Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-26

appropriation Of money for repairs
ing ING improvements to State Fish
Hatcnery. buildings. grounds and
cHulpment At Lake Megunticook, in
Camden, county Of Knox.
III. p. No. 1891: Resolve rrantinp
authority to the Maine Agricultural
Of land. o''A'1
Passed To BE Enacted
An Act to amend Chapter 21s Of
the Private and Special Laws of
1903, relating to the School Board of
the City of Brewer.
An Act to authorize the State
Board of Registration and Examina-
ton In Optometry to issue a Certifi-
cate OF Regulation to David M.
House.
An Act relating to admission to
the bar.
An Act to prohibit ice fishing in
Alewive Pond. in the town Of KEN
nebunk.
Finally Passed
Resolve in favor Of the designation
OF certain day in February Of each
year a. Potato Day"
out OF order under suspension of the
rules:
Mr.. Briggs from the committee on
Pensions reported ought not to pass
on resolve for State pension for Annie
d. Mclean Davis Oh. =. No. 1922.
Report read and accepted and sent
up for concurrence.
Same gentleman from same COM
mittee reported ought to pass on re-
solve providing for State pension
for Betsy A. Trask Of Lewiston Oh.
P. No. 1882.
Mr.. Morse from same committee re-
ported same on resolve in favor of
Abbie A. Norton Of Industry for State
pension III. p. No. 1900.
Reports read and accepted and the
resolves ordered printed under the
joint rules.
Mr.. Mills from the committee on
Sea and Shore Fisheries on BILL An
Act prohibiting the catching of smelts
in Cathance river except by hook and
line Oh. P. No. 1888 reported same in
a new draft Oh. p. No. 1866 under
same title and that 1t ought to pass.
Report read and accepted and the
| new draft ordered printed under the
joint rules.
Orders Of The Day
The SPEAKER: Under Orders of
| the Day the Chair presents the mat
tiers tabled and assigned for today,
the first being House Amendment A
to Bill, An Act providing for the
yearly limit Of one deer in all
counties. the pending question being
the adoption of amendment A, the
amendment having been printed as
House Document No. 4S3, the bill
being House Document No. 81.
Mr.. HAMILTON of Caribou: Mr.
! nd IF mo
| House: do not intend, at this time
| to extend my remarks to any great
length, as l am not hunter. but we
| have from the Aroostook delegation
many good hunters, and 1 shall call
! on them to explain to you why the
policy of the State should not be ex-
tended over this county. The first
one that shall call upon will be the
| gentleman from Island Falls. Mr.
Palmer.
Mr.. PALMER of Island Falls: Mr.
Speaker and members Of the House
In speaking for this amendment
want to explain to you the situation
regarding the deer in Aroostook
| county. When the delegation from
Aroostook tell the members how
| many deer we have, we are met with
smiles OF incredulity. but l think
can explain to you why we have the
deer.
Since the spruce bud worm has
worked on the spruce and fir forests
Of the State, We have thousands OF
acres that are falling down. every
tree loaded with gray moss which
the deer loves better than anything
else unless 1t is the mushroom. and
we call them, that have piled w
there make an ideal hiding place fol
the deer. and 1t is almost impossible
to get through those wiHdfalls anC
get the deer before they can gel
away. That is one reason why the
deer have been 80 plentiful in the
last two or three years.
Now when We were before the
Committee We heard considerable
talk about certain people going into
the northern part of the State anc
coming out without a deer. es-
pecially one party of bankers. Now
a banker who sits in a swivel chair
all the year round except a couple Of
| weeks, and just walks from his Office
to his automobile, is not in any con.
dition to hunt. When he goes over :
windfall you would think it was ar
elephant, and when he goes up hill
he puffs so you would think 1t was q
locomotive.
Now. a deer has very sensitive
ears and they can hear him and gel
out of the way.
The Commissioner has told US tina,
IL we would have the one deer law
all over the State, hunters from Out
Of the State will be just as well salts.
fed with one deer as they are with
two. Now, anyone who knows
human nature knows better thar
that. When a man pays for license
for two deer. he wants two deer. The
Commissioner poses almost as 6
personal friend of every deer in the
State. but you just take his salar,
away from him and how long would
he work? 1t is just the same with :
man who pays for a license for two
deer.
| Now. If we get this proposed
amendment in Aroostook. county
and have our two deer. we would
like to have you amend the license
law so as to charge man from ou
of the State. If he wants to shoe
two deer, twenty five dollars instead
Of fifteen; fifteen dollars for ont
deer and twenty-five dollars for tive
deer. That would show you thai
most of the people that go into
Aroostook county. in the northern
part of our State, would rather have
two deer. 1t would also give you G
matter of, perhaps, ten thousand dol.
lars for your warden service. anC
would not come out of the tax.
payers of the State either.
The people in the southern part Of
the State want this law.
The proponents of the one-deel
law want, they say, to conserve the
deer, but If the proponents of thi:
one-deer law were sincere in want.
ing to conserve the deer. l think they
would bar the automatic shotguns
They are the worse curse that We
have against the deer because peo.