Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-24
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
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l am not personally interested in
will say that / ought not to be On the
floor of the Senate opposing a matter
which the senators from York county
are after; but l think, il any Of you
will take this matter home, you would
not like to have three or four men
step in and undertake to divide your
town. When the petitioners came in,
all they could bring was 40 petitioners
and few letters from some non-resi-
dent owners, out of the State. And
let me say that most of those letters
which they put into the case, were
letters in answer to a circular letter OF
the proponents which was sent out TO
the nonresident owners. Some OF
those letters say that they do not un-
derstand much about this. but If you
people think a division Is necessary,
we presume it is and will stand by it.
hope, gentlemen Of the Senate, that
you will sustain the report of the ma
iority Of this committee. ]
Mr.. HAMILTON Of York: Mr..
President: This is the first / have
heard that this was a political meas
ure. Certainly ! am we'll acquainted
with the town and know that there are
Democrats and Republicans, both for
and against this division; and ! nave
never heard that there Is any polltlcs
in it whatever. / do not believe there
is any politics in 1t. II there ls, the
senator who has just spoken mas
brought the politics in. l certainly
have friends who are strong and &C
tive Republicans, who are opposed 10
this division; and equally, as well, 1
have friends in the Republican party
that are in favor Neither OF them
came to me or have spoken to me OF
political Issues; and ! repeat, II there
IN any politics In it, he has brought
them in, because none have come IN
in York county, in reference to the d.
vision Of this town.
The senator has talked about the
hearings before the different commit
tees, and the different times. and the
hearings that he has given to the dit
ferent towns, and the results OF those
hearings. I suppose that each town
that has come before this committee
for division, has come upon facts
which they have represented to the
committee-each different-each had
its virtues and it's desires made nee
essary; and they have come before the
committee to represent those towns
in that manner; but that has nothing
to do with this town whatever.
was opposed to the first bill which
they heard l was opposed to the di-
vision line which was first introduced
here in the Senate and referred to their
committee Since then an amendment,
,,.{l hNy 1nn1sinp
record, has been made which wonder
fully changes it; and 1 will call each
of the senator's attention to the new
draft, put in as an amendment, when
changes the line and also changes the
name Of the new town. 1t makes q
vast sight of difference compared with
the plan first drawn. In the old bill,
the line was through the center of the
town, leaving the whole of the rural
district in one town and all of the
beach district, or the village part, in
the other town.
BY the new draft the line goes a
part of the way across the town but
not in the direction which the old line
made-not in the same place. and fol-
lows the river to Cape Nedick and then
to the sea and along the shore to Kit
terry, and then by Kittery to it's place
OF beginning, and contains a vastly diff
ferent territory.
Let us see how this town stands, as
1t Is now before you under the new
draft. The town of York has valu-
alton of $2,393,33 AS it stands now,
tho resident real estate is $1,074,4OS and
the nonresident is $1.031.43 So you
SEQ that in this new town, which IS
called for by the bill which is now
before you, that the nonresident valu-
alton Is about equal to the resident
valuation: Under this division. the new
town Is seashore town. Their in
terests are different from the interests
OF the rural districts, vastly different
AS you all understand, they want q
great deal done and they are willing
to pay for what they want done.
/ wish to go a little further. There
are in this town two village corpora
lions and they both come within the
town that is described in this new
plan. There is the corporation at York
Harbor Village, $74S,505. The resident
il 1869, $50. That is the new village cor
poration which is in this new town.
The nonresident is 1888. 625-the non
resident is larger than the resident
populations: and in the York Beach VII
lage, another village corporation. with
in this same boundary, the resident
valuation is $l36.425 and the non-resi-
dent valuation is $225, 343.
The total valuation of the town, as
] said before, is $2,393,3SS and the viii
lags corporation is $l.11O.273. and the
estimated value of all other property
within those villages is only $20O.00O.
Now mark. The town rate is 1880.
The Harbor Village corporation is 2.30,
making in their rate of taxation 21.S0.
The beach tax on the corporation is
R75, and that makes it little over
22 cents on the hundred, taxation.
You see by this that these village
corporations which he has talked
about won't say that he has made
@ mistake In saying that they have
paid for the sprinkling-the village cor
poration has paid the whole expense.
You see the non-residents own in
THE town that is row asked by this
bill-this new town-that they own as
much, If not more than the residents
more than the residents. considerable;
and that they pay great deal more