The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-10-25
Letter from the Capital.
FRIDAY, Oct. 90. 1865

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Ed ReGster The house will not get
fairly TO work before the first of. next
week. The Standing Committees were
not announced until Monday and Tuesday
of this week, the Speaker took time and
arranged them, think, to the satisfaction
of all Mr.. Stewart, on taking his pos
ition as Speaker Of the House, appeared
as ii in new place. At first lie did not,
on all occasions, speak quite as distinctly
as he should, and in putting questions to
the House did not always abbreviate as;
much as he might. but after two or three
days experience these defects were correct
ed. Mr.. Stewart by his thorough know
ledge of parliamentary rules and practice,
his clear and distinct voice and impartial
manner presiding will make one of the
best Speakers the House has ever had.
The suggestion of Gov Dillingham;, in
his Annual Message, in reference to iuv-
emile offenders, should, and undoubtedly
will, receive the attention due its impor-
lance. This part CT the Governors Mes
age has been referred to a Select Com
mttee Of one member from each County.
We may well pattern after Massachusetts,
in respect TO these criminals, made So
through poverty or neglect Of parents.-
She has in looking to her true interest.
with Christian charity, planted, and is
still planting, good seed early in the minds
Of the poor and neglected children. This
relormty course is retaining many young
offenders. that, had they been punished
by confinement in jails or prisons, would
have beeen hardened and corrupted. In
til this Select Committee make their re-
port we shall not know what plan will be
likely to adopted.
Some Of the Railroad schemes that are
to come before the General assembly dur
ing the present session were developed on
Tuesday by Mr.. Miner of Manchester,
presenting memorial signed by Elk Gov
ernor lliland Hall and fourteen other
representative men from the county of
Bennington and Rutland. The memoir
ial represents that the managers of the
Rutland II Burlington Railroad. during
the present season, adopted hostile meas
ures against the travel and business of
the Western Vermont Railroad, by refus-
ing to recognize and receive tickets sold
by the Western Vermont Road to points
north of Burlington or south and east of
Bellows Falls, and that they will not sell
through tickets for Troy and New York
over the Western Vermont Road, the
most direct route TO those places. Imme-
diatcly after the memorial was presented,
Mr.. Park of Bennington, introduced a
bill to incorporate Railroad from Ben
nington TO the state line, to connect with
a Railroad to he built from the State
line to Albany. | understand also that
Mr.. Park wishes to incorporate Rail
road from Rutland TO Center Rutland.
The act of last session Incorporating a
road from Rutland to Castleton caused
the R1tland & Washington, Rensselaer,
& Sara toga roads to uni te and run thei
roads in unison with mutual interest
and by some arrangement with the Rut-
land e burlington, the trains are stopped
at Center Rutland and all the through
travel, South and West, goes over the
Saratoga road.
The present week, in some respects, is
the most pleasant to visit Montpelier
there will be during the session. This
is the anniversary week for the Medical,
Historical and various Religious and
Benevolent Societies, which meetings
bring large number of visitors tc the
State Capltal also the election of most
of the State Officers this week brings here
the log rollers, wire pullers, and friends
OF various candidates, to look after the
interests Of each. In the contest for Sec