St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-11-23

ments.
The senate holds to the opinion
that supervision of performance OF
duty by states attorneys is good
thing for both state and attorneys,
so it refused the third reading OF
Senator Platt's bill doing away
with the necessity of certificate
from the judge in connection with
the states attorneys drawing OF
salary.
Senator Enright criticised some
what severely, on Friday, the re-
ports sent out by the management
of the Soldiers Home, characterize
ing them as incomplete and unsatis
factory as to the disposition of funds
appropriated for the use of the
Home. But the senate ordered the
appropriation bill to third reading
Just the same, depending on the pro-
visions of this measure to stop leak
ages, if there had been any. Sena-
tor Putnam paid his respects to the
war veterans and said the states
Indebtedness to them could not be
Cancelled in cash.
Communication wins the day, and
Vim. c. Buzzell and Isabella Marsh
will not swing for the murder OF the
latters husband. The legislature
has passed the bill changing their
sentences to Imprisonment for life.
The fish hatchery appropriation
bill went through after the appro-
priation had been cut down to
$500. This has been, every two
years, much mooted question; but
it is thought by many that if this
institution will send out fngerlings
instead of fry, the latter will be able
? to take care of themselves and show
I'D results that will make more
friends for the hatchery in particular
and the fisheries interests in general.
Nothing that has happened in the
senate this session has drawn so in.
terested an audience as did the dis.
# cussion of the mileage bill, and there
we're some good speeches on both
sides of the question. One of the
e amendments reported by majority
e of the committee was intended to
|. shut off the scalpers' dealing in the
: mileage books issued by the com
l. panies, and to give the latter the
right to appeal to the court of chan
J. Gerry for relief from the provisions o
c the bill if they found them a hard
+ ship and the warmest debate took
J. place over this amendment. 1t wa.
= maintained, on the one hand, thai
l. the amendment was simply intended
to smother the principle involved il
J. the bill; and, on the other hand
o that it was compromise reached
e by a majority of the committee ant
l. contained bit of justice to thu
roads. The vote on the adoption o
r the amendment stood Is to Is, ant
IS the deciding vote was cast by tn
o presiding officer, Lieut.-Gov. Bates
of against the amendments. A subse
e. quent attempt to reconsider the vot
p ordering the bill to third reading
'r az to 49, was lost on another tie
al Is to IS; and the bill was passed b,
1t a vote of II to 10. The house con
t, Cured in a couple of amendment
J; proposed bv the senate, one of whic
y allows the issuing of 500.mile book
=; at more than two.cent rate, an
~ the bill is now a law. 1t was intro
10 duced by Mr.. Mattocks Of Danville
IN There was an attempt, both in tn
IL senate and the house, to secure a
It. adjournment over until the 28tf
'e- from Saturday, with no per dier
n; allowance for members durin
to Thanksgiving week, but the noe
u had it in each instance, so the whee
III kept moving.
les When the house bill appropriatir
III not to exceed $4,000 for the SUI
port of the Soldiers Home came L
rd on its passage in the senate, the +
cal ports of the management were s
'lr- verely criticized by Senator Enrigl
are as unsatisfactory and incomplete
d. to the matter of expanding the fun
ish annually appropriated by the stat
II but the senate passed the bill ju
the same, relying on the amen
the ments to shut off leakages and
It's cure business-like handling of t
OF cash. There was no complaint as
vas the performance of duty by Maj
ent and Mrs. Coffey, who, at only 4
). salary, are doing an excellent VIC
ng, in the home.