Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-10-21
NOTHING BUT BILLS.
THE LEGISLATURE ENGAGED IN ITS
FAVORlTE OCCUPATION.


dav forenoon. Nineteen bills were in
troduced in the house, and four in the
senate. Quite number of Joint reso-
lutions were disposed of in both houses.
Among the bills introduced in the SEN
ate was appointment of women on
several of the state boards, trustees of
the Industrial School, directors of the
states prison and House of Correction,
supervisors of Insane and Vermont
Asylum.
Senator Smith introduced bill Great
ing the office of Attorney General. A
similar bill was introduced in the house.
One of the senate bills allows the
owner of deer in parks or enclosures to
kill, sell or dispose of them as he sees fit.
Among the bills in the house were two
or three touching the matter of fish and
game and one compelling railroads to
sell thousand mile mileage tickets good
for bearer.
In the house in the afternoon bill was
introduced by Mr.. Carpenter of Rutland
to prevent the use of trading stamps,
coupons and other devices in the sale or
exchange of property under penalty of
fine of from $40 to $50.
A bill by Mr.. Wall of Randolph In
corporates the Central Vermont Railway
company. The incorporators are as fol-
lows E. C. Smith, d. d. Ranlett, Charles
Leroy. Charles NJ. Hays, John G..
Mccullough, w. Seward Webb, Ezra Ii.
Baker, Samuel Kilmer. The corporation
is created for the purpose of acquiring
title to and owning and operating the
railroads of the Central Vermont Rail
road company, Missisqui Valley Railroad
company, Burlington and LamOile Valley
Railroad company, and also the lease of
the New London and Northern Railroad
company, and the stock of the Montreal
and Vermont junction Railroad COM
pany, and to operate any other railway
on the consent of the other stockholders.
Capital stock S3,OOO,OOO, divided into
100000 shares. The incorporators are
first to meet hen the property of the
Central Vermont railway has been sold
under the decree of the United States
circuit court of Vermont, and such sale
confirmed.
At sos o'clock the senate voted for
United States senator. Redfield Proctor
was nominated unanimously, no other
name being put in nomination. The nom
mating speech was made by Senator
Partridge of Rutland, seconded by
Messrs. Young of Orleans, Mccullough
and Enright of Windsor. In the house
the vote was taken at 2:30. Senator
Proctor was nominated by Higbee of
Proctor. Harris of Bennington nom
mated T. w. Moloney as Democratic
candidate. The vots was 179 for Proctor,
40 for Molonev.
The Central Vermont railroad bill was
introduced in the senate in the same
terms as In the house.
A bill to do away with double taxation
has been Introduced in the house by Mr..
Booth of Milton. 1t requires the listers
and appraisers Of the several towns in
the state when taking the list to learn
from the owner of any real estate if the
property is mortgaged, and if so, to
whom. The mortgagee's name and the
amount of unpaid mortgage notes held
by him against the mortgagor shall be
entered in a separate column in the
grand list book and the listers are to
set the entire real estate or the value
mortgagor, who is liable for all taxes
lawfully assessed upon the same, but
ne shall have the legal right to collect of
the mOrtgagee that proportion of the
tax which the grand list book shows
belonged to the mortgage to pay on
said real estate. The bill also does away
with any deduction from the appraisal
value of the personal property of any
mortgagor by reason of any Indebtedness
of such mortgagor secured by mort
gagor upon any real estate owned by him
in this state. The mortgage notes them
selves are not to be taxed and everything
Inconsistent with this bill is repealed
The bill is to take effect March l, 1899.
Both houses did considerable amount
of business on Wednesday. The senate
passed a bill relating to the Investment
by trustees of public funds.
Senator Smith introduced bill amend
ing the laws relating to the Withdrawal
of deposits in savings institutions by ad
ministrators or executors.
Senator Griffith introduced bill fol
the preservation of fish, making the clos'
season from September to May, and i'm
posing penalty OF SlU IOf tne taxing o.
trout, land-lOcked salmon, salmon trout
and lunge out of season.
A bill was introduced for the incorpO
ration of a savings bank at Enosburl
Fails.
Among the bills introduced in tn
house that morning was one protecting
the beaver from being killed, and rail
road mileage bill introduced bV the gen
tleman from Monkton. This is the sam
as the other mileage bill.
Mr.. Jordan of Jericho introduced
bill providing for an annual report fron
the grand jury to the county Judge con
cerning the manner in which the state
attorney has done his duty.
Mr.. Butterfield of Derby introduced
bill for the purchase of flags for school,
houses, the expense to be met out of tn
public school money.