Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-11-28

of counsel in criminal cases; apprO-
priating $1,000 year for each of the
normal schools; relating to highways;
to corporate the Masonic Temple AS
ISOLATION of Vermont; relating to
town officers; appropriating $4,000 to
purchase land for the reform school;
appropriating $1,000 for the support of
the Soldiers Home; relating to the
house of correction; relating to fees
of sheriffs for summoning petit ju
rors.
The bill to incorporate the Home for
Aged Women at ST. Johnsbury was
passed by the Senate. The bills ap-
propriating $4,000 for the State fish
hatchery and 900 for the insane
asylum were also passed.
The Senate in the afternoon passed
bills in aid of Norwich university, and
providing for 80 scholarships and sew
eral private bills. At 4 o'clock the
Senate went into executive session
and conferred the appointment of
| Cicero G.. Peck of Hinesburgh, as
| trustee of the Vermont reform school.
In the House in the afternoon the
bill to set Judge Parks property from
Waterford into St. Johnsbury came
up and was defeated. The bill was
reported favorably by the committee
consisting of the members from Gale
donia county. Mr.. Stafford was the
principal speaker for the bill and Mr..
Boynton of Montpelier against it. The
yea and nay vote resulted in so votes
for the bill and $50 against it.
The election bill reported by the
committee on elections was passed
with only one amendment. This was
proposed by Mr.. Barber of Arlington
and makes the bill apply only to towns
Of 1000 population. The bill relating
to fees of town clerks and fish and
game were passed.
The House held an evening session
and passed lot of bills. The public
bills passed were ones compelling
owners of hotels and mills to provide
fire escapes; relating to the appoint
ment of staff officers; to floating tim
Der; to the duties Of State auditor to
general teams of the supreme court |
to branding of land; to unknown de- |
positors in savings banks; to tele- /
phone companies; to taxation, estab-
fishing equaIizing conventions to ex-
emptions from arrest on actions found I
ed on contract; to completing the high I
water mark monument at Gettys- T
burgh; establishing naval battalion;
to the grand list; preventing acct
dents to trainmen; to the railroad T
commissioner; to accidents on the
railroad; to the supreme court; to
property of married women.
Nov. PIT is the last day Of the
session. Everyone is on the jump. Ev-
erything shows that this Legislature,
although a record breaker in many re-
spects, has all the confusion and hur
ry that have attended the closing days
of other sessions.
It's strange how everyone seems to
want to talk oday. Members who
have sat for weeks in silence can't
talk often enough now.
The Senate this morning devoted it's
time to discussing the weekly pay
ment, the ballot law and the highway
bills.
The weekly payment bill was tackl-
ed first and the corpse was embalmed
in the honoyed words of some of the
senators who favor the measure. Sen
ator Mead and Senator Amsden were
the chief embalmers, while Senator
Proctor gave the dead bill another
kick
Those who wished to put themselves
on record as favoring the measure
called for a yea and nay vote, which
resulted in yeas and % nays. Those
who voted for the bill were Senators
Amsden, Mather, Mead and Pitkin;
those voting against were Senators
Abel, Ball, Boyce, Brock, Brownell,
Clark, Dawson, Du Bots, Gleason,
Circuit, Hall, Haskins, Hathaway,
Hyde, Lincoln, Merrill, Orvis, Proctor,
Sanford, Turner, Vail and Watson.
The vote refusing to concur in the
proposal of the House to cut down
the insane asylum appropriation was
re- considered and now the the asylum
will get SOD, 900, which is $1,000 more
than anyone interested expected.
The Senate refused to concur in the
proposal of the House to cut down
the appropriation to build wall
about the house of correction from
$4,000 to $1,000.
Joint resolution relating to the pay
of certain clerks and officials were
a d0ntad and then the Senate wadad
into the ballot law bill passed by the