Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-08

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now appropriated for this department
| should be cut out altogether and a
| straight appropriation for good roads
| amounting to s250,000 should be made.
| Ii was in this connection that Mr..
Pattangall made the remark that there
| is no dream about the State of Maine
| owing something Ike 100000 today
outside of the temporary loan. which
| II cannot pay. Mr.. Pattangall said
| that in 1907 mill tax of onG-tilird
| Of mill was assessed Oh all the prop
| erty of the State for good roads.
The very generous 7fth Legislature
made this tax three quarters of a
mill. They would probably fave made
it mill and a half if anybody had
asked fer it," He said that last year
the State highway department ac-
tually spent SILL coo. With the mill
tax as it now is the amount which
the department would have availa BILE
would be 1855, 900 and the same amount
for the year 1872. This it seemed to
him was rluch more than the State
could stand He further declared that
on general principles he did not ap-
prove o: tie system of raising money
for various departments on the mill
tax basis.
Commissioner Paul d. Sargent Of
the state Highway department APP
peared before the committee and said
that the State Board Of Trade rad
been instrumental in establishing this
department as he understood it. 1t
Was at the suggestion and through the
efforts of the present chairman Of
the Governors Council. Hon. f. Il.
WinSlow of Portland that the mill
tax was adopted by the State in order
to give this department a pormGnencE
in the carrying on of its work from
year to wear. MI. Sargent did not
object TO the Pattangall bill. as he
explained it to the committee. but
he did say that he believed TIE mill
tax proposition afforded the highway
department more stability and gave
it something tangible to work upon.
Mr.. Pattangall is urging the abol-
isning of the one-tentll of mill tax
for the National Guard said that Adj
jutant General Dill had estimated that
he could run the National Guard dur
ing the coming two years on $4,000
for each year and had also advised
that the $4,000 appropriated for the
sNuN di htStIht Dt
as he could care for that organiza-
ton in a different way.
In touching upon the matter Of the
appropriation for the fish and game
department MIR. Pattangall thought
that the $4,000, which is about what
the combined fund of fees and fines
and the regular appropriations
amounts to. is an enormous amount
for this department.. He said that
it was the idea Of Mr.. Carleton. the
previous commissioner. to have the
fines and fees used in this way, but
Mr.. Bracket, the present commission
or. seemed to think that the proposed
straight appropriation plan would be
the best policy to pursue.
President a. w. Butler of Rock
land appeared for the Knox County
General Hospital which asks for an
appropriation of $500 for each of the
two years and $4,000 for additional
buildings and repairs. s. T. KIM
ball and County Attorney Phillip
Howard also spoke i'll behalf of this
institution. The business of the hos
pital has increased G6 per cent. in the
past year while the income las in
creased but So per cent. The hospi-
tai is doing j very large amount Of
charitable work at present.
Franklin C. Payson of Portland and
Hon. Hiram w Kicker were the
speakers in behalf of the appropria-
ton asked for by the Maine Tuber-
culosis Sanitarium at Hebron. They
presented their case in very brief
bat forceful manner and what they
had to say made a deep impression
on the committee which was impressed
by tie good Work which this institu
ton is doing.