Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-03-18

! want to and closing their business
when they want to, and keeping their
clocks on whatever time they wish to
keep them.
| The committee which considered
this matter was composed of mem =
bers from the rural districts, from
the city districts and the town dis
| tricts, a very comprehensive commit
tee representing the whole OF our
State, and that committee was unani-
nous In their agreement upon tins
present bill, which simply bars the
public corporation from changing Its
| public time from standard to any
other time; it does not bar the right
of any individual to so conduct his
| business or his time or his affairs as
he so sees fit without encroachlnG
upon the rights of others.
! I will say, Mr.. President. that
| have received personally many petit
tions ard letters which J have not in
troduced in the Senate or placed on
tho public record. and those petitions
are upon both sides of this question
! In my own county think the Grange
almost unanimously asked for the
standard time to be preserved, and
many city workers have asked that
they should not be crowded out of
| their rights to have an extra hour OF
daylight in order that they may be
out of doors. 1t seems to me that
this bill, as 1t Is now framed gives
rights to both. The public corpora
tion Is on standard time, and that is
the uniform legal time in this State
and OF every public corporation in the
State, and under the provisions of
this bill the individual can have what
he wants when he wants it and
where he wants it, as long as he
stays within the law: and I there
fore suggest to this Senate that this
bill receive at the hands of this Sem
ate this morning such a vote as will
send it on its way to engrossment.
| Mr.. ANTHOINE of Cumberland:
Mr.. President, before proceeding to
discuss the legal features of the new
bill which has been presented by the
Senator from Androscoggin, Senator
Carter. and before going into the
matter of the subterfuge (and 1t is
nothing but subterfuge which the
Senator states may be had under
that bilD, I desire to present to this
body the petitions signed by various
citizens of Cumberland County. men
and women, residents of Portland.
South Portland, Westbrook, and also
other towns in the county. l have
here a very large number Of these
petitions, Mr.. President. which have
been forwarded to me by these citi-
| zens with the request that they be
presented at this time to this honor
able body.
The first petition which I have here
Is addressed to this Senate. and 1t
/ ha ri c
of this State, do respectfully request
that you do not deny US through any
act of the Legislature the right to
enjoy the so-called daylight saving
as endorsed by the citizens of Port
land through their vote at the last
special election" The signers of the
petition constitute TIA of the 176 en-
ployees of Porteous, Mitchell &
Braun Company, a large retail dry
goods store on Congress Street
Portland. Maine.
I have here another petition in the
same form signed by eleven en-
ployees of the Maine Savings Bank
of Portland, and that is also ad-
dressed to this honorable body; also
a petition signed by Il employees OF
the Marks Printing House of Port
land; also a petition signed by II
employees of f. +. Soule Company OF
, Portland, Maine; also n petition OF
Frank c. Allen and 30 employees OF
Cressey & Allen Company. of Port
land. Maine: also n petition signed
by 152 employees of Eastman Broth
ers & Bancroft. one of the largest
department stores in Portland; also
a petition of SO members of the XII
wants Club; also a petition of IL.
employees of Rines Brothers Com
pany, one other large department
store in the city of Portland; also q
petition of "a employees of George c
Shaw & Company, a large wholesale
and retail grocery store in Portland
also petition of % citizens of South
Portland, signed by Samuel E. Som
ers and 25 others of South Port
land; also a petition of SO employees
of the Portland Stove Foundry Com
pany; also d petition of 80 employees
of owen. Moore & Company, another
department store in the city of Port
, land; also a petition by Roswell c
Bradford and II citizens of South
; Portland; also petition by A EN-.
. ployees of the Portland Public Mar
i, ket; also a petition by 1873 employees
!; of J. r. Libby Company, another
large department store in Portland
also a petition by 26 employees OF
, the Portland Evening Express, anC
, l am informed there is another pc.
, tition on the way containing 10(
more names of employees of the
Portland Evening Express; also 8
petition of 113' employees of the
Evangeline Shoe Company, locat.
.. ed in Portland: also petition
, of Il citizens who are engaged OIL
employed in the Trelawney Build
ing. Portland. Maine; also petition
of George i. Havener and 30 others
citizens of Portland; also petition ol
.. 5l employees of Milliken, Tomlinsor
Company, one of the largest whole
, sale grocery concerns in the State o1
Maine, and this petition includes the
, names of all but one of the EN-.
, ployees of that concern: also the pc
tition of Eugene G. Smith and 4t
, others. employees of Smith & Rum
, cry Company, q large manufactur,
ing plant in the city of Portland
!, also petition of 20 employees of The
Mcdonald Manufacturing Company
| also the petition of 20 employees o
: the Marine Hardware & Equipmen
, Company of South Portland, Maine
also the petition of 46 employees 0
the G. II. Robinson Company, {
, wholesale paper concern in Port
land: also the petition of 81 EN-
ployees of the Thompson Art Com
pany; also the petition of 90 out o
% of the employees of S. II. &, A. r
, Doten Company a wholesale lumber
, concern in Portland; also the peti
ton of Arthur 3. Champlin and Z.
employees of Twitchell & Champlir
Company, a world famous concern
also the petition of Albion Keith anC
! nine others, employees of j. i. Mer
rill &c Company, jewelers.: also peti
ton of Walter G. Rosenblad and T.
employees of Jensen & Rosenblad