Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-25

TO be fed in hatcherieS for period
of two wears In order to do that II
will take all the additional appropria-
ton that has been asked for, and the
result will be when these fish are be-
ginning to ne distributed throughout
the lakes and ponds in this State that
over 80 per cent. of them VIII i've.
Now as ] say it is not theory. Only
IL few years ago landlocked salmon
could Only be caught in four of the
lakes of this State, in Sebago, Sebec,
Grand and Green lakes l think: today
they can be caught in three or four
hundred of the ponds and lakes Of this
State, and there is very much better
fishing in the places where the fish
come from hatcheres than in the
original places from which the fish
We're taken
Gentlemen. it seems to me that If
there is any one appropriation which
you should consider favorably, an ap-
preparation which means an invest
ment for the future, this Is the ap-
propriation. Bear in mind that the re
quest for this appropriation does not
come from the commissioners of fish
and game, it GOES not come from the
committee on fish and game. it comes
from the Maine Sportsmen's Fish and
Game Association which my friend
from Waterville has sneered at, but
those men who constitute the associa-
ton are public-Spirted, wide awake,
active business men who see the fu
ture and the possibilities CT tliiS grow
ing industry. Let you and help them
in the work that they are trying to
do for the State of Maine. 1t is the
one investment which as 1 claim will
return many, many fold in the future,
not only to us but to our children. CAP
plausel.
Mr.. PATTANGALL: Mr.. Speaker,
suppose according to parliamentary
tactics / should wait until everybody
has spoken who intends to do so be-
fore | answered the gentleman from
Portland (Mr. BigelOW), but l am not
trying to accomplish anything except
to lay this question fairly before the
House: and therefore / deem it right
that one or two corrections should be
made of mistakes into which my friend
from Portland has been inadvertently
led, for l know that he never intends
to state anything which he does not
| very fact that he has been led into err
ror is satisfactory evidence to me that
hi; committee did not have the oppor-
tunity to consider the matter on it's
merits, else they would not have unan-
| imously recommended it's passage.
The gentleman has said that IA years
| ago the Legislature of Maine appropri-
ated $4,000 year for fish hatcherles
and that the appropriation has not
| been increased since. The gentleman is
in error Fourteen years ago, in 1895,
the total appropriation for inland fish
and game, including the support of the
| game Wardens and the entire depart
ment, was but $4,000. In 1897, - years
ago. the Legislature raised that appro-
| priation to $4,000, and that $4,000 in
cludcd the support of fish hatcheries,
payment of warden service and all the
expenses of the department. Your APP
propriations have been advanced in
| IA years from $4,000 to $4,000, and it
is evident that your fish and game
committee did not know that fact. else
| the gentleman from Portland would
not nave msstated it.
Now, then, undoubtedly at the hear
! ing before that committee nobody APP
| pcared opposing the appropriation. Did
any of you gentlemen eyer attend a
committee meeting at which anybody
| did appear opposing an Appropriation
| The people who are opposed to any ap-
| preparations are at home working hard
| to pay the taxes that we are accumu-
| lating for them; they cannot afford
to pay their fares to Augusta and tel.
| :x,l GO,
us to do that without their coming
here. And while the fish and game
committee may have thought that they
were doing something for the taxpay-
ers when they reduced the $4,000 re-
quest down to $4,000, it seems to me
| that they We're not acting quite pru-
IDENTIFY enough, If they were misled by
statements that the appropriations had
| not been increased for IA years and
| misled by statements like that of the
| great prosperity which has come to the
| town of Belgrade. Now the figures in
| the Maine Year Book, compiled in cold
| blood and not gotten up in the heated
| elouuencc OF a committee hearing, give
| me this that i'm 1890 there We're 36l
voters in Belgrade and the town had
| a valuation of $411.000, and in 1904 the
| last figures given, there were 3O4 Vot-
ers in Belgrade and the town had Il
| valuation OF SAL 900; SO that that VISIT
| of Anna Held'S to Belgrade Qaughter)
| which resulted in the boys about the
| farms receiving Il new educational i'm
pulse (laughter) cut $31 900 off the val
| uation of the town and sent 81 voters
| themselves up to Boston to see Anna
| Held again. daughter and applausa.)
| And they never came back. daughter
and applause.) Belgrade saw them no
more Qaughter); they were gone for
ever The industry which we We're fos-
terng had brought the siren to the
| shores Of the Belgrade lakes, but they
were worse off than before. Iaugh-
| teri.
| one word more. ] would do full cred
| it to the good which the fish and game
| department has done to Maine and
which the propagation of fish has done
to our State, but it is unnecessary it
| seems to me when calmly considering
| the subject for US to claim that all OF
| the summer tourist business which
| comes to Maine comes because of me