Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-11

Nf. 1to'O NDS oil Portland: would
like also to have Kinds Digest Of
rules Of parliamentary procedure as
to what constitutional amendment
can be passed by. I think you will
find that 1t is two-thi11s Of the mem
bers present and voting.
Mr.. PATrANGAIL of Wateryile:
If the gentleman is under the i'm
preston that tWC-thirds have the pow
er to amend the Constitution of this
State. I think it is all the more neces-
sary to bring in the Constitution
Mr.. BIGELOW of Portland: Mr.
Speaker: | desire to take but a mo-
ment of the time of the House and l
want to call attention to the fact that
the lnsurgcnt tactics which evidently
are i'll play here are unnecessarily de-
laying the business of this Legisla-
ture. There are a large number of
important measures which me must
act upon. Some of them must neces-
sarlly lie considered as emergency
measures. When the gentlemen have
once in d session expressed their dis.
approval of this method of doing bust
ness it seems TO me that they ought
TO have reasonable consideration for
the rest of us who want to complete
the States business and get home, and
that they ought to vote us in order to
make the necessary two-thirds, be
cause they must know when it comes
to Il consideration of these questions it
is necessary to have two-thirds to put
these measures through. 1t is not Il
question of politics, it is a question of
fair play and business common sense,
and | appeal to the minority members
of this House, who may think that
they are making point here but who
| think have made it when they have
once expressed their disapproval of
doing business in this way, to assist MS
in facilitating the business of the Lcgis-
laturc.
Mr. STRICKLAND of Bangor: Mr..
Speaker: | object to the slur on the
minority members of the House. J be-
licvc i'll doing business as business
should he done by business men, and
believe we should vote for those
measures that undoubtedly ought to be
passed, that we all know ought to be
passed, but when it comes to sIurring.
it is not in pltC" in this particular
case.
Mr.. FATTANGALL of Watcrville:
Mr.. speaker: Speaking for one of the
small minority of seven who voted no
on an emo rgclcy appropriation q few
minutes ago. | desire to say that not
even to accommodate the ideas of eX-
petition on the part of my friend from
Portland (Mr. Bigelow) would I vote
fer what | deemed 10 be a violation of
the Constitution of this State. I know
| may be doing wrong in delaying the
HCulse on so little and unimportant
AMI friVulous a matter as q cDnstitu
tionai cue Stion. and perhaps / ought
to have taken, with others, the time of
the House in discussing ice fishing i'll
some pond in Cumberland county in
stead of taking up the other question:
but it seems to me that so long as we
label one appropriation after another
an emergency appropriation because
we want to pass them in a hurry we
are doing a dangerous thing. / am
not so anxious TO do business that I
want to do it wrong. I am not OPP
posing this proposition but L am OPP
posing and Shall continue to oppose,
not by delay but by my vote, the prop
osition that anything which anybody
wants to get through in hurry can
he called an emergency appropriation.
AIr. BEYER of Portland: Mr.. Speak
or: II it is in order / move to take n
vote on this special appropriation to
pronounce whether or not in the judg
nent of this Legislature an appropri-
alton for the Insane hospital, like
this one. is an emergency measure I'M
der TIE Constitution. that is, whether
it is A matter of public health. and If
the House 50 decides that it is within
the meaning Of the Constitution an
emergency measure. then we can pro-
cctd to vote on it.
Mr. MOORE of Saco Mr.. Speaker
I rise to a point of order and I move
the previous question. We are con-
sidcring the adoption of the resolve.
The gentleman from Portland (Mr.
Beyer) wants an expression of opinion
of this House as to whether an appro-
priation for an insane hospital is an
emergency measure. Everybody who
votes On the main question will ex-
press his opinion on that We are not
concerned with the opinion of the
House as to that proposition at all.
1t is not in order, Mr.. Speaker, in my