Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-06


| es there. as well as elsewhere. The
!, people of Southport claim that their .
| excessive rebate is not equal. not right
and not just. Believing as they do that
| Capital Island will ask for their rebate
! to be raised to 20 per cent. that sew
| eral summer colonies on the main is
| land will ask for and probably receive
village charters with the same rebate. |
| then the town with it's roads. schools. |
! pauper and other departments to sup
port will find itself bankrupt, with
| wealth everywhere except in their
| treasury
The State Assessors have this year
raised the valuation of Southport. 49,
| 900. and there can be no doubt but the |
value of the property on Squirrel Is
land is the direct cause of that
+ They have asked me to present these
facts to this Legislature and asked
| that what they honestly believe to be
l.Jnstice due them be granted.
The PRESIDENTS: The motion is. if |
| the Chair understands it. that the re-
port together with the bill be recon-
| mitted to the committee on Judiciary
with instructions to report bill in
new draft providing for a rebate of
| so per cent.
The Chair feels compelled to rule
and does rule that motion may be
entertained to recommit this matter
to the committee. or that a motion
may be entertained to substitute a new
draft for the adverse report of the
committee if the senator so desires. |
but so much of the motion as contains
instructions to the committee as to the
nature of their report, is not in order
and cannot be entertained by the Chair. |
Rule 81 provides that: The rules of
parliamentary practice comprised in
Reeds Rules and Cushings Law and
Practice of Legislative Assemblies. |
shall govern the Senate in all cases
to which they are applicable. and in
which they are not inconsistent with |
the standing rules of the Senate, or |
the joint rules of the two houses
Paragraph 1924 on Page AZ of Cush- |
ing's Law and Practice of Legislative
Assemblies. is very clear on this point, |
and reads in part as follows:
An instruction which proposes to
direct a committee absolutely to do or
not To de a particular thing which is |
already within its powers to do or not
to do, as ii may think proper. is irreg
ular; on the ground, it is presumed, |
that such an instruction would be re- |
pugnant to the reference, as the effect |
of it would be. in fact. to withdraw
from the consideration of the commit |
tee os much of the power originally |
conferred upon it, and to decide upon
that matter in the House..
Mr.. BOYNTON: Mr. President. Il
should be willing to withdraw that
much of my motion which carries in |
structions to the committee, and sim
ply move to recommit.
The PRESIDENT: Without objec-
ton the Senator from Lincoln is per-
mitted TO withdraw his motion and |
substitute therefor the simple motion
to reeommit the bill to the committee
on judiciary
Mr.. BUTTON of Kennebec: Mr.. |
President. | have no personal obiec- |
ton To this bin being recommitted to |
the committee, but | cannot conceive |
under the circumstances how their |
action can be different from that re- |
ported. ..z. - =, |
| have great respect for the senator |
from Lincoln. but in some particulars
he is certainly misinformed in regard |
to this matter. There were four bills |
before our committee, one of them was
in reference to Capitol Island and an |
other in reference to Squirrel Island. |
There was evidently a quarrel between |
the town of Southport and Squirrel Is |
land and Capitol Island. The reason |
for the trouble at this session of the |
Legislature was because the Capitol |
Island people had asked for a special |
charter. or that special rights be given
70 them, the same as had been given |
)y previous Legislatures to Squirrel |
Island. That matter was fully dis |
eussed before the committee 4 COM |
plete hearing was had. The selectmen |
OF southport were there represented by |
able counsel, and the whole matter was
threshed out A bill was there to set !
off Capitol Island and to set off SOUR |
rel Island This bill was introduced at |
the instance of the selectmen of the |
town of Southport. That is, they Just
set off Capitol Island and Squirrel Is |
land and never made any provision |
Whatever for their future government |
Just set them off, into what some peo- |
pie might call "innocuous desuetude" |
The committee did not consider that /,
matter seriously. 1t did not consider !
/,
Southport We're serious in making that
proposition or in introducing it before !
this Legislature. We thought it was a !
bluff. / think so STILL But that bluff
was accepted by Squirrel Island and by |,
Capitol Island. Both of them provid- !
ed for new drafts. Squirrel Island was
willing to go off by itself. And Cap
itol Island was willing to go off by it
self as separate, Independent mu-
nicipal corporation. The new drafts
were submitted there. When this bluff
had been called we supposed, natural !
ly you would suppose, that when a |
man makes a proposition and that
proposition is accepted. that would be
all there was to it. But Southport still
insisted upon threshing the matter
out after their proposition had been
accepted by the other people. We stay /
ed there all the afternoon and heard
those people. And they went into the :
details of the income of tie town of,
Southport. They claimed they would
be ruined. i do not care - go into the