The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-10-17
Legislative Notes.

SOME wag was inclined to see connect
ing link between the visit Of the legislature
to Burlington and the general raid on sa-
looms and drug stores that took place just
before the legislative party arrived.
THE first petitions of the season for woman
suffrage were presented to the house Tuesday
morning by Mr.. Butterfeld of Troy and
Mr.. Locke of Irasburgh and turned over to
the tender mercies of the Judiciary COM
mttee.
THE bill introduced by Mr.. Lord of Mont
pelier on Monday does away with the in
human practice of giving one-quarter Of the
fines to the officers arresting a man for in.
tOxication-in other words, it abolishes the
bounty on drunkards.
FOURTEEN county commissioners in the
state will be interested in the bill intro
duced on Tuesday by Mr.. Smith of Bur-
lington Should it become "a law, these
county commissioners will receive SO per
day for time actually spent, with travelling
and other expenses not to exceed $50 an
nually.
WHAT'S the matter with including the
railways in the list of beings, with or with
out souls, whom Mr.. Miller, in H. AS, would
cause to cut down or pull up all burdock,
etc. and all other Doxious weeds, etc? The
sides of the roadbeds of railways are as
fruitful a nursery of noxious weeds as the
public roadsides. Let the deadly blight Of
the legislative curse fall with equal sever
SENATOR SHATTUCK OF Windsor is the old
est, and Senator White of Rutland the
youngest, man in the upper house. The for
mer will reach the four-score milestone next
year, while Senator White has just turned
thirty, bringing him within the age speci-
fled by law. In the house, Mr.. Burnham
OF Stanford is the " father of the house " in
years He is seventy-eight, and is as bright
and active as is his townsman in the ma
tional senate Charles II, Grout of Stratton
| is not only the youngest but the smallest in
stature of any one in the lower branch. He
is twenty-five years old, and has as seat
mate Wilbur Brown of Berlin, the heavy
weight of the house. Seated directly at the
speakers left, they can both be seen and
heard.
For one bewildering instant last summer,
the secretary of civil and military affairs,
Notes magines, was holding an odd notion
of the demonstrative preference OF German
lasses for young Americans. Max sailed
away in August to visit his sister Mrs.
| Spring, the wife OF successful American
dentist resident in Dresden. Max pro-
posed to give Mrs. Spring surprise, and no
word of the proposed visit had crossed the
Atlantic. The tourist arrived in Dresden
in due course of his itineracy. He had pro-
posed TO leave the train at the upper rail-
way station, in order to alght nearer his
sisters residence. Stepping out OF his com
! partment at the lower station to break the
monotony of railway travel, he suddenly
found himself in the rapt embrace of femi.
nine arms and the recipient of shower of
| kisses. A glance disclosed the wondering
features of Mrs. Spring, who had come TO
| the station to meet an American friend ar
irving on that train. The question with the
future secretary was, Which was the most
surprised party?
| The legislature of Vermont cannot ignore
the startling object.lesson on the subject OF
| tuberculosis that was presented in repre-.
sentatiVes' hall ON Friday, after adjourn
ment 1t was enough TO startle the whole
state, and must have done more to arouse
the members of the legislature to the inn
portance of immediate action than columns
of newspaper editorials could have done.
The question naturally at once arose, II" Are
my cows diseased" This COW was a net
Jersey, kept for family use had been turned
out days and put in the barn nights during
the past summer; had never been fed slops
from hotels, or ensilage, aud was picture
of health. Yet when it was slaughtered
not only the lungs and liver were a mass of
corruption, but the milk glands leading to
| the udder were so rotten that they would
not hold together. Through these glands
has flowed milk that has been fed to four
| young ,ichildren lall summer. Dr.lI:Rich