The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-12

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the committee Thursday. Mr.. w. w.
Dawley, one of the listers, presented one
side of the case, and Mr.. G. A. Prouty and
Mr.. E. Il. Morse, treasurer of the Vermont
Marble company, represented the interest
OF that corporation.
REPRESENTATIVES, hall was well filed
with an appreciative audience Monday
night to hear the illustrated lecture on
Marbles Of Vermont by the state geol-
ogist and curator of the state cabinet, Rev
G. w. Perry of Rutland The views were
| excellent and gave Clearly-deiined images
on the canvas. The instrument was
manipulated by Mr.. II. Il. Slayton. Mr.
| Perry's lecture was repetition of the one
| given two years ago. The peculiar and dis
| tict formation of the various varieties of
| marble in Rutland county were well Illus
| trated by highly -magnifed images. Spec-
mems from the quarres of West Rutland,
Proctor, Sutherland, Pittsford, Dorset and
! Clarendon were shown. Those of the au-
dience unfamiliar with the facts were given
! an insight into business where 200 are
employed in an industry in which $4,000 900
are invested. Pictures of statues and other
works of art y famous artists were ex-
| hibited, showing the fine degree of finish of
! which marble is susceptible.
| The action to be taken on II. 1913 is looked
! for with some interest by the travelling
public This bill prohibits the lowering of
| upper berths in sleeping cars except for the
| use of bOHd,fde occupants. 1t was referred
| to the committee on railroads some days
| ago and will doubtless soon he reported.
| AT a hearing before that committee several
railroads were represented but retraued
! from stating specific objections to the bill
! because no one appeared in behalf of the
measure, and, as was claimed, the com
mittee sat in the capacity of "a jury and had
! no right TO report favorably unless a case
was made ont 10y the supporters of the law.
| This reasoning is ingenious, and that is
! about all that can be said in its favor If
! the members of the committee on railroads
are much travelled, they will have facts
| enough derived from their own experiences
| to warrant them in recommending that the
| bill ought to pass 1t is simply an imposi.
ton, this practice of unnecessarily lower
ing upper berths, and if the legislature does
not prohibit its practice, it may he taken
before the courts as it recently was in
western state.
"THAr the hearings on the new agri-
cultural college bill have lost their charm
was shown in the slim attendance this after
| noon in representatives hall when only
about "A dozen people in addition to the
| committee on education were sufficiently
interested to attend" Thus the Free Press.
There has been one noticeable thing about
these hearings. 1t has been remarked that,
| for hearing the university people, a time
has been chosen when nothing else of inter-
est was going on elsewhere; they have been
| given the representa- tives' hall and the ar
| before an auditory respectable in numbers
| and embracing many members of the legis-
lature. When the other side has been
| heard, a committee room has usually been
| assigned them, the time-with one eXCep-
tiou-has been while both houses were in
SEES sion, or, as in the case the Free Press re-
| ferH to- after a long afternoon session. The
odds and ends of time, place and opportu-
nifty, have been given the farmers to pre-
sent their case, just as in legislation favor
| inn tltn far NJ il laIt off. ar
every other interest has filled its pockets,
the farmer is welcome to any small change
that may chance to be left in the till-if lie
can get it. This is about the size of " the
slim attendance at Thursdays hearing
| and the secret of its 81 lost charm" The
farmer before the Vermont legislature is a
good deal like Lazarus at the ricl. mans
table. How long, farmers, shall this like
ness remain true?
THE senate aud house committees on cor
pOrations held joint hearing last week Tues
day on the bill to amend the act of incorpora-
tion of the village of Barre SO that portion
OF the taxes collected in the village shall be
expended for the maintenance OF town high
ways Messrs. Fay and Wing appeared for
the town and o. b. BoyCe for the villa e.
The town claims that highway taxes as
seSsed within the village corporation are
used for constructing concrete sidewalks,
sewers, expensive bridges and costly cleo
trio lights from which the town AT large de-
rives no benefit. The town highways are
much used by village residents and tax
payers and their heavy truck wagons in
jure the roads so as to render them almost
impossible. long petition was presented
pray ing for the relief sought for, signed by
Allen Bates and between four and five hun
dred others, residents of Barre, many
of whom live in the village. The arguments
used by the other side are also set forth in
a printed circular, giving the reasons why
all highway taxes collected in the incoT-
pOraied village should he there expended.
The growth of the vi lage of late years has
called for large appropriations for highway
purposes in laying out new streets and max
lug Improvements. The town at large gets
the benefit of this The same rate of taxa
ton on the grand list Of the village az ON
that of the town for the past four years has
not betrayed the highway expenses. The
taxpayers of the village feel they are al
read burdened, and maintain that equity
demands the expenditure of all village
highway taxes within the corporate limits
HOUSE bill No 327, to regulate the prac-
tice of medicine and surgery, contemplates
an extension of the power of the legisla-
ture for which possibly the people are not
asking, and, vey likely. do not want.
Upon this subject the Medical Brief" a
monthly journal of practical medicine has
the following: "The people, those who
stand in need of physicians, the alleged
beneticiaries of restrictive enactnents, are
not asking for boards. They prefer To
. choose their own methods of treatment and
, their own medical attendants. They real
ize no need of the protection that may
, be thrust upon them, nor will they long
submit to such sinister measure and such
an outrageous interference with their per
sonal rights. AS to who are the advocates
, of medical regulation, little observation
will show that those who present reSolu-
lions in medical societies, lamentng the
overcrowding of the country with doctors
! and urging the necessity of repressive meas
ures on the part Of the state government
who carry about petitions for people Io
sign asking for legislation in that direction
who hang about legislative halls as lobby.
lists, are by no means of the better class
Of medical men, Almost invariably they
i are physicians whose estimates of them
selves have not been accepted 10y the peo
pie among whom they practice, and who
; see no way of getting up where they would
like TO be, in patronage and fees, without
p, regulating competition out of the way
Busy physicians, men highly esteemed
among the sick, satisfied and honorable
toward all, have nothing to do with meas
3 ures born of selhshness, or of sneakinl
5 desire to initiate the aristocratic fashions o
3 ! the old world In fact, many of the ables