The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-27

done away with, and everything is greatly
simplified and "boled down" The bill
demands and is worthy of the most careful
consideration from the senate, and also from
the house, II it reaches that body.
THE Woodstock .Stdnddrd is authority for
the following: Will some of the solons OF
Montpelier tell us why the railroads should
be assessed to pay the expense of rail
road commission, as provided in General
Ripley's bill? III the commission Is worth
anything to the public let the state pay the
bills. Even then, under the present sys-
tenn of taxation, the roads will pay good
share of the expense. This feature would
lead one to infer that the bill proceeds upon
the theory that the railroads are primd .fdcie
the guilty parties. In our view it discredts
the movement for a commission"
THE member from Braintree gives this
reason publicly for nominating ID. G. Deni-
son as against Judge Rowell i'm the Joint
assembly Wednesday. 1t appears that the
election for representative in Braintree was
very closely contested, and that a certain
well-known citizen told Mr.. Flagg that if
he would nominate Mr.. Denson in oppo-
stion to Judge Rowell, when the time ar
rived for the election of judges, in case he
Flagg) was elected, he would assure him
five votes. The promise was given on the
spot and Mr.. Flagg was elected by one ma
Jority. The agreement was carried out, as
appears by the record"
A GOOD story is told of an interview of
Hon. w. II. III. Bingham with one of the
state boarders at Windsor. Some of the
prisoners were at work lathing the guard
room during a recent official visit of the
governor and the latter was inspecting
the progress of the work. After contem-
plating the process for few minutes Gov
ernor Bingham remarked: " See here, my
man, you are laying those laths too near to-
gether; that sort of work will never do"
The prisoner calmly laid down his imple-
ments and said: Governor l am willing
to be turned off and discharged If my work
don't suit; never applied for this job or
the situation, and if my work isn't salts
factory | am willing to quit" The offer
was not accepted
BoARDMAN f. STAFFORD, member of the
house from Wallingford, died at his rooms at
the Hillside boarding house on Court street
Thursday evening at about six o'clock
The deceased had been in feeble health for
some time, and had not been able to occupy
his seat at all last week. His sudden de-
cease is attributed to heart difficulty with
which he was afflicted. His age was about sew
enty years. Brief services conducted by
Rev. Howard +. Hill, rector of Christ Church
were held at the rooms recently occupied
by the deceased, early next morning, and the
remains were taken to Wallingford on the
train leaving here at 6: %. A committee of
four members of the house-consistng of
Representatives Simonds of Manchester,
Fisk of Dandy, Risdon of Mt. Tabor, and
Holden of Mt. Holly-accompanie the re-
mains of the deceased member to his
former home.
THE Brattleboro Retormer dishes up the
! valued policy as follows: "Mr. Harvey s
bill omts two important provisions of
the New Hampshire law, that the insur-
ance companies may have the right to prove
fraud or misrepresentation if they can in
obtaining insurance, and in limiting its ope-
ration to real estate With these lmita-
tions the New Hampshire law has worked
very well in spite of the tilibusterng of the
insurance companies, and it will in the end
prove beneficial to any honest system of in
surance in largely decreasing losses by fire,
induced by Over-insurance. The New
Hampshire law goes as far as can safely and
justly be done in holding the insurance com
pany responsible for its own or its agent,
valuation of real estate- But to go further
than this, and hold it responsible for the
benefit of the insured for any fraud the lat
ter may succeed in practicing on it, and alsC
to hold it for fixed sum of insurance on
personal property, perhaps merchants
stock of goods, movable and changing il
value, is obviously not right.
REPRESENTATIVE TINKHAM of Pomfret in
troduced bill in the house Monday de
signed to protect those who have beer
eating oeomargarine against their knowl
edge and consent. The first section of Mr.
Tinkham's bill strikes ont the word "know
ingly " in act No. SS of the session of 1884
The second section provides that the keeper
or proprietor of any place of public resor
where food is furnished and where there is
placed upon the table or used in the prepar
alton of any food served there, or to be solo
to any person any oleomargarine or Other
substance resembling butter shall be deemed
as selling and Offering for sale such sub
| stance as butter and shall be liable to the
penalty of $500 prescribed in section /
The third section provides that the presenc,
of any such substance in any such place
shall be accepted as sufficient evidence fol
conviction, provided that if such keeper ol
proprietor shall have placed upon the walls
of such dining or lunch rooms in a conspic
uous place a placard, in letters not less
than three inches long, saying "oleomargar
inc sold here" he shall be considered "a
having complied with the provisions of TIL,
act. If this bill becomes a law whoeve
eats oleomargarine will do so because h,
prefers it to butter. Considering the eXten
to which this stuff has been introduced il
this state, such law as the above woult
seemed to be called for and eminently de
sirabe