St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-10-16

and referred and the hour having arrived
| for the election of United States senator
| Senator Harvey of Orange county briefly
! nominated Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of
| Stanford. The nomination was second
ed, likewise briefly, by Senators Roberts,
Randall Child, Reynolds, Nichols, Smith
of Windsor, Peck and Adams. There
| were % votes cast, of which Senator
Morrill, had 81, Senator Jennings (demo-
craft voting for Hon. Edward ]. Phelps
of Burlington.
Tuesday in the House.
Mr.. Smith of Pittsford presented a
petition from the people of that town
praying for the passage of the weekly
payment bill
Bills introduced and referred included a
bill by MIR. Prouty of Franklin to amend
and repeal certain parts of the present
school law. The bill provides for town
superintendent that the state super
intendent of education shall visit each
county during the year and hold meet
lnss as far as practicable. Each town
shall, at its March meeting elect a super
1ntendent of common schools who shall
hold a public examination of all persons
desiring to teach.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Shepardson
of Fairfax provides that division fences
made with barbed wire, to be deemed
sufficient, must be constructed with not
less than FIVE wires and with top rail
of wood secured to posts more than II
feet apart.
Among bills read the third time and
passed were an act relating to contracts
OF labor; an act giving justices OF the
peace concurrent jurisdiction with the
county court for offences of intoXication;
and an act to simplify indictments for
perjury.
In the afternoon several bills were re-
ported from committees, and the election
OF a United States senator was then pro-
ceeded with. Senator Morrill, was nom-
mated by Mr.. Darling of Chelsea and the
nomination was seconded by Messrs.
Hyde of Strafford and Peck of Hines
burg. Hon. Edward ]. Phelps was
nominated by Mr.. Billiard of Underhill,
seconded by Mr. Humphrey of Poultney.
The ballot resulted-Morrill, 167;
Phelps, Sc. The joint assembly to COM
plete the election was ordered for We'd
nesday noon.
The following members on the part of
the house of the joint special committee
on the worlds fair were announced by
the speaker: Garfield of Ryegate Liv-
1ngstOn of Morristown, and Olmstead of
Ncwburv.
a bill was introduced by Mr.. Smith of
St. Adams providing for the consolida-
ton of the following railroads: The
Central Vermont, Vermont and Canada,
Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain, Sara
toga and ST. Lawrence, Ogdensburg
Transit CO., Ogdensburg Terminal Co,
Montpelier and White River, Burlington
and Lamoilie Valley, Missisquoi Valley,
Montreal and Vermont Junction, Stan
stead Shefford and Chambly, Canada
Atlantic and such other companies
may be interested or controlled in this
state.
Another bill, introduced by MIR. Prouty
of Franklin, provides that all towns not
electing a street commissioner shall, at
the March meeting of 1891, elect high
way surveyor, i'll the several road dis
tricts in their town and provides for
tax of fifteen cents on the dollar of the
polls, payable i'll money or twenty cents
payable in labor, such tax to be used for
highway purposes