Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-07
Seven Veto Messages

Seven Veto Messages
Seven veto messages were sent 10
the Legislature by Governor Baxter.
Friday, and three OF the measures
were passed by the lawmakers over
the Governors objections: The $2O,-
600 resolve in favor of the Maine
Agricultural Experiment Station for
support and maintenance; the re-
solve appropriating $4,000 for a
new building at the Northern Maine
Sanitorinu at Presque Isle and $50
600 for maintenance; and the blank
ct resolve appropriating $32,OOO to
pay claims against the State.
The House by a vote of III to Is
sustained Gov. Bakers veto of the
resolve providing for an annual dis
play of agricultural products and re-
sources of the State of Maine at the
Eastern States Exposition at Spring
field. Rep. Leland of Sangerville
said that he believed that the APP
preparation is a wise one. but he
was sure that the department OF ag-
riculture would be willing to coop
he would vote to sustain the veto OF
the overnor.
The House by a vote Of 133 to
three sustained the veto of the gov
ernor on the act to provide for the
preservation of archaeological sites
and to provide for a commission OF
archaeology. Gov. Baxter in his
message said that this act was I'M
warranted and that the act would be
an invasion of private rights.
BY a vote of &C to So, the House
sustained the veto of the Governor
on the resolve appropriating money
to set forth the natural agricultural
industrial and recreational advan-
tages of the State of Maine. Rep.
Douglas Of Lamoine said that this
measure has been supported twice
and he contended that it was q just
measure despite the objections of
Gov. Baxter. Rep. Barwise of Ban
gor also spoke in favor of passing
the resolve over the governors veto.
Governor Baxter sent to the Sen
ate a veto of the bill permitting
sterilization of feeble minded per-
sons in State institutions. The Gov
ernor characterized the bill as pos
sibly in the name of science but not
in the name of humanity" and said
the consent of the patient provided
in the bill would be in name only on
account of the mental condition of
the feeble minded.
tho bill over the Governors veto. He
said it had the endorsement Of the
committees on the School for Feeble
Minded and public health and was ad-
vocated by the Department of Health
and heads of State institutions. The
operation was comparatively painless,
he said. and the consent of the rela-
tivcs was required. He mentioned the
rapid increase of feeble minded chill
drcn and cited other states which had
laws similar to the one proposed
Senator Buzzell urged the sustaining
of the veto.
The veto was susta incd nine sena-
tors voting to pass the bill over the
Governors veto and 81 against.
Veto Of Experiment Station Resolve
In his veto message on the $4,000
resolve in favor of the Maine Agricul-
tural Station, the Governor called at
tcntion to the failure Of many people in
the State to find the money to pay their
taxes and said that family living in a
town near Augusta had to sell the pig
fatted for home consumption, in order
to pay its taxes.
Reps. Cummings of Portland and
Jordan of Cape Elizabeth urged that
the veto be sustained, while several
members of the farmers club in the
Legislature urged that the resolve be
passed over the veto.
The House OVERRIDE the veto by !
vote of IS to 43. The Senate vote pass
ing the resolve over the veto was %
to G.
Governor BaXtcr's veto message on
this resolve was as follows:
April 6. 1929.
To the Honorable Senate and |
House of Representatives of the S1st /
Legislature:
l return herewith without my ap-
prevail:
Resolve, Making an appropriation
for the Support and Maintenance of 4
the State Experiment Stations.
This Resolve appropriates the total
sum of $4,000 to be expended under
tho direction of the Maine Agricul-
tural Experiment Station.
For several years the State of I
Maine has appropriated bicnnially
$4,000 for oXeTpimental work at the
Aroostook Farm, $4,000 for High
moor Farm. and $4,000 for Animal
Husbandry that is carried on at the
latter institution. This makes a total
of 100000 for this work and it is now
proposed to increase this to $4,000
In my opinion the State at the pres
ent time cannot afford to expand its
experimental activities. AS the Unit
cd States Government contributes
$4,000 biennially to aid in the work
I believe that the total of 500 900 for
a two year period is at least a rea-
sonable sum for the State to spend at
and Aroostook farm.
Much of the work in question is
carried on in connection with the
College at the Univer-
Sitv of Maine. You have lust passed
and l have signed the University of
Maine Resolve totalling $4,000. This
is a large sum of money and | con-
sidcred the matter from every angle
before I, gave the appropriation my
However l am deeply in
terested in the work of the Univer-
sity and especially in what it is do
ing and can do for the agricultural
interests of the State. Everything
however. I do not feel
That / can approve an increased APP
for experimental work in |
view of the large appropriation for
the University of Maine to which |
have referred. 100000 is enough:
$4,000. which is asked for is too
much.
1t Is not too late for me to once
again call your attention to the bur
lens of taxation which our eOple are
Within As hours a prom- (
1ent citizen of Aroostook county call 4
ID at my office and told me that one
bird of all the tax commitments in
.wo of the largest towns in that
county were unpaid on the town |
books when the tax commitments l
we're closed q short time ago. AL
hough the situation in other counties
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