Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-29
MAINE SOLONS
Enjoying Themselves at the
Hub of the Universe.
They Visit the State Houss and Call
on Gov. GreenhaIge.
The Pine Tree State Men Having a Royal
Good Time.

Boston, March 9S-The delegation from
the Maine Legislature called at the State
House in Boston, Thursday, and were re
| ceived by Governor Greenhaige.
1t was about 80 O'Clock when the
Legislators from the Pine Tree State ar
rived at Derrick hall, where they we're met
by Sergeant at Arms Adams and a special
committee of the Massachusetts, Legisla.
ture, and were escorted to the Executive
chamber.
Mr. Weston of Boston, introduced the
party to Governor Greenhalge and the
latter discovered. among the delegation
numerous old friends, among whom was
Hon. Harrison Hume of the Maine Sen.
ate
Senator Hill of Augusta, was intro
duced to His Excellency as 1.-THE next Gov
renor of Maine The senator tried tc
deny, but his colleagues would not permit
it.
The Governor then said to the visitors
Gentlemen, brothers OF the State of
Maine. l cannot imagine that the Legis-
lature of your State is in session, today, as
it appears that the great part of it is here.
1t gives me profound qualification to meet
the Representatives of our sister State,
which represents most emphatically the
virtues and qualifications of the parent
commonwealth. Montesquieu has said
that the colonies always bring out the
best features of the country from which
the emigration took place, and / think
that in the people of Maine, from whom
we claim to be an offshoot, are found in
an equal degree and oftentimes, l am
bound to say, in a greater degree, those
virtues and qualifications on which the
state of Massachusetts, prides herself.
81 am glad to meet men who are so like
our own Massachusetts, committees, in
fact, so like that when your delegation
entered, today, headed by committee of
our own state, scarcely could tell where
Massachusetts ended and Maine began.
The tide of fraternal fellowship and
patriotic sympathy knows no state lines
and no sectional limitations
1--WE meet here as brothers engaged in
the common work of furthering those
principles which we believe to be funda-
mental in American institutions. know
that in you the cause of civil liberty and
independence and the cause of human pro-
gress and civilization have stout and able
defenders.
Then the delegation, after an exchange
of social courtesies, withdrew and in
spected the new House Chamber.
The delegation is made up as follows:
Senators-John i. Hill, Augusta !;
Elmer S. Spofford, Deer Isle; Charles II.
Prescott, Biddeford; Elliot Wood, Win
throp NJ. II. Ferguson, Phippsburg; Rams
ford W. Shaw, Houlton; Frederick :.
Walls, Vinalhaven; Rodney c. Penney,
Monson; Albert Day, Dixmont; Frank W.
Hovey, Pittsfeld; Albion p. Gordon,
Fryeburg Frank M. Higgins, Limerick !;
Martin l.. Reynolds, Sidney; Charles A,
Marston, Skowhegan; Judge Albert r.
Savage, Auburn George NJ. Seiders,
Portland, President of the Senate; Harri-
son Hume. Robbinston; Alonzo K. Nick
erson, Boothbay Harbor; Horace Mitchell,
Kittery. Representatives-Cha A.
Mccullough, Calais; Thurston s. Burns,
Westbrook; Nathaniel NJ. Jones, How
land Hannibal Hamlin, Ellsworth; Fred
r. Spear, Rockland; W. ii. Williams,
Augusta; William l.. Littlefield, Belfast;
Stanley Plummer, Dexter; Charles II.
Gilbert, Canton; Frederick H. Parkhurst,
Bangor; Daniel Heard. S. A. Holden,
messenger; Ewing +. Hamlin, stenog-
rapher.