The Portland daily press., 1899-06-12

.If we hads less rain at Augusta.
said MIR Small, "we would be better OF. :"
daughter and applause
''Every.high school In the state has been
receiving appropriations. DO these poll
ticians who engineer these appropriations
through tina legislature have any more re-
gard for our children than we dor Does
Principal Corthell of the Gorham Normal
school have any more regard for his chill
dren than we dor And yet he advocated
the raising OF money by the town OF Gor-
ham for his school when the money
should have been used to give US better
roads or to give us a fires high school o I
our own. L am not speech maker but
what have said Is true every word Of IL
and l can prove It." (Great Applause.
Mir. Merrill of PowEal was the next
speaker. He said: 81 am going TO give
the lawyers question to answer. Are
the warranty deeds viii h we hold OF our
property any goo1Y Win that deed hold
the landS Can the legislature make a
law that will turn cattle out ON our land
to eat up the cropsy Is that land ours
or does 1t belong to the city nsbobss /
say it belongs to us and we have right
ID keep the cattle of from Ii. / don't be-
lieve IN putting close time on deer and
cartridges in Cumberland county, They
are the worst enemies the farmer has
ought to be turned down and the laws of
this kind ignored. The farmers have
bought their farms and paid for them.
Nlegislature can say we shall do this
or that thing with our property. III /
have n crop in my oat field and deer
gets in there and destroys 1t / shall
turn my dogs loose on him or / am going
to kill him. (Cries of that's rightly.
I'm going TO XIII the first partridge that
gets In my orchard, close time law or TO
close time (more cries of good" and
''thst's rightly and shall do it regard
less of any legislature, too.'
TIE RESOLUTIONS.
The committee on resolutions now en-
tered and made its report which was
adopted section by section as follows each
section being passed unanimously and the
most of them applauded:
"a thorough revision of our sy stem of
state taxation, TO the end that every kind
of property shall bear its Just and pro-
portionate share of the burden OF taxa
ton.
"The taxation of franchises
"No more borrowing Of money In
times of peace to run the state govern
ment.
"A lowering of the rate OF taxation by
the next legislature by judicious economy.
mo more fixing OF salaries unless II be
by horizontal reduction oil around.
mo more appropriations for academies
and Summaries with their obsolete meth
dds of teaching.
"No further encronchments by future
legisl atures upon the inalienable rights
OF the towns to local self government es-
pecially in the matter of their schools and
roads.
Embellishments of the distribution of
free passes by the railroads SO that those
who can afford to pay their fare be
obliged to do so thereby enabling the
roads through the increase OF their reye-
nues to make corresponding reduction
of their passenger rates, SO that the
farmer may occasionally afford to give
his family a ride on the cars, a luxury
now beyond the means of NEST Of them.
1.-The immediate repeal by the next leg
islature of all appropriations running for
more than two years.
CONCERNING MR.. McKEEN.
The committee on resolutions did not
report the resolution regarding the state
auditor, which was as follows: de-
mauding the defeat of the constitutional
creating the office OF state
auditor" This resolution Chairman
read and stated that the COM
mittee had thought best not to report 1t.
He asked what the convention thought
of it.
Judge McFsdden of Dresden, who is
member of the legislature, said in sup
port of this particular resolution that the
Governor and Council audit all the. stzte
bills and audit their own bills as we'll.
II we could do away with some of this
machinery and then have a
state auditor 1t might be all right, but
we don't want state auditor together
with the Governors Council. 81 voted
against this bill In the legislature, Zap
plause), and there were only four Others
who did vote against 1t. II it comes to
me to vote upon now / shall vote against
1t. don't believe In 1t and shall make
a big cross opposite the word No on
my ballot at election"
Mr.. Charles Il. Herrick of Cumberland
then asked Judge McFadden a question:
"Do the Governor and Council require
vouchers with the bills OF state offloersf'
Judge Mctadden replied that he
thought they did.
Mr.. Herrick: fWell,I see by the report
of b. Walker MoKeen, secretary to the
board of agriculture, charges on April Is,
1898, hotel bill at Cumberland, IS. 90. He
never paid 81 In Cumberland for hotel
charges. The man who put him up is
here and think he win tell you the same
thing. II many of these kind OF bills 20
through the Governors Council without
vouchers think something should be
done about 1t. y tes
Mr. Herrick then asked Judge M6FAd.
den another question: Is it proper for
state officials 10 get railroad passes and
then charge up railroad fare 70 the
stateg"