Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-29
The Vermont Legislature.

junketing trips, for such they are in
the maiu, although called by more
dignified names. The several joint
committees on the soldiers home,
the insane asylum, the house of cor
rection, the states prison, and the
reform school, have performed their
arduous duties, and the close of the
week finds the members thereof, and
their guests, either returned to legis-
lative halls, or to their homes, as the
demands of public or private business
may have seemed to each more i'm
perative.
The election of judges, Thursday
of last week, was one of the most
important events of the session thus
far. 1t had been rumored that Chief
Justice Royce would decline re-
election because of ill-health, and in
creasing years. While there may
have been foundation for the rumor
in the summer, the opening of the
general assembly found the chief
justice physically we'll. A puny effort
was then made to organize an oppo-
sition on other grounds, but this sig
nally failed as the result shows. Not
only was Judge Royce unanimously
reelected, but for several days pre-
vious to the election no word of OPP
position was openly heard from those
who would have rejoiced in his de-
feat. Each of the associate-judges
was also elected with the same unan-
imous voice, an honor justly their
due.
The oleomargarine bill, introduced
by DR.. Holton of Brattleboro, for
bidding the manufacture of that ma
terial within the limits of the state,
in the early days OF the session, and
which passed the house, was recalled
from the senate few days since, land
it was voted to reconsider the same
by very close yea and nay vote.
The matter is still undetermined, sew
eral attempts to bring it to final ac-
tion having failed because of the alb
sence of members interested in the
bill. It's opponents pronounce the
measure unconstitutional, and a de-
termined effort will be made to so
prove it. Mr.. Towards bill provid-
ing for the better protection of the
insane and predetermined has escap-
ed the predicted death in the house,
and has reached the senate. Not so,
Mr.. Keyes' bill providing for the re-
peal of the law requiring an abstract
of individual lists to be deposited in
town clerks offices, the passage of
which was refused on Wednesday,:
If some of the bills already intro
duced become law, and the laws are
enforced the way of the rum dealer
in Vermont will soon become more
tortuous than ever. Two or three of
these provide for imprisonments on
conviction for the first offence, and as
if to put another clincher upon the
illicit trade, Senator Taft of Chitten-
den county proposes to make the pen
atty for hauling or conveying liquor
over any road or highway in the state
ten dollars and costs and thirty days
Imprisonment for first offence TWEEN
ty dollars and costs and sixty days
for second offence; and thirty dollars
and sixty days for each subsequent
offence. His bill also provides that
officers may without warrant search
teams suspected of transporting such
liquor. From the number of bills
looking towards more effective pro-
hibition of the rum-traffic it is evident
that the special committee on temper
ance will have its hands full.
The incorporation of the Nicarau-
qua Canal Co., under the laws of
Vermont, has been asked for through
Senator Bates of Caledonia county
It will be remembered that bill to
this end recently passed the United
States Senate, but failed in the house
of Representatives. Relief is now
sought in the state Legislature. The
subject is one of no little Importance,
and it is now probable that Vermont
will now lend helping hand by an
act of incorporation through her leg
islature. A large number of villages
are seeking to be incorporated, and
others, already incorporated, are ask
ing for more extended powers. Hank
Whites five dollar trustee law, pass
ed in "a and repealed in '86, has
again been resurrected in the senate
by Senator Frary of Orange county,
and introduced to the public in the
house by Mr.. Hale of West Windsor.
AS yet its fate is unknown.
The reunion of the Fourth Yer
mont regiment, the first in its history
was held last Friday afternoon and
, evening, and afforded most enjoy
; able occasion for one hundred and
! fifty veterans who were able to avail
themselves of the opportunity to meet
again, and renew their acquaintance
ship under happier circumstances
than in days gone by. A business
t meeting was held at the capitol in
, the afternoon. In the evening rep
{ resentatives' hall was crowded with
| the veterans and their friends, who
, assembled to hear Col. S. M. Pin.
' gree's entertaining aud very eloquent
2 sketch of the regiment. Brief sketch
7 es of Col. Stoughton and other off
I GERS Of the regiment were also giver