Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-03

and | hope it will pass.
Mr.. STAPLES of Knox: Mr.. Presl-
dent: There is nobody in this SENATE
but who believes in obeying the sap
bath and keeping the Sabbath, ana W.
all agree to believe, as citizens OF th'S
State that it is a good thlng' put VIC
have on our statute books a suf1lclen'
law to protect just what TINS pm -
designed to protect. | believe that u
should not become a law to encuHlpel
orr statutes. because the law upon
them TODAY is ample and complete anu
sufficient to keep anybody from Vlolat-
ing the Sunday law. They nave no
right of course, to do certain Things.
The statute has provided a penalty 1or
If and now to put this upon somebody
as a burden seems to me to encuHlper
the statutes and to be a foolish one.
am surprised at the foolish laws
which we are asked as legislators TO
vote for You curtail the rights Of
everybody. ! am frank 10 say NJ.
in the citv of Biddeford, and IN the
city Of Portland, where you nave ialse
manufacturing factories and Where tile
poor man works from Monday morn
ing to Saturday night. If he wants u
take his gun and go into the WOODS oii
Sunday, / am not going to pc SO puIi-
tanical as to say he shall not 90 ~
Are you going to take away az .ile
rights that q man has. AS one senator
said. we shall have to have law bye
and bye to be able to be SAFE 10 go
out doors, if we keep on with thl9
ridiculous, humbugery class of leglsla
ton. If we are sent here to curtain
the rights Of the people, We are Sent
in vain. | hope the motion to indeii-
nitely postpone will be sustained.
Mr.. DONIGAN of Somerset: MI
President: 1t seems to me that there
are so many of these petty measures
brought up and especially by the SEN
atOr from Aroostook-it seems As
though If we had adjourned two weeks
after this Legislature had met, II
would be a good thing for the people
of the State of Maine, and, Win all
due respect to the senator from ArooS-
took, | think he has more OF these
petty measures and foolish measures 10
the square inch than any other Inaii
in the State Of Maine. ] hope we 90
not pass this law. ! heard MI raj
mage lecture in Boston, and ne Sald
there was no harm in going boating,
riding. and he went on to state num-
Der of things in which there was no
harm, and | think that he was liberal,
and I hope that Mr.. Talmage is as
good as a good many of these senators.
Mr.. MILLIKEN Of Aroostook: Mr.
President: | hope the senator will not
call this bill my pet measure. DO not
let that be said about it. The sugges-
Al, tnr SnrI1arCpt
we should have adjourned about two
weeks after the Legislature met, would
no doubt appeal to many Of the people
of the State as being wise thlng %
do. but. if we had done so, we should
have been deprived of the great priVl-
lege of hearing Senator Donigan'S de-
fence Of his pet measure, the bridge
bill
The PRESIDENTS: This bill was
passed by the Senate to be engrossed
as amended by House Amendment a.
Bv the House it was passed to be en-
crossed by House Amendment A and
House Amendment Il. There is no
motion pending before the Senate.
Mr. DONIGAN of Somerset: ! move
that the bill with the amendments be
Indefinitely postponed, and on that
motion | ask that the yeas and nays
be ordered.
The question being put. the yeas and
NAYS We're ordered, and the vote being
had resulted as follows: Those voting
yea were MeSSrs. Baxter, COlcord. Don
igan, Emery. Hamiltan, Kellogg. Loon
ey, Lowe, Macomber. Minott, Mullen,
Osgood, Reynolds. Staples, 90. Those
voting nay were Messrs. Boynton, Ea-
ton, Gowell, Hastings, Howes, Irving
Knowlton, Milliken, Shaw, Smith,
Warren. Wheeler Wyman, 13).
SO the motion that the bill be indefi-
nitcly postponed prevailed.
On motion by Mr. Minott of Sagada-
hoe, bill can Act to amend Chapter
Pol of the Public Laws of 1907, entitled
AN Act for the better protection Of
alcwives and sturgeon in the various
rivers Of Maine,'" was taken from the
table
Mr.. MINOTT of Sagadahoc: Mr.
President, in relation to this bill,
should like to make j. statement. There
seem to be various laws on the statute
books at the present time in relation
to this matter. We have law at the
preSe Mt time, the law of 1878, Chapter
81, can Act for the protection of stur-
gcon in the waters of the Kennebec
river and its tributares''
"Sectior l. There shall be q close time
for surgeons, from the first to the 18th
day of June. inclusive, of each year,
during which no sturgeon shall be
killed or taken in any manner. in any
of the waters of Kennebec river and its
tributaries, under q penalty of not
more than fifty nor less than ten dol
lars for each offence, and further
penalty Of ten dollars for each stur-
ge0n 50 killed or taken"
We have also the law of 1907, Sec
ton Of Chapter PSI. in which it states .
ut shall be unlawful for any person
to fish for, take. catch or kill any stur-
geon in the kennebec river or its trb-
utaries and Merrymeeting bay between
June II and March first
House Document No. GIL, Of the pres
ent Legislature reported by the COM
mittee on sea and shore fisheries, at
Section =, reads: There shall be q
close time on sturgeon from July first
to December first Of each year, during
which time no sturgeon shall be fishod
for or killed. and no sturgeon less than