Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-14
Former Maine Man TO Give
Cow to President Taft.
Appropriations Of $4,000 for
Lighthouses on Maine Coast.
Senator Hale Driving Appropria.
lions Bill at Top Speed.


President Taft in a few weeks, that
the supply of good milk at the White
House may be assured, is very in
terestlng figure around the Senate
He is Senator Isaac Stephenson OF
Marlnette, Wis. He is very much of
a character as his method of getting
the news of his gift before the public
demonstrates.
AL lrst he allowed it to be known
that his high blooded COW. Paulina
Wayne. would be shipped east along
in August or early September, 50 that
the Presldents family could have the
advantage of her services by the time
they returned from Beverly. Many
questions were asked him about the
COW but he suddenly became very Sc
cretlVe and would not give any fur
ther information about her. Then
all at once he became communicative
again. He talks in IA thin voice
which hardly fits a tall, stalwart
octogenaran with long bushy whisk
trs like himself. Proceeding over
into one corner of the Senate OF a re
cent day. he Informed newspaper
man who had the privileges of the
Senate floor that he intended not only
t" send "A COW but Il little bessie
| As matter of fact the bessie is
chiefly the cause of the delay in send
| ing Paulina Wayne. the high blooded
COW to Washington at this time.
Senator Stephenson thinks the bessie
will be quite as interesting an arrival
at The White House stables as the
COW. BY August or early September
She will be giving a large flow Of fresh
milk and should Guido the late la
mented Jersey that long graZed con-
| tentedly on the White Lot south of the
! Presidents official residence. Senator
| Stephenson declares that the COW and
her offspring will be sent by express.
Both are too high blooded and too
| valuable to be entrusted to freight
| train.
| They will make a welcome addition
| to the livestock in the White House
stables. There will be plenty of
| room for them there as the President
rides in automobiles and does not keep
as large a stable OF horses as did most
Of his predecessors.
Mr. Asher G. Kinds. the House Par
| Humanitarian. came back here for
| few days ut has gone away again to
| the First Maine district to look after
his interests in the Republican nomi-
| nation for Congress. The Journal
Clerk of the House. Mr.. Herman A.
! Phillips. is helping out on the par
liamentary end. as he did during Mr.
Kinds previous absence on trip to
| the first district.
| Maine men in the Senate and House
are feeling very comfortable over the
appropriations of $4,000 for three
separate lighthouse projects on the
Maine coast. authorized on the omni-
bus lighthouse bill, just about to be
come law. The bill carries authori-
cations of 100000 for ii gas buoy and
submarine signal at Monhegan Island;
$4,000 for light station at Otter
Island: and 100000 for fog signal
station at Boon Island. Senators
| Frye and Hale We're very active IN
bringing about the adoption of these
items. especially the two 100000 items,
at the north end of the Capitol.
There has been a determined effort
afoot for years to obtain better alds
for navigation along the Maine coast
Several projects for lighthouses were
designed quite ten years ago ana estl-
mates for construction work forward
ed to Congress But Congress has
been very slow in authorizing those
works and in arpropriatng the neces-
sary money for them. The large vol
ume of shipping along the Name
coast and the great necessity for pea
cons and other signals to guide the
mariners have not Sufficed to convince
the statesmen from the interior sec
tionS of the country. More recently
however, som" advance has been made
and it probably will not be many
wears before there will be noticeable
Improvement i'm this regard all the
lwav up to the ST. CroiX river. WITH
the construction of new lighthouses
will come eventually a larger fore" for
manning.
Most of the Maine people in WASH
ington are now confident OF settlhs
back home prior to the Fourth oi
JULY Senator Hale has been drlVlhs
at top speed with his APPROPRIATION
bills He goes ahead in spite Oh Oh
stacles that the orators would put III
his way In recent days ne mas peeii
instrumental in getting the Naval APP
nropriation bill and the Sundry civil
bill disposed of and in furtherlnS the
agreements upon some OF the general
legislation the President wants.
| The critics OF the Idlt duIilliiio'i"
Ition have not yet recovered from the
shrewd way he circumvented their
MANS to. prevent the President from
obtaining a sufficient sum to pay oe-
ficiencv i'm his travelling expenses dur
ing the present fiscal year. me
House had along hard fight over the
item and finally refused to make an
item of $4,000 for the President y
travelling expenses Immediately avail
able" That meant the money could
moi no spent till after July l and then
only for travelling the President does
after that dtae.
The House provision in the Sundry
Civil hill came over to the Senate ana
was reported back from Senator Hale $
committee on appropriations without
amendment. Those who were looking
for some amendment there to permit
the President tC pay the deficiency
were disappointed. One day when
the consideration of the bill was run
ming along smoothly and the attend
ance on the floor was lean. Senator