Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-06

about $3.50 after taking out the expendi-
lures for the support of the school and
for the highway. Between that strip and
the city of Lewiston is a large outlying
strip of long, rough roads, without valu-
able farms, from which the city can get
no revenue, and we have been using that
surplus in maintaining those poor roads.
They say, we will take your net debt-our
net debt is about $780, 000-and then VIC
will draw q proportion. We will take
your estates; aud as your whole estates is
TO the value of that part to be taken off,
so is your net debt, $500, 900, to that part
we should pay. That comes to about $500.
Eight hundred dollars is all they offer
to give to Lewiston for taking away a
territory that gives to the city in revenue
net of $3.50. Not pauper, not bridge,
not burden do they take, but they will
give us $500! You will notice that they
don t take in a rod of our highways that
is covered by the houses located on this
strip, and the expense of course of max
ing that section of street is inconsiderable
in comparison with the expense of taking
care of these long reaches of road which
stretch back from that strip to No Name
point On the Greene side they get a
road close to the village, taking off that
buiit-up section and the valuable build
ing lots, and they leave to the town of
Greene what is known to all the town of
Greene as one of the worst strips of road
in that country round about to take care
of, and not farm to help bear the burden.
want to leave this question by asking,
what public exigoncy calls for this pro
posed legislation? Why cannot they wait
until they are ready to become "A village
corporation? They take the cream from
the pan and leave the skim milk to the
city of Lewiston. Examine this ques-
ton, and if in your Judgment you believe
that this is a wise measure at this time,
vote for it and l shall bow in acquiesence
to your verdict. On the contrary, If ]
have shown you in this rambling way of
mine good, sound logical reasons why you
should vote against the passage of this
bill, then l say TO you, and l say it for
Lewiston and for her FUTURE say to
you with one of old, Come over into
Macedonia and help us. (Applausc)
Mr. Bagnall of Webs ter said that this
bill which annexes SO much Of the town
Of Sabattus as is situated in the city Of
Lewiston and so much of it as is situated
in the town of Greene, has been so fully
discussed here that perhaps it needs no
consideration on my part. But / won Id
like to all your attention to the fact that
the village of Sabattus is situated some
six miles from Lewiston. 1t is a little
village of 623 inhabitants 404 of them in
Sabattus Webster, lao of them in Sabattus
Lewiston and 10 in Sabattus Greene.
Now these citizens of Sabattus Lewiston
unanimously come up and sign petit |
tion, with the exception Of one, and that |
one, according to the Lewiston assessors |
books, represents valuation of 800, to |
be annexed to the town of Webster. And /
why? Because they feel that they are one
of us. There is no mountain or river or
anything OF any magnitude between us,
but we lay there in one little town. We
are divided by an invisible line which
splits our manufactures, our homes and
houses in two Also it divides cur peo-
pie in sentiment. These people here have
no interest but what virtually centers in
Webster. That is their home that Is their
place OF business; all their moral, social
and financial interests are conferred there.
Now my brother in summing up his
side of the question seems to bea very
much concerned about that big city of
Lewiston losing that little piece of terri
tory and finds fault with the manner of
adjustment that this bill proposes. Now
/ submit to you if it is not fair pro-
position when there is "a question of dis
pute to submit it to DISTINGUISHED parties,
and that is just what this bill does. Now,
then, if the city of Lewiston and Web
ster cannot adjust that satisfactorily, we
Will submit it to a party that is disin-
terested, and we cannot offer anything
faircr. ] submit is there anything that
can be left to a fairer tribunal than dis
interested party II is not supposed that
Brother Noble and I could agree ON the
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