The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-26
Legislative Notes.

In was well cut and well dried, this cleo
ton of supreme court judges.
THE member from Readsboro gets S44
mileage, the largest amount paid.
Miss MoLoNEY, sister of the member
from Rutland, has been at the capital few
days.
THE democracy was not solid on the high
license question, some voting against the
Horton bill.
JUDGE THOMPSON made his ablest effort OF
the session in debate Thursday afternoon on
the license bill.
"ALL gone to the devil! No agricultural
college, no rum no democratic Judge" such
is the comment of Taylor of Cornwall
Mrs. LAURA KMBALL MEAD, formerly a
a teacher in the Montpelier Union School,
was visitor at the capitol on Saturday.
SENATOR KINGSLEY has presented each of
the senate pages with pair of skates and
The senate reporter with an onyx paper
weight.
THE name Of Shepardson of Fairfax should
be among he yeas in the vote of the house
on Thursday, passing the agricultural col
lege bill.
IN 1888 the vote on the high license bill
was: yea, 81; nay, l49; absent or not vot-
ing, 81. In 1890 the vote was: Yea, 81 nay,
l57; absent or not voting, 16.
Hon. WILLIAM CHAPIN remarked, after
announced, that " the bill was dead but it
was dreadful pretty corpse
THE remarks of Mr.. Smith of Fairlee
against the mortgage exemption bill, deliv-
cred without any pretension to oratory,
were full of sound sense and reason.
The corporation tax bill, one of the most
important measures to be considered passed
-he house after a short discussion without
yluch difficulty. All the amendments were
readily acCeded to.
The educational committee made vigor-
Gus attempt to prop up their action, but the
vote of 152 to 67 in favor of the passage of
the agricultural college bill showed what
effect their talk had in changing the verdict
PETER PARA of Burlington, seventy
years of age, recently sentenced to be fined
$50 and COSTS and forty days in the house
Of correction, for selling liquor, has been
pardoned by Governor Page, on petitions
IRON Burlington citizens.
Mr. THOMPSON, Wednesday, stated, in his
usually clear and forcible style, serious con-
stitutional objections to % An act to equal
ize taxation" indicating among the oOjec-
| tions that the measure would impair the
| obligations Of existing contracts.
| ABOUT the usual amount of routine work
was gone through with Saturday evening.
| The house steadfastly adhered to its deter
mination to appropriate only $1,000 for the
| Worlds Fair, refusing concurrence in the
senate arrangement appropriating $4,000
The gentleman from Springfield could
| not refrain from little joke at the expense
of the member from Enosburgh who occu-
| pied the chair Saturday evening, by inquir.
ing what time Sunday certain bill was to
be read which was ordered for the next day.
| DIR. CARPENTER wishes it distinctly un-
'0erstood that one member Of the educa-
tional committee did not accede to the Uni
versty substitute bill for the agricultural
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bear upon him, he held out like man for
the original bill
LIEUrENANT-Gov FLETCHER is a
good deal of a humorist Friday evening a
| bill regulating fishing in a certain pond
being ordered to third reading, the presid-
ing officer remarked that it was customary
to dispose of fish on Friday, but under the
rules this would have to lie till next day.
MIR. THOMPSON interrogated Mr.. Humph'
rey Friday evening, when the bill regard
ing the printing of laws was under con
sideraton, in respect to the technical mean.
ing Of Gems" The latter gentleman
retaliated later on by inquiring of the chair
man of Judiciary committee the significance
of mean process " when a law bill was
being considered. Every man to his trade.
THE proceedings of the house are pep
perod with the presentation of petitions
praying for the passage of III. 100, establish
ing "a state agricultural and mechanical col
lege. 1t would be interesting to learn the
full number Of names appearing on thest
innumerable PETITIONS Whatever the sen
timcnt Of the legislature, the voice of tht
people was for separate college
In the official report of the house pro
ceedings, the 18th instant, Mr.. Chafey o
Albany was erI oneously assigned 10 Derby
and reported as in favor of the bill dividing
the Orleans county school fund. Mr.
Chafey opposed that measure. Mr.. Rob
] nf NV faV Mr. Pol a
Barton opposed the measure. The truth o
history demands that these changes in tn,
official record be made.
ONE of the house pages did some effectiv,
work Wednesday on the Orleans county
school bill. The third reading being or
dered by the narrow margin of seventy one
to siXty-nine, he circulated among tn,
members who did not care continental
either way, and by his personal eXertion
defeated the passage of the bill, so he says
That chap will be heard from in some polit
ical campaign OF the future.
The action of the senate in regard to Co
nants Vermont vndicated Mr.. Thompson
position on the matter 1t is not the book
which all commend--but the anxiety of it
publishers to crowd out honest competition
which is Objectionable. If Judge Thomp
sons remarks on other questions are borne
in mind time will show that his opinions oI
, constitutional questions are not as SOM
pAS'poN''
"HIGH license up in Vermont is almos
too much to look for this year 1t viii
come some day, however, and it will conn
to stay "-BoSton Herald. In viewing tn,
vote of Thursday will the Herald tell us
within two or three hundred years, tn
date when their millennium will put in IL
appearance? 1t will possibly transpire witt
: the final restoration of the Jews, or tn
completion of the Grant monument, bu
= not before.
JUDGE THOMPSON is, far and away, til
, ablest and most convincing debater in tn
house. He is always clear, direct and in
cisve. His speech Monday evening on til
double-taxation bill could not be excelled
He laid bare the danger of the measure an
; the sophistries of the bill so plainly that th
: house incontinently dismissed the bill
, Judge Thompson is entitled TO great credi
for his efforts to prevent the enactment {
a mischevous, but nevertheless an exceed
> ingly plausible, measure.
i Mr.. DARLING inquired in his remarks o
0 the senate five per cent mortgage exemptio
n bill why Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ore
gon and California, which had enacted law
4 embodying the principle of the bill, had nC