The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-09

stated that the committee had unanimously
agreed to report the bill unfavorably on one
ground alone-that there we're strong doubts
as to the constitutionality OF such measure.
Massachusetts has such a law, and that
state and its railroads are now fighting the
question. Mr.. Read suggested that Vermont
should await the result, before committing
itself to entangling litigation. Another
bill, practically the same, with the addition
OF a penalty clause, followed the above
measure, was also reported adversely by
the committee. Mr.. Enright, backed up by
Mr.. Stafford got the house to make the bill
the special order for next Thursday. Mr.
Stafford wanted the bill debated in the
house, as it embraced matter in which the
people OF the state were deeply interested,
and II the bill is not to be passed, the people
should know why.
THE joint committee on fish and game, with
about twenty additional members of the two
houses, visited the state fish hatchery at
Roxbury on Wednesday. One of the party
who was interviewed said that they found
a clearinghouse with capacity of mil
lion and half of eggs annually, and they
were just beginning to place the eggs
for this season in the Matching troughs
that while they have plenty of Matching
room they need quite an outlay in the way
of providing for the young fry, the growing
and the stock fish, They are making trial
also, of the brown and rainbow varieties of
trout, for both have proved OF great value in
some waters where the common brook
trout shave failed to live and increased.
The hatchery is now working under
the management of the fish commissioners
Messrs. Warren and Titcomb. Both are
enthusiastic in the work of restocking the
trout streams of Vermont, and il has been
thoroughly demonstrated in other countries
and states that the trout streams can be
kept well supplied in the face of strong
fishing If literally and constantly restocked,
and the state ought to understand the i'm
portance of this matter, both in the light
of one of her food supplies and as large
factor in building up the state as a summer
resort.
OVER one hundred Fairbanks employees
protest in the St. Johnsbury Republican
against the arguments presented to the leg
islatve committee on the weekly payment
question 10y Representative Stafford and A.
Il. NoyeS. These arguments, they say, are
unjust and misleading aud convey wrong
impression as to the relations existing be-
tween them and the K. & T. Fairbanks
Company and their employees feel in duty
bound to correct it,. They give express
sion to their feelings in the matter, en-
tirely upon their own responsibility, with
out the knowledge or request of any one
connected with the management of the
scale company. They say: During all
the time of our service, which for some
of us extends over a period of thirty or
forty years, we have never in any way been
dictated to or advised as to our course in re-
ligous, political or business matters, and
we have always claimed and been allowed
the right to do our trading where and with
whom we pleased, and, if we thought
weekly payments for our advantage, should
not hesitate to express our opinions freely"
This statement is signed by more than one
hundred of the employees of the E. & T.
Fairbanks Co. - signed voluntarily, and
entirely without the knowledge of any one
w al ar mo n
agement of the scale shops. Many addi-
tional signatures were ready, but it was
thought a hundred would be sufficient to
show the feeling of the whole number.
Among the signatures are those of two men
who have been employed at the scale shops
for more than forty years and of several
who have been employed there over thirty.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HUMPHREY, parents of the
young man who mysteriously disappeared
from Brattleboro asylum two years ago,
have been in Montpelier before a legislative
committee, seeking to have the mystery of
their sons disappearance cleared up. They
have spent all their small means in the
search for their son, and it came out that
they had borrowed money to come to Mont
pelier to answer the inquiries of the legis-
lative committee. Their case excited the
generous sympathies of members of the
committee, and arrangements were planned
to make the couple comfortable here in
Montpelier for the night and save them the
hardship of going to Barre in the inclem-
ent weather to tarry with relatives there.
In pursuance of plans suggested, the party
started to leave the capitol, the husband
under the escort of senator, the wife I'M
der the guardianship of clerical member
of the committee When the senator and
his charge emerged from the state house
the wife, who had preceded them, was
nowhere visible. The old gentleman be-
came anxious. His son had disappeared
from mortal view and suddenly his wife
had been spirited away. He sought for
her at the railway station and elsewhere.
In vain. What did it all mean? Mean
time the hour of tea had come and the
spouse of the clerical committeeman who
had assumed the guardianship of the old gem
tlemans better-half was impatently await
ing her lords coming to tea, and wonder
ing what cares of state detained him. The
senator arrived with the information that
the last he saw of him he was walking off
with strange woman. SO the plot thick
ened, and between the anXieties of the poor
old man AS to the whereabouts of his wife
and the curiosity of Mrs. Committeeman as
to the whereabouts of her husband, mat
tiers were becoming interesting. The be-
lated appearance of the missing twain
solved the mystery. The lady's obliging
escort had only stepped into the state cabi-
net and had been exhibiting to his com
panion its curiosities and treasures.