Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-09

THE REAN WHY
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age Booths Year,
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Hole apVer|ooksd Il.
Win Not pine Law Until Ses.
sion legislature in 1915.

II i, IN. looming generally known
that thasF to- amend the laws of
1aoa ubio{ould provide that steam
railro,as HI sell 500 mile books at
Tho inform rate as 1000-mile
hooks vi not signed by Governor
uaines ing the closing days of the
I.eeislat and that it will not be-
come !, until after the days have
.,I.nsa,ithe session of 1915. The act
re,ehe Ihe Governors office, on the
Frida before the Legislature ad-
io,,rnoon Saturday night, and Gov
ernor aines tucked the bill i'll Il
nioootole. In the excitement of the
closi, days of the session everyone
farasall about the mileage bill, all
sunnng that it had been signed by
the lief Executive.
TIact to provide for uniform
milse rate had quite tempestuous
carr in the 10th Legislature. The
coAittee on railroads and expresses
re,ted fought to pass on the bill
co5clling the railroads to sell 500
N, book at the same uniform rate as
a 90 mile book. If the bill had been
ected into a law Il 500-mile book on
4 Maine Central would cost $40 while
s00-mile book on the Bangor IL Aroos-
Blk would cost so. The act passed
18th branches without much opposition
ut Governor Haines vetoed 1t, con-
Ending that the proposed Pubic Util-
les Commission would have the power
and right to regulate the rates of rare
Ito be charged by the railroad corpora
tons. The House by a wide margin
raised the bill over the Governors
veto. Representative j. Fred o'Conneii
of Milford. the present sheriff OF
penobseot county, and Representative
Horace Mitchell of Kittery speaking in
favor of the measure The bill came
within one vote of being passed in the
Senate over the Governors veto. 1t 50
happened that the afternoon that the
action on the Governors veto came up
for consideration in the upper branch
that Senator Leslie Boynton of Lin
coin. who was in favor of the bill. was
absent. Senator Boynton had not miss
ed a roll-call. during the three terms
that he had served in the upper cham
Der and everyone around the State
House wondered where the senator
had gone. That afternoon he SIMPLY
left the capitol and quietly and with
gout the least bit of a furry hied him.
self to the residence of local clergy
man and took unto himself bride.
And that is the reason why the Sen
ate did not pass the mileage bill over
the Governors veto. Senator Jersey
of Aroosteok ehamponed the side OF
the Governor in the matter
Later in the session Representative
Horace Mitchell of Kittery presented
an act amendatory of and additional To
thapter 81 of the Public Laws of 1909
nf
books by railroad corporations.
The act was as follows;
Section /. Chapter 81 of the Public
Laws of 1909 is hereby amended by
adding section as follows
Section ?. All railroad corporations
or companies doing business i'll this
state and conveying passengers over
any road or roads owned or operated
by any motive power, whether owned
or operated by them in their own or
other names, under lease or otherwise,
which now, or hereafter may issue
mileage ticket of one thousand one
mile coupons for the use of the travel
ing public and keep the same on sale
at their regular passenger stations
shall also issue a mileage ticket of flve
hundred one-mile coupons, and sell the
same at all stations where the one
thousand one-mile ticket is now or
hereafter may be sold, at the same
rate per mile as the one thousand
nine ticket may be sold. The holder
Of any such mileage ticket shall he en-
titled to travel by any regular passen-
ger train over the road issuing the
same and all lines of railroad owned
operated or leased by it. as many miles
as there are coupons contained i'll such
ticket.
provided, however, that the mini
mum mileage to be detached shall be
regulated by the printed contract con-
tanned in such ticket.
part third of Article " of Section :
of the Constitution relating to Legis-
Iatve power reads as follows:
every bill or resolution having the
force of law, to which the concurrence
Of both Houses may be necessary, eX-
cept on question of adjournment,
which shall have passed both Houses.
shall be presented to the Governor. and
f he approve, he shall sign it; If not.
to the House, in which 1t shall have
III shall return it with the objections
originated which shall enter the OBJ
jections at large on its journals, and
proceed tn reconsider ii.
IF after such reconsideration. two
pass it, it shall be sent together with
the objections, to the other House, by
which it shall be re-considered. and,
lift approved by wo-thirds of that
House, ii shall have the same effect