The Portland daily press., 1895-02-08

Made Regarding the stats Printing.
Especial TO the PRESSl
Augusta, February 1.-The Bangor gen.
erals have their forces well in hand now.
and flushed with victory in the House this
morning carried the battle into the Senate
with whoop and rush. forcing the nght-
ing and getting into position to make the
decisive battle tomorrow. When this matter
came up, having been sent from the House.
the majority report appropriating Sl5U.000
to be expended at Bangor was adopted.
| Late in the session. senator Higgins said
| the committee on refom school would be
away Friday. The resolve relating to this
Eastern Maine spital Is OF great import
ance. If there is the necessity for this great
| appropriation there can be no objection to
the bill. The Senate should carefully con-
sider the matter. / have asked the friends
of the measure that it might be assigned
| for next week. think that it the best way
to consider this matter.
| Senator Spofford said 1t was matter OF
great Importance. not only for the amount
! of money it would appropriate but for the
purpose for which it was intended. II was
not the purpose of the friends of the re-
solve to limit debate, which If 1t began to-
morrow could be continued. The Senate
had known of this during it's passage
through the committee and the House. and
he felt that there we've no grounds upon
| which the matter should not take its regu-
| lar course and come up Friday.
| Senator Day said that all the friends
wanted was to have 1t come up in regular
| order.
| Senator Hume said that he had accepted
an Invitation to go to the reform school
Friday. But he had opposed putting matters
| out of their regular order and he believed
| the Senate was pre- pared to discuss 1t in its
regular order. The question had bsen be-
fore the state for long time. and all knew
| that the Senators had made up their minds
| upon the question.
Senator Higgins of York said the Senators
had. agreed that this was very important
measure. 1t seemed to him that they rather
oontradicted themselves when they refused
| to allow this measure to be postponed and
attempted to have it rallroaded through
| without the consideration to which il was
entitled. 1t mattered not what the other
| branch had doae with it or how much they
| had consid cred. It was the duty of the
Senate to consider the matter for itself. II
| it was to be the custom to consi 1eF
measuers immediately upon their reception
| from the other branch, what was tho SEN
ate to do when two or more measures came
in together. We're the members to stay and
consider them then and there without re-
gard to time. Mr.. Higgins thought that the
request that the matter be laid over until
Tuesday was entirely reasonable and
proper.
| The question was then put TO vote and
| sixteen voted against the postponement
and twelve for. Senator Savage, who would
have voted mo- was paired with Senator
| Cook of Cumberland, who would have voted
Eyes" Mr.. Cook has been called away by
the death of a relative. This vote gave the
friends Of the college then total of seven
teen votes to thirteen against.
Senator Day Immediately moved that the
bill, which had already had its first read
ing, should be the order of the day for to-
N orrow and it was so voted.
It is impossible to say whether the vote in
the House yesterday was greater surprise
to the Bangor men or to their opponents.
When the Bangor contingent went to bed
Tuesday night, they had made estimates
which gave them the victory, but by
ma ajority much less than they actually re-
ceived. One of their estimates gave them
eighty-thl ee votes and that was. perhaps.
the hlgneSs Iney nOpeO IOr up ~ yseteRuAy
morning. One Bangor gentleman who has
neen a member of several legislatures. put
the Bangor strength between seventy and
eighty. Another one of she Penobscot
county men said yesterday afternoon that
the vote exceeded their most sangulns ex-
peotations. The fact is that large number
of members went into the House unplsdged,
and neither side knew where TO place them.
The Bangor men are loud in the assertion
that the argument was on their side, and
that the speeches for the Bangor plan were
vote coinels. Certainly the large number
OF Bangor gentlemen who were TO use their
personal influence in converting members
deserve to be called vote winners. for they
succeeded in materially changing the con-
dition of affairs in the twenty-four hours
before the vote was taken in the House.
Ono of the surprises of the vote was that
over half of the Kennebec delegation voted
In favor of Bangor.
TALKING OF THE STATE COLLEGE.
The House has suddenly became dsbat-
ing society, Vest erday it was the Bangor
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