Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-16

1 summer, and hope the motion will pre-
| vail.
Mr.. GARDNER Of Patten: MY sug-
| gestion Is that every man here who II
| opposed 10 this order or who is in favor
| of it should put himself on record. ask
! every man here. no matter what his ideas
| on the merits of the question are. 10 be
willing to stand UP here and go on record
| II you believe one thing. go on record
that Thu, way, way II you don't sothe other way;
| Mr.. PIERCE of Blaine: can hardly
| understand the necessity of the passage
OF this order to end rp the business of
| the term. What Is the idea of the order
Is it to close UP the business before the
| business has been reached? Is it to close
| up the business of the session before we
| have finished our duties? Is our duty ia
/ leave our work undone or should we go
| along and close our work before we get
through with it? Now, If there is any
thing ahead that anybody is afraid of.
| why they have taken a very wise precau-
| ton to spring this question on an unsus-
| pecting Legislature. for | believe a good
| many of the members of this House are
voting on this question on their own in
| clinatiOn to get home, rather than dodg-
| ing any issue.
Now. If there Is any question ahead,
why, | say that we are in duty bound to
stay here and take care of 1t. IL those
gentlemen who are so anxious that we
should have an adjournment by next Fri
day see anything ahead, / say that they
have taken a very wise dodge, but can
not see the necessity Of the passage of
.,r1nr Of ID, rbA t,,,et -
the session will be rushed through just
as quickly whether such an order is
passed or not 1t means that something
will have to be cut off. Whether that
something is something that the people
of this State are asking for. will appear
in its own good time, and ! say that this
matter this order. fought not to pass.
Mr.. MERRILL of Skowhegan: If un-
derstand the question before this House
II is this. First there is an order intro
tluced here to adjourn at twelve o'clock
next Friday night coming from the Sem
ate, and now the question Is TO have IL
yea and nay vote upon that question, up
on the passage of this order.
Now. MIR. Speaker and gentlemen of the
House, 1t Is we'll known to the members
of this House that there are certain i'm
portant measures now in the hands Of Il
committee that have not yet been re-
ported. a measure in which every men,
Der of this House and every man whom
he represents is Interested directly; and
! ask the members of this House If they
do not think with me that II is well that
we wait until our committee has at least
reported, before we close the door.
| say, Mr.. Speaker and gentlemen of
the House, that the bill now pending be-
fore the committee on taxation should be
reported to this House before we as
members of this House. say that we will
adjourn this body finally at the midnight
hour on Friday of this week | say. gen
tlemen. let us meet this question that
comes before us like men. and not have
legislation stified by passing such an or
der as this. tAppause) / hope gen.
tlemen, that not only yea and nay vote
will be taken, but it will be so strong a
vote in opposition to the passage of the
order that We shall receive no such order
again during this session. (Applause)
MR.. MARCY of Gardiner: l voted with
the gentleman from Patten (Mr. Gardner)
10 lay this matter upon the table. ! voted
in the minority but | did not expect that
the minority would be small. | intend
ed to ask the gentleman from Skowhe-
gan (Mr. MerrilD who made the remarks
the other day. that We all listened to with
such attention, why the same state of af-
fairs did not exist today that existed
when he made his speech last week. But
he has so admirably answered that ques-
ton that | will rot ask it. but | do ask il
all business and fairness that this House
do not 1t this moment decide at what mo-
ment they will adjourn. We cannot tell
what matters may come up. While l.
myself do not care to stay here any grea.
length of time, l do ask as a matter OF
fairness and justice that every one of this
House shall be heard upon any matters
that pertain to our State, and while |
do not expect that the taxation commit
tee will keep us here any length of time
] do think that they should have a
chance to report to this House, and this
House decide what they will do with
their report. This House has been a lib
eral House. We have voted every appro-
priation. 50 far as know, that has come
before us-appropriations for academies
and schools, and | voted for every one of
those myself and | was in favor of them
We have voted for bridges and roads AMI
We have done about everything that ouc
constituents have asked us, and do MOI
think 1t is just or right or fair at this
moment to stifie legislation by deciding
now at what particular moment we shall
adjourn, and l think it no more than
right that that matter should be decided
a few days later.
The question being shall the yeas and
nays be called. the motion was agreed to
and the yeas and nays were ordered.
YEAS--Abbott, Beal, Belleau, Bennett. |
BIRD, Bodweil. Bridgham, Britton, Buck.
burns. Chamberlin. Chase, Chick. Crane.
DeCoster, Deering, Ea ton, Garceion. Gen.
tleman. Goss, Harris. Hill. Hopkins, Irv-
Ing. Johonnett. Jones. Keefe, Kernon, |
i.aliDerte, Leavitt. Libbey, Albion, Libbey, |
So berwick: Macomber. Marley, Meich, |
er, Nickerson, Orrington; Parker, Peas |
lee. Perkins. Philbrook. Porter, Powers, |
Rankin. Reed, Rowell, Ryerson. Sargent, |
Sedgwick: Sutherland: Taylor, Turner, |
Virgin, Webster. West, Wilbur, Wilson. |
t.herrylield: Wilson, Gorham; Wood, !
Woodbridge. Total yeas, IS.
! NAYS-Adams, Berry, Blackstone. !
trimmer, Brown, Faimouth: bryant.
t'arr, Cobb, Coffin. ,Colburn. Craig, Dali
gle. Davis. Dawson. Donham, Dunning, |
iGsty, FarnswOrth. Field, Fitz, F0gg, I
Forhan, Freese, Fuller, auburn; Fuller.
kennebunk: Fuller, SO. Portland; Gard
ner. j. Girdler. Gordon. Gould, Grindel. |
Guernsey. Hahn, Harmon. Hassen. Hix,
Hutchings, Jordan. King, Led
yard; Macfarlane. Maxcy. Maxwell. Me-