Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-18

sense and courage to cut them down
TOT us If We haven't the common sense
and courage TO do it. We have tbis
year q sort Of novelty, in Maine.
we nave got a real Governor We
nave ceased 10 have proxies in the
executive chair. (ApplauseD
know Of no man who left the
haiis of this Legislature two Years
ago Knowing how much money we
lad spent. ] asked that question
Of my friend from Yarmouth YES
terday. If he knew when the Leg
lsiature adjourned how much money
we had appropriated, and he frankly
said, no. l did not. neither did any
other man; and yet, gentlemen. stand
up here now and, say. that, two years
, ago everybody knew from day to day
just what We We're doing r. that
wtro true. that would be IN awful
| Indictment of the last Legislature. II
the last House and the last. senate
and the Ex-Governor Of Maine knew
what We we're doing when we appro.
priatcd n million dollars more than
we could pay. then we committed a
crime. whereas beliexe we only
Numbered under tho rules then exist.
ing Ntic iIol tiltltII tt DIAInp iOT
laundering. perhaps. Thist order may
not Ge the best that can be dra wn:
this may not be the wisest' way. L
could think Of no other way. If any
other way suggests itself, to any gen.
t!encn | should he very glad to have
IL brought up: bat to continue In the
OLD way. see what follows:- A bill
cones in providing an appropriation
for a school or hospital that in it
self il not Objectionable. The amount
asked for may be no more than would
be wisely used. Meme of US can stand
| up and oppose il. 1t has merit. a
committee reports upon it We do
not know but what the State can
afford il and We vote for it,. And
another comes, and another and an
other Were they all assembled to-
eether and we discovered. for in
stance. that we had appropriated
co6plc NJ h, nare6 thousand dollars
toe muen il would be easy to scale
| them al, down 10 a certain extent
ami bring them within the limits OF
the states incorIe. Now ii has been
said that NE state has not any fixed
| income, that we can appropriate all
we want to, that Maine is rich and
! can afford to spend any amount oil
none. Let us think about that
little Yor have pretty nearly liked
income. You can estimate pretty
nearly what the income OF Maine Is
or tie ore sent basis of taxation. or
course YOU can raise taxes, you can
make tlrem higher il you want to. but
| il YOU do / an, afraid there won't be
| mich use or us 70 attempt to get re-
| nominations a year from next sum
| mer.
| .rhc last Legislature tried that and
| II was not very successful. We want
to lover taxes 1 think. That is my per-
sonal opinion. We want to keep our ex-
| nansas within the present revenue on
| the state. and well within it, We have
got not only to raise moneysto run the
Srate for two years, but we have got
to raise money to pay million dollars
more in order To put the state in the
shape in which 1t was before this adj
mirable system OF 'appropriating money
two wears ago was inaugurated.
1t was suggested by the gentleman
from Houlton that in the last Legisla-
ture everybody agreed on all the APP
Preparations. | am glad he said that
because it gives me an opportunity to
remind the gentleman from 1oultoE
that on the largest appropriation pass
| ed by the last Legislature, of the IL
votes cast against it, A. were cast by
| Democrats. All through the last cam
| paign in newspapers and on the stump
| friends of mine like the gentleman
| froms HoultOn went about telling the
people of Maine that we all agreed on
| these appropriations. + had the honor
| to be one of the members who stood
| In his seat in the last Legislature and
| inform the House as well as / could
| that when they appropriated S350.o00
| for state House and made no ar
rangement for raising the money they
| were putting Maine in debt; and We
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