The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-11-28
Legislative Notes.

Barre
The bill to incorporate the city and the
town of Barre was signed by the governor
Saturday morning.
MELVILLE e. SMILE Of Montpelier has re-
ceved the appointment of city Judge of
Mont elier from Governor Woodbury..
The members of the general Assem- bly,
were paid off by counties at half past one
Tuesday. It took little more than $4,000
to pay the bill.
BYa vote Of l42 to so, the house on Tues
day refused 10 adopt the joint resolution
introduced by the gentleman from Wells,
abolishing Fasf Day
The Vermont Reform Scuoo is no more,
and the vermont Industrial School" "
takes its place. the bill changing the name
Of that institution having become a law.
BY vote Of 103 to 1906. the house last
Thur day, without debate, ref lsed to pass
Mr. Mdnn's pet measure extending muni-
cipal sulfrdE dEe to taxpaying women.
THE do o)rkeepers and messengers Of the
house and senate, and the other state en-
ployees appointed by S-rgeant.at a ms
Phnuey, presented hi Il with handsome
easy chair on Tuesday.
Mrs. RUSSELL, chairman of the state
floral com mittee, has received cOngratula-
tiOus for the choice Of a state flower for
Vermont from the states Of Delaware,
Maine, Illir ois and Mass achusetts.
THE act authorizing licenses for the sale
| of Intoxicating liquors Il towns voting to
grant them, introduced by Mr.. Stone of Val
lingford, came up N the house on Mon
| day, and was refused a third reading by
| yea and nay vote of % to l19.
BY yea and nay vote Of 102 to 81, the
| act to ena ole any TO wn to return to the dis
| trict system of schools passed the house on
| Saturday. The announcement Of the result
was greeted with applause, aud the gentle
man from Georgia was happy.
/ 81, =;
ito 4 of the Verm INT asylum for the insane
at Waterb Try, which appropria5es Sl5O,OOO
| for this purpose, was read the third time
! by $ title only, and passed in concur
renee in the house on Monday, without
| debate.
THE bill to reduce the salary of the $ tate
superintendent of education 5000 per year
raised such a storm of indignation in The
house Thur sdag that the friends Of the bill,
if it had any, did not feel like posing as its
champion. Tue treme ldous " no" with
which it was killel must have shaken he
old lady in the dome
GOVERNOR WOODBURY. has appon ed The
following gentlemen as members OF vhe
state board OF pharmacy: j. q. Bellrose of
| Burlington for one year; Z. Y. Bingham Of
St. j JJhnsbury for two years; Collins
Blakely of Montpelier for three years F. w.
Pierce of Chester for four years, and A. W.
Higgins of Rutland for five years.
HOUSE bill 495, an act relating 10 set line
fishing in Lake Champain, in section one,
lines six and seven, reads, - no person shall
be allowed to use live bait other than anget
worms" If this is typographical error, IL
amounts to little; but if the prin ers fol-
lowed copy, the joint committee On game
and fisheries that reported this substitute
bill is nterrogated.
GOVERNOR WOODBURY. ha' nominated
and the senate has confirmed the present
members of the state boar OF agriculture,
viz, j. O. Sanford of Stamford, II. w Vail
of Pomfret, V [. Spear of Braintree,
G. NJ. Winslow of Brandon, Professor
j. l.. Hills of Burlington and II. Nj.
Arms of Spri ngheld Rev. G.. w. Perry of
Rutland has also been nominated and con-
frmed as state geologist.
ONE of the hard-worked committees dur
ing the Session has been the committee on
banks, of which Mr.. Ma IN Of Wilmington is
chairman. Many very important and per-
picking measures have come before this
committee, to which the most careful atten-
tion has bsen given 1t il to the credit of
the gentle men who compos it that the
house has pass ID every meas Ire on which
they have returned favorable report
THE Joint resolution intr Jduced in the
house Saturday by Mr.. Sm I'll OF Burlington,
making the pay of the member of the judi
ciary committee of the house and senate
who have had in jharge the revision of the
laws So per day, was adopted without a
dissenting voice. These gentlemen have
well earned jlelr money, anu Dy iutlr c)n-
tinuous and well-drected labOrs have saved
the state many times the extra pay they re-
ceive.
. In his speech on Saturday favoring the
act allowing seine fishing in Lake Cham
plain, Mr.. Ladd of Alburgh paid his re-
spects to the state fish hatchery at Roxbury
in these words That tank down there at
Roxbury that | wish cyclone would strike
aud blow SO high that would never hear
of it or see it again" The committee re-
: ported adversely TO this bill, seven to one,
and it was supposed its fate was sealed.
Mr.. Ladd made telling argument in its la
vor, and, for once, the house went bac on
a committee and unanimously passed this
bill to its third reading.
: QUITE a breezy discussion came up in the
house IN Monday, oo the bill To preve 1T
| damage to lands reached by Wells river,
} which prohibits deposiJing any sawdust,
shavings, or any other mill waste in that
stream. The bill was returned without
{ recommendation by tue general committee,
sew, n members being in favor OF it, and
) seven opposed 1t was sailing along
towards a passage when a terse three
4 minute speech against iJ by Judge K al
gave it death stab, and motion 70 dis
miss the bill was adopted almost un AMI
mously.
In the course of his remarks at the Fish
: and Game League banquet the other even
ing, Congressman Gruut said: 1t Is sug-
! gested that there sh uld be something done
! to prohibit outt g sagdust into Gun
= streams IL is said that it is a delicate sub
: iect 10 deal with, so far a. the legislature is
( concerned l don't understand why the
! farmers are not Interested in this, because
i it not only destroys the fish, o 1t Injuries the
y land. Every farmer should feel an interest
a in meas ire preventing putting sawdust
. into the streams, when he understands it Is
\ to his profit"
Q THR governor has appointed the follow
q ing county examiners OF teachers; Benning
q ton county, David X. Smonds 0t Manches.
l. ter; Caledonia county, w. II. Taylor OF
Hardwick; Essex countS, W ID. Pars ms J
@ Island Pond; Franklin county, Il. K. Rus
% tedt of Richford; Graud Isle county II NJ
y Soule of Alburgh; Ltmoille county, w A
J, Beebe of Murrisville; Orange county, +
% e. Pritchard OF Bradford; . leans county
= b. A. Andrews of Derby; Rutland un y
- Alfred Turner of Rutland; Washingtol
" county, o. ID. Mat lewson of Barre; Wind
y sor county, Q. II Whitehill of Wood 'tock
% Windham county, II d. Ry yder OF Ro king
ham Addison and Chittenden co Antics
4 appointments not yet made.
Z. WHEN the diatorv tactics were re
sunnad in the sonata Monday morning We