Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-09

they object to anything where they have
to put their hands in their pockets and
pay out little money.
1t looks to me when they go to market
and sell two pounds of butter and get
10 cents, that they could get light and
put it on their wagon.
/ hope the motion of the senator from
kennebec will not prevail.
MIR. REYNOLDS of Kennebec Mr.
| President, l want to say for the benefit
| of the senator from Penobscot, that in
| Massachusetts and Connecticut they use
a great many rubber-tired wagons and
they are fast going out of existence. If
you go down there and go to livery
stable for team, if the man bitches
| up rubber-tired wagon for you, he
| puts on a light, but If he bitches up a
! steel-tired wagon, he does not put on
a light. In this State the rubber-tired
/ wagons they are fast doing away With.
/ They are about all gone here. They are
/ going as fast as they can. man never
buys pneumatie-tired wagon but once
| They soon go out of fashion with that
| man.
| think this bill would be quite a hard
snip on the livery men. If II man has
two lights. it may be all right, but if he
has but one, he is sure to get run into.
l should be sorry myself to have such a
bill pass.
! MIR. WALKER of Somerset: Mr.. Pres
ident, | wonder IL the senator from Pc
nobscot realizes just how that sentence
sounded in relation to the farmer being
| opposed to everything Where ne has to
| put his hand in his pocket to pay it: if
he wants that sentence to SO broadcast
| over his county and into the farming
communities of the State, as of course
1t win, being a matter of public record
when We consider the ambitions of the
senator from Penobscot
! Now when l was at home this week
several farmers interviewed me in rela-
| ton to this bill. They complained that
there We're a good many of the matters
which had been passed here this session
which had not been in their interest and
which would discommode them. They
claimed that in the many years that
Maine had been State it had never
even been proposed, and that it was not
| now proposed by the farmers.
While it may be a good bill and may
operate to the advantage of everybody.
yet l do not believe when there is no
other good argument to use to secure its
adoption that the argument should be
put up that il is for the benefit of the
poor farmer. We have heard that a good
deal in this present Legislature When
the men wanted to exempt their money
which was secured by mortgages of real
estate. they gave as their reason that ii
was for the benefit of the farmer that
they wished that exemption to be grant
ed, although it was shown very plainly
that the farmer was paying as much in
terest, as high a rate OF interest under
mortgage exemption, as he was when the
mortgage was taxed
When they wanted to exempt the
savings banks from as high a rate of
taxation as they are now paying, or,
in other words, when they wanted to
diminish the tax on savings banks. it
was that the farmer might get his
money at a cheaper rate. And even
when 1t was wished to introduce a
system of better accounting into this
state in relation to the State insti-
tutions, in order to defeat that meas
ure they endeavored to show that the
farmer would be disconnected if a
better system of accounting took
place in our State institutions
Now if this dill passed, why not let
the farmers of the State understand
that it is not the farmer that is ask
ing for this BILL but it is being asked
for by the automo bilist, and let thing
go by their right names AS I said
before, II may be a good bill but as
a great many of the constituents i,
my section who are farmers have in
terviewed me in relation to it, wish
ing me to vote against it, | shall
second the motion of the senator from
Kennebec.
Mr.. COLBY OF Somerset Mr. Presi-
dent, / will take the time of the SEN
ate for just a moment
AS one of the members of the com
mittea who signed the report. have
just this to add: The bill has been
amended and that amendment practi-
cally exempts farmers and lumber
men excepting with their riding vehi-
cles. / was not in favor of the amend
ment, but l think it is the only way
it can pass the House. | do not see
why farmers and lumbermen should
be exempt on the workmens compen-
satien bill. / am lumberman. but
do not know why we should not take
our chances with the rest | think
this would be a good bill u pass, not
only for the farmer but for the whole
travelling public.
| Mr.. BUTTON of Kennebec: Mr..
President, I do not rise to discuss the
merits of this bill for the reason that
so far / have failed to discover any.
1T strikes me to be next to an absurdi-
~ to compel farmers who live out 10
or 20 miles coming in here in the day
time TO put their lanterns on their
| Vehlcles. 1t would be a great incon-
Nenience in addition to being no small
expense, Notwithstanding the remarks
OF the senator from Penobscot
Why, this suggestion reminds me of
that famous Greek character in his
tory, DioSenes. You know he started
out going through the Athenean cities
with lantern in broad day light,
| iooflng and searching with "a lantern
IN front of him. / think Alexander,
the Great met him one day, and he
SAID What can do for you? What
are Won lOOkipu Ard n;ooara.