Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-04

WtSu IL CONSluCT Tie H&0ktCE &Il0t 10
specially assigned for, today. ard as
some of them are absent. move that
it lie on the tablet and be re-assigned
to Wedpesdaysof next week.
The motiOsl was agreed to.
Br. BENNETT of Hollis: Yesterday
forenoon We passed an order, and I
move Its reconsideration. The order
reads az follows:
Ordered. The Senate concurring, that
a special committee consisting of seven
members of the House of Representa-
tiyes and three from the Senate. be ap-
pointed to ascertain how many reports
off the several departments are printed
"a Oh year and the cost Of same. and
recommend to the Legislature how
many it is advisable to have printed.
and to further take into consideration
the necessity and advisability OF con-
tinuing the Office of secretary OF the
board of agriculture. %
Now the first part Of the order smells
like economy. it tastes like economy. in
fact l. don'r believe but what it is econ
omy to do 1t; but the latter part of it
which relates to the necessity and adj
visibility of continuing the Office Of
secretary of the board Of agriculture,
should like to have recOnsidered and
stricken out. ! don't under stand why
that order was brought before the
House. Evidently there are matters
that don't see through. If it is an
attack upon the secretary of the
board of agriculture it is out of order
entirely, because he has a right to be
notified and summoned here and heard
on the matter. If it is not an attack
on him it is an attack on the board of
agriculture. Now / don't believe that
this House Is ready to do anything to
hamper the usefulness of that board of
agriculture. 1t is one of the Oldest
boards that has been established in
this State. and IL is about the only
thing that the farmers of the State
have got left to show that they have
any rights or protection in any way in
this House. We had an agricultural
college They stove that to pieces and
made u law school Of II. The Leeisia-
! ture has been tampering with all the
| law that relates to towns nat farmers
| have anything to do with. They have
ripped the road law all to pieces. and
| the school laws are all smashed up.
| They haven't benefited them. In a
great many instances ! don't consider
that there has been any improvement
| whatever Now the proposition is
made here to have an investigation in
TO the advisability Of continuing the
office of secretary Of the board of ag-
riculture. / do not impute to the gentle
man who presented that order any mo-
| tive of a DersOnal nature, 1t is an at
tack on the Office of secretary of the
board of agriculture. Now il the farm
ers in the State of Maine have any
rights. and believe they have, we have
an opportunity. this morning. to as
sert those rights. / am willing that
there should be investigations made
| into the printing business, but do say
| that it lis unfair to attack one Of the
most important boards we have in the
State and to take away from the farm
ers the privileges that they now have.
| These Institutes that they have in diff
ferent parts of the State are an impor-
tant thing. and it Is the only educa-
| ton on the part of the government
that teaches the farmers of this State
! Nobody denies tina the agricultural IN
terests of the State surpass all others
combined; and when you touch those
| rights you are tearing up the very
| foundation OF the prosperity OF this
State. fandI say that the order should
be reconsidered and stamped upon in
such manner that such motion Will
not come before this House again at
this session. If you are going to inves-
| tigate anything, take some of these
minor concerns. See the money We ap-
propriate here to protect fish and deer
and foxes and rabbits and everything
else under the SUM- There are Other
( departments that demand close
I scrutiny / hope that every man who
! has an interest in the farmers, every
| man who has a garden. who has a
| fiower-pot in his house. a chicken in
a coop anywhere, will vote to have this
| motion reconsidered. (Applause.)
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