Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-09
PATTANGALL ON THE RUN.

Wednesday was bad day for Mr.
Pattangall in the Maine Legislature
taking it ali in all. In the morning in
| attempting to force his policy Of econ
| omv on the House and getting it to
| relcgate to the scrap heap the pauper
| claims Of towns and appropriations
which he termed gratuities he over
! reached himself. Those interested in
many Of these claims when they found
Mr. Pattangalls policy of economy
amounted to their being indefinitely
postponed took delight in forcing Mr.
Pattangall into a corner and virtually
| Inundated the Democratic leader by
entirely disrcgarding for time his ad-
| vice.
Mr. Peters of Ellsworth saw his OPP
| portunitY to retaliate upon Mr.. Pat
tancall for past humiliation which lie
| had suffered at his hands, and by
going farther than even the Demo-
cratic leader III the economical pro
/ gram forced the House to defeat Mr.
| Pattangalfs pet measure for an ap-
| preparation of $500 for tie Central
Maine Fair. For a time both Mr. Pat
| tangdl and Speaker Morey wtre on
| the run and absolutely lost control .
| the Democratic majority and il Vas
| only when Representative Scates ot
Wostbrook interfered and pointed out
to the House that their proceedings
We're ridiculous that the House was
| brought to realization that in its
efforts 10 put Mr., Pattangall in an
embarrassing position il had gone Il
/ bit too far.
In hopes of getting the HouSe calm
| cd down for a more normal considerd-
| ton of appropriation resolves these
matters went over until the evening
session. AT that time the House pro-
ccedcd quietly and rapidly, passing re-
selves for hospitals and charitable in
stitutions and was calmly transactinG
its business when Representative
Wheeler Of South Paris once more
baited the Democratic leader by fore
ing onto tho House the consideration
of a p4uper claim of South Paris, the
passage Of which Mr.. Pattangall OPP
posed. Having thrown down til" saunt-
let Nil Wheeler lad his case before
the House in what was generally con-
ceded to be one of the most effective
speeches of the session and once more
Mr.. Fattangall suffered the humiiia-
tion of a defeat and found the majority
which he has heretofore dominated,
deserving him to follow a comparative
ly new man. He suffered other defeats
also and the general effect of the day
was So it is claimed, tn greatly lessen
Mr.. Pattangalfs influence in the
House.
Contrary to his accustomed manner
of facing defeat Mr.. Pattangall dis
played some feeling and endeavored to
| Impose childish Instructions in the
passage of Mr.. Whccler's resolve aft
or the House had decided in favor "t
| the South Paris man
Representative Peters of Ellsworth
| had Representative 'Pattaneall of Wa
terville on the run during quite a part
! OF the House session Wednesday morn
| ing The House had on its calendar
93 resolves in order tor second read
ing Several of these had been indef-
| intely postponed. including number
of pauper claims before Representa-
| tive Peters of Ellsworth came forward
with a proposition to appoint special
committee to examine the several
claims with instructions to report not
later than Friday. This plan was not
! considered feasible by Mr.. Pattangall.
| Then Mr. Peters started out after
the resolves as they came in order
! upon the calendar with the slogan.
| "All gratuties look alike to me-" and
succeeded in getting indefinite post
| pOnencnt one after another Of sew
! eraI resolves. The stipend for the
| Central Maine Fair went by the board
and It was only when the Gardiner &,
! Randolph bridge resolve was reached
| that Mr.. Pattangall aWoke to
the fact that a motion to table took
/ precedence over a motion to indefin-
itely postpone and then he succeeded
in getting his opponents motions tC
Indefinitely postpone tabled and ther
saved the measures themselves by &
subsequent motion to table.
The consideration of the resol>es
had proceeded for some little time il
this manner when upon motion OF
Representative Scates of Westbrool
the House dropped the resolves for a
short time and went on to consider
bills in the second reading. which was
little more peaceable process. The
contest between Mr.. Peters and Mr.
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