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

speaks ABOUT ndVllS SPSCiii io6io'
ton for the town of York, and he OBJ
jects to that, but he believes that the
bill is all right, and that bill itself is
for special legislation for the town OF
York. Now, I would like to know if
| it is any worse to have special legis-
lation for the town of York than it is
to have special legislation for the coun-
~ York i am very glad to find out
that the gentleman from Saco is IN
| terested in the matter of the division
| of the town. 1 have some suspicion
| as to how the gentleman stands on that
question, and he has now given us
| an indication of it which / am very
| glad to know about. But it seems to
ne, Mr.. Speaker, that it is perfectly
| fair for us to have a perpetual ciose
| time On deer in the town of York and
| will give my reason for it. The town
| OF York is q summer resort; 1t is prob
| ably the largest summer resort In the
State of Maine, excepting Bar Harbor,
and it is nothing but a summer resort.
| and anything that will result or tend
| towards the best interests of that town
| as a summer resort should be adopted
| III my opinion. / know that the people
| who come to the town of York in the
| Summer time are Interested in seeing
some of these wild animals that are
entirely harmless. / have known peo-
pie to hire a team and pay Sc or 81
for it and drive for half a day into
| the woods roads to see deer. / know
| at one time there We're some deer be-
! fore they We're allowed to be slaughter
| ed two or three years ago, and they
| got SO tame that the people could see
| them frequently, and I have known
| people who close to come to the town
| of York for the sole reason that they
| believed they could have chance to
| see deer in the town of York. I have
no pet scheme in this matter never
| shot deer in my life and wouldn't
| shoot one any more than I would shoot
| my grandmother, but 1 do believe that
| it is for the interests of the town of
| York, and l do this simply and solely
| because / believe ii is for the interest
| Of the town of York, to have this
amendment made. I would like to have
| it apply to the whole county of York,
| but these other gentlemen would like
| to have blood shed, and like to see it
shed and take part in the shedding of
| blood especially when they can walk
| up in the face and eyes of an animal
| that is absolutely harmless and that
| they are not afraid of. For my part
| think it is nothing more than fair to
| have close time in the town of York
| Vt course if the members of this House
| think am asking for an unreasonable
| thing they can vote against it. It
| won't hurt my feelings at all / feel
| that I have done my duty in the mat
! Ter. what I thought was right and as
| it ought to be.
| Mr. MARSHALL of Portland: Mr.
| Speaker: 1 rise to suggest a point Of
| order. AS I understand it this amend
| nent is now subject matter and pro-
| vides for a matter in regard to which
| there has been no hearing. If I recall
| correctly Speaker Larrabee in 1897
| ruled that such matter was not per-
| MISSILE from the floor of the House
without a hearing.
| The SPEAKER: In reply to the gen
| tleman from Portland (Mr. MarshalD
| I desire to say that the Chair refuses
| to sustain his point of order and will
| further state that it has been the Gus
! tom to receive the amendment as Of |
| fered.
| Mr.. MOORE of Saco: Mr. Speaker. |
| | recognize in spite of the ruling OF
| the Chair, that there is some merit in
! the point of order raised by the gen
| tleman from Portland but l thought
| the motion to Indefinitely postpone
| covered all the bill, all the point OF
order and everything else. 1 thought
| after thai motion was carried it would
| kill the whole thing. 1t seemed to me
| instead Of making the point of order
| it would be better to get at the merits
of the matter. I have lived in York
county for 40 years, all my life, and
we have deer all over that county. / |
| don't know why it is that they should
| be killed in Cornish and South Ber-
| wick and Eliot and kept alive in York. |
| The town of York is a beautiful place |
no doubt, and there is very much sen
| timent about the town OF York: it l. |
| i good community to live in and there
are good people there, but why they
| should have deer in York and we in
| SacO and my friends in South Berwick |
and Eliot and Wells adjoining that
| town should be allowed to kill those /
deer ] cannot quite understand. 1t is
| true that this bill in way is special
| legislation for York county, but the
county limit is a whole lot bigger than |
| the town of York. The old county OF
town of York or the town of York
town. 1 think we do too much of this |
| business. l think that most of these
| laws that we are enacting here are Tor
| the special benefit of some individual
| or some particular community. We
| have got laws enough now. The old |
| common law under which this State
| has existed for a good many years will |
| take care of all of us. If we live UP |
| to that it will be well enough, but we
come in here-and there are over q |
thousand bills in this House and Sen
ate which have been introduced at this |
session, and l will venture to say that |
eight-tenths of that thousand bills are
for the special benefit of some town |
or some community or of some par
| ticular individual. I say it is time for |
| us to stop. l am sure don't want to |
murder deer. l never shot a deer in |
my life, and T don't know how to kill |
deer. l am sure l wouldn't go to |
York and kill a deer anyway 1 want |
the people of the town of York to have |