Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-09

& AroostoOk Railroad through Aroostook,
Piscataquis and Penobscot countless" being
Chapter 222 of the Private and Special
Laws of 1903. as amended by Chapter 70
OF the Private and Special Laws Of 1907
An Act authorizing the merger Of the
Somerset Railway Company the Washing
ton County Railway and the Sebasticook and
Moosehead Railway with tho Maine Central
Railway Company.
The SPEAKER: Is II the pleasure of the
House that We now take up the resolves or
proceed with orders Of the day? As many
as are in favor of resuming the calendar of
the resolves will say aye.
1t was SO voted. NA
Mr.. Bogue of East Machias. moved
to take from the table House Resolve
No. 292, in aid of bridge across Holmes
stream.
Mr.. PATTANGALL of Watervillc:
MIR. Speaker, l move that House Re-
solve No. 292, in favor of bridge
across Holmes stream, lie on the table
and | desire to say just a word in cx-
planning that motion. On the calendar
are great many bridge and road ap-
preparations. l presume many of them
are not only proper appropriations. but
are reduced sufficiently in amount on
the other hand. from what examination
| have made of them, ii has seemed
to me that some of them could be fur
ther reduced and some perhaps could
be dispensed with. and that we can
act more intelligently upon them when
we have found out how much money
we have expended for more pressing
purposes than the appropriation of
money for roads and bridges in aid of
various towns. sf1. -
We have already laid upon the table
several of those bridge and road ap-
preparations. and none of them have
been indefinitely postponed excepting
the resolve In favor of the toll bridge
at PASSPORT. Nobody has moved to
indefinitely postpone any of them. ex-
cepting the motion which was made on
the part of the gentleman from Ellis
worth with regard to two of the re-
solves this morning. On the other
hand. none of them have been finally
passed. Ii seems to me that those ap-
propriations make class by them
selves and ought to be assembled by
themselves before they can be treated
fairly and justly by the House. |
make this statement simply that those
interested in this resolve may know
that there is no disposition on my part
at least-and / only represent myself
in speaking about ito single out one
resolve as differing from another until
the House could have before II the in
formation which would enable them to
do that. | therefore move. Mr.. Speak
er. that House Resolve No. 29o lie on
the table.
! Mr. PETERS of Ellsworth: Mr..
Speaker. Just a moment, as ! assume
q that the House. having heard the re-
marks Of the gentleman from Wa
terville. although arguement is out of
order on this motion, will have no
/ objection to hearing me make a brief
| statement. agree as to the expe-
| diency OF considering these matters
! bN classes and groups, which is the
| principle that l argued tor this morn
! ing. | think that in considering this
| large mass of resolves, all carrying
! money. that it is our duty to divide
| them into three classes. ] will put
| in the first class all resolves carrying
| money for benevolent purposes. hospi-
tails. orphan asylums or any kind OF
charitable institutions. AS to those
| | assume that the committee having
| passed upon the amounts which have
| been asked for their benefit, / assume
| that the committees have pared them
| down all that is reasonable. and rath-
| cr than take any part i'm depriving
| that kind of an institution of this
| moLey | should be In favor of the
| State going into debt or borrowing
| it. or stealing it, | think il Is not
| our duty to prevent the appropiia-
| ton of reasonable amounts for that
| class Of institutions.
| Now. | think in regard to that class
| represented by claims against the
| State, passed upon by the commit
| tee on claims. think it is our duty
| to assume that those claims having
! been thus passed upon by con-
| scientious committee represent
| amounts which the States owes to
| those parties, and that nothing else
, appearing, we should assume that is
| the fact that unless some member or
! the House has special information
! about some item unless he knows of
| things that have not come to the at
| tention of the committee or of some
| reason which, If the committee had
| known, it would probably have
! changed it's mind. that those should
be allowed as claims against the
| State. Ir case any member has any
objection to any of these claims
| think-and this is only my individual
| opinion-that they should be laid up
on the table so that they could be in
vestigated and that any person or per-
sons behind any such claim should
have an opportunity to further In