Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-24

Resolve In favor OF town of Linneus.
Resolve relating to a settling lot II
Resolve in favor Of the Legislative com
mittee and members of Senate and House
authorised to visit the State College Of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
committee Oni labor.
Resolve In favor of the committee or
education.
Resolve In favor of the chairman Of thu
Resolve for payment of back salary OF
guard ut the State prison.
Resolve In favor Of the town OF Fores'
City. to aid In building one-half tht
wick in Forest City.
Resolve in favor of the Pennington
State Normal school.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
On motion of Mr.. Walton of skowhe-
gan. resolve In favor of the, Eastern
Maine Insane hospital was taken from
the table.
Mr.. Hamilton of Biddeford. withdrew
amendment A TO this bill.
hs Mr. Ma,ioh move ahat ihi Sesr
state to the members of this House thai
since the resolve was laid upon the tabl,
l have carefully examined in regard T.
this matter. I supposed then. gentlemen.
as perhaps most of you have. that there
was a burning necessity that this resolve
should receive passage and that this
insane hospital at Bangor should be i'm
mediately completed because Of the many
insane people in the State of Maine wht
are unprovided for. l supposed at thai
time that the hospital at Augusta coult.
not receive. the people who desired and
for whom it was desired that treatlnen,
should be given. but gentlemen. have
examined this matter since. / have talked
with many from all over the. State. and
man after man stating that in his vicinit,
there is no call for additional accommo
dations. 1t is true that there is Il some,
what crowded condition in the hospital
worse today than it has been for five OF
six years; i, Is even less crowded than
was then. The amount of 100000 is {
large amount to he expended unless there
is II burning necessity for it, 1t Is pc
culiarly hard that the call should be
made upon the people of the State Of
Maine. today; or that any part of this
absolutely necessary. Mr.. Speaker and
gentlemen 1t is impossible for me or any
other man standing here to picture TO you
the condition of the people Of this STATE
in the. rural portions as compared witt
what ii was a few years ago. Take. for
instance. the farming. community. TAX
the man who few years ago had a farm
S Mort" sell t. f sn , tSaay few ss s sea'
ago they could raise upon their
market at, fair price. But Mr..
speaker anu 6tutleBneu. witt
the West and certain other financial con
ditiOns which 1t Is not necessary for me
to repeat here and now. has brought
about a condition that I say 1t mildly
worth the amount that he was worth 81,
ye:irs ago. While we have been here b
session. because OF the lack of the 0rdi
nary amount Of snow by which men cOuls'
Maine. thousands and thousands of dol
lars have been taken from the hard
working. Industrious men of the State.
Not only that: but by this very condition
the fields which they are TO NOW mex
summer have been SO exposed to tn
frosts that the result will be that IN.
only crop which they raise and which viii
only crop they depend upon for a littit
cash with which to huy their supplies,
will be cut on. As I said the other day
It Is necessary that We should move slow
have here a list presented Inc other day.
and / think no gentleman has looked
over this list without CONSERVATION. w,
have commenced to appropriate money.
Our committees have commenced to re
port. and what do we find? We find tina
we have already increased the amount o,
about everything that We have passed
two years ago. an amount of s252.5l1.a
was expended. we. this year. have al
ready appropriated the amount of $751;.
5000. an increase Of $l7S.000 and more.
ID
creased amount upon almost every mat
ter that has been presented to them: and
gentlemen. are we to take the report o.
these committees as even prima facie
expended? Gentlemen. have had some
experience before committees. / hav
heard men express their views before
committees, and have been surprised at
truth. Now. Mr.. Speaker and gentlemen
the matters which have been here pre-.
scented show that the committees have re-
ported favorably upon the matters.
Where. two years ago. $3O5. $50 was appro-
priated, now they have reported the enor
nous amount of $532.65 almost double
that amount. Not only that. but here
are large amounts called for for other re-
solves and measures which have not been
passed upon by the committees. In ad-
dition TO that, gentlemen. there are mat
tiers which have been and are to be intro
duced calling for vast sums of money.
Here is the matter of tuberculosis. a very
serious matter. as the gentlemen viii
claim. matter that will call for thou
that this may be stamped out. and GU.
very homes are in danger: our children
must be taken care Of: and. gentlemen.
5000. 900 to build this hospital at Bangor
until We know how much money is re-
CURED for those other purposes? Now.
in my judgment, this is very serious
matter which confronts us. This resolve
If given a passage will do one of two
things. Either it will open the flood
gates and everything will bolt through
and two years from now We will come
here to the reception of a Democratic
Governor. or else worthy appropriations
cannot be made. We shall be obliged to
rob the little academies and the other
worthy objects of State aid. Gentlemen,
shall We do it in order that we may COM
plete this building? Why. some gentle
men say that we have expended the sum
of $l15,0 and that we will lose the inter-
est on that money. Gentlemen, after we
expend $S00.0O0 more, don't we lose the
interest on 100000? And not only that.
do we not Immediately commence the ex-,
pense of running hospital in the city of
Bangor? l tell you. gentlemen. it is a
serious matter for us to contemplate. l
know of the desire of the city of Bangor
for this hospital. 4 know that the city of
Bangor claims; that they should have
some State institution, but. gentlemen. l.
don't believe 1t Is. q true claim that this
hospital appropriation attracts more at
election of q mayor, or that business
matters are dependent upon whether or
not this Appropriation goes through in
regard to the hospital at Bangor.
think it. Is q libel that even the little
children over at Bangor, when they say
their evening prayer, ask the good Lord
to help the people to complete this hos
pttaf. that they may be able to see the
funny insane people over in Bangor
Gentlemen. 1t is bad financiering to pass
a. measure unless 1t Is demanded not only
by the people of Bangor but by the people
Of the State of Maine. Gentlemen have
mine. and they have asked whether there
WAS call for this anprOnria ttop srhov