Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-11-18

the year past, and completing the House
also another lor the sum Of S4l2o, to pay
fr the supcriniendent's services, making
in all S3s, l25, and in doing which they
have recognizcd the principle of paying or
reiunding the, sums advanced by Mon'pc'
ler; yoa sec, Mr.. Editor, We are sold and
zone. And intimately conn scted with this
result is the Banking interest and this
brings me to the incident to which be-
fore alluded, II Icing u sort OF family
jealousy, May be stated thus !; Chartered
Banks rs. general banking law. II was in
the trial of this cause that the House were
engage at the time before alluded to, a
bill for the repeal of the general banking
law, having come from the Senate (unani-
imously passed as is said) and was referred
TO the standing Committee on Banks, OF
the House of Representatives, and they re-
ported unanimously in favor Of its passage,
and it was upon its passage TO third read
ing, that Mr.. Daniels of Grafton arose
from his seat aud in a graphic but
forciblc speech opposed the bill, which
brought up lin turn) to its rescue, MIR.
Childs Of llydepark, the member from
Chelsea, and the member from Vergennes,
who had thought the law had been repeal
ed years before, but had recently learned
lis mistake, but the holding on to the law
reminded him of the anecdotc of a Min
lister of the Gospel and a pious old lady,"
which he had probably picked up in some
bar-room, or cellar, where good taste or
good breeding woul,l have left it. rather
than brin. it into the halls of legislation,
and among others, the member from Mont
pelier took the floor and commenced his
against the law, by coarse and
vulgar personal attack upon Mr.. Daniels,
land by the way, Daniels was one of the
Committee on banks last year, and again
placed on the same Committee this year,
but was got far off from the Committee, in
not very crcditable manner, during few
days absence on account of sickness in his
family, and a new appointment made on
the day Of his return,) because of Mr.. DIS
support of the General Banking law, and
to illustrate his views, he would relate the
Told and stale) fable ofthe ass and the lion,
when, upon taking his seat, forgetting to
make the application, Mr.. d. again arose
and supplied the omission Of the member
from Montpelier, by saying in the most
quiet and bland manner, that If the ass had
done braying, he had no more TO say which
created some merriment and recognition
and approval Of the point which Mr.. ID.
had made. Bot the end was rot yet /; the
speakers as yet had mainly been against
the law, and of course for the bill, tex
cept Mr.. d. they pitched into South Roy
alton bank, which in ITS life time, did bust
ness under the General Banking law, and
which is being now wound up that was
considered by the speakers as good illus
Iration of the workings of the general law.
Mr.. kellogg of Benson. got the floor. He
thought gentlemen took too contracted a
REV of the matter, and were making a
Judgment on too small data, and would re-
mind them that another bank existed in
he town of Royalton, possessing quite as
an odor as the South Boyal-
on Bank. The Royalton Bank was
hartered institution, and with permission
Il the chair, he would read from the Bank
Commissioners report, Statement of some
It its assets, and commenced under the
Iead, :. Personal Property" and read, 80
earrings. COW and calf, wheelbarrow,
orrel horse, jack, boar, s shoats and
3 mules; and playfully turning 10 The
member from Montpelier (who before re-
learsing the Jackass fable, had stated that
he had been bank director, and consider
ID big enough for bank president,) and
aid that perhaps the Jack here inventoyied,
vas the one referred to, leaving the associ-
'tion in the minds of members, that MIR.
Collamer's presidency of bank and the
'ssets of the Royalton Bank, might have
,een intimately connected, which brought
Town the House in thunders of applause,
~ clapping of hands, stamping Of feet,
lamming of desks, and roars of laughter,
It the expense of the discomftted member
rom Montpelier, the soidistant president,
md but for The ehairman's hammer falling
asst and heavy on the desk before him, it
vas evident that the Sergeant-at Arms
would have had 10 look to sundry broken
iesks, dislocated chairs, rents in carpets,
&c. Order being restored, the question
vas put, Shall the bill have its three read
ngs and was decided in the negative, by
vote Of yeas %, nays 1856.
Yours Truly. Eye.