Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-10-12

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orator thinks hims 1T enhancing the bretb.
rem by his melodious flow of language and
extreme paucity OF ideas, his compatriots
will glance yearningly at the member from
Athens ard retl4 that OF all sad words the
saddest are that it ought to have been, but
isn't in certain other cases.
| regret TO be obliged to admit it but
fear that some members who can't talk but
hink they can, and others who can talk
beautifully without saying anything will
endeaVor tos command attention. These
are awful but probably unavoidable r, flee
lions "A woman who can't sing but who
thinks she can is bad enough, but as a pub
nc misfortune, 1T isn't in it with the mem
Der who believes himself called to talk
Indications now point uuquestionably to
the reelection by the legislature of Super
intendent OF Education Stone and Adiutant
and lnspe ctor-General Peck. The supreme
court will not be troubled and very few
changes are likely in the boards as COM
pared with other years. Some inc ffectual and
spssmodic effort will be made to secure the
adjustment OF certain boards and commits
sions of more or less Importance, but do
not expect them to succeed.
1t is the proper thing to raise an uproar
and agonizing howl over the utter worth
lessness and mefiiciency OF some state
board, but when the members come to
read up and inform themselves on the work
accomplished by the commissioners and
their indisputable practical value, they al
low that the revolutionary clamor for
nihilism must not prevail.
Generally speaking the boards have be-
come valuable state institutions, public
necessities in the line of their work. pro-
hfic OF most excellent results, and it would
be the most wretched shortsightedness to
allow such ignorance OF the pubics well
fare to prevail.
Although there are nearly 100 members
OF the house who are squartly opposed to
the continuance of the prohibitory law, yet
believe there are more practically tenn
perate men in that body than for many
years. This | judge to be fact and a
most important one. Somebody who has
investigated the question says there are 4S
republican members elected on the anti
prohibition issue and many more could be
won over to that side vii great deal
of argument. Of the AZ democratic mem
bers, / understand there are three ID favor
OF prohibition-remarkabl fact-and all
from Washington county.
The conservative and far-s; GIFTED oppo-
lnents of prohibition will content ,hemse Ives
with securing the adoption OF the referen-
dunn, which think will 90 through without
much difficulty. The discussion of the
unbounded oratory.
upper house; Senator Hit of Brattleboro
is another distinguished looking citizen, as
is also Smith of Burlington and Putnam of
Middlesex.
Some are likely to insist on the forcing
of vote on license bill, which they will
see defeated by large maj2rity. The
reterer dunn is essentially the first step
toward changing the law, and those favor
ing change should be content with secur-
ing its adoption.
A point for lady visitors to the capital
In the senate the two most distinguished
looking officials are Lieut. Gov. Bates and
senator and president pro-tempore McCul-
Tough. Bo h have clear cut, strong and
intelligent features and with their silver
hair and large white mustaches, attract and
h I'd especial attention. Among the decid-
tdly good looking senator's are Bartlett OF
Essex ard Stearns of Lamoille, each the
only representative of their counties in the
" hen 1t comes to masculine beauty,
however, must allow that the state Off
| Gals show up 'gorjus." Secretary How
land, Treasurer Bacon and Auditor Barber
are a trio impossible to excel in this line.
Drop in for a glance at tn, m and you will
admit that | have great taste in this matter.
The following senate committees were
{ tficlally announced this morning:
Rules, Mccullough, Partridge and Cha
fey.
Finance, Smith, Griffith and Watson.
| Judiciary, Young, Blodgett, Pickett,
Cudworth, Partridge, Platt and McCul-
Tough.
Claims, Enright, Soule, Young, Walker,
Perley.
Banks, Hit, Ross, Smith,
Land tax, Griffith, Hall, Chafey.
| Printing, Sayles, Watson and Fay.
General committee, Platt, Partridge,
Pickett, Fay, Cudworth and Fleury.
Manufactures, Stearns, Bartlett and
Putnam.
Elections, Bartlett, Chafey and Hit.
Military affairs, Putnam, Bachelor and
Soule.
Railroads, Watson, Thomson, B'odgett,
Foss, Stearns, Fleury and Barnes.
State Prison, Fleury, Hall ana Perley.
Insane, Thomson, Steele and Slayton.
Grand list, Batchelder, Sayles and
Blodgett.
Corporations, Pickett, Platt and Put
nam.
Education, Barnes, Slsyton, Fleury,
Sayles and Steele.
Highways, Soule, Lynde and S!ayton.
From the above you can easily discern
where your local statesmen are placed, and
it seems to be probably where they will do
the most good.
The Windsor county members are placed
on the house committees as follows
Lewis of Norwich, last on elections
George Of Rockingham, fourth on ways
and means Whitcomb OF Cavendish, fifth
on way and means; Wheeler of Weathers-
field, fifth on military affairs; Buck of
Reading aud Downer of Sharon, seventh
and eighth, respectively on ways and
means; Simmons of Woodstock, third on
education; Upper of Bethel, sixth on
railroads; Waterman OF Chester, twelfth
on highways and bridges; Whitcomb OF
Cavendish, second on banks; Bridge of
Brldgewater, eighth on manufactures;
Whitney of Springfield, second on agricul-
ture; Adams OF Barnard, last on agricul-
ture Harding of Pomtret, eighth on land