Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-10-13
STORY OF THE HOUSE
The Business Accomplished in n Half
Day's Work OF LMM-Mnking.

! Days work Of Law-Making.
There were several vacant seats in the
House when that body was called to or
! dor and although there was quite an ad
dition to the number at the close of the
devotional exercises still there was evil
dcncc that many of the members were of
! the opinion that they could earn their 81
! per diem for services in the Legislature
/ by finishing up churning, helping the
woman wash" getting the cows into fall
feed However, all who had any
business to do were here and
they were not able to occupy
the limo of the short session this after
noon. During the temporary lulls the
members read the papers which had been
left on their desks during the recess I'm
/ less there should be more evidence of
something to do Speaker Haskins will
/ find it necessary to modify his speech II
| little on useless legislation and give the
/ boys chance to do something
! The official story follows:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
! Devotional exercises led by the chap
lain.
.Iournal of Thursday read and approved.
/ The memhers-elcct from Woodstock.
Coventry Searsburg and Granville,
Mcssrs. Simmons, Thrasher, Bond and
! iIemenway, were present and received the
oath.
committees as given above.
Joint rcsoutons--ly Mr.. Downcr Of
Sharon, authorizing the appointment of u
joint special committee on revision ofhills,
to consist of one senator and two repre-
sentatives who may employ "a clerk
Adopted.
by Mir. Dickcy of Bradford granting use
of committee rooms for holding Vermont
bar examinations Adopted.
by Mr.. McGcary of burlington, grant
ing use of Representatives Hall on the
evening of oct. 2jth for Il lecture by DR..
George NJ. Sternberg, surgeon general Of
the United States army. on Modern
Health Regulations" Adopted
Rcsolutions-BY Mr.. Carpenter OF Rut-
land, fixing Tuesday, oct. 18th, at 2:3O p.
Ia. as the time for electng II United
States senator. Adopted.
Mr.. Kemp of Montpelier presented the
petition of Leroy 4. Flint contesting the
ncat of Mr.. Daniels of Middesex. Com
mit;ce on elections.
/ Mr.. Ruttcrficld of Derby presented the
( rcmonstrancc of j. a. Whitney and 40
others against Mr.. Aliens holding his scat
as member from Tunbridge. Commit
tee on elections.
Speaker llaskins appointed the follow
ing committee to canvass votes for mem
bcrs of Congress, first congressional dis
trict:
Addison county-Messrs. Person of Lei
cester Sprague of Waltham, IIemcnway
of Granville.
Bennington county-Messrs. Woodward
of L.andgrove, Wyman of Peru, Young of
Glastonbury.
Chittenden commissioners of Hines
burgh. McGeary of Burlington, Fuller of
Undcrhil.
Franklin county-Parker of Montgom-
cry, Finnegan of Fairfield, Smith of
| Fletcher.
Grand Isle county-Marvin of Alburg.
Landon of South Hero, Dodds of North
Hero.
Lamoille county-Sherman of Cam
bridge, Luce of Stowe, Boynton of VOL
colt.
Rutland county-Clark OF Benson Del
ehanty Of aCstleton, Lincoln of Iro.
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Caledonia county-Messrs. Stafford OF
Walden. Ball of Newark, Morrison of Gro
ton.
Essex county-Trask Of Canaan, Call of
Guildhall McGinn!s of CRANKY.
Orange county-CarDenter of Washing
ton, Stearns Of Thetford, Renfrew of Fair
lee.
Orleans county-Nutting Of Westmore
Page of Holland. Kinsey of Lowell
Washington county-Watson of Wood
bury Strong of Berlin, Hathaway of
Morctown.
WiT1lham sounty-Tu1or of Somerset
Robbins of Athens, Sumner of Halifax.
Windsor County-Adams Of Barnard
Topper of Bethel. Shattuck OF Weston.
The Speaker also appointed the follow.
ing committee to canvass votes for county
officers, Judge of probate and justices o.
the peace:
Addison county-Messrs. Eastman OF
New Haven, Gibbs of Ripton, Aver OF
Goshen.
Bennington county-Roberson of Sand.
gate, Tulley of Dorset, Cutler of Wood
ford.
Caledonia commissioners of Stannard
Ruggles of Sutton, Webster of Burke.
Chlttcnden county-Bixhy of South Bur
lington, Hall of Bolton, Cobb of Westford
Essex county--Johnston OF Norton Gail
of Guildhall, Blodgett of Lexington.
Franklin cOunty-Coombs of Berkshire
Phelps of Enosburgh, Clark of St. Adams
town.
Grand Isle county--King of Isle La
Motto, Dodds of North Hero, Gordon OF
Grand Isle.
Lamoille county-Tackson of Waterville
Luce of stowe, Gould of Gilmore.
Orange county-Caldwell of Topsham
Carleton OF Vershire, Pratt of Williams,
town.
Orleans county-Patterson of Glover
Blair of Jay, Gilmore OF Morgan.
Rutland county-Dow of Chlttenden
Dickerman of Pittsford, Peters of Hub
bardton.
: Washington county-IIills of Duxbury
Tiden of Roxbury, Carroll of Fayston.
, Windham Countrywide of Grafton
Brown of Nottingham, Rand of Newfane
Windsor county-Wing of Rochester
Lewis of Norwich, Sherman of West
Windsor.
Adjourned, on motion of Mr.. Carpenter
: of Rutland,