Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-04

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pa1meat Or government. that the legis-
laIu-e row In session has not delegated
10 any person O. department. outside Of
the legislature, any authority or coltro!
over is legislative printing and binding,
ard that In tire matter O. legislative
printing and binding the state printer
and tie state binder are expected to
promptly respect. obey ard execute the
orders Of tie Legislature
In the Senate this order received
passage, ard CONES TO the House -oE
concurrent action.
NJ. Clifford Of Lewiston moved that
. the order BE- laid upor Tire table
DR.. WESCOTT of Biuehiil: Nj
Speaker n view Of the fart that 5rst
80 long as this order ,ays UPON The table
the STATE printing i. held Up and tire
WORK o. this Legislature IS retarded.
call to- the yeas and mars UPON this mo-
ton.
TIE yeas and rays were ordered
TIE SPEAKER: The CEa;r iays before
the House the pending question which IS
the ulcsioH % lay this order upon the
table Upon iris question the yeas and
neys have been ordered. AL those IN IA
vor OF the notzon. when the3- names are
called. VIII answer YES: al t1cse oppos-
ed wiz answer no. TIE CLERK VII call
the roll.
Yea-Baila-d. Bs-nisr Bake, .New
Broxr. New S..a-oa; Clifford. Come la-,
Coano-s. Clr-isr. Davis. DescoI@a1x,
Douglass r-apeac- I'ri-saln- Fosse.-,
Gallagher. Gerrlsa. <iilr.ot-r, GolataT ei'e
s5E.. Libby. Lord. Mavwen. s.cCa-yy. Nc
Coryison, 3iccars1y. Mcircre, III e-r,
NlE.g-a. &u!i.a- N.c2aad. Ss..os,
EoG!.oa; P!!G-nuer. Pollard. Ro5e-,s.
Russell Le..E,on: sEaaA. sE..sA- TAB
Wa 1ess VA Nss=a ta' ~a.:s H*S5 WeIss.
Wheeler. wilkins, Nocd.ran Wyr1aa-
NAYS-Alhsrt, Alien. Ag1es. AreF!l
Bal Zen: BesIs: E.sSe. o2S-aE4: E = I.
sen, cad bourne. Caaplin. Caa-a 5t-;in
C:-men,, Cobb. Coa;2. Deieie. Ttznfo-,h
DilI-ng. DETlmazond. I5..to-. Edwards
ELS. G-sstrs, E-ars, Fay. Ford, Gram,
son. Sanford. Harper fIart higgins.
Hoi,. GouIdsaoro. Jordan. Little .-s:
Lombard. Mckinley, NeNa'ly. Melder.
Ai:ehe.i;; Morrison. ;Mor.s; Nicaolas
Kicker, SEsseIl. Alfred; Ryder. :.
Clair Cala!s: s. Clair. RoSE!ar.d
: San9o-n. snow, Tao.nns. Teber.
e.aovse. Wescott, Wilson. W:se.
-ISE+N T-EfC,; RUE. 3raTr. BUs=ey
Co,co-d. Co-i.ss. Gould Eara5a7, Holt
. Skoxaegan: Lawrence, Leader, Lewis,
Gars.r. Robinson.
/ Yeas. -.
Mars. =:
ats=Et. l.
/ The Speaker: sixty-elgh: having vote
IN the affirmative. ard % IN ire negative,
The motions los,-
| TIE pehins question being on the
adoption ot The order in concurrence
win the Senate,
u. -hoc.5s Q: Lincoln moved that
tire House CONCUR witt Tie Senate n the
passage OF TIE order.
| MIR. PIERCE G: Eou.ton: VI. Speaker
wish 10 cal! the attention % The House
/ briefly u this order, n regard 20 whic Z
sc are asked 10 CONCUR with the Senate
wish the House % consider before de-
gliding 20 concur with the Senate. what
useful purpose the adoption q this oder
serves.
The order reads this way: Ordered.
the House concurr:ng. that tie secretary
% inform the state printer and the
state binder that this legislature Is TIE
sole constitutional Judge Q. .he reccssi-
y. character, quantity and tirae limit o.
It's printing ard binding" Now. whether
the House and tire Senate :oi1 in such an
order, that TIA; is so Or IS noc e.. eau
not affect, ard everybody here knows il
cannot affect in one earthly particular
the truth Of the matter there set forth
il the legislature is the sole consttr-
tional Judge Of those matters. il Is and i: Is
TO more the constitutional Judge Of such
matters because the legislature passes an
order 70 that effect If the legislature
is not the constitutional Judge OF the
necessity OF these matters. the passing
ot this order saying that it is the cor
stitutional Judge can net in any way
enlarge, increase-or anpIify the rights
Senate. and can in TO way diminish Or
1cC4 c6Sc w 4AaAAs tie EAeuLs u iEs
Governor and Council.
The order then goes on TO say that
the legislature noT IN session has not
delegated to any person or department,
outside Of the legislature, any an
thority or control over its legislative
printing and binding That. as far
as this legislature is concerned, is
true, but the legislature OF 1875 passed
an Act giving the Governor and Coun-
Gil authority to contract for the leg
islatire printing. in so many words. I
was not a member Of the legislature
a. that time. but undoubtedly the leg
isiature at that time included many
good lawyers. and Ii either had the
right or did not have the right TO pass
any such statute and to d certain ex-
tent tie the hands Of future leGisla-
lures. TIE fact remains that that
statute was passed in 1895. and under
the provisions Of that statute the
last Governor and Council made a
contract with Burleigh and F1ynt, or
may not be correct IN the name of
the company, but with one firm here
in Augusta for printing, and with
another firm here in Augusta for