Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-11-04
THE LEGISLATURE.
Continued from the list page.)
and steadily growing. The Rutland. Ca
madam railway bill has passed the house.
MONTPELIER, Nov.

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Routine business has progressed some
what today, but nothing startling has de
veloped. Senator Redfeld Proctor, who
has just returned from a trip to Europe
arrived in the city last night and has spent
the day here. He was invited before a
joint assembly of the two houses at II &c
this morning and spoke for about 20 min.
utes.
A joint resolution has passed both
houses praising the bravery and galantry
of Capt. Charles K. Clark of the battleship
Oregon and asking Congress to recognize
him by promotion or in some other suit
able way. Capt. Clark is a native of Brad
ford and as a young man lived in Mont
pelier. Another joint resolution directs
the Vermont representatives in Congress
TO secure il possible two of the Spanish
cannon captured at Manila by Admiral
Dewey for trophies to be preserved at the
state house.
A resolution was adopted by the senate
today for the appointment of a committee
to investigate the expenses of state officers
and states attorneys. The committee is
composed of Senators Plat, Foss and
Young. The house this afternoon passed
the bill taxing bicycles at % cents each,
the proceeds to be used in the construc-
ton of permanent roads. The house has
also passed the bill to compel the display
of the United States flags over all school
houses, but it was only after a sharp de-
bate and by the close vote of 81 to 81.
Notes.
The two bills to create the office of in
surance commissioner will be debated by
the senate as a special order next week
Thursday at 3 o'clock.
An effort is being made through a bill
before the legislature to get the state to
pay the expenses of Mildred Brewster
while she was at the Heaton hospital here
awaiting trial for murder.
The bill to give women representation
on state boards was killed in the senate by
a vote of IA to 10 but there is a municipal
suffrage for women bill yet to be disposed
of before the house.
Halloween night somebody BACKED the
boots of the statue of Ethan Allen at the
statehouse main entrance and the Mont
pelier police have since been busy in an un
successful effort to locate the perpetrators
of the outrage.
Three attempts are being made to change
division lines and boundaries at this ses-
sion of the legislature. Montpelier wants
a small part of Berlin, Hyde Park is anx-
ious for a strip of Morristown, and Gale
donia wants TO take the town of Concord
entire from Essex county. In connection
with the last named case an effort is being
made to have the county seat of Essex
county changed from Guldhall to Brigh-
ton.
Senator Hit, by request, has placed a
bill before the Senate which has raised an
important question. 1t is a bill to pay
Bert o Ware the sum named "a little more
than $l00) as his expenses while sick dur
ing the time he was in service during the
war with Spain. There are scores and
perhaps hundreds of cases similar to that
of Ware and to pay him his expenses would
raise precedent which would be consider
ed important.
Mr.. Robbins, of Athens. votes by ballot
when it comes TO yea and nay vote. Years
ago Mr.. Robbins was affected by illness so
that now he is dumb Yet this impedi-
ment did not hinder the people of his town
sending him TO represent them. When he
wishes to vote he writes his name on a
ballot, and as his name is called raps for a
page and sends the slip containing his
vote to the clerks desk - Montpelier
Argus.