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

OF dissent. A couple OF faint ''noes" COM
prised all the opposition to the measure.
The Interesting question OF the moment ia,
What will the House do .about it2 Two
years ago the discussion over this bill was
one OF the entertaining features Of the sea-
sion; and 1t is hardly to be expected that
the House will this year follow quietly the
lead of the Senate and grant the women,
without culver of excitement this much
desired ~ boon.
SENATE bill No. 3, providing for a fine
and imprisonment on fl rst offence in con.
victions for liquor selling, having been
once killed in the upper house, has been
resurrected and will have another chance
for its life. The recon- liberation, we un-
derstand, is for the purpose of substituting
the word may" for the word "shall Tin
that clanse of the first section which pro-
vides for imprisonment for from six months
to year. II is expected that this modi6-
cation of the measures severity may secure
for it a more favorable consideration.
SENATE bill No. Q, which is aimed plrtic.
ulary at those who are at present prac ic-
ing as osteopathsts in the state, was given
a public hearing in the general committee
room on Thursday evening Among those
who opposed the bill was John II Senter
OF Montpelier In the course of his re.
marks Mr. Senter startled his hearers with
the following statement: Why, gentle
men, if this bill had been in force eighteen
hundred years ago, you could have pre-
vented Jesus Christ from practicing his art
OF healing by the laying on of hands" The
physicians of the old school appear to be
those who are most opposed to the measure.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed
Thursday, November 26, as Thanksgiving
Day, and it is taken for granted that Gov
ernor Grout will name the same date.
With 558 bills introduced in the House,
| only few of which have reached final dis
| roaitiop and with fourtaaD vuorkinn dav
| before Thanksgiving Day. II final adj
| journment is reached by that time, one of
! two things will be necessary-untiring in
| dustry and strict attention to business, or
crude and hasty legislation. Already there
| is talk of adjourning over Thanksgiving
week and converting the first week in De-
cember at an expense to the state OF no one
knows how much. The cry all along the
line this year, from the messages Of the re-
| firing and incoming governors down to the
most modest legislator, is for &C )nomy and
retrenchment in state expenses. Should the
! legislature sit two or three weeks after
| Thanksgiving,it would cost the taxpayers Of
the state many thousands of dollars more
than will be saved in every other way.
| While the number of the bills introduced is
very large, hundreds of them ought to die,
and will die, in committee room, and the
really important measures, those that affect
| the people OF the state at large, can almost
be counted on the fingers of one hand. Get
|
work before Thanksgiving and thus earn
the thanks of grateful constituency.
THE Vermont Historical Society held a
public meeting in Representatives. Hall on
| Thursday evening, At meeting held in
the afternoon at the rooms OF the society,
the following new members were admitted
| Gen. j. G. Mccullough OF Bennington, G.
M. Wilds OF Middlebury, G. M. Wright OF
| New York, Hon. r. d. Benedict Of Brook
Ign, N. Y, DIR. A. B. Bsbee OF Montpelier,
w. p Stafford Of st. Johnsbury, G. A.
Prouty of Newport, f. s. Platt of Poultney,
Hon. r. W. Hulburd of Hyde Park, r. B.
North Bennington, and Ephraim Morris OF
Hartford. At the public meeting in the
evening Hon. G. G. Benedict of Burlington
was in the chair. Prayer was offered by
Rev. DR.. Samuel G. Bartlett, ex-president
of Dartmouth College. A portrait Of the late
Hon. e. p. Walton, painted by T. w. Wood,
was presented to the society by Mrs. E. P.
Walton, Mrs. Mary Walton Dewey and
Mrs. Clara B. Hidreth. Judge Hiram
Carleton made the presentation speech for
the donors and read letter of regret from
Senator Morrill,, who was invited to be
| present. Mr.. Walton was for fourteen
years president of this society. The gift
was accepted in brief speech by Col. Bene-
dict, president of the society, in which he
referred to the labors OF Mr.. Walton in be-
| half of the society On motion OF j. A. De
Boer, resolutions OF thanks to the donors
were adopted. Henry d. Hall of Benning-
ton, son of the late Gov. Hiland Hail. read
paper on the action of the Vermont troops
at the Battle of Bennington, August Is,
| 1777. A paper was also read by Rev A. ID.
| Barber of Williston ON "The Progress OF
Education in Vermont During the Present
Century"