Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-26
CAPITAL CHAT.
Many Millions OF Fish
for Maine Waters.
Chief Engineer Stevens Makes
a Fine Impression.
Maine Members Very Busy with Their
Routine Work.

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Representative Philip Pitt Camp
bell, of Kansas, who has campaigned
a great deal in Maine and comes from
Nova Scotia, tells an interesting
story OF the attractions the sea has
for him. He lives now ON the Kansas
prairies but likes Nova Scotia as well
as Maine and the rest of New Eng
land.
Il was only small boy, when my
father and mother took me from that
eastern province" said he here re-
Gently to an interested group in the
House cloalrOOm. I'VE lived at q
place called Sydney Mines. My pa
rents journeyed from there to Halifax
ard then to Boston along the beautiful
coast of Maine. Our home in Nova
Scotia was close to the ocean and to
a fine beach. Here we could hear for
every hour of the twenty-four the
roaring of the ocean on the shore.
Well l was too young when 1 left
Nova Scotia, to remember much about
it. but there is one thing l have never
forgotten and that is the roaring Of
the sea. l love the sound of it and
suppose | shall continue to love it to
my dying day. Talk about your
splendid prairies. Why there is an in
most ycarning with me to get back to
the ocean and l can not rid myself of
it,"
United States Fish Commissioner
George NJ. Bowers, in a report just
made to the Department of Commerce
and Labor states that in 1905, 137,4SO,-
81 fish and fish eggs were distributed
in the lakes and streams of Maine.
The figures were exceeded for no other
New England state, except Massa-
chuSettS, where the distribution
reached a total of 37O763,637, more
than any other state in the Union The
distribution in New Hampshire was
only 1,006.6G5; in Vermont, where
there is one United States Fish Hatch
cry. 64,9OS.206. Rhode Island had a
distribution from the federal hatch
cries Of but 2O1,200 fish and fish eggs,
which is explained by the small area
of the state and the few water courses
in which young fish could profitably
be planted. Connecticut had dis
tribution Of 5,132,643. The large dis
tribution in Maine is primarily due to
the unllagging industry of the four
Maine members and two Maine Sena-
tors iii urging the government to keep
the lakes and streams up there we'll
stocked.
Commissioner Bowers has this to say
of the new hatchery at Boothbay Har-
Dor. which is probably his favorite
hatchery of the score or more estab-
llshed throughout the United States:
THE completion Of the hatchery on
the Maine coast was promptly followed
by extensive operations, and the out
look for effective marine culture in that
State is unusually bright The
principal purpose of the hatchery is the
propagation Of HOLSTERS, and the first
season. record fully justifes its cstab-
lishmcnt. From impcunded Holsters
and from Holsters purchased from the
fishermen more than S0,OOO,0OO eggs
have been taken. As an adjunct of lob
ster cultivation. this station has been
equipped for cod Matching. the field
Tor which appears TO be extensive and
promising. and the first years output
nearly 5O00U,O0O vigorous fry-is graft
flying.
Ex-Representativc Nespacian War
ncr, Cow commissioner of PENSIONS
was before the House committee on APP
preparations the other day. testifynG
about the necessity of more money to
pay for pensions granted. He was
asked by /, member of the committee
about the cost Of pensions, growing out
of the Spanish War. 1.-THE amount
disburscd last year was 81. 409, 9YS. "a on
account of the Spanish War;" said Mr.
Warner. 1.-THE total amount dis
bursed on that score since the Spanish
War is sl1. 1896, 1858"
Mr.. Warner and Representative Liv-
ingston. of George. and Rrundidge, Of
Arkansas, got into a colloquy about
pensions. as follows:
Mr. Livingston. The farther away
we get from the war the more pen
sioners we have. Have you ever TAX
On that into consideration?
Mr. Warner. No; if I understand
you correctly. The only steps we
have taken along that line have been
to trip up claims that were fraudulent.
Mr.. Livingston. Do you think this is
Il prOoer method here which we prac-
tice in the Holse-when you turn down
an applicant to put in special bill and
put him on anyhow? Do you think that
is good conduct
Mr.. Warner I was meThat en-
barrassed in the matter myself when I
was in Congress here, and 1 had all
the private bills passed that could get
passed. [I.aughter.1
Mr. Rrundidge. That was a duty
you owed to your constituents then,
and this is duty which you owe to the
public now. [Laushter.l
Mr.. Warner. Tom Reed used to say
that every man. woman and child in
the United States was entitled to
pension. [I.aughter.1
John F.. Stevens. the chief engineer Of
the Panama Canal. now staying in
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