Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-02-23
IN THE HOUSE

dissolved, and the senate retireu "
| the Senate Chamber.
! IN THE HOUSE
I The Speaker resumed the chair.
| The SPEAKER: The last matter
before the House previous to the
| Joint convention was the motion of
| the gentleman from Steuben. Mr..
Baker to take from the table the bill
or report relative to fishing around
Monhegan Island. The Chair will
state the parliamentary situation
| relative to this matter. A report
from the committee was accepted in
this House on the last legislative day.
The papers then passed to the other
branch. The motion therefore. is out
of order The Chair will say as
| these days get more and more busy
that when these predicaments face
| the members of this House, they
| have an alternative of securing the
action which they desire in the other
chamber, or by consulting with the
chairman of the committee to which
| the particular measure has been as
signed In this way, a member can
arrive at solution which he desires.
| House under orders of the day."
On motion by Mr.. Rounds of Port
| land. the report of the committee on
Public Utilities on bill, An Act to
incorporate the Cumberland Center
Water Company. was taken from the
! table.
6 The pending question being the
acceptance of the report of the COM
| mittee.
On further motion by Mr. Rounds,
the report was accepted.
On motion by Mr.. Viles of Au-
gusta, the report of the committee
on State Lands and Forest Preser-
walton on Resolve, authorizing the
land agent to sell strip of land in
West Forks Plantation. Was taken
from the table.
The pending question being the
acceptan . of the report of the
| committee.
Mr.. Viles moved that the report be
recommitted to the committee on
| State Land, and Forest Preserva-
| ton.
Inc motion was agreed.
| On motion by Mr.. Bragdoil of Per-
ham. House Doc. No. 81. hill, An Act
/ to amend Sections and 10 of Chap
| ter 173 of the Public Laws of 1919 re-
| lating to the registration of resident
hunters, was taken from the table.
The same gentleman then moved
that the bill be Indefinitely post
| poned.
Mr. BRAGDON: Mr. Speaker and
| gentlemen of the House: Those of
! you who were members of the
; House during the last Legislature
will recall that at the passage of
this bill requiring resident hunters
| to take out a license in this State,
/ that there was considerable oppo-
J sition to the measure; and I have
no doubt that there would be oppo-
sition to a further extension of this
i principle.
We were told by the proponents of
the measure that it was wanted
simply as means of Identification,
and that the matter was made as
easy as possible for the resident
hunters of the State. The price of
the license was fixed at the sum of
| twenty-five cents, and it was made
good for life, so as to make as little
trouble as possible for our citizens.
Now, Mr.. Speaker and gentlemen,
there are several objections that oc-
cur to me in regard to this proposed
bill. requiring the holders of these
licenses to report to the Fish and
Game Department. The first of these
. objections that occurs to me is this
and I will read an extract from the
bill:
Every person holding a certifi-
cate of registration by virtue of this
act SHALL on December LIST, in each
year report to the Commissioner of
Inland Fisheries and Game at Au-
! gusta the number and kind of game
! and other wild animals and the num-
Der and kind Of game birds which he
has taken by virtue of his hunting
license during the year for which the
report is rendered; and for failing to
report to the Commissioner of Inland
Fisheries and Game at Augusta on
the first day of December of each
year, as provided in Section of this
act. as amended. shall be punished by
a fine of not less than five dollars or
more than twenty-five dollars"
Now, gentlemen, if you have been
hunting up in the deep woods of
Maine at the end of the hunting sea-
son, where will you be on the first
day of December? Our lawmakers
of the past in their wisdom have
given reasonable time for you to-
take out this game after the expira-
ton of the open season. which in
some instances has been construed
to be as much as several weeks; but
in spite of that you are required to
make your report on the first day of
December, no matter where you are,
and get that out whether you get
your game out or not.
Now 1 have an idea that some
might say that will be all right, that
the Fish and Game Department will
use you right on it, but / think the
most of US would prefer to have law
where we would understand Just
what our rights actually were. In
regard to this proposed report, we do
not know what will be required of us,
and 1 think that many of us are dis
gusted with this system of being re-
quired to make periodical reports to
our superiors. Some of US may have
in mind that nice, simple little report
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