Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-03-07

rf two wears as there has been one for
the nast six. or plunge the state into
debt beyond its constitutional limit or in
crease the tax rate. Now. there Is III,
whole thing i'll nutshell ana one or the
other of those things must happen unless
we put an cnd tn appr"priatinG money for
an these special matters. doubt no.
that they are neritorious. | am in favor
III aprrnpriations by the Stat" for mcri-
torioIs matters but how can We do il i!
We have not the money? | look upon il
purely as a question of ways and means.
and believe that the members "f this
House are in accord with me on that
proposition. CApplauscI.
If vou will turn to your trcasuIer's re-
port YOU will find this statement. that
the actual net disbursements for the
wears, 1899 and 1900 We're S3,1iH.@n, and the
reccipts were $3.592n0o. which shows that
the expenditures exceeded the receipts
for the past two years by SllJ,cor. For
your information | present here a table
! showing amounts Of receipts and eNpendi-
lures of this department. the amount one
exceeds the other for each year since
1891 to the present time. If you VIII read
il YOU will see that there has been de
ficit during every year for the past SIN
years. except for the year lS9s. and the
total amount which our expenditures
have exceeded the receipts in the past
six wears is $4,000 as shown by this re
port.
So much for the general situation. Now.
we are asked in this bill to appropriate
tho sum of 5000 to build central steam
heating pIant at the University of Maine.
submit. Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of
the House that this is not necessary
appropriation, that the State cannot af-
ford to appropriate the money at the
present time 1t appears in the statement
of facts annexed to this resolve that the
University of Maine has now SIX idrs"
buildings each heated by steam from I"
steam boiler in the basement OF each
building which boilers are old and must
he replaced with new ones in the near fu
ture-not now-and that great economy
can be accomplished by central steam
| heating plant from which all the unirer-
sity buildings can be heated.
| Now, as to whether or not t:.psc thlng'
| can be done more economically from d
| central steam plant, do not know, ana
| I do not propose to discuss that ques
| tion. but it certainly appears from the
statement of facts that they have now d
steam rIant in each building which some
| time i'm the near future must be replaced
| or some of them must be replaced. When
| the time comes that they must be re
| nIaced. then let them replace them, but
not ask the State OF Maine to borro"
money to so beyond its debt limit in or
dor to furnish it at the present time.
| do not know how familiar this House
is with tho history of this university In
| 1905 an order was passed through the
| egisl;,ture that the Governor and Coun-
| iii should appoint commission OF the
council to go there and examine into and
r,aLe a report to the next Legislature OF
the history and wants and needs OF this
university. and this was done; and hold
| :, my hand the report which that com
,,ittee. constituted Of Councillors Free
| ,ap clason and Holman. made. They
go very fully into the history of this i'll
stitution. / will not take time to so into
mis- thoroughly. | will merely outline it.
7 presume YOU know that in lS63 there
,as j law passed by Congress giving =
land grant to each State with AZ many