Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-28
Who Killed Cock Robin7

Here is the mileage bill of the last
Legislature, precisely as 1t was passed
and vetoed. It is referred toby some
dishonest Democratic and Progressive
candidates and the Lewiston Journal
as the '.two-cenv mileage" bill. Read
1t carefully and see if you can discover
any provision for two cent mileage:
STATE OF MAINE.
In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Thirteen.
An Act to Regulate and Establish Mile
age Rates for the Conveyance of Pas
sengers over the Steam Railroads with
in the State.
Be 1t enacted by the People of the
State of Maine, as follows:
All railroad corporations or companies
doing business in this State and convey
ing passengers over any road or roads
owned or operated by them and whose
motive power is steam whether owned
Or operated by them In their own or 9TH
er names, under lease or otherwise
which now, or hereafter may, issue a
mileage ticket of one thousand one mile
coupons for the use of the travelling pub
die and keep the same on sale at their
regular passenger stations, shall also is
sue a mileage ticket of FIVE hundred one
mile coupons. and sell the same at all
the stations where the one thousand mile
ticket Is now, or hereafter may, be sold,
at the same rate per mile as the one
thousand mile ticket may be sold. The
holder of any such mileage ticket shall
be entitled TO travel, by any regular pas
senger train, over the road issuing the
same and all other lines of the railroad
owned, operated or leased by it, as many
miles as there are coupons contained in
such ticket
mileage to be detached shall be regulat-
ed by the printed contract contained in
such ticket.
In House of Representatives, March 81,
1913 Read three times and passed to be
enacted. tSigned) John A. Peters,
Speaker.
In Senate. April /, 1918. Read twice
and passed to be enacted. (Signed) Carl
Z. Milliken, President.
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........... .-......t.......-....... Governor
Approved.
Atrue copy Attest. tsigneD J.E
Alexander, Secretary of State
The second bill, which was not sign
ed and which will become law on the
third day of the next Legislature, Is
precisely the same with the following
change of introduction:
STATE OF MAINE
In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Thirteen.
An Act Amendatory of and Additional
TO Chapter Thirty-seven of ohe Public
Laws of Nineteen Hundred Nine Relat-
ing to the Issuance of Mileage Books
by Railroad Corporations.
Be 1t enacted by the People of the
State OF Maine, as follows:
Section /. Chapter thirty-seven of the
public laws of nineteen hundred and nine
Is hereby amended by adding section two
as follows:
Section O. All railroad corporations or
companies doing business in this state
a mas an o nxynr nv
or roads owned or operated by any mo-
tive power. etc.
II will be noticed that in this bill
steam power is replaced by ANY
motive power" But do you find any
provision for two cent mileage7 Do
you find anything to prevent any
railway doing business in the State
from raising the price of their 1000
mile tickets? Could you, as an honest
man, claim that either of the above
was a two-cent mileage bill? What do
you think Of candidate or a newspa-
per that peruistently attempts to fool
the uniformed by telling them that
the Governor vetoed a two-cent mile
age bill?
There are the facts: IL you wish to
cali IL a two-cent mileage bill and as
sumo that for service to the Maine
Central r II. Governor Haines vetoed
the measure, then it is up to YOUR
conscience. not ours.
But here are few more facts to be
briefly considered: While Hon. w. r.
Pattangall and others are telling the
people that Governor Haines vetoed a
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