Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-03-14

NJ. a1DSuved' IN the It'll
Aae Of 3eetioA - the vords .uncn
PAYMENT Of the fees prescribed hv
section ~ Of Chapter 81 Revisss
SeAeotes. and is it the plear.,. !,
the aeuse to adopt the amendment,
me aouse, BY . viva voce vot.
aooptoo Heuse amendment, A ana
the eau then bad its third read,n~ A.
was passed 20 be ensrossed a. .msna
ed By House Amsadmen. 4
The Chair lays before III.
senate Document No. ls5. Ar ac+ Ia
authorize the osustsuction OF = vi.
N .ioe waters Of Rogue Harbor.
taoied BY Ar. MHlliEan Of Nobleboro
pending its third reading.
(For Debate See Legisia,iye Pac,rd
Inc SPEAKER: The question be-
fore the House is the question of the
gentleman from Nobieboro. Mr. MuI-
hgan- that the bill be indefinitely
postponed All those who are in "a
For OF the motion will say ave: those
opposed no.
viva voce vote being doubted
olFlsion OF the House was had
t1ttE-six having voted in the az
nrmative and s. in the negative. the
motion to Indefinitely postpone failed
Of passage
Nj HINCkLEF Of South Port
land: | move that the bill have i.s
third reading.
Mr. MCLLIGAN Mr.. Speaker. l
move that the bill be tabled and sp.c.
lallf assigned for Tuesday morning
next. as I wish 10 offer an amend :
menr
a viva voce vote being taken. the
motion to reliable the bill was lost
On motion By Mr. Hincklev OF
south Portland. the bill Their had is
third reading and was PASSED 10 De
snerossed in concurrence with the
Senate
The Chair lays before The House An
Act providing for the preparation OF
the State budget. House Document
No. es4, tabled by the gentleman from
Portland Mr.. Rounds pending thiro
reading, and the Chair recognizes NJ.
Rounds OF Portland.
Mr.. ROUNDS OF Portland. NJ.
Speaker. this bin calls for starting
six months before the LEGISLATURE
convenss. The first thing note IS
that the members of the LEGISLATURE
serving OF that commission shall re-
relve FIVE dollars a day. In the frs.
place. DO not think any member o.
the Legislature has right TO receive
anything but his salary They can
make the salary for the next Legis-
lature but not for this.
In the next place it says not 10 ex-
coed five hundred dollars. Now I
think il would cost a good deal more
in travelling expenses and the five
dollars a day than Eve hundred dol.
lars.
In the next place every corpora
ton must file n October Of each year
its state1en, OF how much its ap-
preparation shall be-. IT another place
il says that the year shall end on the
thir-ieth day Of June-the year be-
fore. Now it looks to me as though
they had got this ali muddled up, the
same as the budget We have had here
this year has been all muddIed up.
and | would like to read a few things
here.
have been a member Of this Leg
isiat for 10 weeks When I took
my sea- found on my desk print
ed book which purpOrted TO be ar
: estimate. so called. for the guic =
ance OF this Legislature il appro-
p-iating money for state purposes cor
the next two years.
I have been unable. from the ia
. ~
mate" to form any adequate idea OF
what it mas cost to run the various
departments and institutions OF this
State for the past two years. nor
have found any other member OK
this Legislature who knew. nor any
officer Of this State who could tell
me.
l. therefore. called On the treas
urer Of this State 70 make a report
such as the Constitution requires him
20 make. and after much delay he
filed a report which was absolutely
incom prenensible to me and to nj!
other members who examined ii.
then called on the auditor Of this
State for e report. and he submitted
figures 20 me, which I have tried and
figures in the so-calied estimate. and
I am now more mixed up than ever.
do not believe that this is entirely
due 70 nay stupidity and I DO believe
that il should be possible to render
a report to members Of the Leeisla-
ture which would at least show what
had been expended, and for what
purposes for 1911. and 1915. and 20
have the same fguses twice alike. so
that the ordinary member OF this
LEGISLATURE. without being an expert
! accountant. could ,eIl at least row
much money this State has spert II
the last two years. and what that
money was spent for.
can make such a statement for
my ovn business. and so can every
other member OF this legislature and
/ wish to state now and here. that if
the Budget" Of Governor Miliiken is
nothing but a bulge. Of Misinfcrn,a-
ton. the quicker this Legislature
puts il out of commission. the better
il will be for I've State
ITEM
| hold IL my hand a copy OF ne-
ures submitted to me hy the State
auditor. which shows that IN 1877
there vas expended in tie adJCtant
generals department, sss.s77 e5- II
the members Of this House VIII con-
suit their estimate books and will
take time to foot the expenditures for
1917 in that book they will hnd them