Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-30

ever faced before in the history OF inc
State You built buildings, YOU say, an"
added to the assets of Maine. what else
did YOU do? Talk about what this Leg
islature has done! You had constructive
LEGISLATION all right. You had the kind
of constructive legislation that caused
Won 10 be so situated that Nou had Dor
rowed ever! dollar that you could Dor
row You could not borrnW any more.
The State ct Maine could not float IL
proroissory note of $50 legally when
this Legislature met. Its credit was
absolutely gone. Besides trat you pass
ed over to this Legislature unpaid war
rants amounting /" ?3S4,00o. What dld
We have Ia met them with? one hun
dred and fifteen thousand dollars #
cash and SlOS,O00 of THAI was antlC.-
pated taxes that the treasurer got from
the city of Portland and Eden and York
and Bangor by writing those places IN
December that he needed money des-
peratcly. OF the $4,000 which Won
left in the bank to take care of Sonr
! checks with you S3S4,00J. you bor-
rowcd Si0S,0ao from this wears taxes.
, That is the way you left us. Besides
that you left $335,000 of bills that came
in from time to time that no warrant
had been issued for. You had con-
structiye Legislature! Then what did
You do? The State of Main" must pay
its bills said the gentleman from Houl-
! ton, That is Republican doctrine he I
says. Willy didn't YOU pay them lasU
year? Then we could have spent some
money mere. Why didn't You pay the
bills? Because YOU did not raise none"
enough To pay them with. and tha:
grand old 1ith LEGISLATURE did not dare
to raise money enough to pay the bills
il contracted If II had YOU would
not have had a majority of 20 in this
House. the House would have been un.
snmouSly Democrats CApplause.b
Now we faced that situation. We hal
a million dollars of your bills To pay,
not ours; hut We are paving them as
fast as We can Do you want them
paid tomorrow? Don't YOU know that
Tie State TAX, if you nvied Is mills.
don't bring a dollar into your Stat.
treasury until next January? When DO
Nou think taxes are paid, In order
to do it and still not tax the peopl.
o. Maine too heavily. We have been
obliged to economic. We have been
obliged to be niggardly almost. we
have been in a position where We Ind
things we would like to do; but We
have not done what III. gentleman from
Hcalton saws. We have no. passed over
To the next LEGISLATURE To nav = sin.
gle hin that Maine owes. not on,. AMI
TIN, gentleman from Houlton knows II
We expect in the next campaign when
the gentleman goes ont on tho stup,p
that that same talk Will he made ina
We have sent to the next Legislature.
bills to pay which Maine owes. II 10
not So Neither the gentleman from
Houlton or ANYBODY else can point IN
one single dollar Maine owes thar ".
hava asked to go TO the n.xt Iap,s-
lature. When your pauper Gains cam.
up did YOU saw that the stare Owe,
them" of course Won did ret hecauSo
We said that what the stata owes !,
pauper claims can ba mid ~ or.,a. .,
the Governor and Connect rbe,,. va,
saia We c.nno, 90, :, fro,,, ~, 60
ernor and CouneiI becausA tho Stota
don't owe this If is only mn .r,,,t.
bic claim. that the State ought IN ,oy
Il gift. a pratuitv" did tb,. s,oto -.
for The buiIdinp Of roads md hri,<,os
in certain sections of tho S,.ta ,tosa
claims which came bereo No M, ona
singh, dnllar which tho Sat. -, >,o,,,
owes has been semi IN rho now 49,
lature 10 mother them h,t v,, ~,
bothered with them ourselves w. -.
tried ia nee, that si,r,tio, fairfr, ,,,,
squarely.. II has haa, mat b.,
cause this LEGISLATIVE. bo ahoro,
a policy whicH was for,.,d ,,,o, :,
noIic,, ,lo, :, oo,,tI 49,, -,
miles II w,s ahsoi,taI,. raa,.,o ,a
cause We how Ia .;a.;a
down and AT tbe ,a,,o ti,,Io ,1n, 1as
the t.,v rate axorhi.a,+ We 80,
tho state i, nosi,ior ,.hara d,,nt,,e.
th. I,tte- r.r, of co,arna,.a n,, .s,.,,
first Neutrality-suspicious. .hara -, -.
neonla goine abort u,ith ,,rsar,. ~, 49,,
star tra., surv asI;no ioan .hont,..
discount tbam for 49,, M. -,
lican no,icv is ,o nav, tha hin, riFaa
in t,,a s.a.a of nairo thl,.o 49, -,
az farmers boIaine, c,,l,ors -, 49, S,atS
issuod nv tho Cat,1a ron,n,;.s;o,, 49,,
,hav baya yi,on than, %
cent discount 70 loan shar,,,, hooo,,s,