The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-28
Legislative Notes.

n COMPANY Ol BCuOOl-CulluTbu ltOm w ar
rem visited the Capitol on Thursday morn
ing to get points on lawmaking.
GOVERNOR CIRCUIT accompanied the Joint
committee on game and fisheries to the
state hatchery at Roxbury on Friday after
noon.
The bill to protect musk-rats arrived on
| schedule time last Friday, introduced by
Mr.. Hack of Orwell. 1t was suggested that
the bill for the protection of wharf-rats is
about due.
NOT dissenting vote to the nomination
of Hon. Mason s. Stone as state superin-
tendent of education for the next two years.
The opposition to Mr.. Stone was confined
wholly to the Burlington newspapers.
MAJOR G. A. WOODRUFF, United States
Army, of Governors Island, N. Y, will de-
| liver the annual address before the Yer
mont Officers Reunion Society at its an
nual meeting in the hall of the House of
Representatives on Thursday evening, Oc-
tober 30.
THE democrats in the House have those
admirable qualities that were attributed to
the Vermont democrats in general by
the late Henry w. Grady. Every one of
them voted for S. g. Shurtleff for sixth as
sistant judge. Not one of the seventeen
was found wanting.
MAJOR MCKINLEY has a double in the
! Vermont House of Representatives in Mr..
Young of Troy This is particularly no.
ticeable in the group picture taken by Gut
! Ter, the Barre artist. Mr.. Young stands in
| the front row, and looks enough like the
next president of the United States to be
/ his twin brother.
SPEAKER LORD occupied seat on the
floor of the house last Friday, and intro
duced a bill to incorporate the Heaton Hos
| pital. James w. Brock, l.. Bart Cross, Hi
am A. Huse, John Mooney, George E.
Taplin, Wallace G. Andrews, Frank A.
| Sherburne, George II. Guernsey and Charles
| Ill, HeatOu are named a trustees.
THE fifteenth annual report OF the state
/ board OF agriculture, which has been dis
tributed to the members of the general as
senbly, contains POEM written by Rev. A.
j. HOugh of BrattebOro that was read at
! the celebration, by the Brooklyn society OF
VermOnters, of the one hundredth anniver-
sary of the admission of Vermont to the
Union.
SPEAKING of Coventrys failure to elect
any justices of the peace, said "a member
from Orleans county, sit can b. accounted
for only from the fact that there We're so
many candidates for the position of town
representative, and so many of the voters
were trying to elect themselves to a seat at
Montpelier, that the minor matter of justices
OF the peace was entirely forgotten" Cow
entry is small town, but it seems to be
fairly we'll supplied with candidates.
The editor of an enterprisng sheet in
another state writes to the Capitol to find
out what is the educational qualification for
voting in this state. 1t does not take long
to answer such question The male cit
izen OF this gle rious commonw wealth has the
fullest possible freedom in the matter of
voting, after he has once attained his ma
jority. There are people in this state, how
ever, far enough advanced in political econ
omy to believe that an educational qualifi-
cation would be handy thing to fall back
upon.
THERE is a good deal of carelessness in
| tha vpa ttar ~ ~ and
lutions, and that too, on the part of mem
bers OF whom better things would natur-
ally be expected. Judging from the shape
in which many of the bills and resolutions
find their way to the desks of the recording
officers, any old thing in the way of pa
per is good enough to write on; and quite a
number of original documents " filed away
in the Office OF the secretary OF state would
pass for curiosities, without any great
stretch OF imagination.
In nominating Hon. John W. Rowell of
Randolph for second assistant Judge,
Speaker Lord paid that gentleman brief
but deserved tribute. Mr. Lords few
words were in pleasant contrast to some
more labored and spread-eagle efforts at
oratory, especially those that were read
from manuscript. Mr.. Lord simply said;
81 desire to place in nomination the pres
ent incumbent-an honorable gentleman, a
representative citizen, an able lawyer, and
an honest judge. His works speak louder
LHdh NOlus' present tne name OF Hon,
John w. Rowell."
TO those who believe that filthy and i'm
erfectly-ventilated stables breed tubercu-
losis, the bill introduced by Mr. Goodwin
of Chelsea will seem to be move in the
right direction. Should this measure be-
come law, the State Board of Health will
be empowered aud instructed to inspect
the cow-staOles Of the state, and no indem-
nifty from the state for animals found az
fected with tuberculosis will be allowed
until some member Of the board shall GER
tfy that the stables Of the owner OF the dis
eased animals are clean, wel.ventilated
and properly kept,
SENATOR DEAL of Franklin has intro.
duced bill in the Senate empowering the
sergeant alarms TO remove the iron fence
and curbng around the State House yard
the work TO be- done subject TO the approval
of the state auditor. When this fence was
built, many years ago, it was an ornament
TO the town and the Capitol grounds
but, with broken and defaced iron pckets
and curbing cracked, stained and broken,
this fence now needs large sum expended
in repairs or should be removed. AS it now
IL, it is a blotch on the beauty OF the state
dooryard. With a single exception, the
fences around the lawns and dooryards on