Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-02-23


gliding the special committee ap-
pointed by the Legislature of 1901.
found that the agency system wasl
nothing but combined proposition of
graft and legal rum shops. (Applause.N
II was rotten to the core from way
back You and the state of Maine
posing as Prohibition state and sell
ing sl2O. 900 worth Of rum through III
agencies. ostenSibly fot sickness,
whereas in tha Whole state Of Aainc
from the city Of Gardiner east there
was not an agency required by the
something like 10000 people. They
were getting along all right without
them. Down here in tie town Of Ran
dolpE there was an agency selling
rum enough so that TIE profits ..
it paid all the expenses of running
the town Of Randolph, and most of il
going to the old soldiers from the
FOCUS Horne and creating cQnG'tion
that was far from desirable. Now
that appealed to The special commit
tee appointed to investigate the t#.ing
and they tried % reform the system
instead Of killing it, Senator Millik"u
drew q hiN and the Senate passed. il.
The House, after Vainly attempting
t. repeal the whole thing, passed IL
too. Srnator Millilien has now de
clded that his bill Effected nothing,
nd rot only has inc temperance cont
n.it:ee reported this bill tG abolish the
agencv but the Senate the other d3N
unqnimcrsly nsuS,alned the report of
the comInitteo.
Now. Nj Speaker, il seems to me
that without wandering away from
this subject which We have in hand
and judulging in any debate, however,
Interesting ana amusing that might BE-
To the galleries or whatever press no.
tees some OF us might receive on ac-
count of il that We would do we'll To
vote upon this question and decide
now not what the causes were Wtleh
led TO the defeat oi the Republican
party, because really the defeat in
terested me more than the causes did.
Uaughtcr)-and We would never agree
as to what the causes wcre-to de-
eide now on whether or not we ar"
going to abolish the stat" liquor
agency fraud. GApplause).
The SPEAKER: Is there anything
further TO be said upon the subject.
As many as are in favor Of now put
ting tn" main question, which Is. snail
tho bill receive its third reading. VIII
stand in their seats and remain stand
ing until the monitors have returned
the count.
\ rising vote being taken. Ill voted
in favor OF putting the main question
and three against it. so the main qneS-
tion was ordered.
The bill then received its third read
,,,,rI,ps 7us,.or,b. ar
e.. 800 ,ho, ,ha nm ho i'm
3io.ti,ai'. .,as,no,ad
,.t,o,,I, I,i,1i,,s. .o.,.,d
VI. ',a, A. ,,a..'i,a,.
o.iot, ,,.',. ,..,t
on motion of Mr.. Murphy of Port
Hand. hjll An Act to amend ana unity
| the laws regulating the sale Of aeri-
cultural seeds. commercial feeding
etues commercial fertilizer drugs.
foods and Insecticides. was takon from
tbc ,ob,o ond on further motion bv
tho eai,n Gentleman The reDort WAS
accented
ON motion of Mr., Hcrsov of Houlton,
| hill An act ralatina IN The trustees
| of tho I.nivnrsite nf Maine and the
trustees of the state Normal schools
Was t9I,nn from the table.
| N, ,IIon II Jopcshnro offered
JJoIsc tmcndn7cnt \ to amend the
t;tIo ny str;line out after the word
Maine" tho words and trustees OF
tho Stoto Eormol Schools" and amend
Soc,ion nv striking out Tho same
words
Tho amendment was adnntcd and
tho hin ,ban rnenivod its thfrd reading
and was nossod ia he enerossed as
amended
ON morton or Mr.. Monroe of Brown
v;,lo PIN An tct rclatinp tn lun,hcr-
;ng onero,ioue was taJ,nn from the
tahlo
n, motio, ~ Mr. Turner of New
y-;na,ard ,bn hiu .uos again t1bled
opd snociol, assipuod for neyt
yodnasdov
O, uotion ~ Mr. NInrphy of Port
,opd-P,u ,r Ac, to amend Section
e4 of chatter ! Of the Revised statutes
nj ,a1o of ,hn state of Afain,. NaS talk
on tron, rho table and on further mo-
,ior IN, tho same acntIor1an he bill,