Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-11-10

Quartermaster General,
State of Vermont.
Approved:
JOSIAH CIRCUIT, Gov.
Nov. Sth, 1897.
a few minutes investigation in the
State auditors office will show any one
that the expenses OF Gov. Woodbury's
and Gov. CIRCUITS receptions Were paid by
the State and in 1896 at least the board
and carriage bills of the stan during their
stay here were paid for by the State. One
thing Is sure, and that is that now the
Investigation is begun, the records VIII be
thoroughly looked up and II marked re-
trenchment in official expenses will be
demanded. To show to what extent these
items have grown We give below the Of
fetal expenses from July LIST. %, to June
so. 'gS:
Gov. and star. trip to Nashville. $500
See, OF civil and military Affairs. 5000
Inspector of tnance................... $3.50
state auditor $50 ~
Tax commissioners ..........,,.,..,.. boz SO
AdJutant and inspector general...,, 1905. "a
secretary of ..........".... 1885
State treasurer ......, ......,....,.,. JLl9
Quartcrmaster general .......,....,.. 3l5 10
Total. $685.. %
Some gentlemen who have a business
head on them have been figuring a little
on the appropriations used at the Soldiers
Home and can show in n convincing way
that ii would be cheaper for the State TO
take the men who stay there for the same
length Of time they spend at the Home
and have them boarded at the Pavilion
right here at the Capitol City. II L. not
an impossible thing that an Investigation
of this my result.
This was another day when II would not
be proper to raise the question of quorum
fnp hnl N m Iaat, made tla .pnnt "
seats would have been I'm the majority but
the members were not in Il talking mood
and the legalizing of grand lists went
forward without n hitch except to make
n few needed amendments. The only
speech of the morning was by Mr.. Jor-
dan of Jericho who spoke so ably in be-
half of his bill requiring grand jurors to
make an annua examination of the work
of states attorneys that 1t passed the
House without murmer, In the same
short order. House bill No -, the bill
prohibiting the use of seines in Lake
chalnplain, House l07, raising the age Of
consent from IA to l6 years. House bill No.
%, granting relief to town of Woodford
and III. III furnishing two assistant bal
lot clerks to aid In marking ballots tthe
statement made yesterday being errone-
ous)
The fate of women who have secured
respective towns and villages to secure
signers TO petitions asking that they be
allowed the right of municipal suffrage
for all t~ax-paying females over p years
of age has been definitely settled. When
the ayes were called for In House bill No.
2ls, tn bill granting the above privilege,
not Il sound was heard except a deter
mined effort on the part of every man to
keep sim. The volume of noes was suf-
ficient to remove all doubt from the
speakers mind and he reported that the
House had refused third reading of the
bill.
The House passed in concurrence Sem
ate bill No. 23 the bill granting the pro-
p~rietors of private Ash hatcheries the
right to sell from February l to Septem-
Der ] trout eight inches or more In length.
The monotony Of the morning was bro
ken by request of Mr.. Booth of Milton
for leave to Introduce a oil. The request
] was granted and the measure introduced