Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-11-26
ADAY AT THE CAPITAL.

other reason Tor II, probably then per
son from this neighborhood can visit the sea
ofgovernment, during the Legislative session
on business or for curiosity, without its bein
assumed that he is there for the purpose c
getting the State House away The Legislator
by Joint resolution having decided to adjour
on Friday at 6 o'clock. A. NJ, we though
to take a short look at the whale so near it
death furry, and took the cars for that pur
pose yesterday morning (Tuesday.) TIL
first salutation we had from an old acquain
lance, Of Montpelier, was "Well you Bur
lington folks die hard" On inquiring tn
purport Of so remarkable saying, he res
ponded "Oh this movement on the STATE
House which the people of Burlington ar
at the bottom of. " We assured him that tn
people Of Burlington had business of thei
own to attend to, and had no thoughts t
spare on State House affairs
Dome you call Chittenden and Edmund
Burlington men ?" said he. "Marsh began i
some time ago. Stacy has been up here too
The Burlington folks are the secret movers
of it ALL Seeing that he looked at every
resident of Burlington through very thick
green spectacles, we only assured him that
he might feel entirely at his ease in regard
to the people of Burlington they were GER
tainly innocent of any such plots as his i'm
agination was occupied with, and so we left
him. We met with other salutatons of
kindred character enough to show that with
not a few our presence there was
thought to portend evil to the State
House and to Montpelier. Ridiculous to our
mind as all such ntmations were, we con-
fess to slight annoyance at feeling that any
citizen of the State-our humble selves in
cluded-could not visit the seat of Govern
ment during the session, without being
peoples premises. Justice forbids us to leave
the impression that we met with an exhibi.
ton of such a feeling from all. We convers
ed with others who made no allusion of the
sort, and we credit their good sense with L
presumption that they .teh nothing of thu
sort.
We spent two or three hours in the Hous
and lis;-"ed to pretty long debate on thu
subject of settling town line between Ad
Olson and Weybridge. The case being
wholly local one, we took little interest ii
the debate, though it was conducted will
earnestness and ability by Messrs Olmsted o
.Brdport and Woodbridge of Vergennes witt
briefer but pertinent remarks from Mcssr
Merrill of St. Johnsbury, Billings of Noun
Holly, and Linslcy Of Rutland, The chopin,
knife OF the previous question was finally ar
piled, and the bill met the fate which man,
bills must meet at this stage of the SEES
sion, because many members have not tim
to make themselves acquainted with tn,
merits of the subject in which case the
feel, if they do not say, that a vote to Kill is
safer one for them than vote to max,
alire.
There was an amusing illustration of thu
benefits of getting legislative business int
suoh a jan, that NOBODY has time, IN drawing
report or an amendment, to find out wha
he means, or to make sure that he expresses
what he thinks he means Some committed
had reported amendments to n bill for ap-
propriating certain sum Of money towards
completing statue of Ethan Allen, to be
placed on the monumental column erected
by the State to his memory at Burlington.
The amendments were read from which it APP
peared that while by the first one none of the
money was to be paid till after the Statue
was completed and in its place on the monu-
naent aforesaid, by the last amendment 1--WE
forget the intermediate ones) the said Statue
was to be placed in the State House.
The question being on the adoption OF the
first amendment, a member of the committee
who on hearing the amendments read had
become aware of their ridiculous incongruity,
said he should like it if the last amendment
could be acted on first, because, if the last
(the one for placing the statue in tie State
House, was adopted it would be quite neces-
sary to have the first one altered not so
easily done after it was once adopted. Quite
likely he thought, though he did not say so,
that IT the first amendment was adopted it
might tend to negatving the last. 4 lull
was produced by the strange wish to have
the last amendment OF bill acted on first.
when member suggested that it would be
the easiest way to re-commu the bill-which
was done. We almost wondered that some
one did not propose to save time by ordering
the Speaker to read the bill tail end fore
most, and have action taken on it accord
ingly.
Other things being cleared out of the way
the consideration of the bill reported by the
committee of ways and means for an appro.
priation of $4,000 for carrying on the
work of the Safe House-the money to be
derived from the bond given by certain
Montpelier citizens for the cost of its con-
struction, came up. An amendment was
proposed by Mr.. Needham Of Hartford,
striking off the condition entire
ly,-leaving simple act of appropria-
tion for the purpose, of the sum named in
the bill. We left the debate in progress on
the amendment, and have no roo IN for any
report of it to-day, beyond what we find in
Walton's Journal of this morning.
No one could gather from the debate las far as
we. heard it, grounds for any opinion as to
what the ultimate action of the legislature
will ON the bill. The presumption is that
the result will, like the act of. the extra ses-
sion for rebuilding the State House, salts
fy nobody
A LOCOMOTIVE LET LoosE.-An engine on the
Little Miami Railroad was sent out from the
Cincinnati Depot, the other day, after some
am ptu cars in nbaroa Of ona of tbo dave.