Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-10
Especial correspondence Rutland Herald.l
From Montpelier.
MONTPELIER, VT, Oct. 7, 1872.

MONTPELIER, VI, Oct. Z, 1872.
The first week of the session OF the
Legislature is about the same thing year
after wear, nor does the change from an
annual to a biennial blossoming alter the
character or complexion of the event
very much. The formalities requisite
before commencing the legislative bust
ness-the organization, appointment OF
committees. etc, were all gone through
with before the adjournment Saturday
night, and the first weeks record IS prob
ably as complete as that of any preccd-
ing Legislature. The officially reported
proceedings have given you results, and
I need not here take time or space to re-
peat them. All the officers selected in
the organization take to their work bet
ter than raw hands," and whilst the Sen
ate is provided with two excellent pre-
siding officers Lieut.. Gov. Taft and
President pro tenn. Hinckley-the House,
it is already believed, will be much bet
ter served in that respect by Col Fair
banks than many were led to suppose
from the well-known modesty as well as
lack of experience of the Speaker elect.
But Col. Fairbanks is a man of thorough
practical business education and habits,
strictly methodical in all that he does,
and whatever is new to him in his pres
ent position will be acquired and famili-
arized with that ease and rapidity which
naturally comes from the course of
training which has made him so success
full as a business man. If the newmem-
bers of the House, for they are over
whelming in the majority, make as rapid
advances in the way of legislative eff
cheney as the Speaker will, the work of
the session will go smoothly on.
The Senate, as body, is not as aged
as the average Vermont Senate, but 1t is
long time since we have seen a more
intellectual or senatorial body OF men
filing the thirty chairs of the Senate
Chamber than occupy them at the pres
ent session. We hear the makeup OF
the Several Senate committees highly
commended, which is most important,
for this in fact is about all there is tc
legislation.
The greatest excitement thus far, and
it appears to have been entirely Mont
pelier local, was gotten up over the ap
pointment of one of the official reporters
for the House, which was ended on Sat
urday by the reappointment of Col. A
G. Brown, who has held that position
for several years. Heretofore the mat
ter has been left entirely with the press
as the parties most interested-the news
papers, of course, desiring to give al
complete and accurate reports of TIT
proceedings as possible, without absorb
ing too much of their space. We be
lieve that, heretofore, Col. Brown ha
given entire satisfaction as reporter
and was generally endorsed by thcmem
bers of the press in the State for the pc
sition this year But it. was charget
that he distributed and worked for
''split" county ticket at the late election
and this was pushed forward by all VIII
had personal" as well as political oh
jections against him, to defeat his ar
pointment. But as one ''split ticket" o
candidate upon one of the tickets thu
designated, as we are informed, receive
majority of votes in Montpelier, it
barely possible that some who woul
punish the reporter for this departure
may not be entirely blameless them
selves. But aohere the ''split' came, ma
have made the difference. The rea
causes of the opposition TO his appoint
ment were, according to rumor, some
thing else, and brought parties into th
fight that had probably never befor
given the place of reporter, or VIII
might happen to fill it, a thought. Blu
as it seems to have been purely loca
affair, ii is not interesting to your col
respondent, and would not be proftabl