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

! farm. situated on the st. John Riv-
err, seventy-five miles from the town
of st. John, and going north from
| Moosehead Lake one hundred miles
north frtm Northwest Carry on
| Moosehead Lake. The nearest au-
| tomobile road is thirty miles away.
If there is any place in the State OF
! Maine where there should be deer, 1t
| should be in this section thirty miles
| from the nearest road.
The other farm. from which COM
plant was made, the Michaud farm,
on the Allegash River, twenty-five
miles in the forests from st. Johns
| Plantation. If there is any place
where we should have deer in the
! State of Maine, it should be in this
section between the Allagash and
the ST. John River.
l hope that the motion of the gen.
tleman from Perham, Mr.. Bragdon,
| will not prevail.
Mr.. FLINT: Mr.. Speaker. this bill
here is simply to change a word In
the paragraph reducing the number
on deer from two to one; it has
nothing to do with the preceding
section at all. The farmer has the
same right to kill any wild animal or
bird that he finds destroying his
crops that he always had.
Mr.. KINSMAN Of Augusta: Mr..
Speaker, l wish, also, to state to the
members of the House that all the
fish and game associations practi-
lcally in the whole State are in favor
of the one deer law. The Maine
Fish and Game Association, at their
last meeting, took a vote, and every
member voted in favor of one deer.
1t seems to me that it is more or
less of a selfish idea for Aroostook
county to ask for anything different
than the bill asked for. 1t will make
a big difference to lot of camp
owners. men who depend on hunting
in the fall for their camps. 1t seems
to me it is going to send all Of those
'sportSmen, or a great many of them
to Aroostook county, and lot of our
men who have invested considerable
money in their camps will lose out
I sincerely hope that the motion OF
the gentleman from Perham, Mr.
Bragdon. will not prevail.
MIR. CUMMINGS of Portland: Mr.
Speaker and members: l have very
friendly feeling for the gentlemen
am acquainted with all Of them ant
have a feeling of friendship fol
every man of them.
I wish that there We're somethine
that l could reasonably do to hell
them at the present time. 1t does
however, seem to me that this one
} deer law is law that is good for the
, people of the State of Maine. q Law
that will result in the common good
and I do not believe in special laws
in special legislation. I believe. ans
l know, that the deer in Aroostool
county belong to the State and tt
the people of the whole State. ant
they are not the property Of m'
friends from Aroostook. When oul
friends have got their one deer II
Aroostook and they go out to ge
the second one. I hope and trust thai
Divine Providence will look with dis
favor upon their efforts.
Mr.. BRAGDON: Mr.. Speaker,
wish to call attention to the fact tina
.. there are others beside the gentle
men from Perham who may be mis-
aiken in regard to what this bill
really contains.
If you will look at the bill-it il
J House Document No. 51-you VIII
find the first paragraph of section &
of chapter 219 of the Public Law!
of 1917, as amended by chapter 81
Of the Public Laws of 1919. a!
amended by chapter III of the Pub
lie Laws of 1921. as amended b,
chapter 212 of the Public Laws o.
. , 1923, which brings 1t down to the
point that I have here, lis hereb,
amended by striking out the wore
two in the twentieth line Of sale
paragraph and inserting in place
, thereof the word one" It also
makes a further amendment but II
says nothing in regard to the right
, to kill deer that are found destroy.
ing crops.
| If you will look at chapter II.
, |, of the Public Laws of 1923. which