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favor, which we were authorized t.v the Leg
islature to accept. The Orphans Home, at
Bath, is now established under the most hap
11v auspices. The conditions annexed to the
vppropriation of last winter were promptly
fulfilled by generous citizens of Bath whose
names are already venerated for acts of char
ity. and a commodious . state was bought and
refitted /or the Home. It is not completely
thrnisbed as yet, but tht space is ample, and
with the benefactions which will follow this
institution w ill become the dispenser ot many
blessings. There are thirty-three orphans
now there. The amount paid for their sup
port is $2,000. The whole amount disbursed
op. to the present time 1s $11,230; remaining
in the hands of the Board for disbursement
during Hie next quarter $2,020. Expenses of
the Board thus far $850. making the total
drawn from the treasury on this account for
the year $15,000. which leaves the balance
of the appropriation, viz.. 85.000, unexpend
ed and not drawn front the treasury. 'V hat
ever means you provide lor the care of these
orphans, it is a duty too sacred to be slighted.
The alms house, the hovel, and the street,
are sad homes for the sons ot martyrs.
LEOAI..
The Attorney General suggests important
changes in our law. Especially do I concur
in his recommendation that the art of I860 re
lating to reviews in capital ea«es. together
with the related and consequent sections of
other acts, be repealed. This was one of
those acts hurried through near the close
of the session without due consideration. Al
though impressed yith grave doubts as to its
constitutionality ami fitness to promote the
ends of justice, 1 was in that brief time un
able to prepare and present such reasons ol
public policy as would warrant me in oppos
ing an act which had the weighty sanction ,.f
a majority of the Legislature. I believe the
intent and practical working of the law were
not at that time fully understood.
The Governor and Council were instructed
nt the last session to provide for a revision
and consolidation of the Public Statutes by
contract or commission. After careful con
sideration it was deemed advisable to appoint
Commissioner* for that purpose. These gen
tlemen have been diligently employed upon
their work, and their report will be laid be
fore you at an early day. The matter of
changing the phraseology, be it nei er so
slightly of existing laws in order to harmonize
and consolidate them, is so delicate a task
that you will pardon me if 1 remind you of the
close scrutiny with which such a revision
must he examined before it is passed upon,
making no doubt at the same time that the
work of the hoard will be found in a high de
gree accurate and judicious. The period hap
pens to he a critical one ; the census about to
he taken, the new valuation of property to
hold for the next ten years, and various mat
ters of unusual importance awaiting your de
cision, render it of the utmost importance that
you should use the best discretion and fore
sight in repealing obnoxious or unnecessary
laws, and in enacting such as incorporated
into this revision may give it some chance of
standing for ten years without being so muti
lated and overlaid as soon to become almost
without advantage.
The complaint is nut (infrequently made
that the administration of justice is neither so
prompt nor so impartial as it should be in this
State. If this is so the remedy is beyond the
reach of my suggestions. 1 am of opinion,
however, that an injustice is done the court
a» well as the people by reason of the fact that
the Judges of the Supreme Court are required
to travel over the length and breadth of this
State without proper remuneration. I aiu
not aware that this is the ease with any other
officer on public duty. It is well known the
salaries of the judges are inadequate, and
without derogating aught from that high rev
erence for the court which is naturally enter
tained hy us all, and so especially commanded
by the character of our pr< sent Dench, it is
still hy no means unnatural that a judge de
tained from home at heavy expense, cyery
day making deeper inroads upon his scanty
means of support, might become impatient of
• long terms, and in his anxiety possibly slight
some duties. When it is tile ease as now.
that the more one does the less pay he lias,
the tendency and effect it is not difficult to
perceive. An unembarrassed independent
judiciary is of inestimable value. I would re
spectfully suggest That the actual circuit ex
penses „<>f tile Justices of the Supreme Court
be audited and paid hy the State.
It was made the duty of the Governor and
Council to count and report the vote on the
proposed amendment to the constitution, au
thorizing the legislature to divide towns into
voting districts. The whole number of votes
upon this amendment was 5186. Number
voting “ Yes, ” 2809 j»number voting No. ”
■>A77. So the constitution is amended accord
ingly.
The account of the State Liquor Commis
sioner, and his method of doing business have
been carefully examined and are found highly
satisfactory. Some points remarked on in his
report, will demand your attention. The
practice of turning in confiscated liquors al
ways more or less impure, to the town agen
cies, taken in connection with the fact that
we have provided a State Commissioner who
is paid and placed under bonds to furnish
nothing but the purest liquors, which the town
agents are imperatively required to purchase
exclusively of him, is so absurd that gooii
logic, if not good morals, demand that it
should he prohibited.
It is proper that I should inform you that
there seems to he a general failing off in re
spect for our liquor laws. The enforcement
of these laws comes in no manner within the
power of the Executive. It very properly de
volves upon municipal officers, and the degree
of their ^hal and efficiency is measured hy the
prevailing local sentiment. It is not an un
reasonable theory that the State should secure
tile even nnd impartial execution of her laws
throughout her jurisdiction. So far probably
all good citizens would agree; hut the erec
tion of a special police fur the purpose mainly
of enforcing the liquor law beyond, certainly,
if not against, the wishes of the municipalities,
lias been urged hy some as a proper measure
and proclaimed hv a' few as a test of allegiance (
to the cause of Temperance. Bui in a gov- i
ernment like ours one of the most delicate
things which a State could be called upon to
do is fn invade the ancient riirhts anil digni
ties of towns, which the historian and states
man know, are at the foundation of our liber
ties. It is still more difficult when the issue
is upon a contested question of social ethics,
or public morals, on which even good men
might he divided, and bad men find pretext
for giving the most dangerous passions way.
The antagonism to excessive measures is
likely to react against a virtue which all goud
citizens hold liigh. i
I nJortunatciy vi e have unde the experi
ment oiir otHi; and the salutary lesson to lie
learned from it may warrant me in taking
public notice of it here.
A principle prized by all was arrogated by
a few. and made the placard if not tin- watch
word of a political organization. The result,
as might have been expected, was to give to a
worthy and a sacred cause the appearance. of
defeat. The cause has suffered, hut should
not be held to blame. Its very virtue was its
misfbrtjmc. The sftong hold which it iiad
upon the hearts of the people was the occasion
nf its being seized upon to cover sinister in
tentions. Various elements of disaffection
availed themselves of the confusion which
their cries had raised, and rallied in a strange
companionship, under a banner which had
never been so entrusted to them, and which
lost its consecration by their laying on of
hands, 'five elements which conspired in tl>i>
movement and the animus which impelled it,
appear to ha- ” been so w ell understood by our
people*" to require no analysis by me. 4.Too
vote* in a total of nearly 11)0,000 after the ou
paralJek'd tesorjs of that campaign, prove
that whoever else voted that way. the Temper
ance men of 5ttai.be did not. They answer to
a longer rcilt-s.'*fi. They muster a nobler
host. The people of t'lbs -stale are u temper
ate people, and “itf Oivorol temperance,”
if that iaa wean arty thing Jt>wr«. flay are
alio a njagl^peoplc. They do not fear to
I express their opinions, nor shrink from es
! pousing any just cause. What they desire of
j right or expedient in their laws they will in
■ their own good time have. Hut anything
forced upon them contrary to their best judg
ment. and consequent upon their good nature
alone, cannot be expected to receive their
hearty moral support, or be productive of real
good. It is a sad day. however, for the wel
fare of this state when a rash measure must
bo adopted simply because no one dares for a
moment to question its expediency lest its
champions should taunt him with infidelity to
a creed of which they are not the chosen apos
tles, and anathematize him in the name ol a
power which they have usurped.
Gentlemen, I yield to no man in respect for
the rights of minorities. This is the glory and
nobility of liberty. Men may vote as they please
and be protected. They may do and say what
thev please, perhaps; but not without being
held responsible for the abuse of the privilege,
And if 1 may be allowed the opportunity to
advert to matters which, although of a per
sonal nature, yet in their effects rise to the dig
nity of a public consideration, let me here de
precate the practice* so recklessly resorted to
in the last campaign, of aspersing the motives
of official conduct, and of misrepresenting
private character for political and sinister
ends. So far as those efforts were success
ful. I fear they did no good to the cause of
temperance, or to the young tnen ot Maine.
It is a regard for their welfare and solicitude
that those who have followed me on other
fields may not he seduced to wrong ways, by
the false fancy that they are following me
still, that I ask you to let me lift my standard
for a moment that they may see where 1 am.
I At them not think that the record of a life
long loyalty is so easily reversed. I shall
not seek safety in the lines of the enemy to
escape the mutinies of the discontented,
more anxious for their own way than for vic
tory ; nor turn hack to camp because some
raw recruit on picket, with the impetuosity ol
terror, unable to discern front from rear, o. 1
friend from foe, shrieks at me for the counter*
sign.
Let us not. however, in our scorn ot hypoe
racy, or resistance to ill judged or encroach
ing measures, be forced into a seeming an
tagonism to virtue, and to those who love and
labor tor its cause. Hot rather witli cool
hrain and steady nerve, summoning ail the
agencies of good, whether of heart or hand,
go on to practice and promote the tiling.- that
are honest and pure and of good report.—
Those who join wisdom with zeal to promote
virtue among the people, w ill labor to nourish
a right public sentiment as well as to secure
punitive enactment. Some margin must al
ways be left for differences of moral senti
ment. Otherwise we might break down the
public conscience. For one. however. I do
not object to a law's being somewhat in ad
vance of public opinion—that is. more strin
gent in its provisions than tlie people really
like to obey. Tlie requisitions of even an
impossible virtue may-avail for good. Its
broad, high aspect may strengthen and hold
up some that would otherwise fall before tlie
intiuence ofbad surroundings, and the terrors
of its penalty might cool the recklessness of
some who would not lie restrained by milder
persuasives. But when a law is widely dif
ferent from the peoples’judgment, and provok
ingly contrary to their wishes-; then, instead
of expecting it to go on crushing its way
like an unrelenting law of tlie universe,
it would be better to look for one that
takes some cognizance of human conditions,
and reach out a hand that will meet halt way
the trembling instincts of good. Indeed it
may he said that wisdom consists in seeing
the practical points of contact between tin*
abstract and the human right. For the human
law is not ns the divine. That declares tlie
ways of absolute dust ice and the inexorable
Right. But tlie object of the human law is to
protect individual rights so that every man
may be free according to his own conscience
to work out ids obedience to the higher. Any
law, therefore, which proposes to abridge
personal rights should be ventured upon witli
tlie utmost caution and administered witli the
widest charity. There are other tilings to be
thought of besides restraining men from the
use of intoxicating drinks, though this be a
parent of crimes and begets monsters from
which all Ihe good avert their faces and seek
to save their fellows, yet we mus^hiot expect
tint', it can be wholly subdued and driven trom
among men. Tlie laws against intoxicating
liquors are as well executed and obeyed as the
laws against profanity, theft, uncliastity or
murder. F.ven if they are executed, they
will not avail to extinguish crime, nor banish
evil from tlie hearts of wicked meir. These
are questions which go to tlie foundations of
society. We must consider what can be done.
Restrain and intimidate as much as you can
by law ; it is only by the Gospel still that men
can be converted from evil.
I see no reason why measures for tlie pro
motion of temperance should not be ap
proached ns calmly, and, if need he, as bo U
ly, as any other question of so much moment.
Nav, it is such questions as those, most of all,
which demand the full measure of your wis
dom, your candor and your courage.
MATERIAL INTERESTS.
Agriculture considered in reference either
to the amount of property it represents, or to
tlie numbers employed in it, stands at the
head of our material interests. Our w ide and
thinly settled territory, while it makes this a
•leading industry, still gives it certain character
which is in some respects unfortunate. The
tendency is to too much breadth' and too little
skill. If farming is a hard business at the
best, then we cannot afford to do it otherwise
than well. But of late we see more thought
fulness and more courage. The best agencies
are brought to hear npon this interest, and
the discussions and Reports of the Board of
Agriculture show what sturdy good sense and
what tine talent these pursuits may develop.
I have upon other occasions endeavored to
express inv sense of the importance of this
great branch of onr industries, and I shall not
now venture more than two suggestions. That
we do not waste our forests, which are more
i aluahlcthan we have been taught to think ; and
that wo try to raise our own bread-stuffs and
sai e the enormous loss of paying three or four
profits cm foreign grain, und twice as many
more on its transportation. Farming is rather
a hard way to get rich, but it is a good way to
lie indenendent And I think as a general
tiling farmers are far happier and more com
fortable than any oilier class of men who work
as hard, whether witli hands or brains.
1 he (commissioners on the settlement of
our public lands, will make their report to
you. It has not passed under my eye. I
learn, however, that well-matured and feasi
ble plans are proposed for encouraging wor
thy settlers on the rich lands now lying idle,
it is a little curious to see that everybody,
who really examines the subject of. Swedish
immigration, whatever may have been his I
prejudice from the failure of imperfect exper
iment. comes to a warm support of the meas- 1
ure. 1 confess I can see no reason why we '
should not make good work of this, as well |
as the Western States, who find it an element i
of w ealth and pow er. A little retouching of ,
our color by the the in fusion of fresh, young
nurllsern (flood, would do us no harm.
Two instrumentalities, which will power- I
fully aid us in proportion as they llourish, '
are manufactures and railroads. It appears :
to me that the last few years have witnessed
such an awakening of interest iri these mat
ters as almost to mark an epoch in our history.
Capitalists from abroad are beginning to un
derstand our extraordinary facilities, and im
prove tiieir own opportunities; yet much—
almost all—remains to lie done. 1 will not
w eary you w ith iterations upon our wants and
our advantage*—you already know them or
you may. The now completed work on the i
water power of Maine, which I cannot men
tion with any feeling less than that of pride,
j 1 commend to vour careful perusal, and for a
i wide distribution. You cannot contemplate
j the astonishing results so admirably present
, oil in this report without seeing where our
, nearest way to prosperity lies, and what is yet
to be the work and the wealth and the fame
of Maine. Shipping lias been our glory, but
we bjptU look.in vain tor that preeminence to
return. Causes more powerful than any
within human control have turned the tide
from our shores. Still our power is in the
waters. We may lay hands upon their.wild
career anti ask of thorn a service and a bless
ing ere they mingle with the sea. We must
foster this great interest which is the hope of
the State. We must do it generously, yet ju
! diciously. We have still to hear the sight of
i our noble powers running wild, our rich mate
rials lying waste, waiting the magic touch of
mind and skill; our abundant products sent
away, raw, or rudely shaped, to receive their
chief value elsewhere. To export abundance
of raw material is thought by some to he great
prosperity ; though the most that they receive
in payment is a portion of the same material
i finished into costly fabrics for a thousand
uses by the skill of other hands. This may
do where civilization lias not much advanced,
hut does not seem a wise policy for a State
which is mature and has abundant facilities
for manufacturing. Take for example one of
our common trees, worth in the rude shape we
give it for the market, say twenty dollars. Now
set talent and skill at work upon it, fashion it
for all the fine uses and finish it to the high
perfection which sooner or later it would have
j found elsewhere—put $100 worth ot such
i work upon it and you have made it worth
| $200. You have done more. You have
! gained the countless advantages of cherishing
J the industry and skill—the talent and charac
ter employed upon it. Carry this out on a
large scale and into all the fields of enterprise
that invito us on every side and you are doing
something for others as well as yourselves.
Y'ou encourage diversified industries and in
crease wealth. You lend a helping hand to
humble toil and honest ambition. You quick
en hope and pride and higher aspirations.
You carry life into deserts and happiness into
homes. This I somewhat more than fancy is
the right policy for a State like Maine, with
Tier unparailed advantages and her strong
, sinews anxious and eager to be at work.
Then as to Kailroads we are doing all that
is possible. More than 250 miles of new
road are now building in many directions,
wherever enterprise points. Tile great road
which connects us with Halifax,—hence
; already freighted with so many stirring hopes
' of good, now lacks hut about fifty miles of
completion: to secure and hasten this, the
State has already made generous gifts, and
an effort is to he "made to induce Congress to
recognize the claim assigned to the road by
Maine and Massachusetts. e trust this
may be successful, and that the year may
w itness the consummation.
In the west too we have openings which
are scarcely less, if not indeed more, in their
promise of good. The courage and energy
I of Portland in undertaking the task of cut
ting her way through to the great lakes and
the greater West; forming thus a link in the
magnificent continental chain, has already
I ensured victory. Other efforts as worthy II
c an scarcely name here, but they also deserve
our interest and care.
The Railroad Commissioners make valua
ble suggestions in their Report, which I com
mend to your attention. The feature of im
mediate interest which will come before us is
the proposed consolidation of prominent lines
in the State. If this means to place the pub
lic at the mercy of a monopoly unrestrained
by responsibility to the State and relieved
from the checks of competition, I cannot
resommend it to your favor. But this prob
ably is not the case. The roads however,
have already the power to consolidate to all
practical intents, by lease. What they want 1
understand is that the rights they already
severally have be unified and legalized so as
to economize their own efforts, and provide
better Securities for their public obligations.
It is not the mere authority to fix times and
rates. That they already claim to have. I
do not believe, however, that they are inde
pendent of the State. Whatever their char
ters may contain, I do not believe it is com
petent for a State to grant away her powers
over great public thoroughfares like these. It
is to cede away her “right of eminent domain."
These corporations took private property for
public uses. Have they no responsibility to
that public for whose uses this property was
taken ? It is the indefeasible duty of the State
to take care of herself, and of her citizens.
Everything is hers, if need be—our fortunes
and our lives. Shall railroads claim immu
nity? With this understanding. I need not
feel it necessary to oppose consolidation.
There are manifest advantages for the State
in it. 1st, We may take the occasion if there
is any doubt, to declare or reaffirm the ultimate
rigid of the State over the roads. 2d. The
public convenience may be thereby facilitated.
3d. Better securities based on the whole prop
erty and franchise would be given in exchange
for’ old ones. 4th, The wrangling which
railroads have indulged in before the legisla
ture, and the political control which they have
sought, would be entirely at an end. 5th, It
would be a saving of money and strength.
These things I can see in favor of the meas
ure. But I leave the decision to your better
judgment.
The things we have been considering are
great matters. We must not let them drift ;
but seize them with a strong hand nnd wield
them for the common welfare. It is not
enough to call a power into exercise: we must
be able to guide and control it, and shape it to
useful ends. We must he ready when the in
cubus is lifted from enterprise and the holts
thrown back from capital to receive the influx
of strength and population, that will surely
come, and to take part in the great reciprocities
of civilization which arc as the tides of life
to nations.
' Gentlemen, we have reached the fiftieth
year of our existence as a State. We are not
ashamed of her history. One of the earliest
in discovery and colonization, she is one of
the latest in the development of her resources,
and the fruits of civilization. Vet all the ob
scure trial and tuil that have intervened
wrought for the times that were come. The
State sees her place and owns her duty; and
does not spurn the task that enfolds the
triumph. The gates of Destiny arc opened,
and she enters on her prond career. We
shall watch with admiring interest and help
with untiring toil her onward way. Nor can
it be that we hope and prophecy in vain. Our
work may be obscure and the reward far off;
but both will live. The early discoverers of
tills territory foresaw the future and foretold
its glory. Then by reason of human weak
ness and immature times, they fell short or
perished. Then came two centuries of dull
mechanical advance—slow moving by mere
force of physical laws, without any grand
mastery of mind and inspiration of idea. But
in fact beneath this dull and lifeless seeming,
forces were in preparation, elements in fer
ment, and germs maturing which were in due
time to ripen into blessings of which all that
work and waiting were actual elements. The
seeming death foretold and foreordained the
life. The thrilling story of the voyagers rang
round the world and seemed to have rang
itself uwh}’. But it is heard again coming
round on the other side, swelling with the yet
more wondrous harmonies of prophecy ful
filled.
So we may lie “building better Ilian we
know.” Our humble works wrought in faitli
ar^regenerated by a mightier Spirit than that
in which they were conceived, and built into
loftier monuments than our bands have
reared. We pass and are forgotten, but
amidst the silent or tumultuous years our good
deeds are working free from the taint of our
imperfection, and stand solid and shining in
the perfect day. God deals with men as the
meltcr of metals, lie puts the earth-mingled
ores into his crucible, and seals it up in fiery
furnaces out of view. Men forget it, but He
does not. In the fullness of time it is opened
—lo, on one side the dull earth, on the other
the glittering ore. Surely, He “sits as a re
finer of silver.”
He who thinks of these things will tie hum
ble, but will not be idle; trustful but not
spiritless ; reverential but not afraid. He is
the true worker, heir of the ages past, and tes
tator to the “all bail hereafter.” It is thus
that they who labor must also wait; that they
w ho are faithful ahull endure. It matters Ht
• tic what becomes of us if we so conduct our
great concernments that they who come after
us are thereby made wiser and better than we.
It matters little that our poor toil seems hur
ried in the dust, if so be that it shall spring
up again to bless the coming time.
The way* of Providence seem slow to our
brief, impetuous lives; but they arc swift in
ihe centuries of God.
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN.
Mi IfflB LEOI8LATUJR /:.
Senate.
Thursday, Jan. C.
Met according to adjournment. (
Prayer bv Rev. Mr. Kino of Augusta.
Journal read and approved.
On motion of Mr. Minot,
Ordered, That the Secretary of State he
directed to place in the bands of the Secreta
ry of the Senate for the use of the Senate, two
copies of the Revised Statutes, one copy of
Lippinncott'a Pronouncing Gazeteer, and one
copy each of Webster’s, and of Worcester's
Unabridged Dictionaries.
On motion of Mr. Blffum.
Ordered, That the Joint Rules and Orders
of lNIjtt be the Joint Rules and Orders of the
legislature until otherwise ordered, the
House concurring.
Bill an act to increase the capital stock of'
the Bates Manufacturing Co. of Lewiston, j
Sent up from the House for concurrence.
Read twice under a suspension of the rules
and passed to be engrossed.
Bill an act additional to an act to incor
porate the Lewiston Bleachcry Company, j
Sent up for concurrence. Read twice under
suspension of rules, and passed to be en
grossed. !
On motion of Mr. Tai.bot,
Ordered, That the Secretary of the Senate
procure the printing of seventy-five copies'
of the Diagram of the Senate Chamber for,
the use of the Senate.
On motion of Sir. Kinqsui ry,
Ordered. That the Secretary of the Senate,
prepare the usual Senate Register, and that
five hundred copies be printed for the use ot
the Senate.
Mr. Lindsey, from the Committee on Sen
atorial Votes, submitted the following
Report :
The committee to whom were referred the j
returns of votes for Senators for the current
political year, ask leave to report as follows ; i
r ikst District. i
Whole number of ballots was 10,837
Necessary for a choice, 5,418 !
Samuel Hanson has 5.903
John 1$. Neeley, 5,732
Joseph C. Roberts, 5,772
Ephraim C. Spring, 4,887
Edward Eastman, 4,919
George Bragdon, 4,880
Joseph C. Roberts, 6
Ehenezer S. Hanson, 157
Isaac M. Trafton, 153
Muel Hanson, 1
B. Neeley, 1
('. Roberts, 1
and Samuel Hanson. John B. Neeley, and
Joseph C. Roberts having a majority of all
the votes east, are elected.
Second District.
Whole number of ballots was 11.202
Necessary to a choice. 3.802
Marquis D. L. Lane has 5,774
Charles E. Gibbs, 5,038
Henry Carvill, .5.931
Thos' B. Heed. 5.089
Benj. J. Larrabee, 2d, 4.438
Daniel L. Emery, 4,527
Abner B. Thompson, 4.320
Daniel M. Cook, 4.514
John W. Muuger. 479
Win. M. Shaw, 599
llt-nry H. Starbird, 478
Ezra Tobey, 440
E. G. Messer, 100
Samuel F. Perley, 84
John H. Philbrick, 8
John W. Russell, 1
Neal Dow, 7
W. H. Vinton, 1
Charles Humphrey, 1
Arnos Osgood, 1
• Joseph W. Simonds, 1
Joseph Simonds, 1
Benj. Larrabee, 82
Thos. Hancock, 1
A. H. Burbank, 1
O. B. Durand, 1
Woodbury Davis, 1
Chas. II. Staekpolc, 1
W. H. Woodbury, 1
C. J. Morris, G
C. 1*. Kimball, 1
W. J. Merrill, 1
Caleb Chaplain, 1
and Marquis D. L. Lane. Charles E. Gibbs,
Henry Carvill, and Thos. B. Heed having
a majority of all the votes cast are elected.
Third District.
Whole number of ballots was, G.57C
Necessary to a choice, 3,2S9
Wm. W. Bolster has 3,445
Thos. 1J. Cleaves, 3,592
John C. Gerry, 2,781
Charles C. Sanderson, 2,775
Lewis Bisbce, 207
Enoch C. Farrington, 195
Joseph W. Eaton, 1
Win. Bolster, 107
Thos. Mobry, 1
and Wm. W. Bolster and Thos. P. Cleaves
haring a majority of all the votes cast, are
elected.
Fourth District.
Whole number of ballots was 4,949
Necessary to a choice, 2,475
Daniel Holland has 2,711
Alonzo Garcelon, 1,840
Philips Bradford, 417
Alson Lothrop, 2
Wm. Lovell, 1
and Daniel Holland having a majority of tho
votes cast, was declared elected.
Fifth District.
Whole number of ballots was 3,573
Necessary to a choice, 1,787
Edwin 11. French has 2,089
Francis G. Butler, 1,475
and Edwin K. French having the majority ol
votes east, is declared elected.
Sixth District.
Whole number of ballots was 2,375
Necessary for a choice, 1,188
J. P. Morse has 1,425
Samuel D. Bailey, 800
Benjamin F. Talman, 144
and J. P. Morse having received a majority
of votes cast, is elected.
Seventh District.
Whole number of ballots was 8.927
Neecssary to a choice, 4,404
Tims. S. Fang has 4,740
Joshua Gray, 4,987
George E. Minot, 4,523
Thos. L. Stanton, 3,081
Charles L. White, 3,149
Bradford Sawtclle, 2,847
Eli Jones, 1,005
George W. Quinbv, 726
F. E. Webb, ' 1,401
Scattering, 2
and Thomas S. Lang, Joshua Gray, nnd
George E. Minot having received a majority
of the votes east, are elected.
Eighth District.
Whole number of ballots was 6,643
Necessary to a choice, 3,322
Luther II. Webb has 3,842
Stephen D. Lindsey, 3,732
John Ware, Jr., 2,936
James Fuller, 2,941
George W. Bicknell, 53
Samuel Gould, 54
Scattering, 7
nnd Luther H. Webb and Stephen 1). Lindsey
having a majority of the votes, are elected.
Ninth District.
Whole number of ballots was 2,507
Necessary to a choice, 1,254
John G. Mayo has 1,470
James S. Wiley, 966
Phincas Tolnian, 81
and John G. Mayo having a majority of the
votes east, is elected.
Tenth District.
Whole number of ballots was 11,063
Necessary to a choice, 5,537
Thomas B. Kingsbury lias 6,343
Charles Buft’um, 0,220
Timothy Fuller, 0,339
Levi B. Patten, 3,902
Stephen J). Jennings, 3,977
Asa Smith, 3,971
Amos Pickard, 587
Smith Baker, 596
L. W. Starbird. 599
Stephen Jennings, 10
Smith Baker, Jr., 32
John Gardiner, 7
Levi Patten. 27
and Thomas B. Kingsbury, Charles BufTum,
and Timothy Fuller having received a major
ity of votes, are elected.
Fleventii District.
Whole number of ballots was 3,704
Necessary to a choice, 1,883
Beniamin I). Metcalf lms 1,980
Daniel F. Hutchings, 1,782
and T.enj. D. Metcalf having a mojerity of the
votes cast, is elected.
Twelfth District.
Whole number of ballots was 4.932
.N&ecssnry to a choice. 2,407
Simon G. Webster has 2,191
George W. Kimball. Jr., 1.080
Philander .1. Carlton, 2,004
Buggies S. Torrey, 2,539
George W. Kimball, 573
Scattering, 3
and Philander J. Carlton and Buggies S.
Torrey having a majority of votes cast, are
elected.
Thirteenth District.
Whole number ot ballots was 6,159
Necessary for a choice 3,080
T. II. Cushing has 3,170
Lorenzo Garcelon, 3.135
Adams Treat, 2.522
Ezra Cox, 3,583
A. ,T. Billings, 390
A. W. Rich, 402
N. H. l’cndlcton, 15
f A. W. Atwood, 1
and T. II. Cushing and Lorenzo Garcelon
| having a majority of votes are elected.
Fourteenth District.
Whole number of ballots was 4,643
Necessary for a choice, 2,322
John A. Buck has 2.5f5
Hiram S. Bartlett, 2.588
Cyrus J. Hall, 1,858
Alonzo Colley, 1,861
Mark II. Lufkin, 185
W. W. Bragdon, 186
Mark Lufkin, 6
and John A. Buck and Hiram S. Bartlett hav
ing received a majority of votes are elected.
Fifteenth District.
Whole number of ballots was 5.209
Necessary for a choice, 2,605
F. Loring Talbot has 2.869
Putnam lfolfe, 2.748
Samuel 1). Leavitt. 2.2,9
Aaron 11. Woodcock, 2.310
W. J. Cothell, 6
George Leavitt, 4
Aaron W. Woodcock, 9
Putnam, 3
and F. Loring Talbot and Putnam Holfe hav
ing received a majority of votes are elected.
Sixteenth District.
Whole number of ballots was 3,495
Necessary for a choice, 1,748
Samuel W. Collins has 2.389
George Cary, 939
Isaac Hacker, 3u5
Scattering. 1
and Samuel W. Collins having received a
majority of votes is elected.
There were many irregularities in the de
tails of returns, which the committee in the
exercise of their discretion, counted, but
there were several returns so glaringly incor
rect that the committee were obliged to re
ject them.
Mapleton, Aroostook county, made no
mention of the candidates voted for, ttir Guv
j ernor.
St. Francis plantation appears to have
voted for eleven men tor Governor; tills,
among others, caused the rejection of its re
turns.
Talmndge, in Washington county, sent a
; blank return legally signed by the town offi
cers.
Report accepted.
On motion of Mr. Buck,
Ordered, That the Secretary furnish each
Senator with a copy of Acts and Resolves of
j 1869.
On motion of Mr. Lane,
Ordered, That a message be sent to^ the
House proposing a joint convention at 7. P.
M. for the purpose of administering the oath
of office to Joshua L. Chamberlain, Governor
elect, and receiving such communication as
he may see fit to make, and asking the con
currence of the House.
Laid upon the table.
On motion of Mr. Laxo,
Ordered, That a message be sent to the
House of Representatives, proposing a con
' volition of the two branches of the Legislature
in the Representatives Hall, this day. at halt
past eleven o’clock, for the purpose of elect
ing a Secretary of State, Attorney General,
Adjutant General, Land Agent, and seven
Executive Councillors, and asking the con
| currenee of the House.
The message was conveyed by the secretary
and subsequently a message was received
from the House by its Clerk, informing the
Senate of the concurrence of the House in the
foregoing proposition of the Senate.
Mr. Cleaves of Oxford moved a reconsid
eration of the vote whereby it was ordered
that the joint rules nnd orders of last ^ar lie
adopted, and offered an amendment adding
the following words: “with the exception ot
so much of Rule 1st as refers to appropria
tions.”
Mr. Lane asked for an explanation in re
gard to the matter.
Mr. Cleaves saida joint committee was
! created last year to report on appropriations,
i hut, on consultation with other Senators, he
thought the committee wholly unnecessary as
most all of the work that could come before
them belongs, properly, to other committees.
! If such a committee fully perform their duties
! all matters relating to appropriations would
come before them, making their duties very
laborious and taking the work from other
j committees.
Mr. Lang did not think the committee nec
i essary hut would refer all matters which had
| come' before it to the appropriate committees.
Mr. Lindskv said the committee on appro
priations was raised for tlie purpose ot ex
amining the proposed appropriations recom
mended by the various committees and revise
1 if necessary, so that the aggregate would not
swell to such a large amount that it could uot
' allowed.
Amendment adopted, and the order passed
as amended.
The hour having arrived assigned for a con
vention of the two branches fur the purpose
of electing a Secretary of State, Attorney
i General. Adjutant General, Land Agent, and
, seven Executive Councillors, the Senate pro
i eeeded to the Representatives Hall where a
1 convention was formed.
[See House report.]
! The Senate having returned, Mr. Lang
moved that when we adjourn it be till 7 o’clock
1 this evening. Carried.
Mr. Cl’HiiiNQ from the committee to ex
. amine and report on the return of Gubernn
j torial votes for 1869, reported as follows:
Whole number of votes returned, 95,275
Necessary for a choice, 47,638
Joshua L. Chamberlain lias 51,314
Franklin Smith. 39,038
Nathan G. Ilicbborn, 4,735
J. L. .Chamberlain, 37
Joshua Chamberlain, 88
N. Cm. Hicliborn, 45
N. H. Hicliborn, . 3
Sidney I’erham, 4
Ebenezer Knowltnn, 2
Anson P. Morrill, 2
Samuel F. Horsey, 1
Ezra F. Beil, 1
Scattering, id
Accepted.
On motion of Mr. Lang, Messrs. Lung,
Cushing nnd Lindsey were appointed on the
part of the Senate to join with a House com
mittee to wait upon the Governor -‘left ami *
inform him of his election.
On motion of Mr. 1.aNo the order in rcla
tion to the time for a joint convention was
taken from the taldo and pasted, and message j
sent to the House.
A message was received from the House in
forming the Senate that that body concurred
in the proposition.
On motion of Mr. Las*, adjourned.
House.
Thursday, Jan. C.
I’rayer by Ilev. Mr. Kino of Augusta.
Papers from the Senate disposed of in con
currence.
Mr. Fakwkll of Augusta presented by
leave, a fbttl entitled an act to increase the
capital stock of the Bates Manufacturing
Company; also bill an act additional to an
act to incorporate the Lewiston Bleuchcry
Company.
Bead three times, rules being suspended, (
and passed to be engrossed.
Mr. 'J'wiTUlKL of Portland by leave, pre
sented hill an act conferring additional pow
ers on the city of 1’orthiittL Bend twice and
assigned.
On motion of Mr. Yosk of Wintcrport,
Ordered, That a joint special committee of
seven on the part of the House with such as
tile Senate may join he appointed, to which
shall be represented the revision of the stat
utes.
Mr. Bliss of Washington announced the
attendance of Mr. Campbell of Deer Isle, and
that gentleman was charged with the duty of
conducting him to the Governor and Council
for the purpose of taking and subscribing the
oaths necessary to enable hint to enter upon
the discharged of his official duties.
Subsequently Mr. Campbell appeared in the
House and took his seat.
Un motion of Mr. Twitchell of Portland,
Ordered, That the Clerk of the House cause
to be prepared for the use of the members a
catalogue containing the names, alphabetically !
arranged, with residence, post office address j
and boarding place, and number-of seat of j
each member with u diagram ot the House, i
and the usual number of copies be printed.j
and distributed to members at the earliest
practicable day.
Mr. Wilder of Fort Fairfield offered the
following order:
Ordered, That the Secretary of State be
required to furnish to each member of this
House S10 worth of United Status postage
stamps at the expense of the State.
The order was indefinitely postponed on
motion of Mr. 11kai>fuku of Euslport.
Mr. Lank of Hollis, presented tiie remon
strance of H. K. Bradbury against the rigid of
John \V. Lane to a seat in this House.
Mr. Lank remarked that Mr. Bradbury Was
a particular friend of iiis and wanted his seat.
The remonstrance was referred to the Com
mittee on Elections.
A message was received from the Senate !
through its Secretary, S. W. Lane. Esq.,
proposing a joint convention of the two
branches this day at half past one o’clock, for
tiie purpose of electing a Secretary of State,
Attorney General, Adjutant General, Land
Agent and seven Executive Councillors.
On motion of Mr. Bakkk of Augusta,
A message was conveyed to the Senate by
the Clerk signifiying tiie concurrence of tiie
House ir. the proposed convention.
On motion of Mr. Bkaijfoud of Kastport.
the order directing the Clerk of the House to
furnish tiie members with tiie Daily Kenne
bec Journal, with the amendment incorpor
ated with it yesterday, authorizing him to
supply tiie Daily Argus, was taken from the
table and read.
The same gentleman remarked that as it
looked to him, there was a future to this or
der, and he thought we should have a dread
of it. It had been customary to have two
daily political papers, the Journal and the
Augusta Age,—there is at present no Age.
The minority of the House asked for a dem
ocratic paper, and lie was perfectly willing it
should be voted them, or any republican
member who desired it; but lie did object to
the State paying for a daily newspaper from
a foreign city or town. The city of Bungor
may say with equal, prupyiety, that "We are
desirous that our dally paper may be used as
a legislative paper,”'or any other city or
town. ■wished to be liberal toward the
minority'of "the House, but he objected to
their insisting that republican members shall
receive against their wish a democratic paper
and the State pay the bills.
Mr. Hakkb of Augusta, said as he under
stood it, official reports by official reporters
are spread daily before the members in the
Juurnul, that every member may see for him
self in a more Convenient way than to go to
tiie Clerk, wlietltor tiie proceedings of the
day before have been correctly recorded or
not, and it i* for this aid to legislators that
tiie Journal is tolerated to be paid for by the
State. If the democrats choose at any time to
publish a paper containing tiie official reports
■ of the Legislature the same as the Journal,
then he should be in favor of any member
taking the paper he preferred. The propo
sition before us is to furnish a newspaper,
not a legislative paper, containing the ufficiul
reports of the Legislature. He asked any
gentleman to point out to him what right we
have as members of this Legislature to put
our hands into the Treasury and pay lor
newspapers for the members of the House.
He also wanted to know if he was obliged to
have a paper he did not want.
He called the attention of the House to a
similar fact which came out in the discussion
yesterday—that the Daily Argus shall be
■ furnished here for seventy-five cents for
each member during tiie session. He had
been credibly informed that the blank paper
could not be furnished at this price. What
did this mean? Did it not mean that when
tiie door was open far enough to put one foot
in, that two feet would be put in? He could
imagine what the gentleman from Fort
Kent (Mr. Dickey) would say to the repub
lican members of this House. He would be
singing in his sweetest tones,
‘ Will you walk into my parlor
Said the spider to the fly,
It is tiie prettiest little parlor
That ever you did spy.”
His stand was that this Legislature had no
right to vote themselves political papers at
the expense of the State, and if these papers
wished for a donation from the Statu, let
them come out boldly and ask for it.
It had been said that it was a matter of
courtesy to the minority. He contended that
it was not a question Of courtesy, but purely a
matter of right and wrong of our appropria
tions of money. It was a question ot plunder,
nothing more or less. What he wanted was
the legislative proceedings, and if they came
in a democratic paper instead of a republican
paper, he would be as willing to have it. He
trusted the order would be voted down.
Mr. Dickey said he would not have spoken
upon this question had not the gentleman last
up alluded to him. Mr. Dickey disclaimed
all political views in the matter, and the
amendment introduced by him was not of his
own accord. It was done by the request of
bis republican friends. He would not have
introduced it to the House on his own ac
cord. The gentleman from Augusta, Mr.
Baker, was in error in his statement in re
lation to the reporter. The reporter was not
an official reporter, nor had the House, with
one exception ever employed one.
The object assigned for wanting the Daily
Argus, was that it spreads valuable informa
tion on important matters to come before tins
House before members which would serve to
help guide them aright in the discharge of
their official duties, and it was on this ae
count that he was asked to m«ke the amend
lie did not propose to beg this favor of the
majority, but if the House felt that it was
necessary that we should have the two jour
nals and the two ideas embodied in them,
that we may learn and be guided in our lega
tion he should be glad. He did not take the
Argus when at home, but while in the Legis
lature he should like it, for it done him good
as did the Journal. He ouly made these
statements to, place himself correctly upon
the record.
Mr. Hujie entirety agreed with the gentle
man from Augusta, that we should practice
retrenchment and economy, but he believed
that the minority had rights which the major
ity were bound to respect, and for his part he
deemed it hut an act of courtesy due to the
minority of the House, that they should have
the newspapers they ask for. He hoped gen
tlemen would remember and practice this
question of coonomy when the Legislature is
called upon to vote thousands and tens of
thousands. This was a matter of hundreds
and perhaps less.
Mr. Farwell regretted so early in the ses
sion to disagree with his distinguished col
league (Mr. Baker), and on the question of
this paper. Last year we took the Maine
Standard, and its cost if he recollected right
was $103 for this House. It was proposed as
he understood to furnish the Argus to this
House for about $151. It was true it would
not contain the Legislative proceedings, but
he did not hesitate to snv that it was intimate
ly associated with the Mercantile interests of
Maine and would prove a valuable auxiliary
in deciding important questions to t>e brought
before tins Legislature—questions more im
portant tluin any of the last ten years. He
was indifferent as to the political character of
this paper. It was of the information it would
furnish he thoiight'of, and he thought it should
be furnished at the State's expense.
Mr. Uakeh of Augusta offered to amend
the order by adding "or the liatli Times,
Lewiston Journal, or Bangor Whig and Cour
ier, at the option of each member."
Rejected by the House.
Mr. Baker then moved the indefinite post
ponement of the order. Lost.
Tile order was then passed.
The hour assigned for the joint convention
having arrived the Senate came ia and a con
vention was formed.
On motion of Mr. Lindsey of Somersat,
the following named gentlemen were appoint
ed a committee to receive, sort and count
votes for Secretary of State : Messrs. Lindsey
of Somerset. Carvill of Cumberland, Blake
of Auburn, Powers of iloulton, Jordan of
Brunswick, Martin'of Rumford, Farwell of
Auguata.
Mr. Lindsey from the committee subse
quently reported
Whole number of votes, 155
Necessary to a choice, 78
Franklin M. prew lias 133
John M. Goodwin, 22
And Franklin M. Prew was declared duly
elected Secretary of State for the current
political year.
On motion of Mr. Ci'SHing of Waldo, the
following gentlemen were appointed a com
mittee to receive, sort and count votes for
Attorney General: Messrs. Cushing of Waldo,
Twite-hell of Portland, Green of Wilton. Bliss
of Washington, Brown of Anson. Jones of
Norway, Cushing of Sidney.
Subsequently Mr. Ccshisq from the com
mittee reported
Whole number of votes, 153
Necessary to a choice, 77
Thomas B. Heed has 127
Albert W. Bradbury 26
And Thomas B. Reed was declared duly
elected Attorney General for the current
political year.
On motion of Mr. Webu of Somerset, the
following gentlemen were appointed a com
mittee to receive, sort and count votes for
Adjutant General: Messrs. Webb of Somer
set, Minot of Kennebec, Whiddcn of Calais,
Waterhouse of Portland. Darling of Lincoln,
Wheeler of Chestcrville, Mayo of Windham.
Subsequently Mr. Webb from the commit
tee reported
Whole number of votes 104
Necessary to a choice, 83
B. B. Murray, Jr., has 131
Clias. W. Roberts, 32
A. W. Bradbury. 1
And B. II. Murray, Jr., was declared duly
elected Adjutant General for die current
political year.
On motion of Mr. Kikosbi ry of Penobscot,
the following gentlemen were appointed a
committee to receive sort and count votes for
Land Agent. Messrs. Kingsbury of Penob
scot, Lang of Kennebec, Wasson of Surry,
Palmer of Gardiner, Watts of Thoniaston,
Punning of Bangor. Skinner of St. Albans.
Mr. Kisosbcky from the committee subse
quently reported .
Whole number of votes 133
Necessary to a choice, 70
Parker P. Burleigh has 183
And Parker P. Burleigh was declared duly
elected Land Agent for the current year.
On motion of Mr. Cleaves of Oxford the
following gentlemen were appointed a com
mittee to receive sort and count votes for
seven Executive Councillors; Messrs Cleaves
of Oxford, Neally of York, Chase of Wood
stock, Whitney of Exeter, Foss of Abbott,
Adams of Mayfield, Lewi* of Liberty.
Subsequently Mr. Cleaves from the com
mittee reported:
Whole number of votes, 162
Necessary to a choice, 82
Uranus O. Brackett has 128
William Peering, 128
William Rogers, 12S
A. H. Abbot, 128
E. R. Spear. 128
Joseph \V. Porter, 128
1). K. Hobart, 127
T ration Hatch, 34
Charles E. Morrill, 34
John Reed, 34
Oliver Moses, 34
E. K. O’Brien, 34
James F\ llawson, 34
Samuel P. Leavitt, 34
and Messrs. Uranus O. Brackett, William
Peering, William Rogers. A. H. Abliot, E.
R. Spear, J. W. Porter and P. K. Hobart,
were declared duly elected for the current
political year.
On motion of Mr. Bcck of the Senate,
Ordered, that the Secretary of the Senate be
directed to inform Franklin M. Drew of his
election as Sec. of State, Thos. B. Heed of
his election as Attorney General, B. B. Murray
Jr. of his election as Adjutant General, Par
ker P. Burleigh of his election as Land Agcilt,
Uranus O. Brackett. William Decring, Wil
liatn Rogers, A. H. Abbott, E. R. Spear, J.
i W. Porter and E, K. Hohart, of their election
as Executive Councillors.
Having accomplished the purpose for which
the convention was formed the Senate with
drew and tlie House was called to order by
! the Speaker.
IN HOUSE.
The following gentlemen on the part of the
House were joined as part of the Joint Com
mittee to wait on the Hon. Joshua L. Cham
berlain and inform him of his election to the
office of Governor of the Stati! of Maine for
the current political year.
Messrs. McGilvery of Searsport. Cham
berlain of Ellsworth, White of Bangor, Stone
of Kennebunk, Heed of Waldoboro , Patten
of Bath, and Irish of Sherman.
' Subsequently the chairmen of the commit
tee repored that it had discharged its duty, a'nd
the Governor elect was pleased to say that lie
accepted the office to which he had been elect
ed, and would meet the Legislature at such
time as it wuuld Indicate to take and subscri be
the oaths of office necessary to qualify him to
enter upon the discharge of his official duties.
Mr. Buss of Washington presented the fol
lowing resolve, which was read and laid on
the table on motion of Mr. Baker of Augusta :
Resolved, That the Senate concurring, the
members of both branches of the Legislature
are hereby requested to attend in a body with
the Governor and Council and Heads of De
partments, the ceremony at Portland on the
arrival of the remains of the late George
Peabody.
On motion of Mr. Twitcueix,
Ordered, That when this House adjourn it
be to meet this evening at seven o'clock.
The order from the Senate adopting the
joint rules and orders of the last session as the
joint rules and orders of this session was read
and, on motion of Mr. Barker of Stetson,
tabled.
A message was received from the Senate
through its Secretary, S- W. Lane, proposing
a convention of the two brandies of the Leg
islature in the Representatives Hall, this day a