Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-11-16

penses and reasonable per diem for time
actually spent-his bill for these services
to receive the governors approval. This
resolution was adopted on the part of the
house without opposition.
The law which Mr. Martin of Brattle-
boro had the credit of pushing through
two years ago, simplifying the incorpora-
ton laws is bearing good fruit this year in
greatly lessening the acts of incorporation
that the legislature is obliged to pass upon.
| The committee on corporations has ruled
out considerable number of the bills be-
fore it on the ground that the object
sought could be attained under the general
law as amended by the act of 1892.
Among this number are the bills for incor-
porating the Meeting House Hill Cemetery
association of Brattleboro and the Brook
line Spring Water company.
4 Busy Evening.
There was a good deal going on at the
state house this evening. Rev. j. X. Full
Ter, the representative from Barton, de-
livered lecture in the hall of the house
on DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The
joint committee on fish and game held
public hearing in the cloak room on var
ious bills affecting fish and game interests.
A hearing before the judiciary committee
! IL Jllt Supltlut tOuIJ IOOul Ol lut pTO-
posed Barre city charter was well attend
ed and decidedly spirited quite a large
element being manifest in opposition to
the bill. The joint committee on state
and court expenses gave hearing on the
bill relating to fees of sheriffs and con-
| stables, which was attended by officers
! frsm different sections, all trying to dem
onstrate the fact that the present schedule
of fees was below a living rate. Other
committees had their accustomed meet
ings, aud, taken all in all, there was much
to remind the old stager of the conditions
always attending the closing ten days of
| the session.
Two BrattIeborO Bills Passed.
NOVEMBER Is.
Two bills relating to Brattleboro passed
the house this morning. One relates prin-
cipaly to sewers and sewer assessments,
and the other relates to the watering of
the streets The latter is to take effect
January / next, provided majority of
the legal voters of the village first vote to
accept its provisions.
Liquor Agency Profits.
The bill of Mr.. Walker of Grafton re-
lating to the surplus profits of liquor agen-
cies passed the house to day without op-
position. As amended it provides that
the surplus profit of all agencies above ten
per cent of the sales shall be paid into the
state treasury. 1t also provides way to
have the liquor tested by chemist and
condemned if not up to standard when
any ten voters of the town containing an
agency shall complain to the county COM
missioner that they have reason to be-
lieve that they are drinking an impure
/ article.
! One of the surprises of the day has been
| the action of the house on the bill reduc-
ing the limit for which trustee process can
| be brought from ten dollars to six dollars.
! The bill was reported adversely several
days ago and was apparently to meet the
! usual fate in such cases, when some men,
ber moeed to make it a special order for
this afternoon. When taken up today it
! was opposed by some of the lawyers and
others, but was advocated by large num-
Der of merchants and farmers in one and
two minute speeches, and the result was
vote of five to one in favor of the bill.
Municipal Suffrage for Women.
The announcement that the bill extending
municipal suffrage to women who are tax
PAYERS, and the free textbook bills were to
| be discussediths afternoon was the means
/ of filling the house to its full capacity.
Goddard Seminary came down from Barre,
100 strong, and two or three High schools
were present. The suffrage bill, which
was introduced by Mr.. Mann of Whining
ton, amends the existing law so as to make
it read as follows:
Citizens male and female, twentv-one years of
! age, whose lists are taken in any town at the an
nual assessment next preceding town meeting,
and male citizens who are exempt from taxation
| from any cause, shall while residing in the town,
| be voters in town meeting"
Mr.. Mann opened the debate in a speech
of five minutes The speeches were all
short and were interesting rather in the
manner of resetting the old arguments
than in advancing things new. Mr.. Pier
of Jamaica moved to amend by requiring
female citizens to have a grand list of two
dollars, arguing that a woman with list
of fifteen cents could vote under the bill,
but the amendment was regarded as un-
friendly and was promptly rejected The
vote resulted: Ayes 120, nays 106. Wind
ham county voted Aye,-Adams, Evans,
Grout of Somerset, Hines, Houghton, In
gals, Lynde, Mann, Pier Walker, Ware,
Weston, Whitcomb, White, Wyman, Year
ly. Nay,-Hubbard, Jones, Read, Yeaw.
Twenty-one petitions were presented in
favor of the bill containing in all about
2300 names. The Wilmington petition,
bearing 35 names, was the only one from
Windham county. A similar bill passed
the house in 1892, receiving its third read
ing by vote of 147 to 81, but met defeat
in the senate. 1t is probable that SINH
lar fate awaits the present bill, should it
leave the house alive.
Various School BILLS.
The question of free text books, owing
/ to the lateness of the hour when it was
reached, was put over till next Tuesday.
The latest proposition is to make the
county examiner and the superintendents
| from the several towns the board to select
, the books.
! The special committee appointed to per-
, feet bill allowing towns so voting to go
back into the district system has not yet
e reported 1t is said they are met with a
good many complications.
Y bill reported from the committee on
: education, which has passed the house and
/ received favorable report in the senate,
. provides that the board of school directors
; shall provide for the instruction of ad-
q vanced pupils of school age in the higher
. branches of English, and the languages, in