Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-04

tu IildI any idISt putNitdSNS oAAptih NY
be made by the treasurer. but should be
paid for by the treasurer of the state.
That is one of the principal things at
which this bill is aimed, one of the prln-
cipal objections to the methods of car
rying on the affairs of the State.
MIR. ALLEN: Mr.. President, why /
asked about that amendment is this
The situation in the county of kennebee
is that probably not less than-l am
making an estimate-Sl0,0W worth OF
farm products are sold directly at the
door of this institution. Ny colleague in-
forms me that II is $4,000 in year. l
wonder if that amendment-if giving that
discretion to the State auditor is sutil-
eient Having all confidence in the state
auditor yet if he did not deem it discre-
tionary to pay over that $1,000, where
would the funds come from for the stew
ard or the proper official in these differ
ent institutions-and | assume that the
same facts obtain, the same conditions
obtain. in these other institutions in diff
ferent parts of the Staten case he
should not deem it advisable, wherein
would the remedy come and provision
be made for the farmers To sell their
products as they now do?
/ have the feeling that the senator
has a good motive, and that the bill in
its general form, is good thing. but
! do not feel that want to stand here
and cut off the outlet the farmers now
have and which | know about in Ken
nebec county, and | believe it is the
same in other counties, is an excellent
market. They carry their produce there
and get their checks and go home salts
fled.
| am wondering if the amendment
to me as though the auditor could give
the $1,000 or not. Just.as he saw fit, Tor
the purpose. and in case he did not see
fit. the farmer must carry his products
there. get his biit and present Fit to be
State treasurerS aid taftefs tho tidye On ii
aud Council audit it, he Will set mis-
money 4 do not think that sitfNSceld
be satisfactory, and | do not want to
go on record as voting away the farm
ers' rights in that way | would like
toshave more information from the SEN
ator from Penobscot along that line.
Mr. BOYNTON of Lincoln: Mr.
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the country that furnishes more or less
farm pro lsce !. the hospital ref cree, i,
it seems to me that there is just one
way to do business. and that is to do
il right, and when YOU don't do it right
you generally have trouble.
Now. the right way for this institu
ton to buy produce of or farmers, is
for the farmer to bring his producers
there, make his trade with the steward,
leave mis- bill for it. have il approved by
the steward and turned over To the State
due time. when it is properly audite |.
will send the farmer his check Now
that to my mind is the only way that
the business should be done. not only
in that institution. but in any other in
stitution There should be just two
channels. bills come in here and be
audited. money go out from
here to the people Who have sold the !
stuff. This method of the State buying |
goods by a dozen different stewards. |
paying for them out of the states
and sending the bills TO thesau
1itor months, or weeks, or days, as the |
hist iliHS Ut, d4ttI LIE IfoitA itd9 i'1tt |
paid-f suppose that most any business |
man. doing business on business pf.n- |
eiples, would want his bills audited he
fore he paid them. 1t seems to M that |
IS proper.
Now many of the Institutions in oue
State are run in very crude. decidedly |
crude and unbusnesslike manner. There
are many things that might have been |
said, but the senator from Penobscot |
mas covered the ground very we'll. But |
would make this prediction, that there
IS not a man in this Senate that could |
AXE $4,000, 900 in money and carry ON |
he business that the State carries on
n many of these institutions, in exact !
y the way they carry it on, and not DC
inside of three years.
Mr. DUTTON Mr.. President, ;he
question by the senator from Lincoln.
hat the farmers bring in their eggs and
,utter and potatoes and one thing and
another. and make trade with the
steward of the Insane hospitals AM
nave him approve their bills and present
hem to the State auditor. and have the
State auditor go through it. and then
wait the time and pleasure of the Stat
treasurer to receive check, has all been
covered in the reasons already given iii
he report of the land agent on the
question of the employment of help for
lighting fires; and a good Democratic
friend of the senator from Lincoln raa-
1mr1ended. and WEI have enacted Ainro
aw, d provision to allow the land agen.
/ sufficient fund to pay help to fight
Tres. The land agent in his report said
hat he found it impossible to get help
when those men couldn't get their pay =
hey must wait, wait, wait. until all this
red tape is gone through with.
The laborer would not market his la
Dor with the forest commission. He
would readily market it with the Great
Northern Paper Co. They had no
trouble in employing help. Do you
suppose, for minute. Mr.. President,
that the farmers of this State would
bother with a few bushels of potatoes.
Or a few dozens of eggs, for butter, to
go and get an approved bill? The farm
ers of Maine are not affiuent enough to
wait the time and pleasure of the red
tape required. Rather would they go
and discount their product and swap it