The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16
Legislative Notes.

WORK for the night (session) is coming!
How the amendments to the highway bill
did get sot on
&" For the better improvement of roads
was choice sentence
"I HAVE not arose." observed one of the
controversialists on Tuesday. Then he sat
down.
The gentleman from Johnson shot into the
house the epigrammatic enunciation, " short
accounts make long friends"
FULL details of the proceedings of the
third house, for the session of 1892, will be
published in these columns next week.
SENATOR PROCTOR was in town Tuesday,
returning from a visit to the Barre quarries
with Mr. Taylor, the member from Proctor.
The bill giving municipal suffrage to
women was ungallantly refused third
reading on Tuesday by the decisive vote
of ten yeas, eighteen nays.
ALL honor to Mr.. Clarke of Halifax
He objected to reading an incorpora-
ton bill by its title only. Later on Mr..
Martin putin similar protest Applause ]
EDGAR DAVIS, farmer, and divers other
Rutland people, are in town to fight the
whole-town charter, arguments on which
were made last night before the commit
tee.
AS the gentleman from Fairfax arose to
speak yesterday AFTERNOON, he winked one
eye in a dreadfully.open fashion. Whether it
was an accidental contraction of an optic
muscle, or was intended for one of the fair
visitors at his left, is "a matter of grave con-
lecture.
JUDGE PARKS of Waterford, one of the re-
publican presidential electors, wants his
real estate set off to st. Johnsbury, and is
here in the interests of a bill to that effect
1t is needless to say that Waterford does
not approve of any such scheme, and is put.
ting in vigorous kick.
OK Monday, some lady visitors behind
Notes " were picking out the best looking
men in the house, and disclosing their iden.
tity with the assistance of one of the seat
diagrams. After the ladies went out the
diagram was picked up, and the following
seats found checked: Nos. 63, So, 1877, Is,
"a, A, 49, 46, 96, q, 10S, and Smith of AID.
Olson.
THE proper committees heard, Monday
evening, the advocates and opponents of the
proposition to slice off part of Waterford
and engraft it on to st Johnsbury; the propo.
sition to give the normal schools each 81 ,00C
annually in addition to what they now
have, and the bill for the creation of labor
bureau, Mr.. Alpha Messer of Rochester ap-
| pearing to speak for the latter measure.
The bill permitting agents of foreign in.
surance companies to come into Vermont
and do business through resident local
agents was passed by the house Tuesday
| with the reciprocal I" rider" extending this
privilege only to such states as shall recip
rocate. Mr.. Enright of Windsor introduced
! the bill, and che committee tackled on the
amendment. The bill shuts ont New
Hampshire, until that state enacts recip-
rocal clause
THE act creating the Office of road com
missioner in every town in the state, and
for the improvement of highways was
| special order for half-past two Tuesday after
noon. A dozen or twenty amendments
| were offered. The gentleman from John
son objected to the clause providing that
! the road commissioners should give bonds
and offered some other amendments tax
ing the vitals out of the bill The amend.
ments did not appear to "go and were
withdrawn. Mr.. Smith of Addison offered
an amendment lowering the amount Of
taxes to be raised, Rejected. After all the
amendments had been knocked into a
cooked hat, Mr.. Colburn, the grand old man
of the house, put in a last lick for the bill as
reported by the committee, and the bill
was ordered to be read tomorrow morning
| THE cadets of Norwich University al
| Mortified have rendered His Excel
lency Governor Fuller, acknowledgement
Stranahan and the members of the legisla-
lature complimentary drill and parade, to
take place on the state-house grounds al
l: 30 o'clock Thursday. The exercises will
consist of review, dress parade, battalion
drill and battle tactics with voiley firing,
company rushes, in columns of attack, etc
| The corps will be under command of Lieu
tenant Kimball, Fifth Infantry, United
States army, who has been detailed by the
war department as instructor of military
| science and tactics of Norwich University
The new drill regulations of the United
States army will be used. The military
committee of the senate and house have
been invited to join the governor and
lieutenant-governor in receiving the review
Should the day be stormy the exercises will
take place on Friday.