The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-12-05

/ | ne claim OF n. IL. DANIELS OF Yer
gennes for the $4,000 which he claims
to have lost on his contract with the
State to enlarge the Reform school
buildings, was rejected by the two pre-
v,ous Legislatures. This year the bill
asked for $1,000 and after passing the
/ House it squeezed through The Senate
on the very last night OF the session
with the aid of Gov. Ormsbee's vote,
which was necessary to decide the tie.
| The large appropriations were $50, 900
for Il new library building; S25, 900 for
| the bridge from North Hero to Al
| butgh; $4,000 for a soldiers home.
The governors salary was raised to
$1,000 per year. The secretary of civil
and military atrlirs had his pay iucreas-
: ed fifty dollars. The price of DO rd
| for the States wards at Brattleboro
was raised to 5 10 per week; and
nearly all the claims against the State,
presented by various persons aud
| towns, were allowed. But the line
had to be drawn somewhere, and after
paying Smith Wright, the returned
member from WiIliston, and Dyer Lef-
| iingwell, returned member from Mid
dletown, who were not allowed to take
their seats because they we're postmast-
ers when elected, the Senate stopped
to breathe. The consequence was that
! Messrs. Gift of Middletown and En-
right of South Burlington will have to
bear their own expenses in contestiug
the seats of Messrs. Lefiingwell and
Hopkins, and lose their time, though
resolutions to pay them passed the
House. The tax commissioner salary
is cut down from : 900 to $500, and
Senator llolion's bills creating board
of health, and Il board of railroad COM
mssioners, were killed. Everybody
could not have a little plum, not even
DR.. llolton, who of course only desired
the good of the people
lie is the man who returned the free
pass Que way which every member had
! from the railroad, and which only
amounted to half fare, and said the rail-
road could not bride him. Afterwards
on his return from visit to the Insane
asylum he sat still and paid no fare
while n fellow legislator assured the
conductor that DIR. llolton was a mem
Der of the Senate and had forgotten his
certificate. Such anti-mo nopolists are
not above the suspicion of having inter-
ested motives.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Flint of
Granville, providing for re-ruuning
town lines and marking the corners of
lots on the line with lettered stone
posts. was killed because it was going
to cost too much, a fate undersigned
and a specimen of false economy. This
measure will eventually have to be
adopted and would save needless and
costly litigation; aud the sooner it is
| 1nno thp and oh L.,
The bounty bill, providing for foxes,
hedgehogs and woOdchucks, among
other animals, was passed by both
Houses and amended until the hedge
hog was all gone and nothing left of
the woodchuck but the tail, and final
Ply the last night in the Senate it found
u soft spot on the table where it will
stay while the woodchuck burrows, the
hedgehog bristles, the fox banks and
the grasshopper chirps as usual.
The married women's rights bill,
which permits women to have some use
Of their own property,a and the highway
bill 10 do away with the old system of
surveyors, and make the tax payable
in money, were finally passed after be-
ing amended until their authors could
hardly recognize them.
The bill "tO prevent decentralization
public schools" by keeping the pupils
away from skating Kinks was passed,
and upon notice from the school com
mIttee or trustees torbiddng it any
manager OF skating rink is liable to a
fine of from ten TO one hundred dollars
tor permitting school children to skate.
The bill to make the prOprietors Of
skating Kinks pay license was passed
by large majority in the Senate, but
killed in the House.
The attempted legislation in regard
to barb-wire fences was not successful.
The farmers in the Legislature prefer
to build the fence according TO the stu
alton OF the fence and the stock fenced
against, and ii any trouble should arise
leave the tence-viewers to settle it.
Debts of FIVE dollars and over are now
subject to trustee process. The poor
debtor who has not been fortunate
enough to yet team or ten sheep or
any other personal estate which is eX-
empt from attachment, cannot have
even so small a sum as ten dollars for
the support of his family. The legal
fees III trustee pr cess would amount
to five dollars and thirty cents, and
unless the debtor is able to settle up
and stop the costs early in the proceed
ings he will owe more than he did to
start with, and the creditor will be no
better of. But the practical applica-
ZION Of the law Will determine its value.
f Governor Pingree has made the fol-
: lowing appointments: Inspector of
finance, Carol ). Page OF Hyde Park
Go succeed Charles Dewey of Mont
f pelier); railroad commissioner, Thorn
f AS o. ) naver of Woodstock Go succeed
Wayne Bailey of RutlanD; tax com
missioner, W. +. Dillingham; of Water.
bury; superintendent of the house of
correction, George n. Eayres of Rut-
land; superintendent OF the State pris-
, on, +. W. Cakes OF Windsor; board of
dental examiners, Drs. o. P. Forbush
: of Montpelier, james Lewis of Burlng-
ton, l.. L. Lawton OF Rutland, G. ii.
Swift of Manchester, Il. NJ. Chase of
, Bethel: members of tho board of apri-