Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-31
AT Of which is respectfully submitted
CHARLES REED
JOHN l.. MASON. Trustees.
JAS. NJ. SLADE,)
Waterbury. Aug. /, 1862.
Special to THE RUTLAND HERALD
From the Capital.

THE SESSION.

Your correspondent who spoke depre-
ciatingly Of the progress made by the
Legislature one week ago, has had an
opportunity to revise his opinion the
past week. if he has been a locker on at
the capital Bills ''to incorporate, " ''to
amend" ''to pay, '.in addition to, ''in
relation to, etc, have followed in such
rapid succession that the most obdurate
'growler" must have been satisfied that
something was going on. The various
committees have shown a corresponding
zeal to keep up their work, and neither
branch has been obliged 10 wait long for
''reports" on all bills of ordinary and
less than ordinary importance; as there
are still some of the latter class brought
before the Legislature. We have no.
ticed a great improvement over former
sessions in one class Of legislation, not a
single bill having been introduced IN the
Senate ''to change the name Of"
and but few in the House. But there is
a statute reason for this. Could ''brass
bands" and ''cheese factories" and ''far-
mers and mechanics clubs, and other
devices, both useful and ornamental, find
some way to incorporate themselves I'M
der a general law" it would give still
further relief to the general assembly,
but we are not so clear after all, that it
would shorten the sessions very much.
The important bills" will spread out
over about so much time, and the minor
legislation with the elections only serve
to fill the Interims. On Saturday after
noon, to help out rather a dull hour in
the Senate, all the work on hand being
finished, Senator Powers, of Lamoille
county, introduced a bill ''tO shorten the
session of the legislature" which pro-
vides that before any application to in
corporate a brass band or a cheese fac
tory is received it shall be shown that it
has been published for six weeks in
every weekly newspaper printed in the
State. Before this bill becomes a law
some provision will have to be added re-
lative to papers with one ''patent side"
printed out of the State. as some impor-
tant franchise might be put in jeopardy
by leaving it on open question. Serious
ly, the State is already suffering to the
extent of about four weeks delay in the
issuing of the biennial reports of several
state officers, for the reason that the
printing question had to be settled by the
hearing of nQa1adaDalts, which amount
ed to nothing but delay As the re-
ports viii be some sixty per cent. larger
than heretofore, the present year, Of
course, with no increase of facilities, a
longer time is required to get them out.
But new candidates for some of the Of
fees will have more time to canvass, and |
more candidates for railroad commission |
er may be discovered, although this is |
hardly probable, and the State will re-
ceive no detriment, as the present in |
will keep most of the places |
warm till the first of December whether |
new ones are elected before that time or |
not.
THE DEATH PENALTY.
The bill to abolish the ''death penal |
ty," which passed the House two years |
ago and met with death penalty fate in
the Senate, has once been killed in the /
House the present session, but motion
to reconsider prevailed and there are to
be ''more last words" upon the subject.
1t is hardly probable that the bill win
reach the Senate alive.
NEwBURY SEMINARY.
The old Newbury Seminary u.s. the
Vermont Conference Seminary and Fe-
male College fight has commenced again.
The committee have had one evenings
hearing upon the case, and are to re-