Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-03
Afternoon in Senate

Senator Flaherty Of Cumberland
notwithstanding, also notwithstanding
the votes of three Of Cumberland
county's four Democratic senators, the
Senate refused Friday afternoon to
pass over the Governors veto, the act
for the protection Of life and prop
erty against loss or damage from
steam boilers operated by incompetent
stationary engineers.
This was a Portland bill, intro
duced by Senator Flaherty and sup
ported by the organized stationary en-
gineers of Portland, and with the
$4,000 inhabitants" provision would
have applied only to Portland. The
vote on the question of passage over
the Governors veto was ii to IA, and
as a tWo-thirds vote was required to
pass over the veto, the act failed Of
passage.
. The Governor in his veto message
stated as his reasons, in brief, that
the act was too radical, and that Ii
made it possible for one person to
pronounce anyone incompetent and
have another substituted.
New Building, Girls Industrial School
The first veto received in the SEN
ate was that on the act for the pro-
lection of life and property against
loss or damage from steam boilers or
steam machinery operated by incom
petent persons in cities of over $4,000
inhabitants" providing for examina-
ton and licensing of stationery engi-
neers. This veto was sustained, IA
to IA, and the details of the debate
and vote are given in another COL
umn.
Then came the veto Of the $4,000
appropriation for a new central build :
ing at the Industrial School for Girls
at Hallowell. In his veto MESA &c
the Governor stated that the income
of the State was insufficient to meet
the demands upon it, and it was Nc
cessary to narrow expenditures some
where. There might be some virtue
in this resolve, he said, but 1t was
not absolutely necessary and SCENE
the least urgent of any of the appro-
priations.
IF this is the least urgent for
Heavens sake what is urgent in the
| State of Mainei" exclaimed Senator
vor of the passage of the resolve over
! the Governors veto. He made a
strong and eloquent plea for the ap-
preparation and the needs of the In :
| dustrial School Iietleclafed that the
institution is not q prison, but home
where friendless ana homeless girls
are surrounded with healthy atmos-
phere and brought Cup honest and vir-
| tuous girls, who make good wives and
mothers. And if this institution were
enlarged SO it could do all the work
! that is possible, there would be no
need of having the insane asylum or
! the State prison so large, Senator AL
/ len declared, for the way to improve
society is to begin at the bottom and
build up for the next generation. He
thought every father should vote for
the appropriation, and declared that
increased accommodations We're ne
cessary to bring the school to its
| highest efficiency.
| On q strictly party vote the veto
was sustained, IS Republicans voting
to pass it over the veto and 10 Demo-
Gratis voting not to, so that it failed
| of two-thirds.
After q recess the Senate came to
order and Senator Murphy introduced
an order requesting the return from
! the Governor of the act defining the
act to establish a minimum wage for
State House employees. Presiden.
Hersey explained that Attorney Cen
eral Pattangall had called attention
to the fact that the minimum wage
had been already passed and signed,
and that under the constitution this
could not go into effect until 80 days
after the adjournment of the Legis-
lature, whereas the defining act at
tempted to make it effective April l.
In view of these facts the second bill
seemed useless. 1t was returned and
then indefinitely postponed