Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-11-30
THE LAST SET-TO.
The Legislature Will Adjourn To-
m0rr0w-S tickney as a Lobbyist
Resume of the Sessions Work.
Montpelier, Monday P. NJ, November 49,
Friends All

Friends All -
Once more and for the last time the
cohorts are gathering. The erstwhile de-
serted corridors resound to the tread OF
hurryipg feet-the latter is poetry and is
not orjginal-and the dogs of war are now
let loose for the final grapple. They are
keen for their prey-and pay-and the
final act in the comedy-drama Of '9S will be
a moving and enlivenipg one.
The crowd has returned with an appetite
for blood and in its wake is goodly
roundup of expert and scientific lobbyists.
No amateurs in the latter line are allowed
to exercise their profession at this last set
to; only the hardened old stayers are
trusted in the death scene. 1t is time
when moments are worth dollars and a
false move would spoil the well-laid plans
of weeks and months Decidedly it is a
time for cool heads and no false motions.
| OF verify this session has been the oyster
OF the lobby and the lobby has made the
most of it. l don't know that this legisla-
ture is unusually susceptible to influence
but many measures have come before it
which particularly invited the help or hin
drance of the third house and the gentle
men comprising that public spirited and
selt-sacri6cing body have responded nobly.
OF course there was "a little something in
it" for them and the retained attorneys of
combinations of individuals who wanted or
did not want certain things done have we'll
earned their salary.
In this way laws are made and laws are
kept from being made. In the morning q
bill springeth up as flower. 1t has only
friends and is hailed with delight by the
clamorous mob. 1t sails along toward the
governors approval as if all nature was
creased for the occasion when-presto
Its throat is cut quicker than Texas steer
is made to climb the golden stair in Chi
cago and the still waters of oblivion roll
/ quietly over it. This indicates that the
lobby has got in solar plexus clip. Then
again, bill which nobody seems to want
or own up to and which nobody compre-
and is out before the crowd can catch its
breath. The lobby has been getting in its
deadly work.
Well, enough of these gentry, and to
change the subject 1 will make little note
for the benefit OF po,terity. 1t has been
taken for granted that my good friend
Stickney OF Ludlow was irrevocably the
peoples choice for the next governorship,
but a shade of doubt has been cast over
this alleged fact because OF his very ener-
getic efforts in the corridors of the capitol
in behalf of the Rutland railroad and
against the interests of the people in the
case Of the mileage law recently enacted.
Bnt-Will of course is the Rutland rail
roads attorney and only earns his pay. 1t
may be stated, too, that Kittredge Has
kins, speaker of the house. will long lnger
in the minds Of many members Of the house
as gubernatorial possibility. But all that
is far in the future. / am not the political
editor of this paper; 1 am only stating q
fact as a matter of news
From now until final adjournment Thurs
day morning the house at least will work