Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-03

judicial courts, was taken from the
table.
Mr.. Price Of Sagadahoc offered Sen.
ate Amendment A to Senate Docu-
ment 100, and moved its adoption.
Senate Amendment a to Senate
lse: Amend line sixteen OF Section
One by striking out the words fifteen
hundred. and inserting in place
thereof the words seventeen hum
dred.' SO that said line sixtsen shall
read. as amended: 'Sagadahoc. seven
teen hundred dollars
Mr.. BOYNTON OF Lincoln: Mr..
President, when the committee on
salaries and fees visited Sagadahoc
county. they found that the salary of
the clerk of courts was sixteen hun
dred dollars. They also learned that
the State allowed him two hundred
dollars for clerk hire. They also
learned that that was not enough:
that he paid from his own pocket
yearly two hundred dollars for clerk
hire, which left him q net amount re-
ceived from his office of fourteen
hundred dollars
Now this committee on salaries and
fees recommended fifteen hundred
dollars, and that the clerk hire Of two
hundred dollars which he had paid
out be taken off, which left him, net,
fifteen hundred dollars, a hundred
dollars better than he received be.
fore
Now comes forward the esteemed
senator from Sagadahoc. Senator
Price, and wants seventeen hundred
dollars salary for the clerk Of courts
in Sagadahoc county, whose popula-
ton is $4,000. and whose valution is
s12.oo0,00o. an amount equal or nearly
so to that which is paid in the great
county of Androscoggin.
Now there is absolutely no use, nor
any sense. in this amendment. I will
not charge graft. because know
nothing Of il, but il was made very
plain 10 US yesterday, when We adopt
ed the amendment in reference to
hancock county, that the money used
for those offices was for graft, the
additional salaries, it was for graft
and nothing else
Now l believe this is wrong: believe
II is an injustice TO the taxpayer. and IT
is right and proper that it should be
called TO their attention.
l am going to ask. Mr.. President. that
when this vote is taken it De taken by
the yeas and nays. That has just been
denied by the Senate, the first time in
my whole experience Of eight years in
this Legislature that I have known the
Serate TO refuse a yea ana nay vote
vi
Sitle, gentleman, that you may think
best not to have it. I believe If were
on your side l should think So. too
Why not come out: Answer Your roll
cali Stand behind your guns; that is.
tae way TO DO business.
Mr.. PRICE: l want to assure the gen
tlenea that there is nothing in the ma
ture of graft in this amendment l per-
sonaiy know the amount OF the cam
palgn contribution by my friend, Mr.
Thompson. the Clerk OF Courts OF Sag
ad&foc County. and l assure you it was
4 very modest amount, and there is
nothing in this but what is open and
above-board. ana / am perfectly willing
gentlemen, that We should have a yea
ard nay vote. If the Senator SO desires
That is all have TO say.
The question being upon the adoption
OF the amendment offered by Senator.
Price. Serate Amendment 4 TO Senate
Document $50, the yeas ard nays were
or.ierei, ana tie Secretary called the
roll.
Those voting yea were Messrs. Alec.
-AInes. Bartlett, Burieigh. Butter. Chatto
Colby, Cot. Emery. Fiaherty. Fulton.
Garcelon. Murphy. Peacock, Price
Scammon Swift. Walker. Weld-l9
Those voting nay were Nessrs Roynton,
Conant. Dunton. Durgin. Hersey. Leary
3 -Absentees. Messrs. Clark. Hastings,
Herrick. Jillson. Mouton Thurston-t
Nineteen having voted yes. and six
having voted no, the amendment was
adopted.
Mr.. Scammon OF Hancock Offered
Senate Amendment & to Senate Docu-
ment 80 and mored its adoption.
Senate Amendment B to Senate Docu-
ment $50 Amend line nine OF Section
one by striking out the words Sixteen
hundred and inserting in place thereof
the words eighteen hundred, so that
said ninth line shall read: Hancock,
eighteen hundred
Mr.. SCAMMOE: ! nave no discussion
on this matter 10 offer. l simply sub
NIT 10 my brother Senators that this
figure is entirely satisfactory locally, ii
YOU desire TO consider our wishes.
Mr.. DCRGIN: I thing l can under
stand why the Senator doesn't care 20
discuss the matter. / presume that he
has knowledge of about how the thing
will end without discussion.
l don't know as I shall have any bet
ter success than 1 did before, but l am
going to demand the yeas and nays
when the vote is taken on this, trusting
that perhaps my fellow Senators may
be as kind to ne as they were to Sena-
tor Boynton, and grant the request that
they denied once.
Mr.. BOYNTON: 1 just simply wish
to again call the attention of the Senate
to this county OF magnificent salaries,
the County OF Hancock. This makes
the salary Of the Clerk Of Courts
eighteen hundred dollars, with no clerk
hire paid out by him, but furnished by
the county: and he is clerk OF the
Municipal Court of Ellsworth, another
entirely useless of1lce-there never was
any excuse on earth for its existence
and he gets four or five hundred dollars.
as the case may be, in addition TO his
eighteen hundred dollars-E it is five
hundred, it is twenty-three hundred.
Now if the taxpayers of a county ever