Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-05
IN THE SENATE
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tor Cram. Il think we will be all
right if we pass the bill without
exemptions"
"Unlcss we make these exemptions
| it will be better not to pass the bill
| at ALL" said Senator Hinckley. Sem
ator Grams motion TO reconside;
wa lost. IL to Il.
To Authorize Issuance of Highway
Bonds
The resolve proposing a constitu-
tional amendment authorizing an is
sue of Highly ~ bonds was passed to
he cngrosscc by the Senate after
being amended so as to provide that
in voting the people should deSig-
nate whether the sum of 100000 or
100000 so secured should be spent
for state Aid roads.
.1ill for Funds Transfer Killed
BN n vote of is to II thc Senate.
indefinitely postponed on motion of
Senator Clark of Lincoln, the bill to
transfer 100000 from the contin-
gent fund to the highway fund. In
making his motion Senator Clark
declared that # tho transfer was
made it would cripple the work of
caring for the mothers aid. depend
ont children and other wards of the
state. as it was from this fund that
the Governor and Council made
these payments.
Senator Hincklcy believed that the
tins had come for the legislature to
determine how much money was to
he expended for various purposes
and to make appropriations therefor
instead of doing as for the past sev-
Cral years and permitting the eXpen-
diturc of hundreds OF thousands,
even millions of dollars yearly by
the Governor and council without
specific appropriation. Under the
constitution it was the pcrogatiVe
Of The legislature to so appropriate
and designate. but in recent years
the State had drifted into this con-
iA.;cnt fund habit. He regarded e
rs 4 dangerous plan. He did not
h, !icvc that this authority should he
delegated to the Governor and conn
Gil,
! If it is now necessary to cXrend
| hundreds Of thousands of dollars for
mothers aid and like purposes. said
! the Senator. it is up to this leGisla-
| ture to make the necessary apprO-
| priations for those purposes. He
| declared that he was talking sound
| business. sound economies and sound
! LEGISLATION principles.
| The question before the Legislature
was. he said. whether they should
| take this 100000 from the contin-
| gent fund and spend ii for high
I ways. lie was not sure but this
! W: the most equitable way in which
it could = distributed. If there eX-
! listed an emergency it was time Tor
| the legislature to take action and
pass the necessary emergency APP
preparation bills to Get the Situa-
| tior.
| Senator BuzzelI did not agree with
| tho Scnat r from Cumberland. He
| said tlat earl in the session he
| Cole committee suggested that pro-
per appropriations y, made 10 care
for these matters but that the great
standing army of the legislature in
the ranks of which Senator Hinckly
might have cen found would not
consent to- any recommendation of
! that committee being adopted. He
| believed it was tho duty to care for
not reasonable or Justice for the leg
| islature to say: Let the wards Of
! tho State take care of themselves.
Other Business at Morning Session
! The gravel road bill was indefinite
| ly postponed by voice vote, on
| motion of Senator Wadsworth of
Kcnnebec. Prior to its defeat Sen
ator Emery of Washington offered
an amendment, providing that it
! should not apply to State aid or trunk
, line roads in cities or towns where
| the houses were not more than 200
| feet apart for distance of a quar-
| ter of a mile.
! A resolve appropriating $3.50 for
each of the next two years for SOM
| crsct Academy of Athens was intro
| duced out of order by Senator Be
mis- of Somerset and given its read
| ings. Senator Bems explained that
| the resolve was omitted by error from
| the blanket Academy resolve.
A second blanket resolve. carrying
| appropriat tons for highways and
| bridges in various cities and towns
| came in from the Committee on Ways
and Bridges and was adopted.
The bill amended the law giving
preference to Maine worllmen SO as
to provide for the payment of the
rate of wages in the community
where the job is located and de-
| feated. 81 to s, upon its passage to be
| engrosscd.
The bill defining the order Of pre-
| ference in which highway funds are
| to be distributed was passed as an
| emergency measure.
! Among the other bills passed was
| tie Gardiner bill. providing a As
| hour work week for minors, and the
! bill freeing the North Turner toll
| bridge
Senator Brewster tabled until
Thursday the Maine Water Power
| Commission bill.
The twin sons Of Senator Trcfcthen
| of Franklin. Herman J. and Harold
! r. Trcfcthen. seniors at Dartmouth,
|
| rington as they entered the Senate
and were invited to sit on either side
of the Speaker.
Conference Committee on Gasoline
| Tax Bill
BY vote of fifteen to nine the Sem
ate Wednesday afternoon refused to
! recede and concur with the House
in the passage of the Leland gasoline
tax bill without amendments.
President Harrington named as a
Conference Committee Senators
Hincklcy of Cumberland. Emery Of
Washington and Phillips of Han
cock.
The Hale bill. reviving the measure
vetoed by Governor Baxter. providing
for the appointment of dentist to
the state Board of Health. passed
by the House in the forenoon, was
referred to the next Legislature.
Final passage was given the
Teachers Pension bill. increasing
the present pension Of teachers who
have been in the service thirty five
years from $3.50 to $500.
Teachers Retirement Bill Passed To
Be Engrossed
At the afternoon session Wcdnes-
day the Senate passed the Teachers
Retirement bill to be engrossed as
oy,opIoI Inv tho Jo,1So in tho morn.