Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-29

years from now, it may not come four
yerls from nov, but such a law viii
be placed on our statute books, Be
cause you cannot stand in the way of
the advance of science. and of pro-
gross. and OF civilization, and the man
who sees fit to do 20 is going to get
tramped under feet.
Mr.. PACKARD OF Knox Mr.. Pres
ldent. | rise with tears in my eyes It's
he speaks of the venerable senator
from Knox. | am going to say II TINS
bill passes YOU are going To near thr
tr.,np of 10000 coWhide boots Al the
polls, next September. You are COINS
IL hear from home. Md ! ara gong ~
So for the first time in THIS session
tam going to vote with the senator
nom Aroustook. Senator HcrscN
Mr. llERSEY: 1 feel at least com
plimcntcd and | thank the senator from
Knox.
I am sorry that the senator from Pc
uobscot could not control his voice al
ter he started in with the conNeESat 'o''"'
tonc-had hard work to start it, 1t mss
cd fire and hc went into the an,
Now I do not think, Mr. president
that either myself. or the senator from
Nndroscoggiu. or the senator from Ken
nebcc. were discussing this question III
any way but a common sense way OF
looking ut it, There are some matters
Won cannot treat seriously md when
the senator from Penobscot stands in
his piacc and says he don't expect tins
bill to he cnaetcd--wc will all IN some
future generation, as matter OF science
we Will come up To this, and wants To
take the time of the Senate IN INDUCING
in experiments in aeience-whN, thihk
the senator from Androseoggin ana my
self. aud even the senator from hch-
nebcc, can bc excused if We do not en-
dorse such a project
And Senator Cole read from the pres
cnt statutes, which we all know, that
the insane cannot legally marry. We
all know that if a couple across the
river here should escape from the Inad-
house and so down before justice OF
the peace ard have a marriage ceremony
it would not be any good Or If the
Home for Feeble minded should let down
the bars. and they go off and get mar
ried and pair off, il would not amount
to anything under the laws of the State
Haven't We got Law enough now on
that matter? When the State prohibits
, those marriages and says they are VOID,
why do we want a new board of exam
iners to examine into the human race
and say where the line shall be drawn?
1t seems to me that the senators from
York and from Pcnobscot by reading
the statutes have answered all their ar
guments. believe the present law is
good enough.
Mir. MOREY: Mr. President. if we
are TO look ahead into the future and
decide this case as we are asked to do
by the senator from Penobseot from an
advanced viewpoint years hence. of
course if we cannot legislate with our
ideas in the future we should be eN-
cused. If he is serious in his prophecy
to the Senate. then | submit that when
t he says the future will come to il that
| ii is an admission upon his part that
the people of the present day and gen
/ Grafton, the senators who sit here in
this body, greatly inferior to the dis
tinEuished senator from Penebseot. only
view this thing in the passing hours of
the day. What right has the modern
jeremiah to rise before us and claim
to be the prophet of the future.
! Examine the bill. read it carefully in
connection with the statutes of tn
State and these little filings and digs
which to some seem to be the acme OF
great argument had better be suspended
and We get TO business aud vote upon
the bill.
Mr.. COLE: Mr. President, il seems
! to me that the consideration of this bill
should have been referred To the com.
mittee ON State lands and forest pres
crvation The gentlemen who have OPP
posed it have been using up great dea
of wood pulp. and if the committee OF
state lands and forest preservation hat
had charge of it, they would have savet
the record, and the conservation of oul
forest Industries would have been pre-
served.
+ The pending question being the in
/ definite postpOnement of the bill. a viva
: Voce vote was taken, and the bill wa,
indefinitely postponed
Passed to Be Enacted.
An Act in relation To the title to is
lands belonging to the State
An Act to provide for the conducting
of Investigations III animal husbandr,
by the Maine Agricultural Experiment
Station.
: An Act to authorize the Bangor Rail
| way and Electric Company To take wa
ter from Chemo Lake and its tributa
, ricS.
! An Act relating 10 the enforcement Of
! the laws regulating the sale and analy
sis of agricultural seeds. commercial
, feeding stuffs, commercial fertlizers
,lairy products, drugs, foods, fungcide.
and insecticides
An Act relating to the fees payable
upon an increase of the capital stocl
of corporations organized under specia
acts or under general laws for the per.
Torrance of public service.
An Act additional to Chapter 81 oil
the Revised Statutes relating to the pro
ceedings in certain civil actions ir
court.
An Act to amend Section of Chap.
ter ST of the Revised Statutes. relating
TO the inspection of power boats and
vessels engaged in transporting passen-
gers for hire on inland waters
An Act relating to inter-nsurers and
authorizing the business transacted
thereby,
IN Act to prevent the use Of the name
of the State by private or semi-public