Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-08
from our Special Correspondent
Letter from Montpelier.
MONTPELIER, Nov. 2.

| afternoon Till Tuesday next at !0ur
o'clock 2. M. This furnished pre-
text for a regular stampede OF members,
by this mornings trains East and West,
and when the hour for meeting arrived,
the House had but scanty quorum and
soon lost that, No one however, called
the attention of the Speaker to the fact
the House did routine business for an
hour, and then adjourned. In the Sen
ate there was an exact quorum, but the
Senator who made up the quorum soon
absented himself, and an adjournment
| took place, before a half hours service.
That finished up the work for to-day,
and vacation for four, If not five work.
ing days is the practical result.
There have now been introduced in
the Senate seventy. seven bills, and in
the House one hundred and eighty. Of
the Senate bills, thirty-one have been
passed by that body, ten have been re-
jected, twenty-three are still in the
been reported upon, and have either been
ordered to a third reading or lie on the
Speakers table in various stages of pro-
gress. OF the House bills, sixty-fvc
have been passed by that body, twenty
three rejected, and five ordered to a third
reading. The amount of unfinished bus.
mess, which includes many of the con-
tested bills, made it certain that the leg
islature cannot finally adjourn next week
as it has been hoped it would. The ses-
sion will be just about fine weeks Tonga
week longer than the session OF last
year.
In addition to the railroad bills men
toned in one of my recent letters. Mr..
Park of Bennington has introduced
bill, providing that whenever any two
or more railroads within the State shall
be competing roads for business between
any two points or shall form parts of
two or more competing lines, neither of
of thems hall be transferred to or operated
blythe owners or managers OfanyrailrOad
out of the State, or to any person acting
in their behalf. A bill to incorporate
the Weathersfeld and Claremont Rail
road Company have passed the House
and is pending before the Senate.
The proposed route as from some point on
the Connecticut River in Weathersield
through Weathersf9ld to some point on
the Rutland and Burlington Railroad at
Chester or Cavendish.
Among the acts of incorporation
which have been passed are some that
are of interest to readers of the HERALD
in Rutland Bennington Counties. The
Rutland Missionary Association is made
a body corporate, and constituted sue
cessor to "all the rights. property, eff
fects, credits and liabilities" Ito say
nothing Of the duties,) of the present
voluntary association by the same name.
The Sudbury Marble Company is incOr-
porated for the purpose indicated by it's
name, and for manufacturing goods from
wool and other materials, "and carrying
on said business as general manner"
The Manchester Manufacturing Compa-
ny is constituted a corporation to make
cotton, linen, wooden, or mixed goods,
and for such others manufacturing pur-
poses as the corporation may deem ex,
pedient. The Fairhaven Iron Works
are authorized TO make iron, steel and
nails, and any article composed in whole
or in part Of iron or steel. The West Ru-
port Dairy Association, part of the cor
poration in which live in Salem and
Hebron, N. Y, is incorporated for The
purpose of making cheese.
1t is singular to notice, as one can not
fail to do who habitually watches our
legislature, how, sooner or later, almost
every member has to take some part in
debate. He may sit quietly for weeks,
with nothing to say and no disposition
to say anything, but by and by, there
comes up bill which awakens his
thoughts and his feelings, and the string
of his tongue is suddenly loosed. Yes
terday, Senator Goodhue took the Senate
by surprise, with speech on the bill to
refund to drafted men the money paid
to them as Communication. He bad been
one Of the silent Senators, and though
he was known to be of good sense and
sound Judgment, nobody suspected him
of being debater. But he broke out,
"like the Irish rebellion, forty thousand |
strong" clear-headed and self-pos-
sessed speaker, in opposition to the bill. |
When he had finished his speech, there
was not much left for any one else to
say, nor much need to say anything
more. The bill was rejected by vote of
seventeen to eleven. A bill in the House
to pay substitutes the seven dollars a
month State pay shared the same fate.
Bills like these have been presented for
the last two or three years, and as often
rejected; and it may be regarded as the
settled policy of the Legislature not to