The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-23


the lady bill" He was of the opinion that
il you put your foot on corporation, you
put it on your own throat" at the sug-
gestion of which physical feat the house
wept with Joy. All through the Kicker
oman effort the house was in state of con-
tinuous laughter AT the expiration of his
address a bouquet was sent to his desk, and
was smilingly accepted.
EVERYTHING gave way Friday afternoon
to Rutland city charter. The special com
mittee reported a substitute bill, and was
being read "by its title only" when Mr..
Cannon of West Rutland objected. Mr.
Read remarked that it would take two
hours and half to read it. Mr.. Henderson
moved the bill be printed and laid on the
table, and withdrew it in the same breath.
Mr.. Cannon graciously waived his rights,
and the bill was read by the title only.
Then Mr.. Cannon moved that the bound
aries as fixed by the committee be knocked
out and the boundaries as provided in II.
3i3 he inserted. The fight was on. Messrs.
Cannon and Read and Clement exchanged
their views. Every one took hand in the
controversy, and some wild and woody elo-
quence was the result, During the adj
dress of the gentleman from Ira, the house
was convulsed with laughter. Finally Mr..
Graham of Craftsbury arose and remarked
that he was sorry any committee of this
house should be compelled to defend its
action, and moved that debate be closed.
Mr.. Cannons amendment was then put,
and the yeas and nays were called, result
ing as follows. Yeas ST. nays III. The bill
was then passed.
THE Dauville election case was settled
in the house last week Tuesday in favor of
the sitting member Mr.. Davis. When the
committee on elections first considered the
vote which had cross in the space below
the name of Mr.. Davis, it was decided by a
majority of the committee not to count the
vote. Mr.. Cannon of West Rutland siren
uously insisted it should be cast out, and
the committee so decided. When it became
apparent that this one vote would decide
the matter, and give Mr. Davis the seat,
Mr.. Cannon suddenly changed his views
and so stated on being questioned by Mr.
Stafford. Four of the members of the com
mittee having given opinion that this vote
should be counted for Davis gave him his
majority, and on resolution of Mr.. Stafford
the sitting member was declared entitled to
his seat. Mr.. Dale, chairman of the COM
mittee on elections, contended that the seat
should be vacated by Mr. Davis, and that
the crisis in the consttutionalty of the bal
lot.law was at hand. Mr.. Stafford denied
the right of the legislature to disfranchise
citizen of the state. The thirty-two i'm.
properly indorsed ballots for Davis were
the error of the ballot clerk, and the law
provides a penalty of $500 for such infringe
ment of the law; there is nothing in the law
that provides for the disfranchisement of a
voter if he made his choice apparent The
vote seating Mr.. Davis was nearly unan.
imous
PROBABLY the happiest man about the
state house on Saturday was Mr.. A. b.
Carpenter. 1.-the gentleman from Water
ford" in 1885, and that towns representa-
tive in the third house of 1892 in the matter
of the proposed ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the town
to the advantage of st. Johnsbury. Mr..
Carpenter is an interchangeable worker, and
he contested every inch of the ground with
his townsman, Judge Parks, who de-
sired to have the corner of the town
in which he resides annexed to st.
Johnsbury. In the senate Judge Parks
had his innings, but in the house Mr.. Car
penter got there by vote of more than four
to one. So there is joy in the old town of
Waterford, and the municipalities of -" Elan
ders Fucker Street" and " Frog Pond "
should give Mr. Carpenter the freedom of
their precincts. The chief burial ground of
the town is in the part il was proposed TO
annex to St. Johnsbury. Mr.. Carpenter
pathetically pleaded with the members to
leave the town its graveyard. He expected
to be buried there and on resurrection day
he wanted TO rise in his own town, among
his own townsmen, not among the stran-
gers of a neghboring dominion We
have no doubt Mr. Carpenter will rise--hut
possibly Judge Parks may take "A different
view of his townsman's case. At all events
" Notes " begS leave to congratulate Mr..
Carpenter and his fellow-townsmen
on Waterford's escape from the fate of
Poland.
" A LITTLE nonsense now and then etc.
" Notes " is sometimes given to recording
Jokes and sometimes to relieving the
tedium of law-making by holding the mir
ror up to the ludicrous side of legislative
proceedings, No one should regard these
episodes too seriously. For example, when
member gets in his little joke by asking
Notes " to record the alleged fact that the
able and industrious member from Brattle-
boro attended the opera and was interested
in the ballet, the statement must be taken