Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-11
77TH LEGISLATURE
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seha Representatives to the Legislature
-ppeaF Tor or against bills which thew
A are o. interest to the State: and :,
.1e"s 70 me that their motto ahou,d he
osress Tor Maine" at least: hut :
nA the individual members who are
peAane Tor this bill are mistaken in
1ne 18th legislature. APPOINTED :
special committee. a .committee tina,
was entirely non Ipsrtisan. Ia reno-,
to the 18th Legislature on tho rns,ta.
VI scnooi distribution: the members
aat committee worked without nav
ana they conferred with experts from
An over the United States. The re-
SUIT OF their work is comprised in
SENATE Doc. No. 121 Of the 7Sth Iee,e-
azure. With all the powers they had
ana with all the evidence that Was
brought oe1ore them they saw no
reason Tor any change in the bill
iour present committee has heard
al the evidence they could. We gave
"ioe-open hearing in the Senate
Nnamoer two weeks ago TODAY. we
talked with members individually and
eoAeceEely; there were present peo-
PIE from all over the state. You
iehlemoer there is a minority report
upon this matter but we can see no
reason why this bill should be changed
at the present time
now. who would gain IL the mem.
oers OF this House vote to sumner.
me minority report Of the committee ?
81 OF the representative districts
would lose; Is OF the towns sending a
representative would lose: 80 other
LOW MS In those representative
districts would lose; only "a
would gain. 1 think these figures
are authentic; at least they have been
worked back and forth by several men
who are experts in this line. AT the
present time il seems to me that the
census and valuation principle DOVE
tai together very well, and while we
might admit that it Is not an ideal
principle of distribution, that il is as
good as any that has been presented
to US.
I feel that have taken considera-
Die tune of the session this morning
upon this matter. and will not make
any further remarks at this time, bu.
l am going to ask, Mr. Speaker, that
When the vote is taken 1t be taken by
the yeas and nays
Mr.. PERHAM Of Woodstock: Mr..
Speaker. ! move that these two re-
ports be laid upon the table and be
specially assigned for considera ton to-
morrow morning.
Mr.. BLAKE of New Gloucester
Mr.. Speaker heartily concur with the
gentleman from Castine, Mr.. Kicker.
in regard TO this bill, consider my
self good Granger, but l wish 20
say that in my town of New Glou-
cester
The SPEAKER: The Chair will
state to the gentleman from New
Gloucester, Mr.. Blake, that the pend
ing question now is upon the motion
OF the gentleman from Woodstock,
Mr.. Perhau, TO lay the matter upon
the table until tomorrow morning.
Mr.. THOMBS Of Lincoln: Mr.
Speaker, the motion to assign to g
Gay certain is q debatable question,
is it not?
The SPEAKER: AS to the time of
assignment, as the Chair understands
it. All those in favor of the motion
that this matter be tabled and spe-
c:ally assigned for tomorrow morn
ing, will say yes; all those opposed
Will say no.
A viva voce vote being taken.
Tie motion was lost
Mr.. BLAKE of New Gloucester
Mr.. Speaker. ! wish to say that f
this change is made the town of New
Gloucester would lose between seven
and eight hundred dollars a year OF
their school money; and second
the motion of the gentleman from
Castine, Mr.. Kicker.
Mr.. ST. CLAIR Of Calais Mr.
Speaker. I have not entered into any
figures in regard to the effect of this
hill upon the amount received by the
various towns throughout the State.
l presume we all know it is a fact that
whatever system of distribution is
adopted, some towns will receive more
than others. If it is on valuation, then
the wealthy towns are benefited and
the poor towns are hurt. If 1t is on an
average attendance, the town that is
more careful to get it's scholars in
school would get more. Now if it is
on aggregate attendance, how is it
going to affect the various towns?
asked the superintendent of schools
what he meant by aggregate attend
ance-how he figured the aggregate
attendance-and he told me that this
was the system: If a child was in
school one day. that would count as
a days attendance; that they took the
attendance Of every school In the town
and added all the days that each
scholar was in school for the year, and
that would be the aggregate attend
ance Of that town for the year. Aggre-
eating the various towns in the State
would give the aggregate attendance
for the whole State. Then they take
that as a diviser, and divide the school
money by the total aggregate attend
ance, which would give the amount
that each days attendance was enti-
tied to. Then each town would use as
a multiplier the aggregate attendance
of that town, and multiply that quo
tent, which would give the amount
of money that that town should re-
ceive. Now naturally you would imag-
inc that that would not make much
differences; but there is one thing GER
tain. il seems to me- that 1t is a lit