The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-11-24

port of government, appropriates
100000 for debentures of the general
assembly, etc; S350,000 for 1867 and
1926 900 for 1878 for paying such de-
mands against the state as may be al
lowed by the auditor; $4,000 for in-
terest on bonds and other debts of the
state; and $4,000 for expenses of the
penal institutions; and the treasurer is
authorized to borrow a sum not exceed
ing $4,000 on the credit of the state.
Among the measures of more or less
importance which were killed." were
the bills to prevent unjust discrimina-
tions by railroads; fixing railroad pas
senger tariff and prohibiting free passes
providing free textbooks; providing
| Imprisonment for first offences in liquor
cases; to provide sealed ballots in cleo
tions; to form normal classes in high
schools; providing board of arbtra-
ton in disputed insurance matters; all
the bills relating to the town system of
schools; to establish a board of regis
tration in pharmacy; making taxable
female citizens voters in municipal
elections; for filing vacancies in the
general assembly; TO protect and en-
courage the growth of forests; provid-
ing for the instruction of physiology
and hygiene in the public schools; reg
ulating the running of Sunday trains;
protecting the payers of lost notes or
like obligations; making owners of dogs
liable for all damages done by them;
Furnishing the fraudulent use of bor-
rowed teams; prohibiting the sale of
tobacco to minors under sixteen years
of age; liquor license bills; increasing
the tax on savings bank deposits; pro-
viding for the sale of property by lien
holders; providing for weekly payments
by corporations; taxing telephone COM
panies; preventing fowls running at
large; prohibiting the sale of cider;
establishing a commission on town
lines; stopping allowance of state mill
tary historian; providing for compila-
ton of probate laws; the valued policy
measure; anneXing Greensboro to Cal
edonia county; removing the shire of
Orange county; compelling railroad
companies to provide drinking water on
all passenger trains; providing for uni
formity in textbooks; to secure uniform
ballots; providing for better school sta
tistics; providing state aid for disabled
soldiers; and exempting from taxation
debts on promissory notes secured by
real estate not paying over four per cent.
The governor vetoed the following
bills: Limiting the amount sought to
be recovered in chancery cases; legal
izing the grand list of Newport; legal
izing the grand list of Bloomfield; the
Springfield railroad bill, on the ground
that the general law is sufficient; and
the compulsory temperance education
bill, chiefly on the ground that it was
unconstitutional and unduly severe in
some of its provisions. The veto was
sustained; and subsequently another
bill framed to obviate the objections
urged in the veto, passed both houses
and was speedily signed by the gov
ernor.
The defeat of some meritorious meas
ures is to be regretted, but the defeat
of so many others of little or no merit
is a cause for satisfaction. Perhaps we
should be measurably content with the
assurance that good part of the acts
of this session will be conducive to the
public welfare.