Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-01
Both House and Senate
Have Hot Debates.
Resubmission The Topic In
the Upper Branch.
The University Of Maine Resolve
Interests the House.


the fifth or prohibitory amendment to
me constitution were taken up in the
Senate Thursday morning and when
Tue vote was taken it was found that
the Senate endorsed the resolve 16 to 10,
with two pairs. 1t Will thus be seen
that the two-thirds necessary 10 resub-
mt the question, are lacking, in this
upper branch, at least.
The debate was not a long one,
though four Senators spoke on the
question. Senator Brown of kennebec
started the ball rolling by moving that
the minority report, which was that the
resolve ought to pass, be substituted
fer the majority report. which was that
the resolve ought not to pass. He then
yielded to Senator Heselton, also of
kennebec who spoke about fifteen min
uteS.
Senator Staples followed, speaking
also in favor of substituting the minor
Ity for the majority report. Senator
Mills of Hancock spoke against the
substitution. claiming that such action
on the part of his party would be
breaking faith with the temperance
element. Senator Merrill of Cumberland
spoke briefly in favor of the resolve.
The yeas and nays We're called for by
Senator Brown and he was sustained
by a large proportion of the Senators.
The question was on the substitution
OF the minority report fought to pass"
on the resolve to annul the fifth
amendment, for the majority report
ought not to pass" YeaS-Ayer,
Barrows, Brown. Clark. Foss, Garcelon.
Merrill, Parkhurst, Philoon. Proctor,
Heselton, Simpson, Staples. StearnS,
Tatre, Therault. Nays-Bailey, Eaton,
Houston, Irving, Libby, Mills, Page,
Putnam, Rice, Wyman. Curtis and
Sewell who would have voted yea,
We're paired with Deasy and Hastings,
who would have voted nay. 1t will be
noticed that all the Kennebec county
delegation voted for the passage Of the
resolve.
Another matter which created n
furry of excitement when the Senate
first convened was the acceptance of
the report Ought 10 pass on the bill
to empower the Union Water Power
Co. of Lewiston to lower the waters of
the RangeIey Lakes, or the substitution
of the minority report. Ought not to
pass" Senator Heselton moved to
table in order that the matter might
be debated i'll the Senate Chamber.
The motion was lost, but afterwards
rcconsidered and carried and the mat
ter assigned to Thursday. March :.
In the TTouee the University of
Maine resolve had the floor. The ma
iority ana minority reports Of The
Committee on Education on the resolve
in new drafts were taken from the
table by Rep. Davies of Yarmouth. who
then opposed the acceptance Of the
majority report in along speech in
which he covered practically the same
ground that WAS covered in the LeeiS-
lature of 1903 and again in 1905. He
argued especially for that part of the
minority report which favors the reten :
ton of the A. r. degree.
Rep. Kendall of BOwdoinham spoke
in favor Of the majority report, argu-
ing that the university was founded as
an agricultural college and should give
preference to that branch of study.
Rep. Smith of Patton spoke in favor
of the minority report as did also Rep.
Danforth of Skowhegan. Other speak
ers were Mr.. Tnlman of Portland. Mr..
Stovcr of brunswick and Mr.. Hill of
Nachias. 1t was finally voted to post
pone the matter until next Wednesday
on the motion OF Rep. Gleason of
Mexico.
The Committee on Judiciary reported
"ought not to pass" on the bill to as
certain by ballot the sentiment of the
people on the election of United States
senators. On motion of Rep. Flaherty
the report was tabled till next Wednes-
day. when he will move that the bill
be substituted for the report.
The Committee on Judiciary reported
"ought to pass" on the bill to create
the office of state Comptroller and the
report was tabled on motion of Rep.
ScateS of WeStbrOok.
It was about seven minutes of three