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

IHE closing scenes were quiet and un-
eventful
THE bill establishing state board of
health is law.
The Currer license bill received only
eighteen votes in the house.
THE session of 'S6 is dead. after life's
fitful fever may it sleep we'll"
GOODBYE, Rutland! Come up and see us
in SS, if you are well enough to travel.
BARNEY's bulrush bill went the way of all
mankind at an early hour this morning.
The senate refused to raise the salaries of
the adjutant and quartermaster-general
THE bill appropriating $500 for a monu-
ment to General Stannard has become a
law.
THE senate killed the house female suf-
frage bill Wednesday by vote of eighteen
to eight
THE senate refused to abolish the Board
of Agriculture, but passed the experiment
station bill
The senate passed the railroad commits
sion bill the first thing Saturday afternoon,
by a riCd coce vote.
THE house Wednesday passed the bill
for the incorporation of West Rutland, by a
vote of III yeas to 81 nays.
THE bill incorporating the town of Proc
tor passed the senate unanimously Thurs
day, twenty-seven senators voting.
AFTER desperate mental struggle last
Wednesday the senate fixed the bounty on
foxes at fifty cents per head, or tail.
THE pauper bill ''got there" after all.
1t is a great personal triumph for Judge Po-
land and he has right to feel happy.
A DELEGATION of cadets from Norwich
university shone reSpendent on the eleva-
tion at the right of the speaker Tuesday.
The senate bill providing for the exami-
nation of steam boilers was passed in the
house in concurrence Saturday afternoon.
JUDGE ALIENS bill to allow fishing with
hook and line in Lake Champlain at all
seasons of the year was defeated Monday.
SOME of the disappointed candidates do
not quite approve of the makeup of the
railroad commission. This is very singular.
The senate Monday afternoon refused to
pass S. ll3, which appropriated $500 for Sec
| rotary Porter for extra work performed by
him.
The bill to restrain inebriates was mas
sacred by the senate. Some of our eS-
teemed contemporaries will now breathe
again.
Mr.. HIGBEE's bill to prohibit the circula-
ton of performing bears in the public high
ways is one of the important bills TO become
a law.
AFTER the adjournment, the senate voted
| (Senator Valentine as chairman and Sen
ator Stanley as secretary to hold a reunion
in 1SSS.
THE presiding officers of both houses
have striven hard to do their work faith
fully, fairly and well, and have succeeded
admirably.
THE senate slaughtered Representative
Flagg's soldiers state aid bill Tuesday after
noon: also the bill to annex Greensboro to
| Caledonia county.
THE senate passed the bill Monday evening
allowing Eliza Guernsey the sum of $500
! for caring for her insane sister, and the bill
has become a law.
AN hours recess was taken at eleven
o'clock, when the members went in pursuit
of refreshments. The Pavilion served a
nice lunch to its patrons
THE senate passed the bill incorporating
the town of West Rutland Friday forenoon
! by vote of twenty to one, Senator
Stoddard voting against it.
IT is extremely probable that Secretary
of the Senate Brownell will be the clerk OF
| the railroad commission board. No better
selection could possibly be made.
THE Grand Isle bridge bill passed the sen
ate Monday morning by vote of Is to y
but was defeated in the house by a vote OF
SO to 100. 1t will come up again in 1888.
THE Rutland Herald is inclined to reflect
somewhat on the judgment of the legisa
ture in the Rutland matter, but on the
whole accepts the result with resignation.
THE bill incorporating the Hardwick and
! Marshheld railroad company became a law
! Monday. Now that they have an oppor
tunity, let them go on and build their road
NEARLY all of the multitude of intintes
imal bills " to control and regulate rail
roads have ignomniously pershed, giving
way to the commission bill. So mote it be
THE bill appropriating sum not to ex
ceed $4,000 for the Bennington battle mon.
ument purposes was refused passage by tn,
house Monday afternoon by decisive ma
jorty.
SENATE bill %, introduced by Senator
Stoddard and designed to prevent unius
discrimination by railroads." was refused
third reading by the senate Saturday after
noon by vote OF g to Is.
FIFTY-FoUR petitions, including about tel
thousand names, asking for more thorough
temperance instruction in the public school,
deluged the house Wednesday. 1t locke,
like preconcerted attack all along the line
THE house committee of the member,
from Orange county who have had unde
consideration the advisability of changing
the Orange county shire reported Satur
day against the proposed change by larg,
majority.
The report of the conference committe,
on the matter of temperance in the publ,
schools was submitted Monday afternoon ant
ordered to lie. The report proposed severa
amendments to the bill--chief among whicl
was the striking out of the penalty pres
ented for the omission of town superin