The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-11-05
From Walton's Daily Journal.
Legislature of Vermont.
Friday, October 23.
SENATE.


Friday, October 2s.
SENATE.
Mr.. Chittenden called up the engrossed bill
to improve the management of the State f.
nances, providing for the appointmentby the
Supreme Court, OF a county auditor to audit
the accounts Of the States Attorney, Clerk,
and Sheriff, and defining their duties
The question pending on the amendment
offered yesterday, making the County instead
of the Supreme Court the appointing power,
Mr.. Villas moved that the bill with the amend
ment be indefinitely postponed; opposed by
Mr.. Hodges, and the motion was Withdrawn.
Mr. Miner withdrew the amendment, and
proposed another so as to make the County
Court the appointing and the Supreme Court
the removing power.
The amendment was further opposed by
Mr.. Cushman on nearly the same ground and
was supported by Messrs Miner and Har-
rington, upon the ground that the Supreme
Court, from their want Of general acquaint-
ance with the people in most of the Counties,
would be far less qualified than the County
Court to judge Of the qualifications of candi-
dates the motion to amend was then put and
lost. Without further remark, the bill itself
was then passed unanimously.
Adjourned. ,
Bills introduced. By Mr. Bullock, to char;
ter the Bank of Brandon; referred to COM.
mittee on Banks. By Mr.. Bullock, to alter
the name Of John Chauncey Chandler; re-
ferred to general committee. By Mr.. Church;
i'll, relating to attachments, and by Mr. Bill,
restoring the act of 1912 on capital crimes;
both referred to Judiciary committee. By
Mr.. Paine, establishing the State Prison at
Barre; referred to General committee.
Reports. By Judiciary committee Senate
bill in amendment Of chap. r S. laid on the
table. BY Committee on Banks Unanimous
ly) Senate bill to extend the charter of the
Farmers Bank laid on the table. By Com
mite on Ways and Means, Senate bill to
credit John Spalding $1O2 for worthless mon
ey received at the State Treasury-S79 in
Bennington bills and $23 counterfeit money;
after brief discussion by Messrs Thomas Har-:
rington of M, Harmon, Russell and Miner, a
motion to lie was lost, when Mr.. Harrington
of NJ, moved to strike out the 1923 after re-
marks by Messrs Albee, Aiken, Miner, Dan
forth and Cleveland, explanatory of the mat
ter and Of precedentS in former cases and
mainly against the amendment, it was reject
ed, and Mr.. Thomas moved to recommit-op-
pOocu Wy NIL lOIOtlddlu NllIA lOSl, anu Tue Dill
was passed 1853 to IS.
Saturday. Oct. "a.
SENATE.
Reports. By Mr.. Harrington, in favor of
the bill incorporating the Grand Isle Fire In
surance Company; passed. BY Mr.. Brad
ley, from the committee on Banks, in favor of
bill extending the charter of the Farmers
and Mechanics Bank at Burlington, with an
amendment on motion of Mr. Cushman, bill
laid on the table. By the same, from the
same committee the bill Incorporating the
Bank OF Brandon with no expression of opin-
ion thereon, accompanied with a mass of facts
which the friends of the bill desired to have
laid before the Senate bill laid on the Ia
bic. FROM the joint committee, resolution
recommending Friday next, o'clock A. M.
for the adjournment of the General Assem-
bly,; laid on the table, on motion ofNr Brad.
ley. By Mr.. Foster from the judiciary COM,
mttee, asking TO be discharged from the con-
sideraton of the bill preventing accident and
imposition in the sale Of medicines, that it
might be referred to select committee; dis
charged and referred to a committee, con-
sisting of Messrs Fox, Onion and Cushman.
BY Mr. Foster, from the same committee, a.
gainst bill relating to paupers having no legal
III bllG koJdl6, the expense TO be-
paid from the State Treasury The bill was
briefly supported by MIR. Robinson, as remov-
ing an onerous burden now imposed upon
many towns by the obligation to support this
class Of paupers thrown upon them in GREAT
numbers, by peculiar circumstances, and Cd.
posed by Messrs Foster, Villas, Howe, Cush-
man, Burton, Harrington and Kimball, as I'M.
duly favoring towns who had violently strup
gled for the location of railroads through their
borders, and yet were unwilling to bear the
evils incident to their construction, and as in
PRODUCING a system which could not be suf-
fciently well guarded to prevent fraud and
improper drafts upon the treasury. MI. Smith
thought that the bill had some merits, partic-.
ularly as applying to the frontier towns, which
the present system peculiarly burdened, and
ON his motion, the bill was laid on the table
to be properly matured.
a communication was received from the
State Librarian, in reply to resolution ofthe
Senate, stating the expense of erecting and
completing the State Prison to have been
S39,312 rs, and also giving table of the an
nual drafts upon the treasury for the MAIN
tenance of the Prison from 1909 to 1916, the
total amount of which was $9S, 756 90. The
communication was referred to the committee
on Finance. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The Senate came in, and the following ap-
pointments were made
GRAND ISLE County.
Lorenzo Hall, Second Assistant Judqe
David G. Dixon, South Hero, Sheriff.
Frederick Hazen, States Attorney.
BENNINGTON County.
Orsamus G. Merrill, John Hixf Alexander
Haling, Commissioners for the jail at Ben.
nington.
John c. Roberts, Darwin Andrews Matthew
B. Goodwin, Commissioners for the Jail at