The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-03-29
A MAINE DAY.
Visiting Solons Entertained by the
Massachusetts Legislature.
A Welcome Extended by Governor Green
halge-Who Was There.

halge-WhO Was There
Boston. March 2S-It was Maine day at the
State House today. The delegation from
the legislature of the Pine Tree state visir.
ing their Maine-horn brethren who are mem.
bers of the Massachusetts legislature was
presented to the Governor and was the
guest of the House and Senate during a
pert Of the session.
The delegation was at the State House at
IL O'Clock this morning, under the escort OF
Repl esentative Weston of Boston and the
Maine men in the Massachusetts legislature
The old Bulfnch front WAS visited, and
thensthe delegation was escorted to the
Executive Chamber to be presented to Gov.
Greenhalge. Representative Weston pre-
sented the men in an informal speech, and
hen the men bers passed in review and
shook hands with the Governor.
When Senator Harrison Hume, SO many
years Boston man, was presented, Gov.
Greenghale said he thought he had seen
him before, a statement which created a
great deal of laughter.
When the greetings We're over. Gov. Green
halge welcomed the delegation, saying it
was great honor and great pleasure.
and he could not imagine that the Maine
legislature was in session today, for he
thought most of that body must be pres. n t.
sit gives me pleasure to meet you, ''he said,
you of the Pine Tree State which repre-
sents more emphatically the virtues and
qualities of the parent Commonwealth.
Montesquieu has said that the colonist al
ways brings out the.best features of the
country from which the emigration took
ala ir, ba l. ~
| Maine, whom we claim to be an of.
| shoot. are found in an equal degree and
often times. am bound to say, in a greater
degree those virtues and qualifications on
which the State of Massachusetts rrides
herself. Governor Greenbalge alluded tt
likeness between the committee OF the
Maine legislature and those of the Massa
clusetts General court.
II did not know he added, naively
'swhen you came in. where Massachusett.
left off and you began. The tide of patri
otic sympathy knows no state lines and n,
sectional limitations. We meet here to ad
vance the principles which civil liberty
human progress and civilization hav,
strongly defined. / welcome you to tht
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Then the delegation, after an exchange
of social cnurte estes, wit hdrew and inspected
The new House Chamber, pronouncing it
very beautiful room.
| The 6eleg alton was made up as follows
Senators-John f. Hill, Augusta; Elmer P
Spofford. Dear Isle; Charles H. Prescott
| Biddeford; Ellio Wood. Winthrop; NJ. H
| Ferguson, Phippsburg. Ransford W. Shaw
| Houlton; Frederick ). Walls. Vinalhaven
Rodney G.. Penney, Monson; Albert Day
| Dixmont Frank ". Hovey, Pittsfield: AL
bicn P. Gordon Fryeuurg; Frank NJ. Hig
Gins, Limerick; Martin I-.Reynolds, Sidney
| Churles A. Marston Skowhegan Judge Al
| bert r. Savage, Auburn; George Nj. Seid
er@, Portland, president of tine Senat.
harrison Hume. Robinston; Alonzo. Nick
erson, Boothbay Harbor; Horace Mitchell
kittery. RepIesentatfves-Cb A. Nc
| Collough, Calais; Thursfon S. Burns, Wes
bronK, Nathaniel NJ. Jones, Howland: Han
Enibal Hamlin, Ellsworth; Fred r. Spear
RocklaDd: ". II. Williams, Augusta; Viii
| liam H. Lit tiefield, belfast; Stanley Plum
mer, Dexter: Charles H. Gilbert, Canton
| Frederick H. Parkhurst. Bangor; DAME
| Heard, l.. A. Holden, messenger Ervinl
| E. Hamlin, stenographer.