Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-13

ing bouquets. should certainly throw
oen to the senator from Androscoggin.
admire his geniality. admire what
he has said in regard to the grand old
State. of Maine. If l have been voting
for Andrew jackson for the last %
years, SO has the genial senator from
Androscoggin. He and, I have voted
for Andrew Jackson on the same plat
form. He may have had a bouquet in
his coat. did not, perhaps. But, my
friends, let us not be carried away by
the eloquence Of my distinguished
friend, whose heart always beats for
humanity, and whom 1 admire, and
who has done SO much for the benefi-
Charles of this State. 1 win allow you,
Sir, but nobody else, to go beyond me
In praise of the grand old State of
Maine. / love her. love her history.
love Maine, with her beautiful noun
tains, her magnificent sea coast, her
hills and valleys. No man can go be-
yond me in that; and for that reason
l say, when we repair this State
House We should not set back the
wheel of time. Do you suppose raising
$S50,000 will make Maine grow. If you
put further burden upon the people
of the State of Maine you will have
less people i'll the State in 10 years
than you have today Let US be just
before we are generous. 1 say that if
I am going to vote for repair to this
State House 1 am going to know what
1 vote for; and think, if the genial
senator from Androscoggin had found
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he voted for that bill there would have
been more FEASIBILITY in what he said
about it. believe Senator Warren has
the right of this matter. Time will
show tin behalf of the taxpayers of
the State.
| Do you tell me that the State is 60
ing to the dogs if we do not repair the
State House this year? We have got
along Just the same as now for the
last Is years. Has anybody suffered?
Has Maine gone back in his history,
because we did not repair the State
House 10 years ago? The accommoda-
tons today are just as good as they
were then, and we can get along for
the next 10 years without expenditure
of $IG0,000, because, you needn't tell
me that when you repair this State
House you can repair it as it ought to
be repaired for $350,000. 1t will cost
nearly a million. / would vote for
million dollars if knew what we were
going to have beforehand, and that it
would be adequate. Does anybody tell
me. as business proposition that
$3.50, 900 added to this will be adequate
for the next so years? The people do
not want to be called upon again. But,
don't let us be carried away by the
selator from Androscoggin. I do not
know but was lifted up into the skies
and was communing with the angels.
by his eloquent words I am proud of
him, even if he has been voting with
Andrew Jackson and myself. am glad
I have SO good a companion to travel
with in the interest Of old Andrew
Jackson, and l think I am invoking
that doctrine of Andrew Jackson to-
day. But, let us be just before we are
generous. Let us put this matter on
the table; and if on looking this over.
we find it is better to do something at
the present time, then we will do it.
The pending question being upon the
motion that the Resolve, together with
the amendments offered by the sena-
tor from Cumberland be laid on the ia
BILE, the yeas and nays were called Tor
and ordered, and the vote being had,
resulted as follows: Those voting yea
were: Messrs. Colcord, Donigan, Ham,
ilton, Hastings, Staples 90; those Vot-
ing nav were MesSrS. Baxter, Boynton,
Eaton, Emery, Gowell, Hill, HoweS
kellogg Know,ton, Looney, Macomber,
Milliken. Mullen Osgood Reynolds,
shaw, Smith, Theriault, Walker, War
rem, Wheeler, Wyman (22). So the mo-
ton was lost.
The pending question being upon the
adoption of Senate Amendment A.
Mr.. MILLIKEN of Aroostook: Mr-
President: 1 desire to call the atten-
ton of the Senate for moment to the
position which this matter occupied
when it was tabled few days ago on
nv motion. We were then asked to
make this appropriation for the repairs
or addition to the State House, before IL
became evident what, II any, new
sources of revenue we were to have. 1t
was my feeling then, as I stated here IN
the Senate, that the proposition was put
to us too soon, and that we should wait
until it became more evident what was
to be done with the other recommends
tons in the Governors message, re-
specting the increased taxes to be paid,
especially by certain public service cor
porations. 1 am happy to say now
that it seems to me that that objection
to the consideration of the resolve is re-
moved Bills have been reported by the
Committee on Taxation which l appre-
bend will pass without serious opposi-
ton, which will, as I am informed by
members of that committee, probably
yield revenue amounting to between
three and four hundred thousand dol
lars, and in fact, an appropriation OF
the size suggested by the Senator from
Cumberland may practically be paid.
That objection is removed. The only
question now, as it seems to me, before
the Senate is the question of what form
this appropriation should take. I believe
that practically all the members of this
Senate agree that something should be
done to remedy the congested condition
Of the State House. that it is recon-
mended by the Governor and is assented
to by most of us, and I believe that
most of the members of the Senate
agree that something should be done