Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-03-14
ORDERS OF THE DAY.

Resolve IN favor NJ Edward Euiu
pending its passage ID IT, cngruSSril
Mr.. WEEKS of Somerset. MI Prcsi-
dent. | wish /" call the attention ~
Senator'S to this bill The resoly. IA
dimnutive in print, hut il means u
great deal. 1t is as small az a mouse
and as dangerous as a lion. 1t re-
quires that 81 shall he paid to Ed
ward Eolin. About the first day ~
May he took out a license To hawk ANA
pcddle in the State Of Maine ON TIL,
10th day of May. succeeding tho law
Was declared to be unconstitutional.
the only point of unconstitutionality
being that it Disseminated against
aliens. | believe that the laW Was Il
righteous law, ana that peddlars ana
haWk vrS should he required To take out
license, and | think there l.; to he re
ported at this Legislature a bill re-
curing them to take out licenses a.
heretofore. eliminating the objection
able clause. If We begin To pay back
this money to those who have paid for
a license il means thousands Of dol
lars out Of the treasury Of the state
put there under a law which is JUST
fled by our moral sense. At the next
Legislature there will be lots of them
coming here claiming that the money
has been paid to the State under q law
that should have been imperative. |
think the money should he kept in the
treasury, and move that the resolve
be indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. MCFADDEN of Lincoln: | hope
the motion Of the gentleman Will not
prevail. The committee on claims
have had several of these matters be
fore them. and We have made Identical,
reports in all of them that is:
To take the date Of their license
ana subtract from ,Lc amount paid an
amount proportional to the time elapsed
between the date OF their license aud
the date of .he decision of the supreme
colrt-May 10Th; ana tho committee have
recommended the repayment Of that bal
ance. The committee concluded that
when the state Of Maine takes money
illegally t"cy could not resist the claim
Tor repayment.
Mr.. VIRGIN 81 Cumberland: ...r
President ! can appreciate the force III
me suggestions Of the senators. but il
strikes me that il we once begin paving.
pack money mat is paid into the treas
urE. as TINS resolve calls for, in justice
there is no reason why We should MOI
repay TO every person hat has received
4 license. such money as he has paid FOR
license under the law which the court
mas cited is unconstitutional Ii occurs
10 me That possibly the difficulty NAV be
obVIated by providing in the new hawk
crS and peddlars law which has been in
trodlC'd into tn" House and reported IA
NoIdolN D. the committee. and which
VIII come to the Senate today or tomor-
row. clause that will give credit 10 such
haWkerS ana peGdlars who have been Ii
cenSod and whose license has not expired
up to the time that the law was pro-
houHced unconstitutional. Amend the
ne" law to give such persons credit On
new licenses to be taken ont for tn, nm
expended amount under their old licenses
AR. NOBLE of Franklin. | think. per
maps, the senators are not taking into
account the fact that these licenses are
annual licenses. They exist only during
me year rs | remember there are two
or threc, and some Of them have linalk
pa SSeu. '''
Mr.. WEEKS: have just been IL
formed b. member OF the House who
seems To b" posted on This matter that
through. Vet
WI NOBLE: AS suggested ~ the sen
atof from Lincoln, these resolves do not
vdn lor anything to be paid back To thc
p1i!''S' as long as The law was in force
ana these PARTIES were receiving what
EYER benefits there wer, :ircr;inss under
~, ~ liW bnf the committee decide that
i.aer me law had been declared uncon-
iitu,ional. there could he possibly ~
uht'" accriing under the law. and tina:
,,"H Wrf" entitled to receive back tina,
u W Ai'lfrd proportion of their license fee
- ''e state going to say: We Will keep