The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-15
Legislative Notes.

AMENDMENTS to the grand list law begin
to pour in.
A BARE quorum of the house was present
Monday afternoon.
THE senate passed its first bill, S. 16,
Thursday afternoon.
GENERAL L. G. KINGSLEY of Rutland Wis
tied the state house Thursday
Hon. DANIEL ROBERTS of Burlington was
about the state house yesterday.
Hon. L. &. HINcKLEY of Chelsea was on
the floor of the house Monday afternoon.
SENATOR THOMPSON presided in the senate
and the joint assembly Thursday forenoon.
PRINcIPAL A. w. DANA of Goddard Sem
mary, Barre, visited the state house Monday
forenoon.
d. ID. RANDLErT, treasurer of the Central
Vermont railroad was in the house yester-
day afternoon.
THE joint canvassing committee will begin
the hearing on the Bennington county sheriff
matter next Friday evening.
Hon. JOHN b. MEAD of Randolph was in
town last Thursday to attend the meeting
at the state house in the evening.
G. j. WALLACE, sheriff-elect for Windsor
county, has been appointed sheriff in place
of Senator Amsden, who resigned.
THE oldest member of the house is Quin-
Ian of Charlotte, and the Youngest is
CHARLIE DU BoIs of West Randolph who
was a popular page in the house in 1882,
has been spending few days at the capital.
G. ID. HoUGHToN, the member from Stam-
ford, was called home Thursday morning
by the sudden death of one OF his employees.
Ex-sPEAKER MARTIN and Hon. Justus
Dartt, superintendent of education, We're
visitors at the state house Thursday after
noon.
THE committee on elections will report
that in their opinion there is no legally
elected representative of the town of Mid
dletown.
SECRETARY OF STATE PORTER appeared
officially in the house for the first time last
week Wednesday as clerk of the joint
assembly.
THE Joint assembly for the election OF
such state officers as are not now voted for
on the general ticket will probably be held
next Tuesday.
THE report of the state auditor shows that
81 ,085 were paid for bounties on bears and
lynXes last year, an increase of $50 over
the previous year.
IT is stated that Dr. Conland the member
from Brattleboro, contemplates the intro
duction of a local option bill for the regula-
ton of the liquor traffic.
THE speeches of Messrs Dillingham; and
Grout in presenting the name of Hon. j. s.
Morrill, were listened to with attention and
received with much favor.
AN effort will be made to establish a sol
diers home in this state and bill was in
troduced yesterday by Mr.. Hutchinson of
Worcester for that purpose.
FROM evidence given, it appears that the
resignation as postmaster of Fred w. Hall,
member from Bolton, was sent to and re-
ceived by the post-otice department pre-
vious to his election.
DIR. CoNLAND of Brattleboro although he
is democrat, voted for Hon. Justin S.
Morrill, yesterday, being controlled by his
own judgment rather than by the dictation
of his party's caucus.
WOE betide the poor grasshopper! His
days of freedom are numbered and his con
dition will be pitiable one if Senator Ide's
bill is passed. Catching grasshoppers may
yet become paying industry in this state.
CLIPPER: Sergeant-at-arms Phinney still
keeps his record good and we doubt if there
is a more efficient, obliging official about the
capitol He had eighteen hundred appl
cants for eighteen positions and he pleased
them all"
GOVERNOR PINGREE has appointed Wilson
S. Lowell of Springfield, gh-bailiff-elect o.
Windsor county, to serve in that capacity
during the unexpired term of Gardner j
| Wallace, resigned. Mr.. Wallace recently
received an appointment to the office o
| high sheriff.
JOEL II. GATES of Burlington has resigned
| as commissioner for Vermont TO the New
| Orleans Exposition. His resignation has
been accepted by the governor, who recon-
| mends to the president the appointment o
| Colonel John b. Mead of Randolph TO fill
| the vacancy.
| IT is limited that the investigation int
| the sheriff matter in Bennington county
will bring out some interesting develop
ments, and from facts already known i
seems certain that when the proper return,
are made the republican candidate will b,
| found to have been elected.
| IT is reported that Chairman Douglass o
the committee on agriculture has been seel
with large bundle of petitions under hi
| arm, humming the following touching lines
| o. Leo! Leo Ieol Let
The sweetest ever seen;
| 'Twere butter we had never met,
| o, Leo Margarine!
| THE session of 1882 was an occasion O
much trouble to Rev. Theodore A. Hopkin,
| of South Burlington, and it appears that h,
| il not to escape this year. John j. Enright
| from that town, will contest his election ant
the case was referred Monday afternoon Il
| the committee on elections.
THE resolution introduced by Mr.. Frencl
! of Woodstock, calling upon the auditor fo
| information concerning the amount of cour
business transacted in late years, is timely
| With the facts before them the representa-
| lives can easily determine whether there il
a necessity for continuing the presen
number of judges of the supreme court.
IN speaking of the annual school report
| the Free Press says: "That relic of bar
barism, the district system, is strongly con
demned and Mr.. Dartt earnestly favor
| making the town system compulsor,
throughout the state, 1t cannot be doubted
that such a change will do more TO advanc,
our schools than any single step that can b'
TAKEN
Troy TINES "Senator Morrill, of Yer
| mont is now seventy-four years of age, an,
the oldest member of the senate, but
| Younger looking man than Senator ED
| munds who is his junior by some eighteel
| wears The state of Vermont now furnishe
the oldest senator in years and the oldest il
term of Office and is the only state tina
holds its united representation in the senat
OF eighteen years ago"
The roll was called for the first time in tn
house yesterday morning and revealed tn
following absentees:
Aldrch of Bloomington, Matteson of Glastonbury
| Batchelder of Plainhed, Mattocks of Danyille,
Carpenter of Barton, Filling of bennington,
Coyey of Sandgate, Pratt OF Pawlet,
Estey OF Dummerston, Shepard of Stratton,
Fairbanks of ST. Johnsb'y Sherwin OF Jamaica,
Fisk of Isle La Motto, Sherwin of Sharon,
Flint of Granville, Silver of Bloomfield,
| Gilbert of Enosburgh, Skinner of Lowell,
| Hale of Lunenburgh Thayer of Lincoln,
| Hawrcan of North Hero, Van Nliet of Shelburn,
Howard of Benson, White of Reading,
| Hopper of Salisbury, Woodward of Newark.
Lamkin of Maidstone,
MUCH dissatisfaction has been felt abor
the existing law for obtaining marriage Gel
tificates, and Mr.. Mears of Dandy has il
, | troduced bill To meet the difficulty Her,