Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-02
LEGISLATURE NOTES.

Wednesday 197 bills have been in
troduced in the House-nine bills
ahead of this date last year, and min
us five working days.
The female members of the third
house who advocate female suffrage
are making life burden to many of
the members these days.
In introducing the bill providing for
the transportation by railroads Of BIZ
cycles as baggage, Mr.. Haskins of
BrattIeboro said he did it at the re-
quest of large number of ladies and
conference.-the beauty and the chiv-
airy of the state.
Vermont is the latest state with an
insane asylum scandal on its hands.
1t is profoundly to be hoped that the
the charges made in the case will
prove to be unfounded. A prompt
and full investigation is the best way
to settle it.-Boston Herald.
The Senate bill to allow members
for presidential electors in Mont
pelier was amended in the House SO
as TO include judges of the Supreme
court and court officers, and ordered
to third reading by vote of 143 to
IS.
The bill to exempt veterans of the
late war from payment of a poll tax
was killed.
In the House the bill to compel
owners of bicycles to pay annually
tax of so cents, the proceeds to be US
ed for the construction of bicycle
paths, was amended to make the tax
rs cents and then ordered to be print
ed.
A bill was introduced by Mr.. Mack
OF Vergennes, compelling railroad
companies to keep the fences at grade
crossings painted white.
Chauncey NJ. Depew has deferred
his visit TO Montpelier until Monday,
November 9, on which date he will
deliver an address in representatives
h all after the afternoon adjournment
of the house, under the auspices of
the Vermont society of Sons of the
American Revolution. While in Mont
pelier he will be the guest of w. Sew
ard Webb.
Mr.. Bromley of Pawlet has intro
duced an agricultural bill. 1t prohi-
bits the use OF any Paris green Lon
don purple, or other poisonous sub
stance upon fruit trees while in bios
som = If this measure should become
a law, it would be an immense dam
age TO all intelligent fruit growers in
the state, as Paris green is one of the
Important ingredients of the mixture
used on apple trees when they are in
blossom to destroy the insects which
if left would prevent the raising Of
first class apples in many localities
The officials of the state experiment
station have made special effort to
teac h farmers the use of this mixture
during the past few years.
Speaker Lord announced the house
M embers of the joint committee to
investigate the Waterbury insane
asylum scandal Monday afternoon as
follows: Baldwin of Barton, Bates of
st. Johnsbury, Hadley of Rocking
ham, Buell. of STAFFORD, Martin of
Ro chester, Potter of Cornwall, Pratt
of Concord, Conlin of Colchester.
The committee Ebegan work of in
vestigation at once.
This bill introduced by Mr.. Ray
more of Eden will strike rocky road
before reaches third reading, unless
an amendment is added that hotels
and boarding houses shall not charge
the members more than fifty cents a
day for board. This bill provides
that the president Of the Senate and
speaker Of the House shall each re-
eeive 81 per day, and the members of
the General Assembly 50 per day, and
shall take effect with the present
legislature. When this last clause
was read by the clerk, the House
smiled aloud. Mr.. Raymore is some
thing of wag, and it is more than
half suspected that this bill was in
PRODUCED in spirit of levity, with no
expecta ton that it would ever be
read the third time, and not as real
meas ure to reduce state expenses.
The members of the committee on
railroads from the House and Senate,
with party of legislators and prom
inent business men report very
pleasant trip to the copper mines at
Ely, last Saturday. On arriving at
the mines a dinner was served by a
Boston caterer, after which the party
was shown the working of the mines
by Col Robert Franklin Straine, I'M