Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-26

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AroostooK with all its great farming in
terests, with all the great undes eloped
water powers, which need only to he pre-
scented to bring in enterprises like thos,
which have already been established and
more which will be established. | believe
sir, in the spirit of those lines which a
| gentleman sent to me in the state of In
diana one night after he had seen my
| somewh hat Indifferent presentation of the
I attractions of Maine:
| Tonight across my senses steals
The perfume of the pine.
| Oh: sweeter far to homesick hearts,
Than dfaughts of fragrant wine.
Again uplift the sea girt hills
Where sylvan beauties reign,
And dreams of them come back to me-
O, mother-land OF Maine.
Thy glories CLEAN before my eyes
In all the olden days,
see again the labyrinths
Of all thy lovely bays.
The sea-euils cry rings in my ear
AS DER the foam he lilies,
And memory sets her signal lights
Along the daclsened skies. '
Like phantom ships before the wind
They to their Ravens flee.
While |. a wanderer, must drift
Upon ShoreleSS sea.
And while the 1ires of being burn
WITHIN the conscious brain,
My eyes shall seek thy far-Off coasts
Oh, mother-land of Maine" (Appituse)
That. sir, is the spirit which animates
the sons and daughters of Maine through
out the great West. They will visit that
exposition by thousands. and it will give
the State of Maine more advertising.
thrice over, than can accrue from any
other method which she can adopt. | nor
only believe. as | said before. that We
can afford to do this-I do not believe we
can afford not to do it; and / hope that
the resolution signed by the majority of
the committee will have a passage by the
House, and l move you. Mr.. Speaker, that
we accept the majority report, that it
ought to pass.
Mr. PETTENGILL of Rumford: M.
Speaker, l shall not attempt any
flights of eloquence in regard to this
matter. / merely want to call the at
tention of the members of the House
to rage seven of special Document No.
II: and this is the only reason for sign
ing the minority report of any of the
members of this committee on finance.
agree with the gentleman who has
preceded me that it is an important eX-
position. a great opportunity for adver-
Using. but with what limited business
experience / have had, l have always,
had to limit my expenditures by the
amount of money l had on hand. OF
else | had to give those announcement
things called notes, in order to make
up the efficiency.
Now. you will see on page seven of
this special Document No. II, that
4, in,
to $40. so for the year 1903. Now, i'll
that $4,000 is this Appropriation With
sorae other appropriations which have
been reported There have been favor
ably reported by the finance committee
for the year 1908, 1871, 574.03. Some Of
these have already passed the House.
There has been approved by the Gov
ernor for the year 1908, $1,919, 335.13.
making sum total asked for, reported
by the committee and approved by the
Governor for the year 1908, of $2.33S,-
1926.
Now. for the year 1904, there is A
similar amount. 81. 1873, 1868. In addi-
| ton to the expenses for this year given
in the figures already read. are the
legislative expenses. / fancy that every
member expects his pay and mileage 1T
the end of this session. That is not in
| cluded in any resolve already intro
| duced. That is estimated to cost sso,-
| 0O0 There are the salaries of various
county attorneys to be provided for.
amounting to $3.50, which makes to-
| tai asked for this year including those
two latter items of $2,4S5, 717.26.
| Now. the States estimated income by
| the treasury department-and this has
been gone over very carefully, is S.
! 6sS 164. That shows us that the de-
mands above our income for the wear
| 1913 are 1897 ,533,2 %, and for the year 1901.
| $3.50, 772.SS, or a total for the two years
of $5577 1854.
| Now that, gentlemen. is the reason
| why there is a minority report with
this bill and some other bills that have
| been introduced here. We have got
| beyond our income for the next two
years by that amount. Now, compare
the appropriations of this year, the de-
mands of this year with the appropria-
tions of the two preceding years. We
find that the demands of this year are
$465, more than was appropriated
for the year 1901, and for the year 1904,
s:33,639. in excess of the appropriations
l JOI lrNs--pl. tiNitt6 tiosC IVY odIto ~
makes $199, 532.26 asked for more this
year than was appropriated by the last
Legislature. Now. we present these
| figures to the House and it is the duty
of your committee to do that. These
matters are in your hands, gentlemen.
Mr.. SWEET of Portland: Mr.. Speak
er, recognize the force of what the
gentleman has presented so clearly and
s,iccinctly. and vet / submit that il
! the appropriations are made as he has
read them. we shall not exhaust the re-
sources of the State. do not suppose
| that with the new and magnificent en-
4 terprises in which he is engaged, and
| with the enterprise which he shows in
conducting them, he would hesitate
even to exceed the income of some of
those things if in the immediate future