The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-02-17


deal OF attention for the vigorous ant
eloquent manner Of its delivery. liz
said: 81 wish 10 say that thsrs is nj
man living who has higher regard OF
greater respect Tor the dignity Of thu
court than myself. But cannot support
this bill, though / have personal friends
upon tho bench whom would be pleased
to aid were IL consistent for uie to do so
IL any of the officers or servants OF thii
state are rendering more service than they
are paid FOR l am sure no memberlof this
legislature for moment desires to idea
/ sparingly with them, from the Governor
and judges down to the janitors OF this
building. The salary OF the judges u
$500 from tho state and ] am told by
very high authority they receive an aver
age OF $500 annually as referees. and pre-
sumably as much more as trustees of
estates Are shey poor monf Not unless
the public Is very much deceived, as one
of them at least is rated to bs worth
500. coo and another claims to have ex-
pended So, 600 more than he has received
from the state since he has been on the
bench. Forty five hundred dollars a
year, an average Of sl4.42 for every day
In she year, Sundays alone excepted, to
the average man man would seem to be
. reasonable compensation and 1t would
seem that with 1t they might have all the
necessities and some of the Injuries.
How does 1t strike you, professors Of
colleges, teachers of public hools. min
Il fot. "A T.
airy pursuits2 How many q yos receive
$4,000 year IN clean, cold cashs How
many of you are receiying sl4 per day
How does 1t strike you, my farmer
friends, yon who are the baokb bone ana
life blood OF the republics You who are
working fourteen hours day every work
DAP in the year and four hours ON the
Sabbath at an average OF 10 cents day !
| Do you think the state Is frugal and
mPsn with Its judges. and do you think
their salaries should Le increased to si7
day. 1t has been suggested by friends Of
the bill that lawyers from the cities had
refused appoin tmeBts because OF the in
sufiicjency of the salary, but 1t Is certain
that these men would not accept an ap.
pointment even at much larger salary
than is proposed. But ii does not prove
that they would be more compentent or
efficient judges than many of the less
known and moro conscientious lawyer VI
the rural district.
! "a believe this increase is unnecessary
anu uncalled for In the interest of the
great party which We represent; In the
interest of common business economy; in
the interests Of the tax payers and citi-
zens of Maine. and in the interest of jus.
tiee and right, between man and man,
J believe no increase Is necessary,
Judge Stearns followed In few words
In reply to senator Fernald's eloquent
and convincing argument, and the vote
was taken on the passage of tie bill to be
engrossed The vote was as follows:
Yeas-Adaus, Chamberlain, Dudley,
| Hamlin, Hargraves, Head, Hind, Shep.
herd, stearns. Vickery, White.-l1.
Nays-Blsnohard, Fernalu. Grindle,
Hodsdon. Johnston. King, Merrill, Price,
Pike, Reynolds, Sawyer, sharp-l2.
Paired-Drummond for and Weeks
against ;Whitehouse for and Young against
Plummer was absent, and Clason did not
vote.
| The vote was declared by the president
to be against the passage of the bill. Fer
nald moved indefinite postponement, but
at the request of stearns withdrew tina
motion and the bill was tabled.
THE APPROPRIATIONS BILL.
NJ fsuarnsav of novar ,nada bia atta,t
| ON the appropriation bill by moving to
strike out of It the following annual ap.
| propriations; Insane state beneticiaries.
SOS, 900; lights for the state prison, $500
printing, $3S, 900; binding, 8. 5000.
The amendments were considered sep.
arately. Speaking on the.tirst. Mr.. Guern-
sey said that so far as he could learn the
trustees of the Maine insane hospital had
accumulated $40. 900. He thought this
sum should tie charged to the state and
applied to the purposes of the appropria
| tion.
MIR. Manley answered his criticism by
explaining that while it was true money
| it was due to prudent business methods
and was needed in making improvements
to give better heating and ventilatinG
facilities at the hospital. to provide for
the better care of the unfortunate pa
tients. All this money appropriated by
the state is not paid to the hospital.
Some of 1t goes back to those towns which
prefer to take care of their own insane
MIR. Manley did not believe that the legis
lature would begin by cutting down ths
appropriation for the care Of this unfortu
nate class Of people.
Mr.. Guernsey repl led that he certainly
would not advocate depriving these peopls
of any comfort, but it appeared that a
surplus had been accumulated in thu
past two years aud he thought 1t q reason
able proposition to eliminate the itsm
| from the bill SO that time might be given
| for investigation. The necessary sun
could then be appropriated in the second
appropriation BILL: