Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-10
THE HOUSEsTANDING COMMITTEES


The Speaker announced the remainder
of the committees yesterday forenoon, as
follows:
ON Library doint.l --liascltinc o. Bristol.
DuutOn Ot Colchester. Iaz,!lr OF Dover Dick
crman of Mt Holly, Leland OF Ali,idicsrN.
Ou House Ot Correction ,iuiutJ Rowland of
POultncN. Durkce OF sheldon, Allen of Whit
Mgtun Nccdhdm of Leicester. Howard of
rhctturi.
ON Reform school joint Euttcrof Towns
bend, Hopkins OF South Burlington. Turner
of Norwich, Evans of MorctOwn, Stors of
On Public Buildings Farnhun of West
farilcc, Hale of West Windsor, Taylor of
Watcrviilr. Johnson of Georgia., Hin of
StHrkshor", Kingsley of Athens, Howard of
Benson.
ON the Insane-Fullcron of Manchester,
COulan of BrattlcbOrO. smith of StOckbridgc,
Stanton of RuNbIry, ltuttum of Orwell, John
son of Concord. Shcrwin of sharon.
On Game, and Fisheries CJoinu.- Powell of
IrlSburgh, White Of Reading, Stone of Eden,
French of Addison, Blanchard of Reads
burO.
Under Fourth Joint Rule LIoimt.)-Pcrry of
Brooklinc seward of Mcndon, Ioun. OF
Greensboro.
ON Town Lines Hayes of Canaan Knapp
of WoOdlord. Fish OF Ira, humphrey of IN
dcrhll. Benson OF AndoNcr, ia>tin-s of Wind
nam, lint OF Granville.
On Rules Bultcrlicli of Wilminpton. Crane
OF Nillttm>town, Fairbanks Of ST Johns
bury.
ON Elections Clall, OF Cl>tlvtou. CoNoy Of
Sunuyuc, stanton of RoNhuIy, chamberlain
of Albany, iiu~cltinc OF Bristol. Ruiic of tot
chester, EHunum of West Fdircc,
CA Federal relations PARKER of Cambridge.
Maxwell of Fay >ton, Nhcparisuu of ilctchcr
Billings of iubbaritOn, kuthau of PutuuN
Glover of Grutun. ThaNcr of Lincoln.
On Ways and Means Franklin of NcwfInc
Fullerton of Manchester, Brucl, of Nontpciirr
Rowland OF PoulIncH, Strunuhau of -. Al
bans, MattuckN, OF Dan\ill", Dean Of Cornwall
Briggs OF Brandon, Perkins Of Windsor.
Ou Land Taxes Fisk of Isle La Motto, l,lli'
of Ruyulton, kccduf Vernon, Bond Of Muunt
Tabor. sargent of JAY, Mckay of Top>ham.
of Victory, Harrington of Scurshurgh, Gam
bell of barnard, Atwood of thittcndCn, Tay'
lur of WutcINillc, Albcc of Fairlcc, Hooker Ui
Goshen.
ON Grand List Bailey of Ncwhury, Piper o
CaNcndi>h, Parker OF Cambridge ward %
Guiiord, Reynolds of Milton. Parks eft Wells
Greene of PlymOuth, BOnucy of Brighton
WcathCrbrc of Kirby, Holden Of IittStOTd
Reynolds of Alblrgh, Hewitt of Berlin, Stan
hope of berkshire, skinner of Lowell, Kendall
OF Wnhull.
General Committee Barrett of Rutland
TOwlc of Franklin, Arms of springfield, Gitil
Ian of Barnet, Carpenter of Barton, kcnich
OF MOrTistOwn, Savage of Wait>tcld. Wake
of Peru, .jaCkman of WalthHn, Mayo of North
field King of runbridgc, Nash OF New Haven
sherman of WailingtQrd, Hay OF bradford.
ON state rson Parker of fcrrshurgh
/ Ilawlcy of Swanton, Walker of Peru, Arnult
of Westminster, Weed of Hartland, Quinian u
. Charlotte, Mcach of MOuktOn.
ON RuilrOuds- Dillingham; of Waterbury
4 Henry of Chester, Franklin of Ncwianc, Phi
/ ling of Bennington, Lewis of NcrgCnnes, Nal
Nlict of ,Shelburn, brigham of Bakcrstcld
Crane of WiliamstOwn, Fisk of Isle La Motto
1 ON Banks and Banking Buttrrtcd of vii
minston, Fairbanks Of It. JOIN. burg, Blrrct
/ of Rutland, French of Woodstu, <, Hubbard q
salisbury, Hale of LunenburSh h, Arnold q
/ Westminster.
The Contested Elections.
The committee on elections will NEE
this afternoon Immediately after adjourn
ment to consider the postmaster case,
That of Mr., Letiingwell will probably b
considered first, and the case of Judg
Smith Wright of Willston. which was +,
ferred to the committee by special resolt
ton, yesterday afternoon, next
At 1920 to-day the joint committee fc
the canvass of votes for county Officer
Will report to the joint assembly The
experienced no difficulty in deciding VIII
was elected except to the Office OF sherl
in Bennington county. The returns, I
counted make the vote il tie between NJ
Call, the Republican, and Robinson, IL
, Democratic candidate. But Mr.. IioughtO
of Stamford raised the point that the con
mittee should receive the original certi
Gates of the town clerks presented by Il
members from the various towns, IN d
{ Gliding upon the votes cast This he CLAIM
! ed was not done in his own case.
! seems that for the other state and count
officers A. Republican votes were cast
f Stamford, but only 30 for sheriff, as h
: certificate shows but in making up his I
| turns to the Secretary of State the tow
/ clerk committed clerical error by Whit
he made the Republican vote for sher
~. Mr.. lIoughton claims that when tn
> mistake is rectified Mr.. Robinson W
, have three majority in the county. Is
there is alleged irregularity in 9th
f towns, and the committee will report Il
= facts, as above stated, and ask to ha
: witnesses called and papers examined
b Bills Introduced.
: Those given below are among the mo
: important of the bills introduced yeste