Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-18
FRIDAYS SESSION.
The Close Of a Busy and Inter-
esting Week.
Long and Warm Debate in the
House.
More Temporary loans-A Bounty On Porcu
pines-Some insurance Figures.

The work of busy week, full
of interesting features, closed for
the Maine Legislature when the
session ended Friday noon. 1t was
fitting close to such a week. The
session of Friday was long, occupying
two hours and a half in the House, and
was the occasion of one of the warm
est debates and some of the best
which brought out all the eloquence
was the resolve of $1,000 annually for
the Deering Home for Friendless Boys,
which had come over from Thursday
for consideration. McFadden of Ores
den spoke in opposition to the resolve,
not because he opposed the institution
but because he felt that it was not the
duty of the State to support it. 1t was
evident from the first that Mr.. McFad-
had been in opposing previous re-
solves, but every spectator and every
member admired the old veteran as he
stood there expressing with vigor and
clearness his honest convictions that
the State is following Il wrong policy
with these institutions. The resolve
and the institution were warmly and
ably defended by Chase and Webb of
Portland.
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for the same side. and his speech was
one of the best of the winter. He fair
ly carried the House by storm with his
sarcasm, his pathos. his eloquence,
and his argument. When he closed he
was rewarded with the longest and
loudest applause that any session of
the winter has witnessed. Three times
the applause was renewed as it died
away. showing how his auditors appre-
in expressing them. Mr.. McFadden
attempted to reply, but was shut off
because some member raised the point
that he had already spoken twice on
the matter. He appealed for unani
nous consent and it was refused AS
he sat down the natural love for fair
play in the House asserted itself. and
several members appealed to the House
to give him another opportunity to
granted. and he spoke briefly in reply
to Judge Smith The debate was
closed by brief speech by Beal of
Bangor, for the resolve. When put to
a vote Mr.. McFadden's motion to in
definitely postpone was lost in an over
whelming chorus of Noes No divis-
ion was demanded and the resolve was
put upon it's passage. The speeches in
full are found in the stenographic re-
port.
Before this matter was taken up the
session drifted along for over an hour
in the transaction of routine business.
The committee OH agriculture reported
the bill to regulate the sale and analy-
sis of food, known as the pure food
bill, and referred it to the next Legis-
lature. On motion of Melcher of Port
land. the report was amended so that
the bill was indefinitely postponed. The
temperance committee reported leave
to withdraw to the Portland petitioners
that the prohibitory amendment to the
constitution be re-submitted to the
people. The reports Of committees and
the reading of bills in various stages
of passage consumes much time of
each session, while the new business is
now less and less each day. The Sen
ate session was over an hour before
the House was through it's work. Among
new measures in the Senate were a
number of bills on school matters. the
transportation of pupils. temperance
instruction, etc. When the two bodies
adjourned it was to 4.3O p. NJ, Mon
day, when the work of the eighth
week will begin.
srha fret hill introduced in the House,