Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-27

promptly refunded. The Pinex Co..
Fl. Wayne, Ind
doesn't want to lose me. will say
here that l think it no more than fair
and that people are not going Oh
there of their own free will. Their
names are drawn from a jury box
and they are taken away from their
business, and three dollars day will
not pay their expenses away from
home. I think it no more than fair
that the jurors should be paid four
dollars day. Therefore, I will yield
the floor to Mr.. Bragdon of Perham.
BY Mr.. BRAGDON of Perham: Mr..
Speaker, this is an unexpected honor.
In my experience as a member of this
! House, have never known the gen.
tleman from Portland (Mr. Rounds)
to yield to anyone before. l. feel a
good deal as the gentleman from
| Portland (Mr. Rounds) has eX-
pressed that the pay of jurors is in
adequate. 1 feel, too, that this is a
session when salaries and fees should
not be raised indiscriminately; but
in the case of the man who is drawn
on jury duty it is somewhat different
from the man who has gone out in
the primaries and put in two or
/ three months of his time in trying to
get a nomination for an office that
does not pay him for the time he de-
votes to it, and it is also different
from the situation of the man who
4 moves heaven and earth to get an
appointment here in the State House.
/ was unfortunate enough to have
little experience as juror last
winter I served my county three
weeks, when the pay that I got did
not pay my board; and while it
might be long time before I will be
called upon for similar service again,
/ have a little sympathy for the man
who will do it in the future. 1 will
. say that in our county we have a
! term of court in September when
farmers and business men-and bust
ness men up there are all farmers
are taken from their homes and
serve upon the jury for three dollars
day when they are paying from six
to ten dollars a day for men to take
their places on the farms and are
unable to be on hand to see what is
being done. 1 cannot help feeling
that four dollars a day is no more
than juror deserves, and 1 hope
that the motion of the gentleman
from Portland (Mr Rounds) will pre-
vail.
] The SPEAKER: The motion of
the gentleman from Portland. Mr..
Rounds, seconded by the gentleman
from Perham, Mr.. Bragdon, is
Mr.. BREWSTER of Portland: Mr..
! Speaker, as member of the COM
mittee on legal affairs which con-
sidered this matter last week, trying
to get as early action as we could in
| relation to matters which had been
referred to US, we naturally, l think.
feel few quafms at having a unan-
/ lmous report rejected in this fashion.
should like time to consider the
matter little further with the mem
bers or the committee and see how
strongly we feel in the defense of our
position. | accordingly would move
that this lie upon the table.
| A viva voce vote being taken, the
motion of the gentleman from Port
land Mr.. Brewster, that the>report be
tabled prevailed.
Mr.. WING of Auburn: Mr. Speaker.
l move to take from the table the
Dill relating to increase of salary of
the State Superintendent of Schools.
Inc SPEAKER: The Chair re-
srets TO state that it has not yet re-
turned from the printer, and is not
now In the possession of the House.
Mr.. WING: Will the Chair enter
tain a motion to refer it in accord
ance with the suggestion on the biup
The SPEAKER: The gentleman
from Auburn (Mr. Wing) moves that
the bill or resolve, increasing the sal
airy OF the State Superintendent of
schools be taken from the table ami
referred to the committee on salaries
| and fees.
| Inc motion prevailed. t
Mr.. WING of Auburn: Mr.. Sneak
er, move to take from the table the.
bill relating to the charter of the CITY
of Auburn
The SPEAKER: The Chair will
INQUIRE for what purpose?
! Mr. WING: For the purnose of
addressing a motion to re- consider
Inc SPEAKER: The same situa-
ton applies, and for that purpose the
Chaif VIII entertain the motion
Mr.. WING: ] move that the Houss
consider its vote whereby this hill
TO grant new charter to the CITY of
Auburn was referred to the commit
tee on legal affairs.
a viva voee vote being doubted, on
motion by Mr.. Winter of Auburn q
division of the House was called for
The SPEAKER: Those who are in
FAVOR OF re-considering the referance
of the bin named to the comrni, tae- -
legal affairs will arise ana stand nm
tilcounted, and the monitors will re-
turn the count.
Mr.. ROUNDS. of Portland: Mr..
Speaker. do not think the members
understand.
The SPEAKER: The Chair. ~ the
suggestion Of the gentleman. from
Portland. Mr.. Rounds, win again
suggest that by due and regular uar-
iiamentary proceedings, we are faced |
with question as to whether a mo-
ton made yesterday to rAfer this mar