Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-24
STENOGRAPn NC REPORT
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to disagree with my friend. the SEN
ator from Sagadahoc. had hoped
that We might, during this session,
pass u reasonable bill providing for
the establishment of the Mt. KAtah-
din State Park. That hope has now
failed and I am convinced that no
bill with the word "Katahdin" writ
ten in it could get through either
branch of the Legislature
The bin now before US as it is
amended. to my mind is not worth the
paper on which it is written. or the
breath 1t would take to defend 1t. and
I hope that the motion Of Senator Holt
will prevail
Mr.. BABE of Cumberland: Mr..
President, 1 may in what 1 say eX-
pose my ignorance--if l do OF course
J will learn something and the rest of
US may also. If 1 read my geography
correctly, | think that / can see that
the head waters of our two larges t
rivers rise in the ncighborho9d, of Mt.
I[atahdiu, and in view of the fact that
there is pending in the federal govern
,nent a water power bill which tends
10 take away the control of what is
the last natural heritage that we have,
Il seems 70 me. II look at it correctly
and IL do not | would Ike to be in
l3rmed--it rather looks to me this way.
Nat if the State can acquire and own
property where these rivers have
heir source, that l. or that you, as a
senator or representative in another
state in the Union, would be loath to
lake away the right Of sovereign
fate before you would that Of an in
d;vidual or a corporation. Therefore,
il | am right in that, shall vote that
the majority report be accepted.
Mr.. THOMBS of Penobscot: Mr..
President, fellow senator's: l will try
to be as brief as my genial friend the
renator' from SaGadahoc, promised
taat he would be. | am one of those
who are fortunate enough to live day
by day almost within the shadow of
Mt Katahdin and always within it's
sight. and ! want to say to you, gen.
tlemen Of the Senate, that if any of
Won have never seen this grand old
mountain you have missed, l believe,
une of the most magnificent sights in
the United States of America.
| love Mt. kata hdin and l am glad
hat live where ! can occasionally
turn my eye to it's snow-croWned peak.
Mr President and senators. in reply
l. what the gentleman from Sagadahoc
i,as said about the State convention in
iangJr composed of 400 people, en-
dorsing this project. 1 have this simply
% say and it is the gist of the argu-
n7ent that l desire to advance today
IN favor of the acceptance OF the ma
.ority report. Those gentlemen gath
cred in the convention hall in Bangor
about a year ago. were then and there
considering state business. and they
~er2 talking about the attitude Of the
state and the state alone. / do not
u"!ievo that they had in mind there
~ Lhat time that there would ever be
ta} Thought that private capital solic-
.:nl o. unsolicited would ever be re-
eciVed to establish State park. Gen.
cement Of the Senate, to show you my
coed faith III the project, if it We're
what | believe it ought to be, l want
- quote briefly from a description
Written of that grand old mountain and
he inspiration which might come there
- those vino undertook its ascent, and
want 20 lie sure and give full credit
10 thc writer Of the article from which
ana quoting. an article appearing in
AZ la inc Woods, 1916, published by
i" !iangor & Aroostook Railroad Com
RAINY, Written by Anna Mildred Thay-
:. GCnEGrS, y. Y. And let me say
light here, gentlemen, that I believe
whenever the time shall come-and [
j.opc it is not far distant--when the
tate has state park, you will see
'Fom the interest manifested by this
.ady that its fame will spread far be-
Nond the limits of the State of Maine
md attract here toursts-perhaps
without number
And that / may give you, who, per-
APPS, are not so well acquainted with
ola katahdin as some of us who live
N that vicinity-that I may convey to
Tou something of it's grandeur. l want
TO quote briefly, because it is put in
nuch better language than [ could
POSSIBLY command. This lady has
toiled up this magnificent old noun
'ain and her memory is stirred and
she records her feelings in these
Words:
What q wonderful experience to
gaze off from that great height, All
The world seems to live far below you.
ana 1t stretches away north, south.
last and west, hills and valleys. to
The faint blue of the far-distant
mountains that surge upward to meet
the sky. Down from the mountain
side flows the green, billowing forest,
Spreading ever farther and farther.
ana framing in it's soft embrace
countless scores of lakes and ponds.
ihey lie scattered as far as the eve
ran see, from distant Moosehead in
The west, to the tiny pools that nes-
Tie close at Katahdin's very feet, each
nne a placid mirror, rejecting the
hinc SKY, and the slowly drifting
clouds. y veritable ribbon of silver
marks the course of the West Branch,
FINDING its graceful way downward
- the lakes. Whichever way YOU turn
ifcsh beauties greet you; the sun
SHINE warns YOU as you sit gazing
"pclibound, and the keen mountain
freeze fills your lungs. and thrills YOU
with the very joy of living. All bur-
dcns seem to fall away, leaving YOU
"iad and strong and uplifted, and in
"Xpressibly Gained by the great
peace, and the brooding silence that
reign forever on that majestic noun
taintop. If we could always keep our
mountain moods how much easier