St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-11-19

oil Nov. 10. 1868. The committee on
railroads have had n protracted hearing
on the bill, the testimony being confined
principally to the insufficient depots fur
nished by the Connecticut and Passump-
sic Rivers railroad at South Newbury
and at St. Johnsbury Centre, and re-
ported this afternoon against the bill
Mr.. Hinckley of Chelsea, Mr.. Dickcy OF
Bradford. Mr.. Bailey Of Newbury, and
others, spoke at length and fo:cibly in
favor of the bill; and were replied to by
Mr.. Bisbee Of Newport and Mr.. Grout
of Barton 1t being apparent, from sew
eral preliminary motions, that the house
were disposed to pass the bill against the
recommendation of the committee, MIR.
Wood of Fairhaven proposed an amend
ment by adding a proviso that the petI-
ton TO the county court shall be signed
nv at least ten ireeholdcrs. citizens of the
town in which the depot is sought to be
located, and that they shall give sureties
for the costs Of prosecution which
amendment was accepted by the friends
of the bill, and agreed to, and rs thus
amended the bill passed the house. |
suspect a strenuous effort will he made TO
strangle it in the senate, but | doubt il
they succeed.
The governor has vetoed another SEN
ate bill which provides, that when the
owner of any bank stock removes from
one town to another, he shall give notice
to the cashier of the bank in which such
stock is owned of such removal and on
his failure TO give such notice, he shall
be taxed on such stock in the town from
which he removed. The grounds of the
governors veto are that the bill Is not
sufficiently definite, and would lead 10 Il
large amount of litigation TO determine
its true intent. If more of the bills were
vetoed for the same reason, the people OF
the state would he the gamers.
There is quite u fIuttcr among railroad
men to-day, On the hill TO charter Il rail
road from burlington to Swanton, par
allcl to the Vermont X Canada, and on
the bill TO amend chapter - OF the gen
cral statutes relating 20 railroad frcightS.
The last bill provides that railroad cor
porations within this state NAV establish
and charge uniform rate at all stations
and places ON their roads for loading and
unloading freight cars and that they
shall transport freight at Il fixed and uni
form rate per mile. and the same rate
shall be CHARGED 10 all persons for the
ZANE amount and class of freight TIE
party a"ericvcd may recover back ten
times the amount OF tie excess so charged
TO sand aggricvrd party more than to any
other party with full costs of suit The
bill Is being considered 10y the committee
on railroads this evening, and the prc-i-
dents OF nearly all the railroads in the
stale are mere, and before the conmittv,
10 debate the bill
There i considerable speculation
anon" the members tonight as To the
chances of being able TO effect final adj
.juurnmcnt ON Wednesday morning and
ii Is suggested that the governor may yet
ask the legislature To prolon- the session
10 enable him to suitably examine the
bills presented To him for approval and
in the event of their failure to do 20.
that he may return, without approval.
such ~ he i unable. trr want of time,
to examine in detail and leave the re-
sponsibility with the legislature
L. my next, viii try to gige you u
more definite summary of what has been
accomplished the present session, as the
work will then have been completed, and
| shall not have TO speculate rs to the
probable chances OF any measure.