St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-10-09

his own expense unless he could persuade
some one else to pay for them and much
laughter greeted the reading of the
amended resolution as it dawned upon
the members what they were asking of
Mr.. Stickney. Mr.. Miller of Shelburne
came to the clerk s rescue by moving to
lay the motion on the table and it was
so ordered.
House Committees.
The House met informally at $50
Thursday morning and were assigned
seats. The chair announced the appoint
ment of John II. Mimms of st. Adams
and Frank ID. White of Rutland as re-
porters, and these committees:
On rules-Thompson of Irasburg, Mar
shall of Brattleboro, Livingston of Nor
risville.
On joint rulcs-Davis of Danville, Peck
of Hinesburg, Manning of Weston.
The Two Messages.
At II O'Clock the Senate marched in,
while the House rose and remained stand
ing. Lieut.. Gov. Woodbury. took the
chair, Secretary of State Porter acting as
clerk. A committee was appointed to
inform the governor that the assembly
was open. The committee escorted Gov.
Dillingham; to the speakers desk and he
read his farewell message. 1t was well
delivered and got good round of APP
plause at the close. After Gov. Dilling-
ham left the hall the Assembly, and then
the House. adjourned.
The afternoon was given to inaugural
ing Gov. Page in the joint Assembly.
The hall was packed to the utmost,
chairs brought in to seat visitors SO far
as possible, and a large number of people
standing. After the Assembly had
opened, Gov. Page was escorted in, the
oath of office administered, and he read
his message.
Friday in the Senate.
Senator Nichols introduced the follow
ing resolution: That so much of the
governors message as relates to the
ballot system be referred to
the committee on elections, with the re-
quest to report upon the same at their
earliest convenience by bill or otherwise |
The president announced the following
Eugene E. Howe of Ar
lington as official reporter of the Senate. |
Senator's Grout of Essex and Roberts of
Chittenden in joint committee on rules |
ON the part of the Senate.
The first bill was introduced by Sena-
tor Peck of Rutland, an act to repeal so |
much of the act No. 45 of the session
avs of 1883 as allowed the search of the
persons for the discovery of Intoxicating |
liquors without a warrant; referred to
the judiciary committee.
Friday in the House.
A resolution on the Australian ballot
part of the Governors message was in
and adopted. The House also
adopted an appropriate resolution on
he death of Hon. Frederick Billings
The first bill introduced was one fixing
he standard weight of a bushel of apples
and pears at so pounds instead of 46
-eferred.
Mondays Work.
The democrats scored big hit in the
House by the introduction of two of the
most important measures of the Legisla-
ure, ballot reform and weekly pay
nents. The Australian ballot bill was
Introduced by Mr.. Marshall of Brattle-
,oro. The bill contains portion of the
Massachusetts, law and also a portion of
he New York law known as the Sax
on BILL
Mr.. Maloney of Rutland introduced
he expected bill providing for weekly
payments by corporations The first
ection of the bill is as follows: Every
mining, quarrying, lum-