Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-21

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bill under same title, and that it ought to
pass. Bill printed.
Mr.. Noble for same committee on bill
an act to incorporate the Wilton Lake
Water Company, reported ought to pass.
Bill printed.
Mr.. Mccullough for committee on
ways and bridges on bill an act amenda-
tory of and additional to chapter IS, Re-
vised Statutes, relating to ways, reported
legislative inexpedient
Passed to be Engrossed.
Resolve in favor of East Corinth AGA
DENY
Resolve for the purchase of certain
Photographic views.
Tabled on motion of Mr. Adams of
Bowdoin pending passage to be engrossed.
Resolve relating to copying plans of
Maine towns.
Resolve providing for the distribution
OF educational documents by the State
superintendent of common schools.
Resolve in favor of Kendall & Slade.
Resolve in aid of navigation on Moose
head lake
Resolve in favor OF Geo Fl. Hunt,
agent of the Penobscot tribe of Indians
Resolve for the preservation of Ex-
Governor Kings monument.
Mr.. Patten of Bath said:
Mr.. Speaker: 1t has been my misfor-
tune on several occasions this session to
disagree with the majority of this House.
am happy in the belief that what have
to say today will meet with the approba-
ton of every member of this body. l am
aware that we have reached that stage of
the session when speeches are unwelcome
yet shall venture to ask the attention of
the House for perhaps ten minutes. l
do so with the more confidence be-
cause it seems to me that the memory
of the first Governor of this State has not
been kept as green as it should have been.
Let me briefly sketch his career. Will
liam King was born in Scarboro in 176S
He afterward lived in Brunswick some
years and moved to Bath in 1900, which
was his home until his death in 1852 In
1875 at the age of ~ he represented the
town of Topsham in the general court of
Massachusetts; and again in 1896. In
1900 he was elected to the Legislature OF
Massachusetts, from Bath for three years,
and in 1907 and 1908 was senator from
the Lincoln district He was appointed
major general of the militia of Massachu-
sets, and upon the declaration of war in
1912 was made a colonel in the United
States army.
For seven years Governor King strug
gled for the independence of Maine, and
it was largely by reason of his ability and
force of character that Maine obtained the
dignity of statehood. He was president
of the convention which framed our con-
stitution. His great services were so gen
orally recognized by the people that he
was unanimously elected first Governor of
Maine,-an honor, as you know, rarely
conferred on candidates for Office in this
republic Gov. King served the nation as
well as the State. Many times he served
the nation in various high and honorable
capacities. Kings reputation, too, was
national. He was a close associate of
Adams Monroe, Jackson, Webster, Clay,
Calhoun, Benton and other statesmen of
national prominence. His statue stands
in the Hall of Statuary at Washington,
among noble group of the great men
of our country. Many years ago the
State erected a monument over the grave
of it's first Governor in Oak Grove ceme-
terry, Bath. Since then it has been ut
terry HeSleCucu anu ID HoW d cruiiipiiuS
ruin.
Recent events seem to show
that Republican states arc for
gctful, if not ungrateful. The
grave has scarcely closed over the
remains of one who shed new lustre
on the name of Maine-the greatest states
man since Lincoln, if not since Washing
ton. Today the grandeur of his work
is brought into clearer relief by the too
successful efforts of his political opponents
to destroy it, and yet an effort to perpetu-
ate his memory in enduring marble here
in this capital has apparently failed
languid Indifference, If it be
said that James G. Blaine has too recently
died to be thus commemorated, the same
cannot be said of William King, who was
gathered to his fathers more than forty
years ago Names Washington deserves
better of his State than forgotten and
neglected grave. Gentlemen, l ask your
consent to a suspension of the
rules that this resolve may take its sew
eral readings and pass to be cngrosscd at
the present time.
The resolve was then passed to be en-
crossed.
Passed 10 pc Enacted.
An act to prevent the use OF narrow
trimmed wheels on Greenfield road in
town of Grecnbush.
An act to protect trout in the ponds
and streams in the town of Troy in the
of Waldo.
An act relating to the Rumford Falls
and Rangcley Lakes Railroad Company.
An act to amend chapter 264 of the
Private and Special Laws of 1887, entitled
an act for the protection of salmon and
alcwives in Pleasant river, Washington
county.
An act to amend section IL of chapter
81. Revised Statutes, relative to the limit
alton of actions against executors and ad-
An act to incorporate the city of South
Portland.
An act to incorporate the Phillips
Trust and Banking Company.
An act to incorporate the Bluehill Trust
and Banking Company.
An act to authorize appeals from asses
SCISSORS of taxes to the supreme Judicial
court.
Resolve relating to indexing papers and
records in the land office.
Resolve in favor of the town of Prentiss
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