Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-11-28


from outside Then outside publishers
thought their interests encroachel upon boy
the bill and came here TO fight It, The
bill went through the different stages OF
amendment, passage, reconsideration and
passage again Just as the Conant or other
interest was uppermost In the fight, and
hually came through in a shape giving all
parties equal advantages, AMI apptrently
satisfying them all
There were 57S bills introduced in both
houses Ibis wear as against GA IN 1883,
About 22j OF this years bills have become
laws ns against 334 IN 1888 Nearly 100 Of
this years acts create new corporations or
affect corporations already existin1 I~en-
" towns have had their grand lists legal
lied in AS many different acts Fifteen Of .
the acts authorize the payment ct sums
aggregatiug about $500 to parties who have .
/ incurred EXPENSE in arrestng 'iminals, |
/ but whose claims the auditor did not feel |
authorized to approve
OF the public acts the school law cor
poration tax law aud Australian blllot law |
already mentioned are the most important
Of course The highway law practically
restores the old highway surveyor system
with a labor tax 20 towns so voting Good
hands may be allowed 3 30 per day, and
a man paying his tax es IN money has a re
bate of one-fourth The powers Of the in
spoctnr OF finance have been enlarged So
that loan companies, home or foreign. must
give bonds before they eau be licensed t. do
licenses when he deems companies unsuund
No enactmeuts have been male affecting
savings banks. The fish and game laws
have received the customary needed re
pairs No trout can now he caught legally
between Sept ] and May under penalty
of so, aud the law nov gives partridges
right 10 feel safe from Feb { tn Sept il
no hunter happens to spy them The sum
OF $1,000 was appropriated for state fish
hatchery which promises 10 fill the streams
with fish ull attrAc; numerous summer
visitors. Lowell lake Ia L1nd iuierry is
made free fishing again, aud numerous 9th
4 err public waters are protected
3 The fine for authorization Of maple sugar
has been doubled Oeomargarine Is u be
copr-d distinct punk color when offered
2 for sale IA the state. ani It's manufacture
here Is prohibited under heavy penalties
/ a man is to have the same right o. waive
L tn, will Of ms wife as IA wife has ~ waive
that Of her husband Telephone poles in
Incorporated villages must hereafter be
straight ones aud must be painted Towns
are authorized u vote money for the OBJ
4 servAuce Of Decoration day Town clerks
i must pay dog license money into the town
e treasury within 80 DAYS from receipt
S Newspapers are to have increased pay for
~ publishing the laws, amounting IN all to the
' actual cost to them and 81 lU per 100 OF
10 circulation. Insane persons supported in
an asylum 10y the state who draw pen
sion or have other resources must turn over
-e the proceeds TO the state
state tax of Is per cent was voted, a
W recommended 10y the committee ON way
u and means This Is o. toe assessed ou tn,
grand list Of 1891. one-half of t will b
OF payable iu December 1881. aud one half ID
'h June. lsg2
The civil authority are not % strike of
o. any names from the check list without CIV
INK persons affected reasonable notice
either orally or ~ writing
The leading appropriations are S2O. 90
for the support of the soldiers home q
a., Bennington and for building a hospita
500 900 for building wing % the new d.
I'm sane asylum at " Waterbury, 81 900 for tn
"a Worlds Fair at Chicago, $1,000 for is
, hatchery. $1,000 To aid IN the completion
h.. statue Of Cen StAnnard 70 be place
"a over ms grave. $65. 600 for deDentures ,
General Assembly. 500 900 for such el
-. pendltures a. are usually paid on the stat
l., auditors orders ia $50 S42j 900 for 1879.
-. and 500 800 each year for the support
n. the penal institutions
.te The movement To- readIu,t or reduS
ch state otfrers salaries came 70 naugh
bill There Wa an attempt IA the senate TO ii
not the gross sum to pay the Idges at $500
iIe afterwards raised 10 50 Oul 1t was d
.ep feated and their salaries remain as heret
mi fore, $1,000 each with $500 for expenses
A bill was passed to provide for part,
ing patton bv the state m the dedication of Il
rial Bennington battle monument The go
~ Il ernor. lieutenant governor, speaker of q
ro house secretary OF state and state treasu
10 er are the committee charged with takH
-ut such action as they see lit The state 20
be eminent of Massachusetts and New Ham
md shire are 70 be invited to participate
try OF the acts of local interest may he me
on toned the Incorporation Of the Deerte
&c Valley railroad company, the Christian A
Mr.. society of Newiane, having for it, obie
I'M the help of discharged convirts, the We
ON Brattlehoro and the Locust Ridge Bratt
Mr borol cemetery associations, and acts
but latlng 10 the Westminster East parish,
village Of Bellows Falls and the BrattlebC
hill graded school district also an act app
ems priatlng $500 tor the Windsor and VIII
the ham counties volume Of the Vermont II
bv torical Gazetteer
but The most prominent measures that fai
BRO 10 be enacted were the several bills taxi
ON mortgage Indebtedness and savings bar
re deposits, the valued policy bill the bill C
and ting down salaries and reducing the nu
} to Der Of supreme court Judges, the weekly &
leir fortnightly wages bills, the state agric
lars turnl college bill the high license q
pos womans suffrage bills the several bills r
len ulatmg railroad passenger and frei
It to rates, and the bills relating TO measu
,nce tending To promote the public health
The Wndham county has taken a very CT
and liable part in the business of the sessi
an- Her senators, although not talking mel
the the usual sense Of the term. have fell
last home in a body made up very largely
the same class and nave given frequ
end expression 10 their views IN the snap,
ents those condensed three and five min
3 of speeches often the most effective of
best They nave not always been on the vim
lure side, but have no cause to regret Il
this action
lngs The value of past experience IN legi
two tive matters mas been no better illustra
nate than IN the case of Mr. Sherwiu of jana
-eme tie was often on hs feet during the
not days OF the session, but was always be
If IA with attention and effect The name
one Mr. Clarke of Halifax was well known
.ture will appear in the house journal as Of
Lo be perhaps as that of any member His
This tons TO adjourn, 10 order to lie and
time printed and to be made special Or
inst we're usually well timed and success
some But his great specially was looking a
rived that class of bills calling for what is KIN
Audi a. medical Legislation relating
tons boards Of health, "a state board of phar