Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-11
I not all of the Holsters taken under

| if not all of the Holsters taken under
the bill.
The bill provides that in case the
Holsters are net purchased from the
Maine commissioner by the United
States commissioner they shall be lib
Grated three miles from shore, and SEN
ator Wilson of Washington wanted to
know if this distance was not too
great. Senator Maddocks and Com
missioner Nickerson agreed that this
might be so and they were agreeable to
any change which the committee
thought wise in that respect.
John McMarr of Milbridge said that
/ in his section the fishermen throw back
all seed Holsters and he thought they
would object to any bill which would
compel the fishermen to send their
Holsters to the commissioner. If the
| Fishermen liberate the Holsters them
selves there is chance that the fish
will come back to the same feeding
grounds and hatch their young, but if
the seed Holsters are turned over to the
fish commission the Holsters are lost to
the section from which they are taken.
He said that he did not believe in kill
ing the goose that laid the golden egg.
He pointed out that if the Holsters were
| liberated close to shore they would i'm
mediately get back to shore and be re-
taken by the fishermen and that If they
were liberated out to sea they would be
eaten up by the cod and pollock He
3declared that an expert in the lobster
fisheries can tell at a glance whether a
lobster has been stripped of its spawn
| by the brush. Representative Thomas
of Topshan, did not favor the plan of
taking the Holsters three miles out to
sea for liberation-in fact, he said, he
did not think the wardens would carry
the seed Holsters that distance to sea
and expressed the belief that large
part of the see Holsters would be lib
Grated near Boothbay Harbor. He fav-
ored liberating the Holsters in the inn
mediate vicinity of where they are
caught, and he said that if there was
any danger of lobster being twice of
fered to the commissioner it would be
well to provide that each lobster paid
| for the commissioner be so branded
that it cannot be again offered for pur-
chase at the advanced bill provided I'M
der the bill
F. M. Trundy of Stonington, favored
the general provisions of the bill but
was opposed to the three-mile limit. e.
M. King of Eastport, favored the gen.
eral provisions of the bill and N. j.
| Hanna of New Harbor, said it was the
best bill ever presented, but it seemed
to him too bad that it was necessary
to pay bounty for what the fishermen
ought to do themselves. He said it
would cost about $1,000 per year.
| The wholesale and retail lobster
dealers in Portland appeared in connec-
ton with the bill regarding the selling
of lobster meat. The bill prohibits the
Isale of any meat unless the Holsters
shall have first been inspected and de-
clared to be of legal length.
| These various matters will be consid-
cred in executive session, today.
The committee on taxation tabled the
bill providing that one-half of the tax
on trust and banking companies shall
] be turned into the school fund.
! On the bill providing for a tax in
direct inheritances, referred from the
last Legislature the committee voted
ought not to pass.
| The bill relating to the taxation of
mortgaged real estate was tabled for
| future consideration. -4s Ut
| The committee on agriculture post
poned the hearing on the bill relating to
foul brood among bees.
| The committee on salaries also con-
tinued the consideration of the bills re-
lating to the salaries of county attor-
| neys, so as to give the county delega-