Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-31
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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the resolve be indefinitely postponed
Mr. COUSINS of Standish: Mr..
Sneaker, I hope that the motion will
mt prevail. Mr.. Bailey bought a herd
~ thoroughbred Jersey cattle in North
Carolina and had those cattle inspected
and they stood the test. He was about
IN bring them into the State and the
foot and mouth disease was prevailing,
so he was prevented from bringing them
into the State for some three or four
months These cattle We're then brought
home. They remained his property for
almost three years. 1t was discovered
that there was some trouble with these
rattle and they We're inspected and it
was found that they had tuberculosis.
The law says that you cannot recover
IN such a case unless the cattle have
been in the state three years. He could
not bring the cattle home i'm the three
wears the cattle commissioners having
ouaranined them. so he could not get
them into the State within the time and
he lost $3.50 which he would have OBJ
tanned and rightly belonged to him ac-
coring to the opinion of eight of the
committee, and | hope that the motion
will not prevail.
Mr.. MOULTON of Cumberland: Mr.
Speaker, | do not see why the State is
morally bound to pay this money. There
is a law that all cattle bought out of
the state shall remain in the State three
years before any compensation can be
received on account Of their being killed
for tuberculosis. | see no reason why
the State is morally or legally bound
10 pay for these animals any more
than an Insurance company is bound to
pay for property destroyed the day af-
ter a policy lapSeS. and / am not in
favor Of paying it because it establishes
q precedent. ] hope the motion will pre-
vail.
Mr.. COOLIDGE of Lisbon: Mr.
Speaker. it seems to me that when a
COW has tuberculosis. the cow is going
to die anyway and what the State gives
is a pure gratuity. | agree with the
gentleman from Cumberland that we
should not pay bills which we are
neither legally or morally obliged to.
The cows winch had this disease would
have died anyway. ! am opposed to the
passage of the resolve
Mr.. BEMIS of NORWAY: Mr. Speak
er, this matter was gone over carefully
by the committee ON agriculture: they
had full and free hearing in regard to
this resolve, The cattle commissioners
appeared before the committc and We're
unanimous in saying that this was an
honest and just bill and that the state
should reimburse Mr.. Bailey for the cat
lie UpGtrnVtI n in, ba fnI
cattle were purchased in North Caro-
ma but owing to the prevalence of the
foot and mouth disease the cattle We're
not allowed t" he shipped into Maine
and these cattle remained in North Car
DINA until June. 1903. If these cattle
mad been sent to the state of Maine
as it was intended when they We're pur-
chased Wer il not for the law which
prohibited them from coming in at the
'''he thty We're purchased, thcr would
nave been no question but what these
cattle would have been paid for; and it
seemed only lust To the committee that
the state should pay for them. | may
ADJ further that il came out in teSti-
mony before the committee that these
cattle might have 6een held until the
'''he had expired when the state would
nave mad to pay for them. so we get it
TWO ways: and it seems to me that with
" majority report of the committee and
oh'y one in the minority and after a
'"' ana free hearing. that if such mat
'erS are turned down in the House the
Rouse has but little faith in the COM
"l''ee who have heard all the teSti-
mony
Mr.. BLANCHARD of Wilton: Mr.