Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-14

not be trcatctisas il was then intende,ls II
anybody enacted it as wrong, 1 implor,
you now not to allow such wicketlness e
prevail. When the people Of the differen,
towns in the county got together and
voted, did they not mutually pledge theil
faith, each to the other, that according te
their vote and according to the provisions
OF the act of the Legislature, that Il
should be carried outs They say now.
!. Let the people vote. ask that tina,
act, if it must be submitted to the people.
be submitted to them. in the form thai
will enable them to carry out the homes,
intentions of the original act. But they
say, unless this bill passes Just as il
stands, they won't have it. Is this blu
more sacred than the Legislative act Of
1891, than the faith of the State pledged
in that act? Is it more sacred than the
faith Of the State pledged mutually by the
different sections Of the county to each
others
The people don't ask for this bill. |
know the members of the Legislature from
the county of Aroostook wish it was not
here If it is not fit to live after You have
pay III tnoso "nienuAnch's, WIZ JOIN Will
the House IN voting 10 Indefinitely post
pone it. II the proposed branch was for
Ashland, 1t does not follow the right
route 1t should be railroad along the
Aroostook valley, which would take
them in the direction OF their future shire
town of Caribou. This is a road which
nobody in the county of Arcostook wishes.
If there is man who feels that am ask
ing any more than ne would insist upon,
thal man nave ~. ne'. l leave ,nis
ma.ter WIN you tnppiause,
Mr: league OF oaripou, saiu tnat ne iei.
that u was uu,y 'na. ne owed 10 nis
CONSTITUENTS ls " n.ns, CIV " ono ia o.
roau coHpah! ~ say soii'e'ning Oh this
pln.
nave you nearH wo,u rom the gentle
man from van nuren Una. tne company
mas NOT done all tnat II mas oeen aDie 70
40: Inere Is no evidence 10 snow pu.
wnat tnat company mas uohe VIVA. II
PROMISED 10 uo' anu 'here Is no OCCASION
Tor THIS excitement mere IN tnls House,
we IN Aroostook county nave wal,eu
these many years ior railroad anu nave
not nad IL. feopie nave come mere anu
got charters from you gentlemen time al,
Ter tlme' anu nave PROMISED US ROADS anu
have never given us any. rms company
has given us roau' anu SO lar as KNOW
that company intend as soon as tney can
to build a road TO van buren. Inefe Is
no occasion for any amendment II you
pass the DILL Inc company wants you
to allow the people TO vote on II, anu say
as ono man, IL tne peopie VI my county
want to vote on 1t, am perfectly wiling
they should
l want to say q word about Mr.. Bur-
leigh's letter. The president, the gentle
man has said, wrote SO and so. He was
not the president of any road at that time
nor of any company. The Burlcigh
scheme to get a road into the county of
Aroostook was that the county should
build the road He thought if the county
would vote $500, 600, we could then get
enough capital through the county bond
to build that road say to you, gentle
men, that if the county Of Aroostook had
voted as the gentleman from Van Buren,
did on that $500, 900, we should not have
q rod of railroad today from that COM
pany. After we had voted that $500, 600
it gave capital great encouragement. 1t
said to capital. "The people of Aroostook
believe in this road, and they will sus-
tain it and patronize it, AT first the
company only got enough money to build
the road to Houlton. 1t was then expected
it would go no further. The road was
then built to Presque Isle. but it was
then reported that it was doubtful if it
would ever reach Caribou. No one ever
dreamed that this was dishonest COM
many We knew Mr. Speaker and gentle
men, that ii was necessity for that road
to come to Caribou. / don't believe you
are going to hear man because of his
multiplicity of words l hope you will
reject the amendments and pass the bill
as it has been presented. (Applause)
Mr.. Dickey of Fort Kent said that he
had learned in his life that you cannot
build railroad without money, and il the
money men and the men that take the
bonds are satisfied that certain road
will never pay, they won't advance any
money and that is the end of it. If they
are satisfied that the road will pay, they
will settle their money in Aroostook and
we will have road No road has ever
been built in this State with such speed
and been so well engineered as this road.
1t has been success ana VIII be success
in that great county Ii you undef'ahe
to build road to van Buren ana .he
money men say 1t Will never pay, ana that
it will never be worth dollar TO tnen,