Maine. I assume that many of the members of this House would like to know how much extra tax will be assessed upon every home and upon every white faced steer in the counties that they come from if this request is granted.

We all realize, of course, that there are only two methods of taxation in the State, indirect and direct. Any concessions made to those paying indirect taxes must be necessarily made up from the other avenue of taxation, viz., the direct tax, which means a tax against your home and against mine. We will soon be able to get the figures based on the new draft of this bill, which will give every man an opportunity to know exactly what it will cost the State and perhaps his county. For this reason, Mr. Speaker, I move that this matter be laid upon the table until we are able to make that report to this House.

Mr. VILES of Augusta: I would like to ask the gentleman from North Anson, Mr. Holley, if he would be able now to assign a day for its hearing?

The

SPEAKER: The gentleman from Augusta, Mr. Viles, inquires of the gentleman from North Anson, Mr. Holley, through the Chair, whether he can suggest an hour at which this matter can be taken from the table.

Mr. HOLLEY: Of course, Mr. Speaker, it depends upon how many sessions we have during the day. I can say this, that I think we will be able to get the figures some time during the day, and I assure the gentleman from Augusta, Mr. Viles, that there will be no advantage taken, so far as I am concerned, relative to taking it off the table in his absence.

The SPEAKER: Is it the pleasure of the House that this matter be laid upon the table?

The motion was agreed to.

Mr. Granville from the Committee on Ways and Bridges reported "Ought not to pass" on bill "An Act to amend Chapter 25 of the Revised Statutes as amended, relative to the State aid roads granting certain powers to municipal officers now

held by the state highway commission".

Same gentleman from same Committee reported same on bill "An Act providing that all State and State Aid roads shall be constructed only of stone and gravel."

Mr. Case from same Committee reported same on bill "An Act to amend Section 3 of Chapter 212 of the Public Laws of 1919, relating to ferry boat".

Reports were read and accepted and sent up for concurrence.

Mr. Case from same Committee on resolve for aid in repair of Gardiner and Randolph Draw Bridge reported same in a new draft under title of "Resolve in favor of the Gardiner-Randolph Draw Bridge" and that it "Ought to pass."

The report was accepted.

On motion by Mr. Granville of Parsonsfield, the rules were suspended and the resolve received its two several readings and was passed to be engrossed.

Mr. Story from same Committee on resolve in favor of WiscassetEdgecomb Bridge reported same in a new draft under same title and that it "Ought to pass".

The report was accepted.

On motion by Mr. Story of Washburn, the rules were suspended and the resolves received its two several readings and was passed to be engrossed.

Mr. Case from the same Committee reported "Ought to pass" on bill "An Act to amend Section 7 of Chapter 263 of the Public Laws of 1919, relating to third class highways."

The report was accepted.

On motion by Mr. Granville of Parsonsfield, the rules were suspended and the bill received its three several readings.

Mr. Rounds of Portland moved that the bill be tabled for printing.

Mr. GRANVILLE: Mr. Speaker, perhaps I can satisfy the gentleman by making a short statement. This is no change in the present law, but under peculiar conditions where

third class highways are constructed on State aid roads, there is no way that the State can expend patrol money upon that piece of road. In some places they construct third class highways on second class roads, on the end of a second class piece of road, and the State had to keep extra accounts of the patrolling for perhaps a thousand or two thousand feet of road, and this is merely to provide that the State can spend the patrol money on third class roads when constructed on second class roads.

The SPEAKER: On the motion of the gentleman from Portland, Mr. Rounds, the bill will be tabled in order to make clear the wording of the bill.

Passed to be Enacted

An Act to amend Chapter 51 of the Revised Statutes as amended by Chapter 144 of the Public Laws of 1917, relating to the formation of corporations having stock without par value.

An Act regulatory of the operation of portable sawmills and providing for the licensing thereof.

An Act to amend Section 14, Paragraph 1 of Chapter 10 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the taxation of personal property.

An Act providing a labor lien on manufactured lumber.

(Tabled for the purpose of amendment on motion by Mr. Willard of Sanford.

An Act to amend Chapter 246 of the Private and Special Laws of 1909, relating to the salary of the Judge of the Farmington municipal court.

An Act to re-enact Section 24 of Chapter 69 of the Revised Statutes relating to when no succession tax shall be assessed on the stock, bonds and evidences of debt of Maine Corporations.

An Act to amend the charter of the city of Lewiston relating to the office of city clerk.

An Act to promote the efficiency of the Fire Department of the city of Lewiston.

An Act to abolish the Board of Public Works of the city of Lewiston and to provide for a Highway commission.

An Act to amend Section 29 of Chapter 68 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the appointment of Public administrators.

An Act to amend Section 10 of Chapter 137 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by Chapter 203 of the Public Laws of 1917, and by Chapter 76 of the Public Laws of 1919, relating to the appointment of Probation officers.

An Act to amend Section 77 of Chapter 82 of the Revised Statutes, relative to clerk hire for reporter of decisions.

An Act to amend Sections 6 and 14 of Chapter 59 of the Revised Statutes, relating to appointment of Steamboat Inspectors.

An Act to amend Section 21 of Chapter 83 of the Revised Statutes, relating to temporary loans by Cumberland and Kennebec counties.

An Act to amend Section 7 of Chapter 117 of the Revised Statutes.

An Act to amend Section 65 of Chapter 126 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by Chapter 221 of the Public Laws of 1917, relative to the designation of persons appointed to enforce the laws relative to the prevention of cruelty to animals.

An Act to amend Section 19 of Chapter 5 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by Chapter 69 of the Public Laws of 1917, relating to sessions of boards of registration.

An Act to increase the salary of the judge of the municipal court in Gardiner.

An Act to amend the charter of the city of Lewiston and to provide for a city Auditor.

Mr. Winter of Auburn moved that this bill be tabled for the purpose of making an amendment.

A viva voce vote being taken, the motion was lost.

Mr. WINTER of Auburn: Mr. Speaker, I move that this bill be indefinitely postponed. My purpose in

making this motion is to give this House an opportunity to kill this bill in accordance with the wishes, as I believe, of practically every citizen of the city of Lewiston. I received a telegram day before yesterday from the mayor of the city of Lewiston, asking me to do everything I possibly could to have a referendum attached to these measures relative to the city of Lewiston, signifying that the people as a whole were opposed to them. As this House well knows, these four bills, amending the city charter of the city of Lewiston, have been before the people of that city for many weeks. They have been discussed in the public press and on the public platforms of that city. They have been before the people in the campaign for the non-partisan city government which is now in power there, and they have been repudiated by the voters of the city of Lewiston by a very large majority.

Now, after receiving this telegram from Mayor Newell, a very estimable gentleman, with whom I am well acquainted, and who I can assure the gentlemen of this House is the very soul of honor, an eminent attorney, a successful business man and banker, who has the support of the Republican party and who has the support of the Democratic party, and who has the support of every thoroughly wide-awake and interested citizen of the city of LewistonI therefore took occasion to get in communication with many of the leading business men of the city of Lewiston, and I failed to find a single man who was in favor of these measures, and I submit that if you pass these measures without a referendum and send them to the city of Lewiston, that they feel so strongly upon this matter that they will secure the 10,000 signatures and demand a special State referendum which will cost this State from $20,000 to $25,000, besides being an imposition upon that city. I challenge any man in this House to find any considerable number of the citizens of the city of Lewiston who are not opposed to this measure.

Mr. McILHERON of Lewiston: Mr.

Speaker and gentlemen of the House,

was unaware of the fact that my neighbor, the gentleman from Auburn, Mr. Winter, was about to take this matter up at this time, and I hope that the members of the House will co-operate with the gentleman from Auburn, Mr. Winter, in a spirit of justice and fairness to a city that would give you in return the same treatment. I have already told you about the qualities of the city of Lewiston, and I do not believe that there are any better people in the State of Maine than the people of the city of Lewiston; and if the members of this House will honestly and sincerely represent their constituents in this House of Representatives, justice will be done to the city of Lewiston.

As I have told you before, the city of Lewiston does not send its representatives here to ask you for any special favors; they simply ask justice at your hands, and, gentlemen, I have confidence that you will not, down in your hearts, want to do them any injustice; and with these few words I will leave the matter regarding the city of Lewiston in your hands with the utmost confidence that your intentions will be right to treat us fairly.

Mr. BUZZELL of Belfast: Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House, I am rather surprised at this time at this move on the part of the gentleman from Auburn, Mr. Winter. This proposition has been threshed out thoroughly several times before this, and now the action and the attitude of this House and the sincerity of this House has just been questioned. You have had a hearing before a committee. The House has acted and the Senate has acted, and you have had a conference committee and that committee has acted, and here we are again with this matter before Let us stand by our former action and not allow a telegram from one man to keep baffling us back and forth in this House. It seems as if the stand we have taken is right, and if so, let us stand by it if nothing new has happened to change our

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opinions. And there is nothing new. I thing I am safe in saying that—a telegram from some gentleman who came here a few years ago and told us about the conditions in Lewiston, and we acted for him. He did not come before the committee at this time to say aught against these bills. I do not believe that our action at this time in indefinitely postponing this bill is warranted.

Mr. McILHERON: Mr. Speaker, I want to offer in evidence, and I would make the request that the clerk read the first editorial in the Lewiston Sun of yesterday so that it will substantiate in part the remarks which I have already made to this House.

The SPEAKER: The gentleman from Lewiston, Mr. McIlheron, moves that a certain editorial in the Lewiston Sun be now read by the clerk. Is that the pleasure of the House?

A viva voce vote being taken, the motion was lost.

Mr. McILHERON: Mr. Speaker, in speaking on this question for the last time I will simply say that it is hard to suppress the truth. I do not want to insinuate, and as I have told you already, the first time I spoke on the floor of this House, that I intend to refer in any detrimental way to the last speaker, and now at the close of this season if I have said anything that may be offensive or detrimental to any member of this House, I stand here again to sincerely ask his pardon. I wish to leave this House as I came in with the best intention to do justice to each and every member of the House and to treat each one with courtesy and respect. If you reverse the action of this House in regard to these matters, it will necessitate the people of Lewiston going to your several cities and towns and asking that you will sign petitions for referendum in regard to these matters, so that the final appeal will be made to the people of the State of Maine, and that they will sign enough petitions so that the matter will be brought before them in order to see if we cannot have justice done there.

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Mr. WINTER: Mr. Speaker, in

answer to the gentleman from Belfast, I will say that it is very true that Mayor Newell came here backed by the best citizenship of the city of Lewiston, and asked this legislature for progressive legislation in relation to their police commission, and this legislature, or a former legislature representing the State of Maine, granted this request.

It is true, as the gentleman from Belfast, Mr. Buzzell, has told you, that this same gentleman now comes here by letters or by telegrams feeling that you will stand behind the thing that you did before and help him, now that he has the confidence of the whole city, and that you will help him to carry out his policy in which he has been interested for so many years. He is a gentleman whose only object in appearing in this matter is that you may know all the facts and that you may act according to your best judgment.

Mr. MORNEAU of Lewiston: Mr. Speaker, it is quite evident that the gentleman from Belfast, Mr. Buzzell, does not care to hear any new evidence in support of our claim. He stated that a few years ago the gentleman who is now the mayor of that city appeared before a committee seeking from the legislature a way so that we could govern ourselves. I think the gentleman is in error. Since that hearing, it has developed that the people do not want those acts. The Lewiston Journal is a good newspaper and you all know it, and the Lewiston Sun is a fairminded paper also, and both of those papers have condemned those acts. You should give us a referendum, and by asking this Legislature to grant us a referendum, we are doing only what we think is right. You refused that, and today we are asking for an indefinite postponement of these measures. Let me tell you it is a gross injustice that will be reflected upon the Republican party and it will be reflected for years to come if a measure such as this cannot receive justice at the hands of this legislature.

Lewiston is in the minority and

it is beaten here in this House, and this will be a reflection that will follow you a long ways, gentlemen.

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Mr. BARWISE of Bangor: Mr. Speaker, I have the honor of being a member of the committee of conference in the matter of these bills. If there is anything that reads amusingly to the people of the State of Maine, it is to observe the parliamentary and political acrobats that we have developed into since we have been here and the peculiar ease with which we turn somersaults upon questions on moment's notice. Now these matters were considered as carefully as any matter that was brought before this legislature. At the hearing several gentlemen appeared and they were asked the question by one of the judiciary committee as to whether or not they wanted a referendum, and they said, "We don't know as we do". No objection was made to these bills and the committee reported. The House has disagreed and a committee of conference was appointed, and the whole matter was gone over again in that committee of conference, and every fact bearing on this Lewiston case was considered. I hope that this House will not stultify itself by going back upon its well-considered and mature judgment.

Department of Inland Fsheries and Game.

Resolve to reimburse the town of Prentiss for sheep and poultry killed by dogs and wild animals in 1919.

Resolve dividing the State into Executive councilor districts.

Resolve providing for the payment to Mrs. Fannie Bradley of aid as a soldier's dependent.

Emergency Measures

An Act to ratify, confirm and make valid the execution of bonds issued under the provisions of Chapter 264 of the Public Laws of 1919, known as the Maine Military Service Loan.

The SPEAKER: This is an emergency bill, and upon its final enactment, requires the vote of two-thirds of the entire membership of this House. All those in favor of the passage of the bill to be enacted will rise and stand in their places to be counted.

A division being had, one hundred and forty voted in the affirmative and none opposed.

So the bill was passed to be enacted.

Resolve in favor of the Augusta State Hospital for furniture and other equipment.

Finally Passed

Resolve appropriating money for the purpose of operating fish hatcheries and feeding stations for fish, for the protection of fish, game and birds, and for printing the Report of the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Game, and other expenses incident to the administration of the

The SPEAKER: This is an emermeasure, and upon its final of passage, requires the vote twothirds of the entire membership of this House. All those in favor of the final passage of this resolve, will rise and stand in their places to be counted.

A division being had, one hundred and twenty-one voted in the affirmative and none opposed,

So the resolve was finally passed.

Resolve, making appropriations for the Passamaquoddy tribe of Indians for the half year from January 1, 1921 to June 30, 1921 and the years July 1, 1921 to June 30, 1923.

The SPEAKER: This is an emergency measure, and upon its final passage, requires the vote of twothirds of the entire membership of