The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-10-24
Legislative Notes.

REV. A. b. TRUAX of Montpelier con-
Quoted devotional exercises in the house
Friday morning.
THE joint committee on reform school
from the house and senate are to visit that
institution tomorrow.
THE report of the railroad commissioners
has not yet appeared, but it is to be given
to the legislature before the close of the
week.
l.. O. GREENE of the Woodstock Standard
is mentioned faVOrably in connection with
the Office of inspector of finance to succeed
G.. S. Page, who will not accept reappont-
ment
SENATOR EDMUNDs was at the state house
Tuesday. The senator appears not to have
suffered in the least from his protracted
congressional experience, and is looking re-
markably we'll
The governors staff appointments are
highly satisfactory to the soldiers, Colonel
Hooker said at the banquet Friday night that
his excellency "could not have done better,
if he had asked my advice"
THE committees on agriculture will be
unable to visit the state agricultural college
this week, by reason of the absence of some
of the members. The visit will probably be
made about the first of next week.
THE crisis on the butter bill was again
averted Tuesday. Owing to the absence of
L q r..
Holton, ordered to lie and be made the
special order for 1870 o'clock on Thursday.
THE hill introduced by Mr.. Fisk of Wood
bury includes, in the penalty for violation of
the liquor law, imprisonment for not less
than three months, on the first offense. The
report of the bill in the regular proceedings
might lead TO the supposition that such inn
prsonment was not included.
NED NORTON, an intelligent guide and
NxrnA md frttn onto ,lra
legislative attention to what seems to be a
gross abuse of the fine sporting regions of
the upper Connecticut. Here is strong
hint of needed legislation which the COM
mittee on game and fisheries should heed.
THE lecture on The Angel in the Home "
to be delivered in representatives hall
this evening by Rev. George W. Perry,
state geologist, will treat of the formation
structure, working and uses of marble. 1t
will be illustrated by over one hundred
stereopticon views with dissolving effects.
LADIES week will he celebrated at the
capitol November 13 to Is. The cavalry
reunion comes on the evening of the 18th,
the Vermont officers reunion on the 14th,
reunion of the senate of 1886 on the 18th.
The reunion of the senate of 1882, of the
prisoners of war association and other meet
ings come up the same week.
MIR. MANN of Wilmington is grinding
out bills with wonderful rapidity. argus d
Patriot. Mr.. Mann was greatly astonished
on reading the above to learn that he was
regarded as a voluminous bill-producer. He
has introduced only three bills, two of these
by request, while others have greatly sur
passed him in the rapidity with which they
"grind out bills"
In nominating James M. Tyler for asso-
ciate judge of the supreme court, Mr.. Hol-
ton said that, in his opinion, three quail
ties were essential in Judge, namely, in
tegrity, legal attainments, and the ability to
hold the scales of justice with a firm and
Unbalanced hand. These qualities he
thought were possessed by Judge Tyler.
Governor Proctor said, in seconding the
nomination, Vermont has no truer and