Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-02

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= stands ready to send down to the
House q resolution against any man
whom a Democrat will stand up and
saw there is any evidence against Tor
violating his oath of office. We sent
them all down. five of them, or six Of
| them. and said: 1T is up to YOU, now.
/ II you are not playing politics. If you
mean business. you will endorse these
resolutions. Give every man his sepa-
rate trial. don't mix him up with any
body else let every man stand on ms
now merits. send them back to us and
we viii proceed with each one IN the
| due course of procedure as a court
ought to do.
| The Senate assumed that what had
been done down in the House was done
in good faith as | said on the>fioor of the
| senate. the other day. that | didn't be-
lieve they were playing politics with us.
! / said that ! didn't believe it would
come TO that here i'm a matter of this
| kind where we are jurors-must sit as
! i,,rorS upon this case-that We would put
| in mere party politics, and ] wanted to
| believe that down in the House. the men
who were responsible for those amend
| ments. the men who presented them. did
! it out of ignorance of their legal rights
and not because they wanted to play
mean little dirty party politics But /
sat i'm the House this morning when the
leader of the House arose in his place
one of the leaders-and insisted that the
House should not adopt those separate
| resolves but insist that those amend
ments should still cling TO the original
resolve. and keep up here in a deadlock
from going ahead and doing business.
For we all know that under our oath OF
office we must stay here till the judg-
ment day before We will attempt TO try
a man under the constitution in viola
ton of our oaths
What right have l. as senator, sit
ting here in my place as judicial Off
Ger. 10 try a man for the high crime OF
violating his oath of office. for the high
est crime OF using his office in an i'm
proper manner for removal from Office
what right have | 10 sit here and try
him for that, when he is put in the same
instrument with two other men. with
different evidence and different witnesses.
for different CHARGE
What right have | to sit here ana
enact Il farce. and then people Of the
whole state know il Is a farce? The
Democratic party of the House, through
their leader there in the House. this
morning insisted that they should stand
by the amendment They knew if that
must stand it means then you never can
try the sheriff of Cumberland county
New they didn't mean business by -.
If there wasn't dirty. party politics in
ii they would have accepted the resolu-
IL nd bad
matter ended at once. Does someone
say that you will try the sheriff of Cum
berland and YOU will not try anybody
else. therefore We will put them In to-
eether? Wen, if that is your argument,
then you know you could not try them
separately. The very moment you say
that you admit that you are not giving
them their separate trials. Now | do not
believe that this Legislature intends to
try one man and leave another out. ! !
say to you what | believe. every senator |
here believes, that they are ready to try
any man who IS charged at the bar OF |
this Legislature and give him fair and |
impartial trial, and that is all he should |
have And that is all YOU. should ask
for If they meant business this morn |
ing down in the House, why did they not |
take all the rest of these FIVE and annex |
them on? They did not ask to do that by |
any further amendments but sent 1t |
back. because it is an attempt to keep
;Eis Legislature from investigating the |
iii ST one that the Governor put in here /
And it will be very effective if they |
can do il. Now l want the people of the !
state OF Maine to understand that this |
Is little peanut politics of little peanut |
politicians and is not the business of the
State.
Now you can appoint your committee
of conference. What does your commit |
tee of conference amount to? Down in |
the House there is a committee there OF
Two men at least that will not agree to |
anything of this kind and you cannot |
get majority of both of these commit |
tees to agree TO any procedure Go |
ahead with it. 1t will only delay. ana |
that is all that those who are playing !
politics want-a delay. 1t is not an in
Vestigation-it is not something that We |
are doing for the best interest OF the |
State-but it is simly playing politics. |
Now If the Democratic party in this |
Legislature can make anything out of |
this in the way of politics. and help
entitled to the benefit of it, only want
TO state 10 you my conclusions, that | |
am here to do business, and ii ! sit here
as a member of this jury, viii give
every man fair hearing and vote ac-
eordinS TO the evidence, no matter
whether Republican or Democrat. but
until that time comes no man with my
consent will stand before the bar of m,
legislature charged with crime and
nave his trial along with somebody else
charged with a different thing and in a
different locality in the State.
| have said all I want to saw. Mr.
President.
The motion was adopted by viva
yocc vote.
The Chair appointed as Senate MEM
bers of the committee of conference on
the dlsagreeing action of the Two bod
| les The senator from oxford, Senator
Stearns, the senator from Franklin. Sem
ator Wing and the senator from Aroos-
| took, Senator Hersey.
From the House: Senate Document
AL An Act to amend Section 81 of
| Chapter % of the Revised Statutes. re-