Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-14

doing of any in court, and that If you
know of an intention to commit any
you will give knowledge thereof to the
justices of the court or some of them
that it may be prevented; you will
not, Willingly or willingly, promote OF
sue any false. groundless or unlawful
suit. nor give aid or consent to the
same, that you will delay no man for
lucre or malice but will conduct your
self in the office of an attorney within
the courts, according to the best of
your knowledge and discretion. and
with all good fidelity. as well as to the
courts as to your clients"
So that the county attorney, as a
|practicing lawyer as member of our
bar, a profession that every one here
respects, has taken an additional duty,
has an additional OATH to diligently
administer the duties if his office, if
he has never taken the oath as county
attorney, and ! submit to you gentle
men, that this is too important a case
for you to allow any sympathy. and
political prejudices, or any other slight
considera ton, to sway you for mo-
ment in your decision of this case, it
is just as important that you should
say to the several county attorneys in
this State that the people of Maine
expect not only the sheriffs but the
county attorneys in every particular
to perform their duties.
The PRESIDENTS: The purposes for
which this convention was formed
having been accomplished, it is dis
solved, and the Senate will retire
LOitCE
On motion by Mr. Scates of West
brook. the House voted to go into ex-
ecutive session for the purpose of con-
siderine the adoption { an address to
the Governor for the removal of Will
liam n. Hines, county attorney for An
droseogg.n county.
TIE SPEAKER: In accordance with
the vote OF the House to go into exec
ativt session the galleries will be va
Gated, persons other than members OF
the House will kindly vacate the foo
and the messengers will take charge
of the entrances.
In Executive Session.
The SPEAKER: The question before
the House is on the adoption of an adj
dress to the Governor for the removal
of William H. Hines, county attorney
of Androseoggin county.
Mr. O,Connell of Milford moved that
when the vote is taken it be taken by
the yeas and nays.
The SPEAKER: Those favoring the
demand for the yeas and nays will
plea Sc rise.
A sufficient number having arisen,
o,lA
The SPEAKER: Is the House ready
for the question.
Mr.. DUNTON of Belfast: Mr.. Speak
er, [ do not Want to take very much
of the time of the House in what
have to say, but it is due to the SIT
uation it seems to me and also in a
measure to myself to say what shall
say. The questions that have been de-
cided by US heretofore related to the
sheriffs of the various counties, and the
proposition was made before us and
argued to us that there was something
higher than common law and the writ
ten law which should govern our de-
cisien; that Notwithstanding our writ
ten law enacted by the representatives
ct the people said that certain things
should not be, Notwithstanding that II
was argued to us that if the members
of a certain community here or there
in the State or If a sufficient number
of those who were able to make their
opinion felt decided that public opin-
ion there demanded different state OF
things, they had a right to have that
state of things regardless of the law;
and it seemed to me, gentlemen, that
oh CHI trial htlt
representative government was on trial
before the bar of this House, and We
the representatives of the people who
sent us here to enact laws were called
upon to stultify ourselves and the
Legislatures that had preceded us by
declaring that the written law should
be of no effect in those parts OF inc
State where certain So-called puDllc
opinion made itself heard and said that
that thing declared by the law should
MOI goyen. and we were called upon IN
effect to honor that and degrade the
law and the people and the Legislature
through whom the people had spoken;
and it seems to me, gentlemen, that a
situation confronted us which never IN
the history of the State of Maine con-
fronted any Legislature.
The people speak through their rep
resentatives sent here, and the voice
of the people is expressed through
their representatives, and l know o.
no other public opinion that had a
right to be recognized except the pub
lie opinion of the people of this Stae
crystalized in the Statutes of the state
made by the representatives OF the peo-
pie themselves who are sent here 10
speak, for them,
Notwithstanding that situation, we
have. no right to do injustice to any
man. to say that any man was guilty
If we believed him to be innocent. But
gentlemen, on those cases that were
brought before us, notWlthstahuiis
there was an appeal to our sympathy
notwithstanding that our sympathy diu
go out to those men who were the VIC
Tins of a system more than of any vice
in themselves say, there was eau
FOR sympathy, but, notwithstanding
that we did feel sympathy, we 5udseu
these cases, l believe, on their merlts s.
and T want to say here that in my vote
I voted and | intended to vote regaIu-
less Of whether the man then at tue
-, .,.,u a Derpocrat or a RepuDllCdi