The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-11-30
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
Pot VS.. Kettle.

POt vs.. Kettle.
says the Pot to the Kettle, you're squsnderlng
money
IN a way that to you may very funny.
You're always djournng to go on excursions,
Despite all your slam whangng hits and aspersions
Gainst me, whom you're trying to slur and belittle
For my jaunt down to Nashville" says Pot to the |
Kettle.
Says the Kettle to Pot, "'Tis you who are squan
d'rDg
The funds of the state meand'ripg and maund'rngi
You buy maple sugar, hire horses to ride,
Rent parlors to sit in, and Pullmans beside;
You're as reckless as am-its only plot
To hide your misdoingsr says Kettle to Pot
Says the Pot to the Kettle "Your tours of inspec.
ton
To asylums and prisons cause much disafection.
You're sent here cork; you do nothing but play,
And for this you are paid three dollars dayt
You're losing your grip by little and little;
The people won't standiti" says Pot to the Kettle.
Says the Kettle Pot, IAN know what you re doing
In the Investigation that you are pursuing
You're trying to keep yourself out of the way
Now the people have riz and the DIS to pay.
You would make me your scape-goat-that is your
plotl
You would 'white-wash' yourself" says the Kettle
to Pot
Says the Pot to the Kettle, 81 lis who noted
For wisdom and virtue'-(a phrase often quoted).
We hold all the power for better worse
We have in possession the sword and the purse.
Draw 1t mild will your salaries whittle,
Come off from your perchl" says the Pot to the
Kettle.
And 80 they go on reviling each other;
"Pot calls Kettle black" Kettle cries "you're
anotherp
The session drags on thro' the month of November,
The more days the more dollars to every members;
The taxes go up, the per diem goes on
And New Years will come ere the session is donei
J The poet indited this line-(be itnoted)-
/ Before the approaching adjournment was voted.
80
An old-time legislative writer for the DAILY
| JOURNAL once perpetrated the following
which will to-day find an answ er in many
! homes:
Husband, dear husband, come home to me
| now,
From the capital so cosy and warm
Its lonely without you, why do you not come
And see to the things on the FARM
| You told me when you were elected last fall
If would but once let you go,
You surely would come ere the autumn wa
OF course believed it was so.
|
Its nearly the time to make soap;
And some of the women are saying, my love,
| I'm giving you most too much rope
They say there is desperate flirting up there
With widows and maids not a few,
| haven't been kissed since the morning yol
left,
But Joseph-how is it with you?
Come home! Come homel
You hear me, you rascal Come home
Since Vermont was organized into
State and been burdened with legislator
has any legislative body within its border
made more piliable exhibition of rank il
competency than did the House of Repre-
sentatives Tuesday afternoon. In all tn
writer's experience in attendance on legi.
lative bodies did l ever see one so entrel
off its feet. The above opinion is also ider
tical with that of Speaker Haskins on til
same subject. 1t is the opinion of any san
man on the subject. From the hour of al
sembling until adjournment at six the Pre-
ceedings were provoc alive of alternate tear
laughter and profanity, and the sight wa
one to make angels hide their heads benin
their wings. 1t was not riot, it was
fairly orderly but apparently entirely il
capable mob.
And in this condition OF mind some of til
most unaccountable things were done. L
the first place, the condition Of mind i
which the House found itself was such q
to permit it to defeat DR.. Thomson's re
erendum bill, one OF the fairest and lea,
Objectionable that can be conceived of.
was the latent bigoted cowardice of the ms
} iority, veneered with senseless disregar
of all common sense and Justice. Thei
the animus of the House appeared to
continually to bro.l itself with the Sci
, ate. 1t left no thing undone to bring abor
a conflict and deadlock. 1t apparently wei
? out of its way to provoke trouble. An
| Of wi
GROWING foolishness of the session of I'll
day came, however, in the consideration
the bill from the Senate to abolish the offiC
OF adjutant general and to suspend the n,
tional guard. This was argued at length
3 and out of the chaos some actually sensib
remarks were heard. These were frol
, Representatives Butterfield Harris an
McGeary. The general discussion was
frightful exhibition of weary nonsense. Tt
bill was finally cut in two, on motion
Mr.. Kemp, with the unforeseen effect
e leaving the national guard as before
The bill then related only to the adjutal
general, the first three sections having bee
stricken out and after blind pow-wow
some length the House adjourned for SUI
per, leaving as unfinished business the thin
reading Of the slashed aud mutilated bill
After supper yea and nay vote was take
and the bill was refused a third reading
which ought properly to have been dor
four hours BEFORE ii IL was TO be done at a
! by vote of 67 yeas to II nays. So I'll
House leaves the militia and General Pee
, alone and plunges into a controversy wit
I the Senate. IL also repudiates the finding
of the investigating committee and stult
, fies itself in various and sundry differeI
directions.
, Tie Senate bill fixing the salary
the Governor at $1,000 per annum and
sum of not more than 81, 0C0 for expens,
of himself and staff was passed by I'll
House with rush last Tuesday evenin
The fixing of the amount Of expenses WI
an amendment which the Senate will n
doubtedly accept
The bill providing for the removal of til
court house of Essex county from Guildha
t to Island Pond appears TO have been cor
promised by the special committee of til
members from that county to whom the bi
was referred. 1t was reported favorably
tho House Tuesday evening with amen
ments providing that the Inhabitants
Island Pond, buy the land and build an
y furnish court house, and also Jail read
t for occupancy and all other necessal
county buildings. When this is done, u
+ shire shall be changed according to the pre-
/. visions of the bill. The report was antag
Q nized by MIR. Hale, and was being favore
k by Mr.. Hobson OF Brighton, when the latt