Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-21
LEGISLATURE T. VERMONT.

| SENATE.
A bill was introduced on Thursday, Nov. 10,
TO incorporate the Vermont association of
Road and Trotting Horse Breeders. The bill
repeating the Law providing for an annual
muster OF the militia was killed. Several bills
were passed. but none of general interest.
Senator Smith offered IL proposed amendment
OF the constitution providing for the election
of senators and representatives tor four years
and in such way that only half of the mem.
bers at any session shall be new ones.
The bill to prevent double taxation was
the forenoon. Nothing of interest occurred at
| the afternoon session.
saturday mornings session was uneventful.
Senator Child introduced bill to incorporate
the Alpha Alpha chapter OF the ID. X. f. fra.
ternity of Middlebury college. number of
petitions for n separate agricultural college
were presented.
senator Roberts on Monday offered pro.
! posal of amendment providing that represen-
| tatives shall be chosen from districts of 800
| Inhabitants, or that no town having less than
! that number shall be entitled to n reprcscn-
tative. Routine business occupied the rest
| of the day.
On Tuesday another lot of petitions in favor
of n separate agricultural college was present
ed. The bills passed included 5. 81, relating
| to the grand list 5. 81, providing Tor the dcd-
| ication of the Bennington monument; II. 5l4,
relating to lists of stockholders OF banking
institutions; III 81, relating to the protection
| of horse owners.
Wednesdays proceedings were rather tame,
Besides doing routine work, the Senate passed
| the bill prohibiting the holding of offices OF
profit and trust by Judges OF the supreme
court and killed the bills regulating mileage
| tickets. abolishing the railroad commission
and that increasing the power OF the com
mission. The act incorporating the Middle.
| bury savings bank and trust company was
passed.
On Thursday the bill relating to the Soldiers
| home was passed. 1t approDrates 5000 tor
n hospital and $4,000 tor the support of the
home. The worlds fair bill, appropriating
100000 for Vermont's exhibit, was debated Mt
! length and an amendment adopted cutting
down the appropriation to $1,000 Then the
bill was dismissed. The Senate amendments
were concurred in to II. ~, to enable Middle
bury TO fund its indebtness and to II. s, rclat-
| ing to the grand jury term in Addison county.
on Friday it was announced that the gov.
| ernor had signed, among other bills that
amending the chatter of the village of Mid
debury. Among bills killed were H. 1886, to
| incorporate the salisbury Cemetery associa-
ton; II. 80, to abolish special prosecutors;
! II 324, to exempt widows and spinsters from
taxation; II. POI, licensing druggists to sell
! liquor. The bills passed included those in
cooperating the state fish aud game league,
! the Bristol & Richmond railroad company,
the Hancock & Rochester telephone com
pany ana the Rochester water system com.
pnny.
The session of Monday afternoon was short
and nothing OF Importance was done.
Tuesday the signing by the governor of the
bills enabling Middlebury to fund its indebt-
edness and changing from June to December
the meeting OF the grand jury of this county
was announced. The corporation tax bill
was reported. The majority of the temper
ance committee reported against the Horton
high license bill and the minority tor it. The
committee on education reported an agricul.
tural college bill embodying the "comprom-
| Use" idea-the present combination with the
| University of Vermont, with trustees chosen
from various agricultural bodies. The bill
| liking the number OF supreme court judges
was debated and an amendment adopted
fixing the number at six and leaving the
salary as at present Among bills passed
were those empowering towns to appropriate
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abling certain towns to procure street lights.
The bill enabling each town to send two pupils
to State normal school was killed.
The agricultural college bill put over
on Wednesday and most of the day was spent
in more or less useless talk. The bill repeal
missed. The bill relating to the taxation of
savings bank deposits was discussed, but
final action was not reached. The worlds
appropriation of 5000 was attached to it and
1t was ordered to a third reading yesterday.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
The pre- sentation of petitions tor separate
agricultural college has been Il feature of
every days business in both houses Tor a
week past.
The candidates tor supreme court Judge are
sneaker start, Mr. Thompson OF Irasburgh,
5. c. Shurtleff OF Montpelier IA Democrat and
Joel Z. Baker OF Rutland.
The Montpelier journal of Tuesday thus
combs the education committee: "Gentemen
the agricultural college question marks you
rs the agents and attorneys of the Burlington
university lobby. II. l29 was entrusted to
your care week, ago You have pocketed it
| in the face of the petitions coming in thick
and last from the farmers all over the state,
and in face OF the tact that seven Fights OF the
| farmers desire the passage OF that bill Your
course is fragrant betrayal OF the cause
OF the people, and will, we trust, receive II
mcrited rebuke."
The proposed corporation tax law assesses
II state tax tor state expenses upon the prop
erty, business and corporate franchise OF rail
road, insurance, guaranty, express, tele-
phone, telegraph, steamboat, car and trans
portation companies, sleeping car companies,
savings banks, savings institutions and trust
companies, mortgage, loan and investment
companies and all other corporations, asso
Citations, societies and persons and fiji ms
provides tor Il state tax commissioner who
shall appraise railroad property. The tax on
railroads shall be six-tenths of one per cent
on such appraisal, but any railroad company
may, in lien of this tax, pay "a per cent OF its
gross earnings. The lessee of "A railroad shall
pay the taxes and may deduct the amount
thereof from rent due to lessor. Provision is
made, Also tor arriving at a basis OF taxation
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