The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-08-15
Mr.. Warner a Dodger on Temper.
ance Questions.

ance position was not raised by US, but
originally, 50 for as our columns are con.
cerned, by Mr.. Starts first communica.
tion in reply to LEX Last week, Mr..
Starr demanded the proof that his en-
dorsement of Mr.. Warner was contra.
dicted by the public records. We prom.
ised not only to give this, but to show that
Mr.. Warner has almost uniformly. when
a member of the House lodged a vote
on Temperance questions To this proof,
we now ask attention.
The first prohibitory law strictly such,
passed in this state, was enacted at the
session Of 1850 This was the first rec.
ognltion by orr Legislature of tho prin-
ciple of the absolute prohibition of all
sales Of intoxicating liquor, except for
medicinal, mechanical aud sacramontal
purposes. The passage Of that law was
made, by Temperance men, an object of
special and earnest cndcavor for many
months previous to the opening Of the
session. aud was carried through only by
u determined effort
How stood Mr.. Warncr-the Repre-.
sentative from Middlebury that year
on the first" vote on which the yeas and
nays were called ? MIR. Starr says -" he
has erer been steady and consistent
supporter of the prohibitory law from
the first" The Journal of the House.
on the contrary, shows that, on motion
to dismiss the first prohibitory bill
ever passed, Mr.. Warner LODGED VOTE.
See yeas and nays, on pages 2i5 and
2l9, Of the House journal for 1850. I
AS Mr.. Warmers name appears among
the yeas and nays, two pages before, aud
on the same day, on a bin to incorporate
a Banh, it would appear that he was not
rery far of, about the time that vote
was taken
But again on the final passage of
that act, after being carefully matured
in committee of the whole how stood
Mr.. Warner A reference to pages
266 and 267 of the Journal will answ or.
Though present and voting on all other
questions that day-thc yeas and nays
being called three other times V,cicc on
Bunk qHcSti0nS) and his name appear
ing each time the passage of this
first "prohibiiory law" Mr.. Warner a.
gain DoDGED a VOTE
SO much for the "puJlic rccofds."
After the enactment of the prohibtory
law of 1852, aud before it had been up.
proved by the popular vote, Mr. Warner
repeatedly expressed himself. in CONVEX.
satlon, as opposed to that law. If he
subsequently, voted yeS on it. the fact
was certainly not generally understood.
it being currently told that he dill mt
cote at ALL Ii is now said that he voted
for the law. But he has never publicly
made any such statement, or that IRE
! know OF pftC0fe/y
We stated that Nr. Warner has nj.
most naJornI/y when a m embcr Of the
House. lodged vote on Temperance
questions. We have shown that lie did
So in the only instances in which test
was presented while he was member in
1850 The same is true Of his first
years service as a Representative from
Middlebury, in 1912 An important
bill was before the House for the repeal
Of the then existing law relating to H.
censcs for retailing spirituous liquors"
The yeas and nays on motion to dis
miss that bill (Which motion presented
the only direct test, aud which prevail.
ed) will be found on pages l6 and ll7.
Of the House Journal for 1912. Mr.
Warner dodeed rote In this case al
So, his name appears among the yeas and
nays, two pages previous, on the same
day
%A'F''N' ''+SN '"o tANotbNth pu d tuu'
ton to dismiss a bill entitled " an act 10
relation to victualling houses, during the
same sitting. The yeas and nays beng
called on a motion to dismiss the bill
Mr.. Warner dodgcd yotc See House
Journal. 1912, pages AZ aud las
The only instance we have found. in
all Mr.. Warmers legislative career, in
which he voted at all on a Temperance
question, when the yeas and nays were
called, was in 1913, on a motion to dis
miss bill relating to the license laws
on which motion he voted no. This is the
testimony of the public records " for
three years. Fire test votes, by yeas
and nays, wcro taken on Temperance
questions--on four of which, aud those
the most important be LODGED.
CORRESPONDENTS -Wo have thought
best, under all the circumstances of the