Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-11-12
From the Daily 0f Nov. Z.
MATTERS NJ the Capital.

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for adjournment and sent it to the Senate
for concurrence, voted to request that BODY
! to restore the resolution intact, as they
wanted TO reconsider il; and II was
accordingly delivered up by the Senate
and "reeonsidered' by the House. SO
they are out at sea again. Some say they
will adjourn on Tuesday, and some on
Thursday of next week, and other some
don't know.
1t was officially announced to the legis-
lature to-day, that Mr.. Hiram Harlow,
who has been Superintendent OF the
States prison for eighteen years, and had
been elected for the current year, declined
the appointment. With regard to his
successor, it has been suggested that some
clergyman, who has at once the plety and
the pluck to trust in the Lord, and keep
his powder dry" be appointed to act as
Warden and Chaplain, receiving the sala-
res of the two Offices.
The bill to incorporate the Essex coun-
ty railroad, is the great absorbing matter
just at present. 1t was probably thro'
the influence of its friends that both
branches of the Legislature receded from
what was understood to be their purpose
to adjourn on Friday. A large number of
intelligent and influential men have been
examined before the railroad Committee.
G. w, Willard, Esq, appears in behalf of
the 'rieuds, and I. P. Redheld, Esq, the
late democratic candidate for governor,
IN behalf of the opponents of the measure.
There are in all five or six lawyers acting
as counsel before the Committee, and on
the supposition that each one has to make
speech an hour long, and the committee
afterwards take time to deliberate and
make out their report, it is hardly proba-
BILE that the matter will get before the
House this week.
But the proposition, which, after all, is
of the most vital importance to the State,
is the bill which, by mistaken though
harmless courtesy, was allowed second
reading. and afterwards committed to the
General Committee. and which was very
: properly characterized by Mr.. Miller of
; Wiliston, as bill to protect liquor deal
ers. The General Committee had a sit
ting in reference to this bill last night
when Mr.. Burrows of Vernon advocated
, | its claims. His main points were thai
. liquor selling would be restricted to the
, one, two, three or more persons in each
! town who were Of. good moral character, u
and who paid heavy license, say fifty oil
: hundred dollars year. AS 1t is now,
! said he, 1 know of between thirty and forty
/, places in Montpelier where the article can
be had, more than seventy in Burlington
and more yet in Rutland. Another argu-
, ment was that very great revenue would
accrue to the State.
! He thought the man who gets drunk
ought to be heavily fined rather than the
man or men who made him drunk, for the
reason that the former perhaps went tc
one place and got glass, and then tc
A another and another, so that the man who
4 sold the glass which finished the business
: ought not to be made the scape goat fol
!. the sins of the three or four others. But
it was evidently an uphill business. HI
; had hoped that an eminent lawyer Of thu
4 place would come to the rescue, and man,
! were the wishful glances he cast toward
i the door. Have you vivid conception
! of Wellington watching for Butcher a
= Waterloo? Did you ever see a picture II
. one of the ANIMALS Of beautiful young
. lady, with an earnest, longing look, as
: she were saying, /" Why don't ne come ?
!. Then you can perhaps "phancy the phe
lings" of the member from Vernon. Blu
n the desired reinforcement never came.
v On theother hand it was rare treat t
i listen to the remarks of Messrs. Miller o
:. Williston, Henderson Of Lyndon, Chamber
a lain of Grand Isle, and Woodward of Wa
[. .erford, Chairman. These men claimed
v that the present law was admirable in it
. character. that it had been enforced, Il
d now to some extent, and at all events !
: was well to keep it ready till such time
d the friends of temperance shall arous
i. themselves from their present apathy an
1 put it fully in force. They stated tina
!. the contrast even now between this stat
q end New York was wonderful. The tow
Of Burlington for instance, contrasted wit
k Plattsburg, Keeseville, Champlain and Nh
n. lone on the opposite side OF the lake, show
d that the proportion of young men Of goo
70 advantages and position in the forme
Of place, that habitually drink, compare
d with the latter, is not one IN twenty.
!, was maintained that rum selling was a
! mineral business, and whoever goes for
j. license gives credit and countenance to
70 practice which tends to ruin the bodit
l. and souls Of men. So much Of the rigl
4 old fashioned temperance talk is not hear
10 every day in these times. On the que
Q. ton, ssShall we report that the bill ougl
nj to pass" the vote Of the committee stoo
" ten in the negative to two in the afirm'
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