The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-10
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THE OPENING-.sPE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
COMMITTEES - L SAUGURAL-L EGISLA.
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Mont PELIER. Oct. 4, 1884.

THE OPENING-'SBE hhER--SENATE--IIOUSE
COMMITTEES - L SAUGURAL- LEGISLA-
TION.
Mont PELIER, Oct. 4, 1884.
Tuesday evening", September 30, the
rooms and halls at the Pavilion were
thronged, as usual the night before the
opening of session, by members and
their friends But there was less COM
motion than usual, there being but little
strife over the speakership. Mr.. Batch
elder had clear field as soon as Hon.
w. Z. Dillingham; announced that he was
not candidate, Major Grout of Derby
and his friends saw that the tide of battle
was overwhelmingly against them, and
| Wednesday morning Major Grout arose
! in the House and ably seconded the NOM
| ination of James X. Batchelder of Ar
lington, gracefully Withdrawing his own
name. The only votes against Mr. Batch
elder were cast for Representative Bing-
ham of Bakersfield, the Democratic nom
inee, who received % votes. Mr.. Batch
elder has fine presence, good voice,
thorough knowledge of parliamentary
law, and will unquestiOnably make fine
presiding officer. He is graduate of
Middebury college of the class of 1864.
Quite large number of old legislators
were present at the opening of the ses-
sion. Among those from Addison coun-
ty were Hon. j. n. North and Hon.
Carleton w. Read, ex- Senators, and w. b.
Wright and III. II. Cults of Orwell. Hon.
l.. f. Smith of Monkton, Martin f. AL
len of Ferrisburgh. G.. f. o. Kmball of
Nergennes and DR.. Powers of Ripton, for
mer Representatives.
The organization of the Senate was
harmonious. Senators Idc and Brainerd
Of oil tn hn to
of 1882. OF the 30 members composing
the Senate, three are Democrats. They
are Messrs. Greene. Baxter and Moren of
Franklin county. The standing commit
tees of the Senate are made up as follows :
On rules, Thompson, Garfield and lde !;
finance. Jones. McDuffee and Greene; iu-
dietary. lde, Thompson, Paul, Hebard,
Field, Gibbs and Carney; claims, Gibbs,
Garfield, Horton. Moren, Fletcher; edu-
cation, lIolton, Ide, Curtis, Cristy and
Day; agriculture. Hill, Williams and
Cristy: manufacturers, Howe, johnson
and Hill; elections, Carney, Amsden and
Chaplin; military affairs, Brainerd. Howe
and Johnson; railroads, Paul, Thomp-
son, Clarke, McDuilce, Hobson, Mott and
Field; highways and bridges, Mott, Will
liams and Chapln; banks, Field, Greene
and McDullee; land taxes, Hobson,
Brewster and Chaplin; printing, Horton,
IIebard and Brainerd; general commit
tee, Iebard, Day and Baxter; federal
relations, Fletcher, Brewster and Jones {;
state prison, Amsden, Brainerd and
Clark; insane asylum. Holton, Baxter
and Paul; grand list, Moren, Curtis and
Howe.
Thursday afternoon, after the inaugu-
ration of Governor Pingree, committee
composed of Senators Field of Rutland,
Gibbs of Burlington and Greene of st.
Adams, were appointed to conduct Lieu
tenant-GovernOr Ormsbee to the bar of
the Senate. where the oath of office was
administered to him by Judge Thompson,
! president pro tenn. Upon taking the chair
as president of the Senate Gov. Orms-
bee made very neat little speech. thank
ing the freemen of the State through
their Senators for the honor conferred.
t Gov. Ormsbees efficiency as a presiding
officer is so well known that no words of
praise are necessary for him.
The House is composed of 239 men,
bers, or will be, providing the postmast-
ers all take their seats. There are 24O
towns to be represented, but Guildhall
in Essex county, made no election. OF
the 239 members, there are &c Democrats,
/ Greenbackers, 3 Independents and one
|
reelected and forty-siX have been Repre-
prominent members of the House are
Judge Walker of Ludlow, Hon. w. p.
Dillingham; of Waterbury, Hon. Hugh
: Henry of Chester, Hon. James X. Batch
= elder of Arlington, lockwood Barrett of
Rutland, Stewart Stranaham of st. Al
bans. b. ID. Carpenter of Barton, Major
Grout of Derby, Mr.. Butterfield of Will
mington and Col. Franklin of Newfame
| On Thursday, at , 80. Governor-elcct
: PiLgree was conducted into the presence
of the Joint Assembly by a committee
consisting of Senator Idle and Rcpresen-
tativcs Bingham and Butterficld. Judge
+ Redfield administered the oath in clear
= impressive voice. just as Gov. Pingree
f stepped into the speakers desk the first
OF a salute OF fifteen guns was fired. lie
u read his inaugural message clearly and
a distinctly, and Impressed the audience
D which was rather smaller than usual OF
: such occasions, by his dignilied and man
= ly bearing. Judge Thompson, as presi
L dent pro tenn of the Senate, presided over
o the Joint Assembly for the first time anG
,, Hon. George Nichols, retiring secretary
, of State, acted as clerk er oticiO for the
. last time.
e There is a good deal of discussion ovel
e the cases of Judge Wright of Wiliston
Dyer Leilingwell of Middletown anC
! Fred w. Hall of Bolton, who, the Demo
= Gratis claim, were postmasters at the tim,
! of their election. 1t is proposed to intro.
it duce resolution referring them to tn,
House committee on elections, and il
view of that Speaker Batchelder appoint
y ed the following committees in the after
| noon On elections, Messrs. Clark of Cas-
Il Teton, stanton of RoXbury .Hasseltine O.
. Bristol, Farnham of West Faree, Cove,
OF SYNDICATE. Chamberlain of Albany an(
: Rolfe of Colchester; on rules, Messrs
|, Butterfield of Wilmington. Fairbanks o
u: st. Johnsbury and Crane of Williams
"a town. The following joint standn.
'" committee on joint rules on the part o
y the House was also announced: Messrs
d Abel of West Haven, Smith of Stock
le bridge and Coombs of Richford.
~ Postmaster Leffingwell has not re
~ signed his postofllce and will not. HI