Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

VelOped that the remonstrance. those
who owned property about the pond.
and practically all the people in that
vicinity, We're very much opposed to
this proposition. Therefore move that
the bill be indefinitely postponed.
| Mr.. kavanough of Portland called
for division of the House on the
question.
| Mr.. BIGELOW: Mr.. Speaker. if this
matter is going to a division PROPOSE
to go little further into details and
explain it more fully The gentlemen
VINO have petitioned for this matter
live in Portland, and as understand it
they nave been accustomed for some
years, each year in the month of
March, to go somewhere for a few
| days outing at the end of the week.
This pond was stocked by the people
| who owned the property there and
through the influence of the people in
| the vicinity. They have expended the
| money for stocking the pond. thew
| have taken an interest in it and have
done all that has been done, and these
gentlemen who petitioned to have the
pond opened have never done any
thing. They come on here and through
here-becausc they are men of high
standing and so forth-they secured
a consideration of that bill, while these
men who have not been represented,
| owning property about the pond, feel
as though they have been discriminate
ed against. The people who own prop
erty there and who are trying to stock
it with fish feel that if this pond is
the depletion of the fish and that their
labOrs will come to naught hope
therefore that the House will vote for
the indefinite postponement of the bill
Mr.. DAVIES of Yarmouth: Mr..
Speaker, I would inquire OF the gentle
man from Portland (Mr. Bigelow) if
the proponents of the bill which is
now under discussion We're the people
who do not live in the vicinity of the
pond?
Mr.. BIGELOW: I understand that
only one man who lives in the vicinity
of the pond has signed petition to
open the pond for ice fishing.
MIR. kANANOUGH of Portland: Mr.
Speaker this seems to be occupying
considerable valuable time for a rather
minor matter, but the facts of
the case are these as |
understand it. This is rather
a small pond and it has been closed lc
fishing for a period Of four years. There
are n limited number of cottages on
the shores of this pond, and it is an
utter impossibility to catch any fish
there in the summer time. Now there
are people who have always desired ar
opportunity to be very we'll stocked and
they simply ask for the privilege OF
fishing three days in one month out OF
twelve through the ice. Now this is
not very large question but it is q
question Of whether or not the waters
of the State of Maine are to be open
reasonable length of time for a GER
tain amount of fishing. Now it is true
that the petitioners are not residents
of the town of Raymond or of the
town of Naples. The fact is this, that
most cf these men own property in the
vicinity of Sebago lake ard they I'M
dcrstand the conditions in regard to
Thomas pond. ] certainly hope that
the motion to Indefinitely postpone VIII
not prevail
Mr. DAVIES of Yarmouth: I would
inquire Of the gentleman from Port
gentlemen own property adjoining the
waters of the pond or parts of the
pond?
Mr. KAVANOTGH: Mr.. Speaker
In answer to the question of the gentle
man from Yarmouth l would state that
the gentlemen asking for this privi-
lcge do not own property on the shores
of the pond.
Mr. ROUNDS of Portland: Mr..
Speaker: | would like to know if this
is the pond that the State stocked from
the fish hatchery we have got up
there IT seems that the State furnish
ed this pond and the people want to
go there three days in week only.
hope the motion will not prevail.
Mr.. BIGELOW: Mr.. Speaker: I re-
gret to have to correct a misappre-
henson of the gentleman from Port
land CMr Rounds) as to who stocked
the pond. The pond was stocked
through the influence of Congressman
Allen at the solicitation of the people
who have demonstrated against open
ing it to ice fishing.
Mr.. ROUNDS: I didn't know that
there was any pond in Cumberland
county that had any stocked trout in
if because + understood that the State
of Maine hauled all the trout to the
northern part of the State so that the
Maine Central could get some revenue
out Of it for hauling them. l hope that
YOU will give the people up there three
DAYS in which to go and catch few
trout.
The question being on the motion to
Indefinitely postpone the bill. division
was had and al voted in the affirma-
tive and 90 in the negative.
So the motion prevailed.
Mr.. Rounds raised the point OF n"
quorum present.
The SPEAKER: Eighty-nine mem
bcrs are present and in their seats ana
n quorum is therefore present.
Mr. RIGELOW: In order to bury
this thing finally I move that the
House reconsider the vote, and l ask
all those who voted to indefinitely post"
pone to vote no.
Mr. ROUNDS: I see that they like
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