The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-10-13
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
HOW 1T WAS FIXED UP FOR JUDGE
ROYCE.

ROYCE.
s,rs Punishment for Liquor Sellers csc !
Lively War being Wsged by the Ladies'
summary Of the Important Bills ---
working Legislature.
The legislature takes hold of its wor)
busiy and there Is u general determine
ton 10 make the session a short one
Early DAYS are fixed for the joint assem-
bly, work, the preliminary matters ar
we'll in hand, and things now look as
business was to be done promptly, per
haps with too much haste. Col Hooke
has got in resolution to prevent the in
PRODUCTION of bills after the Goth, bu
probably it will not prevail. The House
after sharp struggle, refused to adjourn
| over, as has been the custom, from Fri
day to Monday. Hooker led the opposi
ton to it. Monday forenoon the un
precedented number of 120 membcr
were present ready for duty.
One movement for hurrying business
contained quite little scheme. Hooker
hurried through the House resolution
to elect the supreme court judges yester
day and che other state officers to-day
The idea was to prevent tire opposition
to the ia s-dodging Judge Royce from IN
centrating, or the circumstances from
being understood by the farmers. A. p
Childs, who was absent when this was
done got back Monday night, locked horns
with Hooker and floored him. He put
in some thoroughly lively work, and the
result was that Hooker's resolution was
tab ed in the Senate by decisive vote
as was also an amendment by Col Estey,
fixing the 18th as the date. Hooker in
the House had to give it up, and him.
self offered resolve to call back the
resolution; then come reconsideration
and it was ordered to lie. 1t was a per-
feet rebellion aud gives just ground for
hope that the integrity of the tax law
may be indicated by Royce's defeat.
Yesterday the vote of Bennington
county was unanimously declared over
the protest of DIR Potter and others.
Tie main business thus far of course
has been the introduction and referring
of bills. Besides those to amend the tax
law, which are editorially reviewed else
where, a number of other important
ones are already in. One by Judge
Thompson makes habltual drunken
ness cause for divorce, another to pro-
vide imprisonment from three monlhs
to two years for the first offence against
the liquor law, and on conviction OF
manufacturing, imprisonment from one
to five years.
A P. Childs has submitted one to re-
duce the number of our judges from to
6 and another, which has before falied
in The legislature, to contine the supreme
courts to semi-annual terms at Rutland
aud Montpelier.
Others are bill prohibiting trout fish
ing for five years, with penalty of $50
for every trout caught; to re-enact the
old highway damage law, or, by How
ard of SALISBURY, to prevent damages ii
the injured part, was drunk or diving
more than 4 miles an hour, or turning
out of highway or acting carelessly i'll
any way to forbid first constables from
presiding at town meetings when they
are being voted for for any office; by
Wilder Of Nottingham to empower any
town treasurer to reissue his warrant
to the constable returnable in sixty days
for the collection of any tax remaining
unpaid; by A. P. Childs to abolish the
municipal court of Bennington after Apr.
! next; and 70 require all highway taxes
to be expended In the district where
they are raised.
The Senate has adopted these standing
committees:
Finance, Senators Jones, Colbnrn and Estey;
judiciary, Walker, Burnap, Crane, Ide, Hogan, Boy
den and Bingham; Claims, Burnsp, Wan, f .etch-
er, Keiton and Cutting; education, boyden, How
Chids, Cutting and Read manufactures, Brain
erd of Franklin, Estey and GOODWIN elections,
Page, Perkins and Barber; military affairs, Estey,
Brainerd of Caledonia and Walker: raj roads, Ide,
Bingham, Dartt, Tempeton, Coiburn, Read and
Gilmore highways and bridges, Martin, Perkins
and Burnap; banks, Fletcher, Hogan and Jones
printing, Brainerd OF Caiedonia, Tsmpetoh ana
Mcintosh federal relations, Howard, Whitcomb
and Brainerd OF Caledonia; state prison, Goodwin,
Kelton and bingham; grand list, Crane, Mcintosh
and Walker insane syium, Templeton, Gilmore
and Brainerd of Franklin; land taxes, Chamber
lain, Chi IDS and Martin.
The House committees, announced by
Speaker Mar in Monday are:
Railroads, Butler of Essex. Allen Of Ferrisburg,
Bolles of Rockingham, Brigham of bakersfield,
Of Ludlow; highways, bridges and ferrie,, Batteii
endish, Fairbanks Of st. Johnsbnry, Gray Of Mid
detown, Haynes of Wilmington !; military affairs,
Stone Of Danville, Harrow Of Westminster, Bldg
man Of bafton, HQ W OF cniitcnoen, brggs OF
OF Manchester, Abel Of West Haven, Piumey Of
Northfeld, Noble Of st; Adams, Roberts Of Bur
lington, Carter Of Hardwick, Bolles of Rocking
ham and Burke Of Albany; elections, Smith Of
Newbury, Sheridan Of Highgate, Smith of Addi-
son, Fay Of Richmond, Taylor of Guiliord, Rowell
lations, Hunt Of Waltham, chairman ways and
means, Hooker of Brattleboro, Wing OF Montpel-
Ter, Landon Ut Rutland, Kimball Of Vergennes,
Pritchard Of Bradford, Barnard Of Winhall, Per-
na nf of al cd
ton, Priest of Barre, Chids Of Bennington, An
drews Of johnson, Bruce OF Casteton, Perkins Of
Windsor, Stanley OF Leicester, Dearborn OF Ely,
Walker OF Chester, Jones of Dover: claims, No.
BILE Of 81 Adams chairman; grand list, Jones Of
Wsitsfeld, Wing Of Montpelier, Wadleigh of Con-
cord, Burton OF Rupert, French Of Underhill. De-
Woodstock, Ripley Of Poultney Smith OF Rich
ford, Brock OF coventry, Barbour Of BRIDGEPORT,
Randall of Hyde Park, Sowles of Alburg, Hastings
of Waterford, Raymond of Bridgwater, Mack Of
shelburne, Cotton of Weybridge manufactures,
Brown Of Springfield, chairman ; agriculture. Boil
Of Walden, Atwood Of Salisbury, Blackmer of
Willard Of Jericho, Howe of New
fame Holden Of Landgrove, Prescott Of STAFFORD,
Wilcox of Georgia, GausOn Of Hubbardtown, Skin
ner of Lowell, Rowland Of East Montpelier, Cole
White Of OF bison
Of Hartford chairman town lines. Taylor OF
Brunswick chairman; corporations, Meacham Of
Brandon, chairman mileage and debenture,
Sherwin Of Jamaica chairman; gener al committee,
Munson, Temple, Bolton, Roscoe, Winchester,
Peck, Houston, Johnson Smith, Morse,
Clark, Hobson and May public buildings, Farm
win OF Newport chairman. The Democrats in the
House have four chairmanships OF committees
DR. l.. G. Butler Of Essex, Y. W. Farnham of West
Farlee, 0zro Meacham of Brandon, and Taylor
Of Brunswick.
When Speaker Martin announced up
On motion, yesterday, that it was car
red yeas 200, nays %, without waiting
IN instant even, one of the pages was
heard to whisper in an awe-struck man.
her, How can he count SO fast? The
RENAL speaker is a lightning calculator
It times.-[ Waterman.
Gov Barstow had to send Farnham to |
'epresent the state at the Webster CEN
ennial.
The Springfield Republican, remarking
Upon Gov Barstow's message, says: at |
S to be hoped that the efforts of the |
hief executive to prevent the persecu-
ion of helpless railroad men up there
will be crowned with success"
The oldest member of the House is
leo w. Hyde of Grand Isle. He is II,
nd Democrat. The youngest member
) C. d. Houghton of Stamford, also a
aged "a.
Huntly of Duxbury has got in a bill
DR. the Communication of murderer Meek
RS sentence.
A despatch to the REFoRMER from
yesterday, announced that
he charter for the Brattleboro & Ben
ington railroad had passed the house.
There was quite sharp hearing be-
IRE the general committee, Tuesday
vening, on the bill to repeal the Jude
inc highway law.
The Richford Gazette thinks there is
great chance for the Democrats to eff
ct good for the state. if they will only
oar clear of some of their party leaders