Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14

| Light q Power Company
An Act to incorporate the Harrison
Water Company
Majority and minority reports of The
! committee on inland fisheries and
game on bin, IN Act IL provide a close
! time ON bull moose. Majority report
ought to pass" Minority report
| ''onaht 10 pass in new draft"
In the House the minority report
"ouht 10 pass in Il new draft" was ac-
copied
The pending question was the adop-
ton Of the minority report in concurr-
/ cnce with the House.
| Mr.. ALLEN of kennebec Mr. Prcsi-
/ dent. | move that we concur with the
! House in adopting the minority re-
| port.
Mr.. President, see that The senator
/ from Franklin is standing Is there
anything special?
The PRESIDENT: The Chair Will
state that under The prevailing prac-
| tice the Chair will recognize the chair
man Of the committee reporting Il bill
Mr. ALLEN: Do 1 have the floor,
! Mr.. President"
The PRESIDENT; Yes
Mr. ALLEN: Mr.. President, | can
mol speak when the senator is stand
inc Iaughter)
Unfortunately for me, have Il little
attack of Indigestion, this morning. II
! We're not anxious Jor this hill 10
move along, / would have it tabled
However, it was not caused by the
moose question.
In regard To this question, gentle
men. | viii state in the first place that
the committee gave a prolonged hear
ing and in this hearing many things
developed in regard to the moose law
] viii be frank i'm saying that per
sonally before this hearing | felt that
possibly a close time would be prefer
able. but after what developed at the
hearing, | felt obliged in all fairness
10 what l considered the best interests
81 our fish and game, game especially.
in this line, and sig.1ed the minority
report.
IL was not proven TO the satisfaction
of all members Of this committee that
n close time for a period of years ON
moose was the proper thing To he
sure. We learned from this hearing
that from the comfy of the senator
from Franklin they have disappeared
from that locality. They have disap
peared from some other localities in
our State. but have not left the good
old State of Maine.
That is some of the enlightment that
has been brought ont To this commit
tee. and in SubStan1iatng this fact,
will call your attention To the ship
ments of moose some of the past years
is recorded by the express company
Of our State and reported To the com
mission: In 1903 there were 232 moose
shipped; 1904 222. 1906, 207 1906. rs:
1851. 255. 1903, please note this. 15l. in
1903; in 1902 1867 1910, 225; 1911, 253;
1872, 218
You viii notice. gentlemen, that in
the last three years, 1910 1911 and 1872
they exceeded the years 1908 and 1909
by quite a large number In those
years, 1903 and 1909. | if remember cor
rectlY, there was not a report here be-
fore this Senate calling for close
lime on bull moose. While they did
not get quite 50 many those years, yet
if they had come and called for il at
that time, claiming that the moose
were being Killed Off the report of the
Years 1910, 1911 and 1912. would have
contradicted fairly and squarely any
claim of that kind
We learned from this hearing that
i'm the eastern part of the State the
moose are thicker than they ever have
been in the remembrance of the people
located there We learned. considering
the fact that moose are thick in the
eastern part of the State. that many
guides and camp owners have built
camps, and are preparing to take care
of the sportsmen hunting moose.
They say to us this: why did we not
come mp and call for Il close time on
moose when we did not have any
Somerset and Franklin counties and
the northern part of Penobscot conn
" were overrun. The moose We're in
The State then and they are in the
State now.
! submit To You, gentlemen, as they
did not call for !. close time in those
wears when they did not have and
moose, is il just and fair that we now
close the best hunting that Washing
ION county and some parts of ARGOS
took comfy have ever known?
During the year 1912, the Maine
central. running into the eastern part
Of the state. handled 1G7 moose. while
the Bangor & Aroostook only handled
~ What does this show? It shows
a change Of the haunts Of the moose
and that is all Ia the year 1912 there
wee non-reside nj licenses issued 10 the
number of 1929
We learned, too. from the investiga-
tion of this question, That the Provinces
are overrun with moose And you stop
and think; there is simply an ina ginary
line between the Provinces and The State
of Maine They do not have 10 jump
over a barbed wire fence. They pass
and repass as they see fit We learned
also that the open time in the Prov
inces being earlier than ours in this
State, they go down ON the border those
moose hunters, and they call the moose.
II was told our committee that from
two or two and one half miles out of
Maine into the Provinces, before our
present open season IS off, they will
call moose ont of Maine into the PROV
inces and shoot them They have
perfect right TO do that
Think, gentlemen, Of a line up and
down our eastern border in those for
&c hat no call tf hg