The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21
MONTPELIER, w. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2I, 1883.

to how they should vote on the Pitkin
license bill.
AS we were passing out of the state |
house Thursday we overheard a lady say;
" My husband voted against that bill and |
am awfully glad he did. ! was afraid he |
would vote for it, and should have felt dis
graced if he had"
A LARGE number of the representatives
voted against the woman suffrage bill at the
earnest request of their wives. The married
women of Vermont are evidently perfectly
satisfied to allow their husbands to run the
political machine.
The witty gentleman from Newport"
stabbed another bill Monday with one
of his sharp thrusts. If the gentleman
keeps on, he will bury more measures un-
der his brief witticisms than others under
their lengthy speeches.
THE house wasted about an hour Tuesday
morning in discussing the town school bill.
The vote might as well have been taken at
the start, as the bill was doomed from the
beginning and no amount of talk could
change its foreordained fate.
Mr.. BoYDEN came to the rescue of st.
Paul Thursday and stated that he was
unable to find anything in the New Testa-
ment which would indicate that that gentle
man was, as alleged by the upholders of
the woman suffrage bill, woman-hater.
THE word commonwealth " which oc-
Cured in one of the house bills was on mo-
ton of Mr.. Ballard stricken out and the
word state " substituted The reason for
the amendment was that commonwealth
is a Massachusetts,, not a Vermont, word.
In regard to the action of the house in
voting against the town system, the gentle
man from Swanton said that any one with the
knowledge and powers of the divine being
might prepare school system and present
it to the people of Vermont, and they would
still reject it.
ONE of the members attended the Church
of the Messiah Sunday and at the close of
the services, with some misgivings ac-
cepted an invitation to attend the Sabbath
school In describing his visit to a friend
this morning he gravely announced that he
had dashed good time"
THE Boston Journal has watchful eye.
1t is constantly telling us how ithers see
u.s." Its latest is this: "The paternal idea
! of government finds expression in a bill in
troduced in the Vermont Legislature to pro-
vide for furnishing suitable clothing to poor
children in the public schools"
IT is not at all certain that any legislation
will remedy the evil, but it is great evil
nevertheless, and it will do no harm for our
legislators to think of it. We refer to the
prevailing and growing habit of betting on
elections. Vermont has been compare
lively free from it until the past year
CHAIRMAN BoYDEN has five or six bills in
readiness 10 present 10 lne mousse, NHlCu
! carry out the legislation recommended by
the commissioners in their report. The
bills will probably be introduced to-day,
and, as they have been carefully prepared,
ought to pass without a lengthy discussion.
In his eloquent and vigorous speech Sat
urday the gentleman from Fair Haven
pointed out the strange fact that the chair
man of the educational committee and the
| majority of its members believed the town
school system to be the best and yet had re-
ported bill favoring the old district system.
MR.. MARSH in the opening speech on the
suffrage bill compared the action of the men
in limiting the right to vote to themselves to
the resolutions passed at the Mormon con-
vention. The first resolution was" ReSOlUed,
That the saints should inherit the earth y;
the second was, " ResolUed, That we are the
saints"
THE expert testimony bill called forth
considerable discussion in the house Monday
afternoon. If each one of the bills on which
there is likely to be disagreement requires
as much time in its disposal, the legislature
will be obliged to hold several night ses-
sions in order to close up by next week
Wednesday.
THERE was an interesting collection OF
drawings, compositions etc, from the Brat
tleboro graded school on exhibition Tuesday
morning in the coat-room. The exhibition
was brought down at the request of DIR.
Holton and was designed to give the mem
bers little additional light in voting on
the school bill.
THE report of the election committee on
the Underhill case showed that they had
given the case a most thorough investiga
ton. After throwing out all the votes
which the committee found to be illegal, it
was still evident that Mr.. Woodwork was
entitled to his seat, as he had 1863 votes
only l6S being necessary for a choice.
AT "A meeting of a certain house commit
tee, held Monday afternoon, the chairman
saw stranger sitting in the background
and politely inquired if the gentleman in
the rear would like to be heard on any bill.
The worthy chairman was somewhat taken
abaCk when " the stranger y informed hin
that he was member of the committee.
SENATOR MANsUR was hanging to the edge
of the crowd at the Pavilion Monday night
when they were bowling for speeches
Some one caught sight of him and immedi
ately set up cry for " Mansur" The
senator did not wait to hear any more, bu
made break for the door and was out o.
sight before any one could lay hands on
him.
, AT the meeting of the educational com
mittee Monday afternoon, the bill EN-
powering the overseer of the poor to pro
vide poor children with suitable schoo
clothes was among the measures under dis
cussion. Mr.. Somers, who introduced thu
bill, appeared and spoke in its favor. Th'
committee voted to report in favor of thu
measure when slightly amended
1--WE would call the attention of all, es
pecially temperance people, to the Pitkii
high-license bill, an abstract of which vii
be found ON the outside of this issue of tn
Times. That our present laws do not pro
hibt, but are farce as now conducted, al
will concede. Talk over the Pitkn bill ant
say to Representative Ball what you thinl
about it.''-BellOlCs Falls Times.
AT a meeting of the agricultural committe
last week Tuesday Mr.. Gleason's BILL to pre-
vent aduteration of milk and false brand
ing of butter and cheese, was favorabl.
discussed One of the provisions of TIN
, measure is to define the boundary line be
, tween creamery and dairy. No persol
shall pretend to carry on a creamery who's
butter is not made from the milk of at leas
one hundred cows.
q The senate will undoubtedly propose t.
the house to amend Mr.. Mann's agriculture
, commission bill by restoring the pay of tn
; commissioners to five dollars per day, a
specified in the original bill, instead o
three dollars as amended by the house. |
was false economy to cut down the pay |
! the commission is to accomplish the goo'
results hoped from it, the salary must b.
3 sufficient to secure good and competen