Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-10-28
THE LEGISLATURE.
OUR MONTPELIER LETTER.
The Work Of the Session beginning to
Take Shape.
The Woman SufTIHgists on Deck---MOre
Money for the Worlds Fair---LiveIy
and Interesting Committee Hearings.

! flee of speaker. Five of these men have
eleven representatives in Congress, six gov
ernors of the state, four lieutenant-govern-
ors and eleven judges of the supreme court.
| The longest terms in the speakership have
been those of Gideon Olin, eleven years, and
| d. AFRO Buck and j. L. Martin, six years
each. large majority have held the Of
flee for term not exceeding two years.
OF the "a men who have been clerk of the
house during the ia years, Mr.. Stickney
is the only man to succeed to the speaker
ship with the exception of Stephen Il.
Bradley
Owing to the long vacation on account of
| Columbus day the weeks record of work
completed is a short one. The committees
have had several hearings, and sentiment
on some of the more important questions
is assuming shape. The special committee
on the worlds fair held a meeting last
evening and plans were unfolded which
| will involve a further appropriation of S15,-
600. 1t seems that the act appropriating
! 10000 at the special session was so word
ed that the commissioners doubted their
authority to use any portion of that amount
| for a state building. When the time came
| that required immediate action in erecting
a building 100 of the prominent men of the
state were asked to guarantee 500 each,
or $4,000 in all, so that work might pro-
ceed at once. This action was taken, it is
] IL
| ture would come to the rescue of the guar
antorS. In addition to the cost of the
! building the commissioners ask for 5000
to cover furnishing, and the expense of
running the establishment through the
| fair. The Sl5, 200 heretofore appropriated
will all be needed, it is stated, in making
a suitable display of the agricultural pro-
ducts of the state. There will no doubt be
strong opposition to the appropriation, but
it is difficult to see how it can be avoided
| if the credit of the state is to be maintain
ed The addition asked for makes up Just
the $4,000 which was the estimate made
| by the commissioners two years ago as the
amount needed to make creditable dis
| play. Gov. Fuller, just back from Chicago.
with the whole subject fresh in mind, made
some interesting remarks before the COM
mittees as to the magnitude of the fair and
| Vermont's part in it. 1t was plain to see
that it is his opinion that suitable appro-
priation should be made to maintain the
standing of the state, even if we have to
make it up by econOmizing somewhere else.
The committee on town lines are usually
| gentlemen of leisure, but business is good
with them this year. They began with the
| DummerstOn. Putney case, which was easily
| solved. The main road from Putney vii
! lage to the depot runs for j6 rods through
| the edge of Dummerston Putney wants
a better road and takes the 56 rods as her
own, together with about acres of land
and small house. Dmmmerston loses a
| grand list of about $3.50 and the mainte-
nance of the j6 rods. Both towns are well
satisfied. Case No. = is more difficult. \
school district, partly in Rochester, Wind
sor county, and partly in BIaintree, Orange
county, wishes to be annexed to Randolph
| Rochester and Braintree don't want to let
the district go A portion of Randolph
| petitions for the bill another portion of
that town demonstrates against it on the
| ground that the school district is not self
supporting and will be charge to the
town. Another case is that of Avery's
and Buelfs cores, whose inhabitants want
to come ont among folks and have more of
the rights of citizens. There is a bill be-
fore the house now to annex the territory
to Huntington. The people of Starksboro
think it would look better on the map of
Addison county, and want it annexed to
their town, and all in all there is a prospect
of lively times before the committee.
The woman's suffrage question, as usual,
is referred to the judiciary committee this
year. Mr.. Martins pockets are already
sticking out with the petitions that have
been presented up to date. A comparison
of these petitions with those of former
years reveals the fact that a considerably
less number have signed them, Many of
them only show from II to 20 names from
quite sizable towns Evidence is not want
ing that some one person who understands
the business is directing the movement.
The petitions are all backed in the same
hand, and tied with yellow ribbon and
folded with precision that makes each one,
in outward appearance, almost fac simile
of the whole. And then there seems to be
method in the manner in which they are
presented. 1t is quite commonly the case
that when petition is presented on any
subject an epidemic sets in and all the
members holding similar papers proceed to
unload. But the suffrage petitions this
year are presented in small doses, one in
the morning, one in the afternoon, one the
next day, in such a manner as to indicate
that the people are deeply moved in the
different sections, and that it is a subject
that will not down.
Mr.. Stafford, the citizens representa-
tive from the conservative town of st.
Johnsbury, presented the suffrage bill in
the house and, it is understood, will cham
pion the cause. He is ready and pleas
ant speaker and one of the brightest men