Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-07

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ern Hancock Municipal Court"
| Resolve in favor of the Pennington
State Normal School for furnishings
and equipment for dormitory
Resolve in favor of a highway bridge
! in the plantation of New Canada
! Resolve in favor of bridge across the
| Umcolcus stream in OXbow plantation.
Aroostook county.
Resolve in aid of building II bridge
across Sandy stream in the plantation
of Lexington.
Resolve in favor of aid in repairing
highways in town of Cutler
Resolve in favor of aid in building
| bridge across Passadumkeag stream IN
Grand Falls plantation
Resolve in favor of aid in building
bridge across Moose river near its
mouth.
Resolve in favor of the main high
way leading from the town of Frank
lin in Hancock county to the town of
| Cherryfield in the county of Washing
ton.
Resolve in favor of James r. Hun
ton of Milford.
Resolve in aid of navigation on
Rangeley Lake. Mooselucmeguntic
Lake and Cupsuptic Lake.
Resolve in favor of John X. Dnsmore
| OF Kittery.
Mr.. Mitchell of Kittery offered House
Amendment A, by substituting the
| name of Abbie NJ. Dinsmore where the
name of John r. Dinsmore appears
also to amend the resolve by substi-
| tuting in the first line the name of Alb
bic NJ. Dinsmore where the name of
| John r. Dinsmore appears
! Mr.. MITCHELL: Mr.. Speaker.
want to say for the information of the
House that since this resolve was re-
! ported from the committee on pensions
Mr.. Dinsmore has died, and with the
advice and consent of the committee
on pensions | offer This amendment so
that this pension will go to his widow.
! Everything that was said about Mr..
| Dinsmore in the statement of facts can
be said about his Wife, excepting as to
| military service: and l move the
| adoption of the amendment
The question being on the adoption of
the amendment,
The amendment was adopted and the
| resolve received its second reading and
was passed to be engrossed as
| amended.
Passed to Be Enacted.
An Act to extend the time in which
the Maine Title Guaranty Company IS
| authorized to commence business
en- motion by MIR. Mitchell of Kittcry
resolve making appropriations for the
Passamaquodiy Tribe OF Indians was
| taken from the table.
| The question being on the final pas
| sage of this resolve, carrying the emer-
! gency clause
Mr.. Washburn of Perry moved that
the resolve receive its final passage
Mr.. WASHBURN: Mr.. Speaker
think that this matter was not fully
| understood here at the session of Tues-
day. and world like. 10 say in the
way of explanation tfiat tho emergency
clause has always aseompanied these
Indian resolves. It was. so during the
Legislature OF 1909 and. also in 1911 S
This tribe is now without funds. and
| has been since the first daysof January.
and there are now a large number of
bills due wlich'are far beyond the abiia ]
!. ity Of the agentss who is a man of very
| moderate means. to carry. l am Htt Il
capable Of determining YVtller TINS
constitutes an emergency as coItfell3Sa
plated in .our Constitution. but 1td4#
know that the people in the t0WHV
where these reservation are 1ocafPA
rather consider il rs such. beaaT5Hs3
whatever our civilization may haE1
done for the indian, good or Bad. II HaX
left him With ono firm belief which IN
that the community owes.hinf aslj>ingA
Now. if we lake away his source of n
fuel and food. even for limited time
during tae winter months, the chanceSFN
are that he may not continue lossbe.s}<6a
law abiding citizen. and he will u
to regard what the white inalk Hp&
as property rights, u 3
Now, MIR. Speaker, do nat N8At
cast any reflections on tho cllA<
of our Indian neighbors but Y0@k
know what they are: they arek NM
provident people; they never ffkAIsa3
any provision for the morrow. L donbk{&
If there are dozen families on ofi%A
reservation who have ut one time morcs
than . weeks provisions on hand. Fuf -
Their than that, the Indian has no cred -aM
il: with few rare exceptions, no mef34
chant will give hiin credit for n Dill
of goods. He has no credit with the
doctor or the undertaken: and II is Il
fact that The body of an Indian woman'
who died on the Passamaquoddy res
ervation ii the month of January, ialh
for two weeks without burial, ana
was finally buried by private charity
In this connection, Mr.. Speaker. we
ought not To lose sight of the fact thar
| any hardships that come upon the IN
dian fall hard upon those SISTERS OF
! Mercy who go there and devote their
| lives. without hope of reward to the
upilt of the condition Of the Indian
1t is also fact that for two years
! while this resolve is hanging lire mere
! in the Legislature, the Indians always
suffer more or less hardshps, NOW,
| have no interest in the resolve otilcr
| than it seemed to fall to me to put IL
/ in, and | hope that ii will receive the
| necessary two thirds vote and that
the money will be made available as
soon as possible, tApplause)
Mr. NEWBERT OF Augusta: MI
Speaker. / think the House, yesterday,
| failed to give the necessary number of
| votes in behalf of this resolve wholly