Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-11-29
The Legislature.

The Legislature. aa
The legislature completed its business
at about ! o'clock, Friday morning last,
and formally adjourned at o'clock that
morning. @
i BONDING TOWNS. +A
| On Monday, Nov. 18th, the bill to allow
towns therein named to bond themselves
for the building of a railroad from Mont
pelier to Wells River came up. A state
ment Of facts was made by Mr.. Converse
of Woodstock, and the bill was favored by
Mr.. Perrin of Montpelier, and opposed by
Mr.. Billiard of New Haven. Mr.. Co.
nant of Grafton demanded the yeas and
nays, and the bill was defeated by yeas,
IS, nays, 81. On Tuesday the friends of
the bill made one more effort to get this
bill passed, and the House, on motion of
Mr.. VanSicklen of Burlington, reconsid-
cred the above vote, ayes, l15, nays. 67.
The question then came up on the pas
sage of the bill, and it was again defeated
by the more close and fuller vote of ayes,
90, nays, SO.
As this may be considered pretty good
test vote on the policy of bonding towns
to build railroads, and as this policy has
evidently lost ground and also grow
ing more doubtful and unpopular in the
State, we give the yeas and nays as re-
ported in Walton's Daily as follows:
| Yeds.-Aldrich, Ames, Andrews, Atwood, Ball
Of Springfield, Barron Benton, Bill Brigham.
Brown Of Belviderc, Cady, CLARK, Cooper. Co.
rey, Corliss of Richford Crane, Christy, Davis Of
Sheffield, Drew, Gilmore, Emmons Ferrin, Fisher.
| Fisk, Foster of Calais, Foster of Walden. Fox.
| Freeman, Fuller, Graham, Gray Halbert Hall of
| Groton Hard, Harris Of Danville, Haskins, Hins-
dell, Howe Of Jericho, Hoyt, Hyde, Irish of Grand
Isle, Irish of Searsburgh, Ladd, Loveland, Mann,
Martin of Montgomery, Martin of Sheldon, Mer-
ril Miles Miner, Moore of Chelsea, Moore of
Plymouth, Morgan, Newell, Nourse, Palmer, Park,
Parker. of Hartford, Parker of Moretown; Park
er of Wolcott, Perkins of Bakersfield, Pillsbmy,
Rice, Richards, Richardson, Rodman, Rogers,
Rood, Russell, Ryan, Shedd of Hardwiek, Shell.
don, Shuffeton, Ssby, Simonds, Smith of Fer
rsburgh, Snyder, Spencer, Stafford Stone, Sykes,
| Thompson of Lyndon, Tolman, Town, futile.
4 Weber, Webster, Weeks, WEIGH, WheatIey,
Wheeler of Jamaica, Wheeler of Ripton, Wheel
ock, Wiley, Willey.-95
Nays-Allen of Irasburgh, Allen of Panton,
Baird, Ball of Granville, Ballou, Benson, Blan-
ehard, Bliss, Brookins, Brown of Burke, Bucklin,
Billiard, Burton, Catlin, Cheney, Cleveland OF
Braintree, Colby, Conant, Corliss of Newark
Crook, Davis of Z. Montpelier, Davis of Troy,
Deming, Drake Eaton, Fairman, Fletcher, Foster
of Whiting, Frisbe, Fulton, Gibbs Clifford, Gla-
zier, Green, Hall of Orwell, Harris of Windham,
Hazen, Herrick. Hill, Holmes, Howe of Castle
ton Isham, johnson, Jones of Cornwall, Jones OF
CRANKY, Jones Of Northfeld, Lane, Lawrence
Leonard, Lynde, Lyon, Marvin, McGregor, Mcln.
tosh, Mead, Miller, Monroe, Morse Of Morgan
Nelson, Noble, Mott, Noyes, Peake, Pearson, Pei
ton, Perkins Of st. Adams, Pollard Porter, Reed
of Waitsfeld, Robbins, Robinson of So. Hero
Rounds Saxton, Smith of East Haven, Smith o.
Highgate, Smith of STAFFORD, Sollace, Soper
Spaford. Squier, Stanton, Stetson, Staples, Stick
ney, Stuart, Swinington, Thompson of Mt. Ia
Dor, Tryon, Van Sicklen, Warren, Waterman
Welman, White, wilkins, Wood, Woodland
Wright, Wyman-9S.
Absent or not voting-Ayres, Barber, Bartlett
Barton, Bean, Beattie, Bemis, Bigelow, Cleave
land Of Brookfeld, Cotton, Converse, Cook, Den
nison, Goodell, Gorham, Goss, Grover, Hancock
IIibbard Horton, Houghton, Hubbard, Humphrey
Joslyn, Kellogg, Morse Of Bolton, Pattee, Phelps
Proctor Reed of Dandy, Robertson, Robinson o
Londonderry, Ross, Seavy, Shedd Of West Wind
sor, Spaulding, Stevens, Tenney, Varnum Wet
+ uorc, WHcuOI, WHluru, WoouS-4o
On Wednesday the subject came UP
again on the bill authorizing certain towns
to build the West River railroad from
Brattleboro to Jamaica or some othe
point in this county. This bill was OPP
posed by Mr.. Herrick of Brattleboro, an'
favored by Mr. Wheeler Of Jamaica. Mr.
Van Sicklen moved to dismiss, and Mr.
Conant of Grafton, demanded the yea
and nays and the bill was dismissed by
yeas, 1O5, nays, 80. This vote is so deci
sive that it may be considered as the set
tied policy of the State not TO further al
low towns to bond themselves for the pur
pose Of building railroads. The Lamoill'
Valley railroad bill went through in tn
earlier part Of the session, and is the onl
one we believe which passed this session
The towns in that valley therefore are tn
lucky ones or unlucky, according to tn
view taken by the reader.
CENTRAL SCHOOLS.
The Senate bill authorizing towns TO es
Q tablish Central schools came up in tn
e House on Tuesday and was favored b
q Mr.. Rounds Of Chester, Ross of st. Johns
/, bury, Van Sicklen Of Burlington, an
: Converse of Woodstock. Opposed by MI
Billiard of New Haven. Mr.. johnson o
' Rockingham, demanded the previou
: question, which was sustained by tn
e House and the bill passed, yeas, 1913, nays
4 sc.
!, NEW COUNTY.
o On Thursday Mr.. Rounds of Chester
: calledup the bill for the formation of new
2 county and locating county seats, reported
\ by the select committee by a substitute
4 bill appointing Hon. John w. Stewart O
e Middlebury, Hon. Bradley Barlow of ST
AIbans. and Rolliu J. Jones of Cornwall