall
I &. Burleigii was declared duly elected.
On tie ballot being taken for Il State as
SCISSOR To serve six years, the committee re-
ported the whole number of votes cast 20
be l22. Necessary for a choice, g. Hon.
George Polite received il9, Hon. Hall G.
/ Bureigl two, ana Vinal H. Winslow one
| and Hon. George Pottle was declared duly
/ elected.
/ TN motion of Senator Thatcher of Pen
obseot.
Ordered. That the secretary of the con-
ven,ion be instructed to notify Hall C.. Bur
| leigh and George Potte of their election
and also to notify the Governor and Council
of their election.
| The clerk of the convention having re-
| ported that he had discharged the duty, the
Senate then retired
Is Hon 81.
/ Mr.. ilamlin OF Ellsworth 80 MIR. Speaker,
! arise al this time to express the desire that
/ there shall he placed on the record of this
| House partial expression of our sympathy
! ia r,tsard to matter wi,iaii has been and II
| in tue minds of us ALL For many days Mr.
/ Speaker, we have watched with strained
anxiety for any Bit of cheerful news com
I ing from the bed side of our distinguished
citizen who now lies i'll ut the national CAPT
tai; and while 50 watching, il is with sorrow
| that we have learned that the strong hand
of death has taken home distinguished
/ citizen of another stat. It is needless for
me to say, perhaps, that | refer 10 the Hon.
I Rutherford II. Hayes. Born in the year
! 1872 he died on the l1tIl day OF January
1 S9', In the LIST year of his age. Ills ca
reer as a citizen, as a lawyer, u soldier
I ~ a statesman Is one of which not only
his relatives aud friends but the nation may
well feel proud. As young man he was
a diligeut STUDENT and later in life became
eminent IN the practice of his profession as
| Il lawyer. rs citizen he was upright and
noted for his benevolent and philautlIropir
! spirit, having been connected practically all
his lifetime with nrny nf the leading be
nevoien. and Other similar institutions of
1 this country. As Il soldier his deeds of
I personal bravery. skill and GOODNESS at
! South Mountain where Ic remained upon
the field of hattl" with 4 shattered urm; at
! Winchester and other places: viii always
Z cause him to h" remembered A. long
as those places themselves shall exist.
! NS statesman we see his record in The
! pages of public history, thrice Governor of
/ the state of Ohio. twice member of the Ma
/ iional House of Representa-, President
If the 'ni,e,l States, AMI rs holding other
| positions of honor and of trust he filed
/ them with credit to himself and with honor
to those whom he scrycd
/ Among the things for which he will al
ways be remembered were lis pronounced
views in favor Of anti-slaycry in those try
ing days Just before the war. Further We
remember him as steadfast and firm, in in
>isting that every debt and every obligation
of this government should be paid in hon
est money further still that every treaty
which this government had made
should he faithfully AMI truly kept and
should not be wrongfuily violated lie was a
-trong advocate, also, of the doctrines of civil
-rrvicc reform. and here lie endeavorod
to rise above the plane of party prejudice.
and enleayorei To serve the interests uf the
country at large. In this respect he did not
follow always the lines which his in, mate
friends wished him TO follow but now ttst
hc is yon" think there are none that will
not admire his honesty, his sincerity, and
'he courage of his convictions.
! did not rise I, make any EXTENDED rn-
marks. The many good things v hich may
ils sam OF our I1ie ift'nl, ! itake 10 Others
TO say who know them better and who
perhaps can say them better than t.
He has passed quietly away from us
he lied peacefully AMI happily III tie
love and esteem and confidence of those
who surrounde,! HIM, in the confidence and
love and esteem of us all 1t is with pro.
found respect for jhe noble qualities OF
this man that | offer Tor passage the re-
selves which viii now read;
Rcsafre5, That the Legislature of Main"
place upon record their expression of ,n-
Elected sorrow nj the death of the late Hon
Rutherford Il. Hayes, cxPreslrnt of the
United States.
ReSoJred, That in his death we recos-
nize and deeply mourn the loss to the M 3
lion of an upright, benevolent and ChrItan /
citizen, an eminent jnrist, noble !
and patriotic soldier, and u distinguished |
salesman.
HeSolrcd. That thesr resolutions he ex- (
tended upon the TO ord and copy thereof /
ne sent to those the family of the de- .
ceased who sIlrvive him and to whom we +,
tender on full sympathy and condolcnre 4
IN rs their time of bereavement
Res1ir4'i That As an additional mari. of /
respect to the memory of the deceased, the /
House 10 now a,iionrr +
The question being taken by rising vote
the resolutions were unanimously adopted 4
Adjourned.