Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-25

| he had attended to the duty assigned
him. and thereupon Mr.. Savage APP
peared and took his seat.
Papers from the Senate disposed of
| in concurrence.
! Bill. An Act to increase the salary
of the county attorney of Oxford
county. came from the Senate referred
motion of Mr.. Weeks of Fairfield it
aries in non-concurrence.
Resolve in favor of Matthias Gull
nan, came from the Senate, passed to
be engrossed in that body, the House
having non concurred in that action
and having accepted the report of the
committee on appropriations and
| fina ncial, affairs, ought not to pass.
/ Afr. WEEKS Of Fairfield. Mr.,
! S peaker,sf r would TASK If there is a
printed resolve accompanying the pa
| perS?
The SPEAKER: There is; it is
Senate Document No. g.
| Mr.. WEEKS: l understand that
| this is a resolve that was introduced
| into the Senate, referred to the COM
mittee on pensions, and that that COM
mittee heard the evidence. examined
all the witnesses, and reported that the
resolve ought to pass. 1t was then re-
ferred under joint rule IS to the COM
mittee on appropriations and financial
| affairs. That committee reported that
the resolve ought not to pass. Now I
know nothing about the facts of the
case but | would like to know upon
what grounds the financial affairs COM
smittee has reversed the action of the
committee on pensions who looked into
| this matter carefully, candidly and
conscientiously, and reported to the
Legislature. l say I simply ask for
| information, and l think it is fair that
this information should be given to
| this House in every case where the
committee on appropriations and finan-
cial affairs reverses the action of the
primary committee. For one am go
ing to say right here and now, that
do not believe in this joint rule 49, l
believe it is a hinderance, that it is
putting the Legislature under guard
! ianship. For one l don't believe
| in it; but / think it is fair,
since we are under this rule, that the
committee on appropriations and finan-
cial affairs, when they reverse the
action of the first committee, should
give their reasons to this House for so
| doing; and 1 simply ask that the COM
| mittee do so in this case.
! Mr.. PETTENGILL of Rumford: Mr..
| Speaker, it is my misfortune not to
! hear the remarks of the gentleman
from Fairfield, who has preceded me-
p,,t in, nd tn urlx
committee on financial affairs did not
| report favorably on this resolve, I will
say that in this particular case we in
vited the chairman of the committee
on pensions to come before us, and
from his statement it appeared that
this man was a member of the militia
and received what injury he did re-
ceive in his service as a militiaman.
Now your committee on appropriations
and financial affairs feel that if the
State is to adopt the policy Of pension
| ing the militia, it should be by gen.
eral bill and not in these specific cases.
AS a committee we cannot see why
| man in the militia should be placed in
a preferred class as compared with "a
| man who served in the Civil War for
instance. We have a general pension
| bill, and the committee felt that in all
| these cases of man who serves in the
militia, or man who may have
served in the Aroostook War or the
| Spanish War or in the Civil War, there
certainly should be no preferred class
| for the militia. That is the reason why
we reported adversely; and if they are
to be pensioned, it seems to me that
| It should be by general bill.
| Mr.. WEEKS: 1 would like to in
luire whether this Matthias Cullnan re-
ceives a pension now under a special
act passed by the Legislature; then
| would like to know what is the extent
Of his disability and under what cir
| cumstances those disabilities were con-
| tracted 1t may be that this is a case
| that demands our especial attention.
| Those are the questions l would like to
ask, and think this House would like
to have full and complete information
about it. If the gentleman from Rum
ord (Mr. PettengilD is able to state
| the facts, l for one should like to hear
| hem
| Mr.. PETTENGILL: 1 would state
| for the information of the gentleman
| srom Fairfield (Mr. Weeks) that the
| printed statement of facts, accom-
| oanying the resolve answers his inter-
| rogatories.
The SPEAKER: The chair would
suggest that there is no motion be-
fore the House.
Mr.. PETTENGILL: move that the
House insist and join committee of
| conference.
The motion was agreed to.
The Speaker appointed on that COM
| mittee. Messrs. SWEET of Portland,
| Davis of Watervile and Libby of Me-
| chanic Falls, Mr.. Pettengill declining
to serve.
Senate Bills on First Reading.
Resolve in favor of Bernhard Pol of
| Bangor, to reimburse him for taxes
| paid through error.
/ An Act to incorporate the Lily Water
Company.
The following petitions. bills, etc,
were presented and referred:
judiciary.
By Mr.. Allen of Sanford: Bill, An
Act to incorporate the Kittery
Municipal Court. (Tabled for printing
l Of Mr.