Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-13

want To oppose him. / do not want
him TO rise UP against some meas
ure of mine. | saw his power on the
suffrage QueS. ion, and | do not want
to antaGonize him They said WHY.
although do not believe in the emer-
gency, ] would not like to Geht il. but
| will let it 90 To the senate and there
they will take care of it. And thus
greeting their eonscicnces, they LEI it
go TO the Senate, and if | remember
right, we took care of it, as we ought
to and retained ctr dignity. We did
our duty. When the bin went back 10
the House. they coneurrea except one
man, and he stood up iii the House
and said this; Il cannot understand
the attitude of the honorable senator's
who sit at the other end of our long
corridor. / have observed the Sena-
tors this winter and were | sunerin-
tendent of buildings here, | should put
motto over the door of that Cham
her in large letters, inscribed as fol-
lows: To the people of Maine:
Leave hope behind. yc who enter here
tapplausa) | would rather sit in the
tombs of egypt with the mummies Of
the Egyptian kings than to sit in
there"
do not think he need worry lie said
further: Tell me, Mr. Speaker and
gentlemen of the House, why the great
Republican majority in that Snnate-and
| have no friendiness to that party,
either-why they in the Senate should
line up and vote down this proposition
put up To them in an emergency like this
by the citizens of my city -
strange, was ii not? Well it was SORT
Of contagious. II seems to me thai mem
bers of the House. certain members
there, ought to have understood that the
Senate of Maine understood the position.
the dignity of their position, and could
not be ridichled away from IL, or driven
from their position by any threats OF
legislation to be held up in the other
branch. z
What happened next? Before the com
mittee of which | have th,. honor of be-
ing member. appeared a bill To open
certain roads in Bar Harbor TO automo-
hiles, the measure now before as in TINS
amendment This is the third session
in which | have listened TO the discus
sion of whether automobiles should en-
ter Bar Iiarbor or not. II was a close
ought to shut them out at Two different
sessions and In this session after a pro-
longed fight our committee decided thar
il might be best for Bar Harbor 10 open
up certain roads to automobiles
Before our committee appeared in fa-
vor of that proposition the representa-
tive from Bar Harbor and he had bill
upon which he had put an emergency
clause and after appearing before our
committee and discussing the matter
with us in friendly way. and after we
had talked IL over in executive session.
we called the parties together. and told
them that We were disposed as COM
mittee. although the question was doubt
fui we We're disposed To grant a favor
able report from our committee 10 open
mp certain roads in Bar Harbor accord ).
ing to the bill called the sherman bill
but We told them we wanted no emergen-
ey clause upon ii and that II they would
draw q new draft leaving off the emer-
gency clause and covering those three
roads that the bill would pass our COM
mittee.
II was all understood and ne secured
what he wanted so he gave rs To under
stand. He took his little bill with a
smile upon his face and went away from
our committee He knew that no such
bill as is here by this amendment could
possibly pass through our committee
with an emergency upon it He knew
that every man on that committee did
not believe in putting an emergency On
these private measures in which, The
public are not interested, where the pHb-
lie peace, health and safety were Aot
mperiled. ~ sssssssss -
1t seems that the rer,festiI
so influenced by his stffie hi v3if<F 80
ure. like my friend liz fs4rfbou r.
gentleman from Au&{IStn. thai III =
not see anything hui hiH Htt{8 nj <l
measure, and lis private INTEREST fn4l{
matter cropping out. he 3<<s ff9i
committee and with the 4itn16sf
faith on it's face and tsicks on aSrz
sency clause Then he asks fh{
of Representatives Of which heis j III Ifsl
Der to pass that emergency through. Z
And standing in his place in the House
on the seventh day of March. what does
he say He says: IL was satisaedssnith
the bill as reported by the comuaiff<es
What now? Until / found cut IN .fkl
was positively true that they weTeft6 shti&
/ have had this emergency cfausa YHf5
on
lie says he had found out the pepnIsF
of Maine were going to invoke the ref
erendum, God-given right. and then
he says TO the people: II ask you. the
House of Representatives, to rise up and
smte the people who sent you here ana
deprive them of the right of the refer
endum."
My God, has it come TO this in the
State OF Maine, in the Legislature OF
Maine, that men will take that position
on the floor of the House?
That is not all he said He said II
have one of the largest stores in Bar
IIarbor, and ! want to say to you that
my store will have to go out of busi-
ness His little store is influencing him
and not the people of Maine in the
enactment of laws. He has little store
down in Bar Harbor That is why he
is i'm the legislature He SAYS: II would