Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-11-14
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length, but il will not pass the House this
year.
The Insolvency Bill from the Senate, still
slumbers on the files Of the Committee on Ju-
dietary, from which Il will come forth probably
only to be defeated.
Militia bills are. or will be, the order of the
day for most of the spare time this week.
The Committee to revise the statutes reported
one of about sixty foolscap pages 10 the Sen
ate. The Senate Committee on military affairs
have substitute of nearly equal lengths and
the House Committee on the same subject are
in labor with one, about 40 sections of which
have made their appearance, and gone to the
printers. Its full development is awaited by
the House with much paterna anxiety. Amid
this multiplicity of detail II is somewhat doubt
full if any general militia law is enacted the
present session. There is less reason TO regret
this result, for in the present deficient condition
of our country, as to arms and equipments, it
would be very difficult, if not utterly impossi-
BILE to render any plan Of organization efIectual
for year to come. Nearly all the members
of the Legislature admit the Importance Of
doing something like the old lady who was
caught out in storm, in an open boat without
sails or oars but precisely what it is best to
do, is question upon which no dozen are as
yet agreed.
The everlasting annexation business of Civ
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chief topic of debate Friday afternoon. The
bill fer that purpose was defeated in the House
in 1858, and again in 1859 but in 1860 it got
a favorable report from the committee, and UNI
der the leadership of the shrewd and indomt-
able, but now amerted Gleed, it passed the
House, only to be killed in the Senate This
year the committee again reported in its favor,
and it was ably debated by new men,--Hendee
of Morristown in favor, and Herrick Of VOL.
colt, and Bishop of Emore, against, was
summarily dismissed, with only forty votes in
its favor. The great objection to the bill was
the impolcy of Remembering the small and
weak municipalities of the state. But 'Elmore
and Monistown' is not dead it only sleepeth
1t will come up again year after year, if only to
cumber the Journal of the House.
1t is this year impossible to predict the result
of any measure before the House with any toll
cradle degree of certainty. have only given
you my impressions in relation to certain mat
tiers now pending, and have done it with a
difidence that is unusual. The great difficulty
in the way is the numerous and diverse ele-
ments that enter into and form the basis OF
every calculation, and which arises from the
peculiar composition of the House. When any
given measure is before them, the result is as
incalcuabc as the DEGREES of Providence, oil
the findings of petit jury. There is no lead
ership, no organization, nor is there any party
or clique that can command forty votes for any.
thing. The decisions of questions that have
been thoroughly debated come as uncertain and
unheralded as stroke of lightning. A bill
that is triumphantly passed through one i'm
portant step to-day, is just as likely to be de-
feated tomorrow by vote as equally decisive
The House contains large number Of men o.
ability, but they cannot be made, as the saying
IS, to draw together II the Long Team
days were revived, the team itself would be as
unmanageable as a string of 240 yokes of steers
in breaking out one of our winter reads. Ir
this the public interests are not, perhaps, likely
to receive so much detriment, as they NIGH
under the leadership of an ambitious and de-
signing politician.
Gov. Holbrook has appointed Rev. z. Druol
of Montpelier, as the Roman Catholic Chap
lain of the Vermont Brigade, ia accordance
with the joint resolution adopted by the Gen
eral Assembly, and he has left for Camp Grit
fin Father Druon is patriot and a Christ
ian, and he will do much good if he can minis
ter to the spiritual necessities of the French an(
Irish Catholics in the service from this state.
G..