Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-03-18
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"The supreme judicial court in
| equity, by writ of injunction or 9TH
T erwise, may restrain or annul pro-
/ ceedings in any town or city In viola
tion Of the preceding section. Now
stopping there and pausing for a
| moment. They may restrain, anu
| they are given the power to restrain
| or annul proceedings. Not world
wide proceedings, but proceedings
| limited to what Is set forth in the
preceding section, and limited to that
| alone by the very terms Of the bill.
I The preceding section says 1T shall
! be unlawful for any town or other
| municipality to vote for. or otherwise
| establish, any other system OF time,
and the supreme judicial court, If my
Interpretation is correct, can by its
use Of injunction. or otherwise. res
train or annul proceedings In any
town or other municipality which at
tempts to or has voted for any other
| time, or established any other sys-
tenn of time, and that only. This is
not a subterfuge. The ten members
Of this committee did not vote for
this as a subterfuge, and vote unani-
tmously. This committee was seeking
some law by which one time could be
made the time of this State. / agree
with my Brother that that Is already
on the statute books of this state in
relation to public Offices, and that
matter was considered by the COM
mittee.
| But under the law on the. statute
books the different municipalities in
this state have In violation of the
law voted S. 26 to go on daylight
time, and they have gone on daylight
time in violation of that particular
was anything done about it? Was
there any penalty for such a viola
| ton? / say there was not.
A bill came into this Legislature
which provides penalty for such
! violations and made criminals out
| of workers in these cities who de-
sired that extra hour of Gods sun
! light. Was that to be tolerated? No.
Not by any member of the commit
| tee was it to be tolerated. And neith
er was it to be tolerated that muni-
| cipalities in defiance Of the statute
! should be permitted to vote to go on
daylight saving time. We believed
on this committee that the law
should be enforced. and the law as
| read by my Brother should be en-
| forced, and without making crimi-
nails of innocent workers, this which
my Brother, the Senator from Cum
! berland. Senator Anthoine, and my
! Brother the Senator from kennehec,
| Senator Maher, say Is the subter-
1 fuge of the ten members of this
committee. We believe without
| making criminals of the cities or OF
| the workers, 1t is giving the courts
! of this state a right to enforce laws
| of this state as read by my Brother.
| and does not leave the situation In
the state to be such with the law on
! the books that standard time should
! be the state time: and yet our cities
can vote for a daylight time and
have done it. and they have lived
under it with no way of enforcing
the law. This is no subterfuge. I'm
! der the provisions of this measure
| no ten taxpayers can stop by
Brother from playing golf by day.
| light saving time at the Augusta
| Country Club unless my Brother or
| the Augusta Country Club is a body
| polite. q corporation or Il town Or
| municipality, and as far as l know
| from my acquaintance with the
| Augusta Country Club it Is not a
! public corpora tion or a body polite.
| This law was suggested for the
| protection of the workers in the cit
les. and l am speaking in so far as
my relations with the committee
were concerned, as much as for any
other purpose. 1t was the purpose
of the committee to see that all
those workers were looked out for.
l want to say that in the city o
Lewiston-which has sometimes
been spoken of as. being bad, that
we are a aw-abiding city. and they
! have in that city voted foe standard
fiy1to and tho uOrkorc n them,
| selves have wanted the extra hour
of Gods sunlight. and they have
had it and are satisfied with it. The
| farmer has his standard time, and
our workers. have had the extra
hour of Gods sunlight. and the city
of Lewiston has not broken the pub
lished law of the State of Maine. as
| some other municipalities in this
state have done. With the present
statute 1t is not useless. it is not un-
necessary, 1t Is not subterfuge, but
the municipalities and the public
! corporations of this state will have
| one uniform time which Is standard
| and the individual will have a right
| to live his life as he sees fit as he
obeys the law, and for these reas-
| ons l urge the passage of the meas
! ure.
Mr.. MAHER: Mr.. President. may
| l ask the Senator from Androscog-
gin. Senator Carter, through the
Chair. what does this Act provide
| that it not provided by the present
law. as he understands it?
The PRESIDENT: The Senator
| from Androscoggin, Senator Carter,
| hears the question of the Senator
from kennebec, Senator Maher. and
may answer through the Chair if
| he sees hit.
Mr.. CARTER: Mr.. President, my
understanding of the present law
| is that either through the present
| law or the laxity of public officials,
| or whatever it may be, that although
| the time is declared to be eastern
standard by the statutes already
now in effect, yet some municipali-
| ties have voted to go on daylight
time, and have in fact changed all
their clocks including the public
clocks on to daylight time, without
| let or hindrance under the law as it
now exists. With the law as we
have suggested In this bill that can
| not be done, the law cannot be
winked at. because it is up to any
people anywhere to bring it to the
| attention of the court that the law
of the land is being violated.
| The PRESIDENTS: The Chair will
| inquire If that answers the Ques-
ton of the Senator from Kennebec,
Senator Maher?
Mr.. MAHER: Mr.. President. I
will say briefly that the answer does
not inform me. 1t may be that 1 am
unable to comprehend clearly what
| the Senator from Androscoggin.
Senator Carrier means but IL ret