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

hieut' l. VIII READ biiSi iSllcI re-
ceiVed by me. l find that the Repre-
sentative from Eden has received the
same letter: We desire to call your
attention to the bill now pending in
the Maine Legislature for the repeal
of the laws excluding automobiles from
the town of Eden, with an emergency
clause attached. \ As the town at
| special meeting held for that purpose
and which had large representation,
passed a vote by two to one fer the
repeal of that law, and by practically
unanimous vote expressed it's wish
for the emergency clause TO be at
taehed. the undersigned officials of
Eden believe it right to call your at
tention to this fact and ask you to do
all you can for the passage of this
| bill, with emergency clause attached"
balance of letter will appear in
Record.) t-
With that instruction, leave to you
| the question of whether or not the
! representative from Eden could or
would make any trade or any agree
ment whereby he would agree to sup
| port or accept this bill without the
! emergency.
In that letter you will notice some
! of the reasons given why we ask for
| this special legislation. want to call
your attention to one fact, that there
is the little village of Bar Harbor a
| little over a mile away, with 900 school
| children. Probably three-f ourths of
| them never saw an automobile or one
In motion. Our people are all that way.
| We are unaccustomed to the use of
| them and desire to have them come
as soon as possible before the season
| is over. Ninety days from the close
| of this Legislature brings us up to
July LIST, almost the height of our sea-
| son. ! submit to the gentlemen of the
| Senate that is an extremely poor time
| to open up the roads and streets of
Bar Harbor to automobiles. Our horses
| are also unaccustomed to them. All
| of these things | beg YOU to take into
| consideration, and | want to ask YOU
If You will just for moment think of
| all the things i'm which the emergency
clause has been used and see if i'm your
! honest opinion this is trivial mat
ter when compared with others.
| l do not know how many emergency
| bills have passed this House | re-
member two. One to feed the fish in
| the fish hatcheries of our State. ! Will
not criticise it, gentlemen, but | ask
you, are the little baby fishes, the little
minnows in the hatcheries of our STATE
of more consequence than the ba bies
on the streets of Bar Harbor? | would
| ask you, did any of you see the senator
| from Aroostcll vote against This? BY
| any stretch OF Imagination if this law
regarding feeding the fish, if the emer
gency had been only that the fish would
/ have suffered. by any stretch of your
! imagination, would the peace, safety
| or health of the State have been en-
! dangered in any way If you confine
! this question to the exact meaning,
| limiting il to the peace, safety and
safety and health of the State, | sub
nit to you that since the adoption of
/ the Constitution there has never been
| a case that warranted that clause. In
| the Legislature of 1911 this Act was
passed with an emergency clause: An
| Act to consolidate and revise the mill
| itary laws of the State of Maine. Here
| is the preamble, Whereas, certain
! changes in the military laws are neces-
| sary in order to render more efficient
| the acting militia in the State of
| Maine. therefore in the judgment Of
| the Legislature the measure therein
proposed is Immediately necessary for
the preservation of the peace. safety
| and health of the State. That must
have been another Aroostook war that
we were preparing for. There is no rec
ora to show that the gentleman voted
against that or that he voted against
! feeding the fish in the hatcheries.
Then they may ask for an emergency
| clause on the act TO destroy the bro vn
tail moths in Maine. l submit to you ~
the brown tail moths are left to ira ell
for 10 years, they will not do more ha m
than the failure to pass emerSei cy
clause. 1t is true the automobiles lei; 'e
golden stream after they cross the l.Ie
until they get back. Every place whrre
they stop gets it, as contributed to by
these people whom we hope to have here
i'm abundance. am glad of that. Get
all you can, for | assure you that when
they get to Bar Harbor we have the rep
utation of taking from them what little
is left with as little pain as can any peo-
pie in the United States. (Laughter)
Here is another law of 1911 Did the
.An Act to provide for close time on
scallops." Here is another: IAN Act pro-
viding for the permanent Improvement
of highway in 1911" And 'SAn Act in re-
lation to telephone companies" We had
telephone and telegraph companies long
before we had automobiles.
The town of Eden it has been said rep
resents a valuation of nearly 10000
This gave Hancock county in taxes in
1912 5000 and more than one-third came
from the little town of Eden; and from
that island on Mt. Desert came almost
one-half We exact more titan 60 per
cent. of the taxes for Hancock county
from that little island 8
So that you see that the interests OF
Bar Harbor alone are not at stake
here. The State of Maine receives
some benefit If we have been on the
wrong road and are now on the right
road, the State of Maine will directly
and indirectly receive it's just share
of this prosperity. | may weary YOU
with this Bar Harbor question and
consume large part of the time Of
this Senate but / will tell you upon