Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-09-21

Our Next Legislature.
LFrom the Burlington Free Press !

FROM Ine burlington fTte lTeSSl
While the next Legislature will contain
many familiar faces, a surprisingly small
number of those who had seats in one
chamber or the other during the last ses-
sion have been reelected. Not single
member of the senate of 1924 will be
found in the new senate, and in the house
there will be only II representatives who
were members during the last sessions.
4. Walker of Brdport, Addison county;
Z. ID. Goodell of Readsboro and G.. NJ. Burt
of Sunderland in Bennington county, T..
l.. Pierce of Stannard i'm Caledonia coun-
ty, L. F. G.. Griffith of Mount Tabor in
Rutland county, 4. p. Adams of Marlboro,
+. S. Weston of Newfane, l.. NJ. Reed of
Rockingham and j. II. Ware of Towns
bend in Windham county, and w. w.
Stickney of Ludlow and NJ. l.. Wyman of
Stockbridge in Windsor county.
Both the senate and the house will in
clude members who have been in one
branch or the other of the legislature in
previous years, and who are, therefore,
more or less familiar with the usual course
of affairs during the session, as well as the
needs of the state and the obstacles to be
overcome in forwarding the work of the
session. Senator-elect George n. Dale of
Essex county has not only served as sena-
tor and representative, but he was also
lieutenant-governor in 1S70-72, during the
administration of Gov. John w. Stewart
Nearly all of the other senators-elect have
also had an experience of one or more
terms in the house during the past 10 or II
years, as follows: ID. II. Lewis of Yer
gennes, in 1884, w. n. Plat of Shoreham
in 1892; O. NJ. Barber of Arlington, in
1892; l.. d. Hazen of st. Johnsbury, in
1885, c. j. Bell of Walden, in 1892; w.
II. Hunt of st. Adams, in 1892; o. l..
Kinds of Highgate, in 1892; Frank Ken
field of Morristown, in 1884, j, X. Darling
of Chelsea, in lS90-02; c. L. Erwin of New
port, in 1882; |. II. Allen of Fair Haven,
in 1892; Frank Plumley of Mortified, in
1882; II. O. Worthen of Barre, in 1888; NJ.
|. Reed of Vernon, in 1884; Daniel Sher-
win of Jamaica, in 1882, 1883 and 1890;
Fred Arnold of Bethel, in 1892; l.. S.
Shattuck of Bridgewater, in 1888 and A.
F. Burbank of Cavendish, in 1890 as well
as in 1874.
OF the epresentatives-elect Speaker w.
w. Stickney of Ludlow has, of course,
had more experience in the house than any
other member, but Hosea Mann, ir., who
was speaker during the extra session of
1891 and has served three terms in the
house, having been a member also in 1856
$500, as has T. d. Goodel of Readsboro,
who was a member in 1850 and in 1886, as
well as in 1890 A. j. Stevens of Winoos-
XII and j. p. Ladd of Alburgh have had ex-
perence in both the senate and house. c.
NJ. WinslOw of Brandon has been valued
member of the state board of agriculture,
and A. f. Watson of Hartford has been
the efficient clerk of the state board of
railroad commissioners ever since the COM
mission was established.
In view of the fact that the next legisla-
ture will deal with the revision of the en-
tire statutory code of Vermont it is evident
that a grave responsibility will rest upon
the lawyers who are to have seats in the
two houses. There are seven lawyers in the
senate: o. NJ. Barber of Bennington coun-
ty, G.. y. Dale of Essex county, Frank
Plumley of Washington county, j. X. Oar
ling of Orange county, Fred Arnold of
Windsor county, w. w. Miles of Orleans
county, and F. d. White of Rutland coun-
ty. Among the lawyers in the house are
Judge l.. NJ. Read of Bellows Falls, Judge
G.. Z. Lawrence of Rutland, w. w. Stick
ney of Ludlow, John Young of Newport,
II. f. Rustedt of Richford, j. p. Ladd of
Alburgh, Hosea Mann, jr., of Wilmington,
and NJ. S. Buck of Cavendish. On these
men will fall the chief responsibility of the
revision of the states laws