Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-07


Judgment, and that Is that you erect a
new hospital down there where it will
convene the eastern and northern sections
Of the State. / said to you at one time
that there was two kinds of legislation
pending in this Legislature One seeks
TO obtain valuable franchises at our
hands for purposes of personal greed and
selfish speculation and gain, and ii is
that kind of legislation that / want TO
keep both of my eyes upon all the time.
There is another kind, "a more humane
kind. What is 1t? 1t is the legislation
that seeks to maintain and encourage and
To foster our educational and our human
itarian institutions, those institutions
which arc fostering and noririsbing State
Of Maine manhood and which are caring
for our diseased our sick and helpless citi-
zcns Legislation which serves their
best interests is legislation which | can
give my heart and hand and voice to, and
this legislation proposed here today Is
legislation OF that class. And II you vote
for this new hospital If you vote for this
appropriation and don't have the courage.
to go home 10 your friends just give me
your proxy and | will go and face them
in any county in the State. applause
Mr.. keegan Of Van Buren, said that ho
did not know whether he desired to speak
or not don { believe It is necessary for
any man TO speak after the noble words I
the Noble man. Noble by name and D.
nature tApplause.l I 90 not think it il
necessary 10 say more. He at least has
struck the right thing in this matter
Ny friend from Dexter covered the whole
ground and have listened IN vain for an
answer TO the practical side OF the qus
tion which he submitted. I represent
perhaps the poorest constituents on the
face Of the soil of Maine, but / should he
ashamed to 90 back to them IL l did not
remember those who cannot speak for
themselves. Those from whom Cad In
His wisdom has thought proper to draw
their last spark Of reason and who are not
represented here today. Is there no man
to speak in their behalf Must they b.
forever unrepresentcds All | remember
that charge in the litany OF the church
to which | belong, language like this,
which tbC poor so us who have departed
This life are represented as spanking TO
their friends: Have mercy on me, you
at least who are my friends, for the hand
Of God is heavy upon me, Ard say 70
you. gentlemen, representing the State of
M8iaC, have mercy upon those poor
creature that are crowded over there in
that unfortunate institution, and unless
or some one else can make their voice
heard in their behalf, must remain for
ever unhcard. The great majority of men
who go there 60 there and remain forever.
They seldom recover, they almost never
recover And Why The great difficu e.
is this, you have crowded them in that IN
s,itution under one head under one mar
accmcat ~ d under one supervise, II.
What is the result. DR.. Sanborn or no
other doctor on earth is able to take care
Of the individual cases there as they arhc C.
No doctor on the face of the earth is
able to give his attention TO each indi-
vid case that comes there, and every
bod knows that l speak the truth.
Nov, then, what should be done? Are
these men to herded there like lot of
cattle. and shall nobody care for thems
That is the difficulty with that institu
ton | say that you should bnild not
one hospital but a half dozen, and the
poor State of Maine can afford to do ii.
/ am not speaking for Bangor, but l am
speaking for those poor creatures in bond.
age 1t is not II question of building a
place wherein you can store them one on
top of another. Ir that is your object
have magnificent piggery, n $1,000 pig
gerry, and drive them in that like a troup
OF hogs II that is the way you propose
dealing with them, Use piggery by all
means (Laughtcr)
When any man tells me that he can 60
back and facY his constituents, after
.l.,,-
lation of dollars and cents without re-
gard to what the best interests Of those
poor creatures require, then | say to that
man, | pity that constituency. CAP
plausee
Now, let us face this matter Us men,
not rs calculating machines, and when
my friend from Portland got up, if
sarcasm and if sneering and if laughter
could have wiped this thing out, he
would surely have done it, He who
could look at that mass of suffering over
there and laugh and sneer, pity him
likewise.
move you, Mr., Speaker, that when
this vote is taken, it be taken by the yeas
and nays.
The question being on substituting the
report of the committee for the
majority, the yeas and nays were or
dercd.
YEA-Adams, Bailey of Bridgton- Dodge.
Boothby Brewer, Chute Cousens, harrington
Garner. Geyer. Gilbert OF Greene, Eolhfaok,
Hurd Jewell Jones Of China, King, Lawrence
of l4ubcc, Mahoney. Merry, Milliken, Moulton,
Richardson Roberts, Ryersont S1nboTn, Saw
yer OF Smithfeld singer, smith of Dayton,
Smith of Hanover, Spear Of West Gardiner, |
Stanley, Sweetser. Tolman Of Warren, Traf
ton, Welch, Wells, Whelden, White VIII
iamG.-sG.
NAY-Abbot, Babcock, Bagnall, Bailey of
Wi.iteiield Barrett, Barton, Basford Ben
nett Berry Bishop, Bixby Black Boynton,
Briggs, Burns, Gates, Chase. Clark of Hollis, |
Clark of Naples Coffin, Cole, Comins Crock
cit, Daggett, Daigle, Dckey, Dole, Doten, |
Doyle Dudley, Drummer, Fairbanks, Farrow,
Flovd, Folsom, Friend, Furbush, Gilbert of
Canton, Grindie, Grosc, Haines, Hamlin, |
Efiscock, Hooper, Howe, Howes, Hutchinson,
Jennings, Jones of Rowland, Kane, Keegan, |
Kiugman. Kno~lton, Lane, Larrabee, Law, |
Lawrence of North Yarmouth, Leighton,
Libby of Chester, Libby of Durham, Little |
field Lombard I.ongley, Mccullough, Merrill, |
Miles. Millett, Moore of Deering, Moore of
{; euldsboro, Niles, Noble, Packard Parkhurst, |
Prisons, peasicc of Wiscasset. Peaslee OF
lonesport Pinkhan, Plummer Reynolds, |