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

| An act relating to the pounds OF
salmon. togue and perch one person
may take. Grabbed by Mr.. Austin ol
Phillips for the purpose of offering an
| amendmentD
Resolve in favor of East Maine Cor
ference seminary.
Mr.. SNOW of Bucksport: Mr.. Speak
err this resolve does not ask for an APP
preparation, but it is for the purpose
of giving an extension of time to the
| institution. AT the last session of the
Legislature an appropriation of $4,000
| was made. conditional on the raising
| OF an equal amount by the Seminary.
| They have received subscriptions to
the amount of about $4,000 and are
| expecting t. be able to get the total
amount in the course of time. They
| have not been able to get it as Vet and
this resolve simply provides that the
seminary may have an extension Of
time in which to raise the necessary
| amount of money.
Mr.. PATTANGALL of Watervile: Mr..
| Speaker, this is private institution and
| not a State institution No doubt it is IA
worthy institution and should receive am
| appropriation. The House will recall how
| We have cut down the amounts given to
| our regular State institutions. and il
seems only fair and proper that We should
not grant anything more to a private in
| stitution than We do to the regular in
situations of the State. For that reason.
Mr. Speaker | move that the resolve be
indefinitely postponed
Mr.. PETERS of Ellsworth: Mr.. Speak
fhara &c Soma MORT n
claim which is made by this seminary. 1t
seems from the remarks of the gentle
man from Bucksport that the institution
has been unable as yet to get the amount
which they require by subscription. and
for that reason l move that the resolve
be laid upon the table in order that an
adjustment may be reached in the matter.
The question being on the motion To lay
the resolve on the table
\ division was had and the motion was
lost by vote of q to ~.
The question before the House being on
the indefinite postponement of the resolve.
Mr.. HERSEY: Mr.. Speaker. the gem
tleman from Waterville in discussing this
resolve has seen fit to again call the at
tention of this House to- Republican ex-
travagance and that We must again econ
omize. l was a representative to the
7ith Legislature of Maine. l am proud
of that fact. In this Legislature are 81
members of the 18th, and it must be
pleasure to them indeed that they were
members of the Legislature of 1909, for
that Legislature did great things for the
State of Maine. We found roads in the
State up in theg unorganized townships
that needed assistance with no source of
taxation and we appropriated money to
assist those needful plantations and their
highways. We bund also bridges that
needed assistance and we gave for the
use of roads and bridges in this State that
needed assistance where no other income
could be found the sum of $4,000. We
built up the great institutions of the
State of Maine. We gave $4,000 to the
Normal school buildings at Pennington,
s25. go to build new Normal school at
Machias, We gave $4,000 to erect build
ings at the Eastern Maine Normal school.
we built buildings for Lincoln Academy
to the amount of $1,000, and for Milton
Academy to the amount of $500, we as
sisted Bates College in erecting a heating
plant to the amount of $4,000. We erected
buildings for the Maine School for the
Deaf to the amount of $4,000, We erected
buildings for the Maine Industrial School
for Girls to the extent of $4,000. we
expended $50, 900 for the building for
the State School for Boys we
gave the necessary appropriation of
$4,000 to erect and build the magnifi-
cent buildings for the Maine School
for the Feeble Minded, we took our
hospitals that needed assistance and
needed buildings and enlarged them,
and We treated them as they ought to
have been treated. We gave $1,000"
to Webber hospital for buildings at
Biddeford, we erected a building for
the Children's hospital AT Portland in
tho amount of $4,000, we built in this
State that home for the victims OF
the white plague, the Maine State SAN
atorium at Hebron. to tn" amount of
$4,000. We enlarged the Maine In
surance hospital, a necessary eXpendl-
ture, Of the amount of $4,000. We
also enlarged the Eastern Maine In
sane hospital at Bangor under the law
Of necessity to the amount of S113,ooo
We took the old State House, an old
fire trap, a disgrace to the State, and
enlarged il to the extent of 100000,
and this magnificent structure stands
today the wonder and admiration Of
all people that il could have been done
for that sum. and We made it what
it is. All these expenditures, M
Speaker, were made by the Republican
administration two years ago for the
benefit of the State of Maine and Its
great institutions, and these buildings
became at once the great assets of the
State of Maine and the property of
this State for Ill time, monument
not to Republican extravaganza but to
Republican wisdom and in line of pro-
gress and a higher civilization.
Now it is true, Mr. Speaker. that
on January l. 1911, there was a deficit,
brought about in this way. All the
claims, all the resolves carrying money,
all the bills asking for appropriations
from the State, were referred by the
last Legislature to the proper commit
tees. the appropriations and claims and
those committees gave public hearing
and considered all those claims and
demands against the state and made
their reports to the Legislature, and
after the Legislature had considered
all nIn