Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-07

may be from year to year, and do
not believe that this Legislature on
that one point alone is going to let
the State Auditor of this State, or
any other official of this State, say
after we make an appropriation. that
it shall not be paid and that our will
shall be nullified. For that reason l
hope it will not be reconsidered.
. Mr.. MAHER: Mr.. Speaker
The SPEAKER: The Chair recog-
nizes the gentleman from Auburn,
Mr.. Wing.
Mr.. WING: yield to the gentleman
from Augusta. (Mr. Maher.)
Mr.. MAHER: Mr.. Speaker, if 1
am correctly informed by the Chair
that this is House Document No. 60,
the only thing that confronts the
House on its vote to reconsider is the
substitution of House Document No.
65 for the unanimous report of the
committee, ought not to pass. With
the point as raised by the gentleman
from So. Portland (Mr. Hinckley) I
am not familiar, nor am I particu-
larly interested in the subject matter
as indicated by him; but l recall very
distinctly of examining this bill when
it first came, and think l first
moved its indefinite postponement,
because if that Is the object sought
to be accomplished by this bill, it has
a very peculiar way of doing it. 1t
has a way of doing it which l do
not believe any member of this House
will subscribe to for in anstant: and
II that is not the object that it has
in mind, then it is very slovenly
drawn bill. If You will read section
Ave that unequivocally says that
Chapter ia, Public Laws of 1919, and
all acts inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed" Our attention is
Immediately attracted to what Chap
ter ia of the Public Laws of 1919
happens to be. An examination of
that shows that it is this: When any
sailor or any soldier who has been
honorably discharged from the serv-
ice of the United States shall fall
into distress, and while in that dis
tress comes to his death and the COM
munity wherein he is living is called
upon to discharge the expenses of
his last sickness and death, that that
honorably discharged shall be a GER
tificate which shall bar him from
being regarded as a pauper Who
ever drew that bill, and whoever
now moves the substitution is ask
ing this House to repeal Chapter ia
of the Public Laws of 1919, and we
have such a fneritorious condition so
deplorably treated. Now if this is
not the purpose of the authors, then
why not present a bill in consonance
with what they really mean. If you
adopt House Document No. 65, you
repeal Chapter ia, of the Laws of
1919; and if the Senate cares in this
unusual and unique way to suspend
it's rules. after four weeks, l hope
that the motion of the gentleman
from Auburn (Mr. Wing) to recon-
slider will not prevail in this House.
Thereupon a viva voce vote being
taken on the question of whether or
former action whereby the report,
ought not to pass, was accepted, the
motion failed of passage.
From the Senate: Bill. An Act to
regulate religious worship in the
public schools. This was passed to
be engrossed in the House, April A.
Comes from the Senate indefinitely
postponed.
In the House, on motion by Mr..
Maher of Augusta, it was voted to
indefinitely postpone in concurrence.
From the Senate: Bill, An Act to
divide the town of South Thomas
ton, the majority report on which was
accepted in the House, March 81.
Comes from the Senate with the
minority report. ought to pass, ac-
cepted.
In the House, on motion by Mr..
Spear of Rockport, it was voted to
recede and concur with the Senate
in the adoption of the minority re-
port, ought to pass.
Mr.. BARWISE of Bangor: Mr..
Speaker, | rise to ask the same ques-
tion,-whether we are not in the
same predicament on this bill as with
the other one? Do we not have to
and suspend the rules.
The SPEAKER: This precise point
has not been raised before, but the
Chair does not hesitate to rule on it
at once. On non-concurring action
between the two branches in the
stage in which it is now, the Chair
rules that a motion to recede and
concur is in order and that it does
not require a two-thirds vote.
Mr.. BRAGDON of Perham: Mr..
Speaker. it was my intention to
doubt the vote, but the gentleman
from Bangor (Mr. Barwise) got the
floor. Is it too late to doubt it now?
The SPEAKER: The Chair will en-
tertaih it. The gentleman from
Perham, Mr.. Bragdon, calls for a
division practically. The question is
on receding from the position here
tofore taken, ought not to pass, and
concurring with the Senate, WL.. Il
body, on April 5th voted ought to pass
on a bill to divide the town of So.
Thomaston. The question, of course,
in it's original state was dcbatable.
The Chair, in order to expedite mat
tiers, put the vote while the gentle.
man from Rockport (Mr. Spear) was
addressing the Chair. At this point
the Chair will recognize the gentle
man from Rockport (Mr. Spear) is
he wishes to be heard.
Mr.. SPEAR: Mr.. Speaker and gen.
tlemen: l do not think it necessary