Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-11

tirply OUT Oh OIuer tnat nc cdDnOS see HOW
an amendment to an order entirely out
of order can be in order.
MIR. Lane said that the Chair on the
last ruling was undoubtedly correct, but
that he wished to state out of order, by
unanimous consent, that in presenting
his order he concurred entirely with the
Governor in his message, and that his or
der was not intended to reflect in any de-
gree upon any officer present or past con-
nected with the State liquor agency. l
wish 10 ask if an order can be received at
this time.
The Speaker: The Chair will receive
any order written from the gentleman
from Augusta, providing no objection is
made.
Mr.. Lane said that he would state the
purport of the order because l don't wish
any gentleman of this House to act or give
his consent MISUNDERSTANDING The Or
der l would introduce would be this in
substance and l will reduce it to writing
if the House consents
The Speaker: Will the gentleman please
re duce his order to writing?
MIR. Lane: Mr.. Speaker, it may be OBJ
iected to- and if objected to- 1 don't care
I.aughtar) The order would introduce
would be this in substance: That the
Joint select committee on the Governor
message be discharged from further con-
sideration of SO much of it as relates to
the State liquor agency, and that same be
referred TO the committee on legal affairs;
and by that / mean not the slightest i'm
putation upon any member of the House,
upon any officer of the State or any branch
of the Legislature.
Mr.. Doyle OF Biddeford moved to pro-
coed with the business of the House.
Resolve Against the Free Ship Bill, So Called.
Mr.. Twitchell of Bath said he had pre-
pared memorial to Congress, which it
was desirable should be passed at once,
in opposition to the free ship bill, so called,
now pending before Congress. l ask that
the rules be suspended and this resolution
have its two several readings at the pre-
sent time and be passed to be engrosscd in
order that it may reach Congress this
week l represent a city which for hun
drcd years has built ships and schooners,
and carried the flag of the United States
all over the world. More than any other
industry think, the shipping has built
up the name of the State of Maine. The
bill before Congress admits to American
registry foreign built vessels. While this
does not admit foreign built vessels to the
coast-wise trade, still it is an entering
wedge, and if they get this bill through,
we know what will come next. While
this is not party measure, even the pre-
sent legislation passed by the Democratic
Congress recognizes the fact that we must
protect this country little, as we are
now situated, against foreign labor
Labor is undoubtedly cheaper abroad at
present. Wages are higher in tits country
This principle has been recognized in
the present tariff bill, and while we have
free raw materials, we have protection for
the manufactured product. Now this bill
proposes to strike down not only the raw
materials but to admit the manufactured
product free. 1t does not protect the labor
of the 200, 900 people on our coast inter
ested in shipping, ship building and ship
sailing. For this reason. if the bill should
pass we might as well close up our yards
They have been practically closed 50 far
as foreign shipping is concerned fora good
many years, simply because the principal
insurance companies in the world, the
English and French, have Disseminated
against wooden shipping. We have been
building wooden ships and we have had
to get lower rates for our wooden ships.
But within the last four years in Bath
we have established two iron ship yards
One has taken government contracts and
built iron steamers and yachts. Another
firm in Bath has established an iron yard
and from this yard was launched, this
last fall, the first iron sailing ship built in
America The passage of this resolution
will show to Congress that the whole peo-
pie of Maine are united, that not only the
coast but the whole people of Maine stand
together and protest against this action.
/ ask unanimous consent to suspend the
rules that the resolution may be passed to
be engrossed so it will reach Congress this
week / ask it not as a Republican but
as citizen of Maine.
Mr. Hamlin of Ellsworth said that he
most earnestly seconded the motion just
made Its manifest aim is to aid, so far
as possible now, in saving and fostering
one of the great industries Of the State. l
believe that very member of this body,
irrespective of party, has at heart the wei
fare and prosperity of our State, to see
that this matter has a unanimous passage.
We owe it as well to the State of Maine rs
we do to every city and town upon our
borders engaged in this great industry, and
to that enterprisng city of Bath, ever
loyal to this great industry in the time
of its greatest trial. l hope that this may
have a unanimous passage.
Mr.. Spear Of Rockland, said that he
wished to say that he represented the feel
ing of every citizen OF Rockland and
Knox county when he Endorsed the senti-
ments of the gentleman from Bath.
The question being on the motion to
suspend the rules and give the resolve its
two several readings at the present time,
1t was agreed to.
The resolve then received its two several
readings and PASSED to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. Haines of Waterville,
Adjourned