The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
sENATE-AFrERNooN.

Held executive session and adjourned.
Ordered to Third Reading. II 1856, fish.
ing in Stone Pond; H. 2S3, to protect prop
erty of the fish and game commission; II
2SS, prohibiting duck hunting with the aid
of lacks y; II, 102, relating to practice o.
pharmacy, (wih amendments) ii. 541, to
shorten the open fishing season.
Signed.-S. II, costs where respondent
makes no defence; s. "a, Barre Electric
Power Company; S. %, Standard Light and
Power Company; S. 36, granting certain
powers to Hyde Park; S. G3, Norwich
Aqueduct Company; S. 20, to pay Thomas
Building Association; 5. ST. Montpelier and
Mad River Traction Company S. 81, vot-
ing money to chartered hospitals; $ 80, Or
leans and Essex Railroad Company; S 1902,
Randolph Graded SCHOOL, S. 107 Green
Mountain Cemetery Association; S. 40,
amending charter of Swanton village; S.
100, White River Power Company.
Adjourned.
HoUsE-AFTERNooN
Recommitted.- H. 2S5, amending charter
of Fair Haven Savings Bank Vote order
ing third reading was reconsdered on mo-
ton of Mr.. McCleary of Windsor.
Third Reading Ordered.-H 366, amend
ing Secs. A. 600 and COL, v s., relating to
seine and set line fishing II, 1876, Initiating
expectation Of game birds.
Killed,-H 24S, amending Sec. 3,460, "
s., relating to repair of highways; III 49,
to pay town of Montgomery the sum named ;
II. 1853, relating to settlement of demurrage
charges by railroad companies; II. 504,
amending an act to prevent pollution of
Mississ quot river; II. $50, to prevent de post
of tan bark, etc, in West river.
Passed.-H 400, amending Secs. 1892 and
1854, V. s, relating to net fishing and seiz-
ure OF nets. Taken from the table on mo-
ton of Mr.. Barnes of Addison
Read Third Time and Passed.-H. 5S4, re-
latng to a check list for the first city meet
ing of the city of ST. Adams.
Signed.-H II, to legalize grand list of
town of Stannard H, %, to pay doctors w.
r. Sedgwick, N. l.. Dow and j. G. Camp
bell the sums therein named; II. 81, en-
towering Bethel Electric Light Company to
erect dam across White River; II. rs.
amending act incOrporatiug Bennington and
Woodford Electric Railway Company; II.
III, relating to commitments to Vermont
Industrial School; H. 116, to pay W. l.
Schsff and +. Vincent the sums named II.
119, to pay Eugene Sargood the sum there
in named III. 12l, to regulate payment of
dividends or interest by savings institu-
tions; III. 1913, to amend act incorporating
Military Post Street Railway Co; II 131,
amending act Incorporating Brattleboro
Street Railway Co; ii. 132, to incorporate
Rchford and Montgomery Electric Railway
Co.; III. 153, to amend Sec. 1904, V. s., re-
lating to cemetery funds; II. 252, to incor-
porate the Vermont Bible Society," Ii. 267
to amend charter of Wells River village
FL. 273 to incorporate Cancels Hump Road
and Hotel Company; III. $50, to incorporate
Bellows Falls and Saxton's River Street
Railway; II. 309 to incorporate Peoples
Incorporated Telephone Co. II. 800, to le-
gaize the vote of the town of Miltou ii.
314, in amendment of Secs. 4,615 and 4 GIG,
VS..
Bills Introduced.-By consent. Fl, 597,
by Mr.. Smith of Burlington from the com
mittee on ways and means, providing for
the assessment of state tax. PROVIDES
for a tax of fifteen cents on a dollar); ways
and means.
H. sos, by Mr.. Smith of Burlington, from
the committee on ways and means, making
provision for the support of government
(appropriates $50, 900 for payment of expen-
SEES of general assembly, 1926 600 for next
biennial term for paying demands against
the state; $4,000 for paying interest on
bonds and debts of the STATE, and $4,000
for each of the years 1896, 1897 and 1898 to
pay expenses of penal institutions of the
state,) ways and means.
Special ORDERS. so, to extend municipal
suffrage to women who are taxpayers. The
pending question was the third reading.
Mr.. Palmer of Waterbury offered an
amendment providing for the submission of
the question of woman suffrage to the voters
at the September election of 1898.
Mr.. Haskins of Brattleboro thought the
amendment was not german and that it
was an unmanly way of lodging the ques-
residents of Vermont in favor of the bill.
The Vermont w. G. L. U. had voted to pc
tition for The bills passage. There is moth
ing alarming in the bill. 1t simply ex-
tends the right of woman suffrage from
school matters to municipal questions.
Woman suffrage prevails in many foreign
countries and states of our Union.
Mr.. Bates of St. Johnsbury hoped the
amendment would not prevail.
Mr. Palmer of Waterbury thought his
ms a
| Mr.. Lord of Montpelier thought the re-
sponsibility ought not to be referred to any
other body, time or place.
Mr.. Palmer's amendment was lost.
Mr. Pierce of Chester proposed an amend
ment permitting women 10 vote in lighting
districts
Mr.. Clark of Glover hoped the amend
ment would not prevail, but favored the
bill.
Mr.. Bate of St. Johusbury and Mr.. Morse
of Barre thought the bill ought not to be
amended.
Mr.. Crandall of Berlin didn't like the
property qualification.
Mr.. Chids of St. Adams favored the BILL
The argument that women didn't want to
vote is of no effect so long as one single
woman wants to vote
Mr.. Tillotson of Washington called for
the yeas and nays.
Mr.. Darling of Bennington thought the
move for woman suffrage issued from a
both sexes-long-hair men and short
haired women. He offered an amendment
to remove the property qualification and de.
Tended it, This qualification practically
utilities the present woman suffrage in
school matters. He had never seen a
woman in school meeting.
Mr. Lord of Montpelier thought Mr.. Darl-
ing's amendment was not offered in sin
certify. He would concede that under or
binary circumstances women would not ex-
ercse their right Of suffrage, but they could
be depended upon in an emergency to sup
port pure government and right principles
Mr.. Bates of ST. Johnsbury again spoke
in opposition to the amendment. The
property qualification placed men and
women on an equality. Women had voted
in school meeting in St. Johnsbury and
Montpelier Mr.. Bunker Of Pescham agreed
with Mr.. Bates. The question would not
down until finally embodied in law. The
amendment was intended to kill the bill
Mr.. Palmer of Waterbury favored the
amendment.
Mr.. Baldwin of Barton opposed the bill
because it Disseminated against the poor
woman. He favored the amendment. He
thought those who favored the bill were