Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-04


own the property do not like to have
everybody knowing about their private
business.
MIR DAVIES: Mr.. President, then it
seems to be a after of personal lib
erty
Mr.. DAVIS: The information is for
the State assessors and the only pur
pose | will say is 50 that they can tax
the land.
ON motion NY Mr.. Higgins OF Penob-
scot the bill and amendments were ia
bled.
Mr.. BE-TLER Of Knox: Mr. Presi-
dent and fellow senators, let us pause
a moment in our deliberations. As citi-
zcns of this country. this united coun-
try. we We're drawn very closely to-
gether today By the joint session Of
tho morning, and as members of this
body ] nm sure we were drawn more
closely together by the common ties of
brotherhood and citizenship.
Ne have reached the point, my fell
lows, when our worl: here is nearly
ended. in few days. tho 18th session
of the Maine Senate will have passed
story of cur achievements and failures,
of Our victories and our defeats, will
be told. in after years only by the
printed page. But that story will only
be told in part. But light Of the eye
Will not be there; the familiar voices
Of our associates will not be there; the
charm and the personality and COM
radcship Of our fellows Of this body
viii be wanting. These we shall re-
member when the printed page, the
cold, formal type, is by us forgotten.
Some one has written, / cannot re-
cal the author, worry beautiful thing
on comrades, and it has been running
through my mind at this hour, and
can recall bat the one sentence which
sums it all up: Come, | will build in
rCparabla cities with the love of COM
r&deG, with their arms linked about
each others necks, with the manly
lovc of comrades" SO. my fellows,
or burdens have been lightened, our
defeats scftened, our victories gladden.
ed by the personality and comradeship
OF our fellows.
It has indeed been worth the while
to have met one another. TO have learn
cd from one another, to have talked
With one another, to have felt init
nately this association. Today we for
get those who fought against us, and
we have fought. We forget even those
who fought with us, and remember on
~ that we are 31--31 kindred spirits,
working for our noble State as God has
given uS to see the way.
And TO YOU, Nh President, we are
indebted in large measure for what
ever measure OF achievement we have
accomplished. Since the organization
of this body You have presided over
cur deliberations with distinguished
ability. with fairness. with courtesy,
with kindness to all. And no man, no
senator OF this body. | feel sure, has
been able to discern that you have in
the slightest degree preferred one SEN
atoT above another. To a presiding Of
ficer of any Gcliberative body, this is
the highest praise that can be bestow-
ed. And this praise ] bestow upon you
now. Mir. President, ungrudgingly,
without stint, gladly.
But words, mere words, are tempo
rary and passing. Your fellows desire
to remember YOU in more substantial
way than by mere speech, and on their
behalf | now present YOU with this
beautiful gold watch. AS it ticks away
the minutes and hours of your life.
may it serve to remind you of the
winter of 1917. of the 18th Maine SEN
ate, and Of the 80 fellows who have
called you President.
AS YOU face the long future, may you
be able to say with another. LAS 1
look life lightens, joy deepens and love
embodies the earth" (Applause.)
The PRESIDENT: The Senator from
Knox. Senator Butler. and fellow Sena-
tors: A man would surely be bereft
of all finer sentiments and emotions if
he were not touched at a moment like
this AS ! look at this beautiful gift
| cannot help being surprised, as 1t
represents time, how quickly time has
flown with US here this winter. 1t has
been now almost II weeks since we be-
gan our deliberations, but the time has
gone very quickly and very speedily.
And if there is one thing, as / look into
the face of this beautiful emblem, that
emphasizes itself upon my mind now
it is the fearsome fact of how quickly
time flies. Here we have watch with
the IL numerals, each ono an hour, two
hands, and they go about twice-one
day is gone-another day added to thoss
in the past But really when you come
to think Of 1t, time does not fly. We are
the people VINO fly. Time was here
yesterday, was here today. 1t will be