Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-02-11

WHICH are ulsnhlaHTu WIN rus present nigh
way law to go back TO the old system Of
district management This bill the senate
is expected to kill. The holse has passed
bill allowing owners OF fruit trees to kill
partlidge' budding thereon at eny season
OF the year. This bill the senate has
killed. The house has passed bill repeal
irg all moiety sections of the existing stat
ut.s, To-day the house will in all proba-
bllity repeal the liquor law rrovri MS OF
the nuisance act" whereby buildings
used for tie sale OF liquor are put
under perpetual injunctions restraining
them from such use. The senate is ex-
pected to pass both of these bills and the
governor is relied upon not to veto either
OF them Their enactment is r. garde as
an entering wedge for the passsga OF
license law to replace our present prohib-
tory statute; but that r suit will not come
about at this session o. the legislature.
REMICH OF LITTLEToN.
The fight over the moiety law repeal
took up practically sll the time at Wednes-
DAVIS sessions. R,mich OF Iittieton mad
the principal speech for those who favor
the retention of the law on the statut-
books. He spoke for an hour ard ten
minutes, making one of the best a guments
OF his life; but be had no facts to bring
forward which most of bis listeners had not
heard and herd answered before. He
was therefore threshing over old straw
with unsatisfactory results. This gentle
man, Daniel G.. r, mich of Littleton, is one
of the most remarkable mrn in the state
brilliant lawyer. who has married for
tune, be devotes bis time and his money to
securing or endeavoring to secure the
enforcement of our prohbitory law. He
has succeeded in bis own town but else-
where in the state his efforts and those of
his coadIutors have rot hem successful; or
at least not so successful; or at least not
20 successful as they have wished. Mr.
r mich may get his reward in heaven, but
he is not getting much ont of his work
here on earth. He is known to be ambi-
ious politically but on account Of his pos
ion anti-rum he has been deteated in all
his aspirations for any position higher ttao
that of representative from his own town
If he had turned his energies into other
ines he would long ago have been mem
Der of congress.
The lea ling speech against the bill was
made by Fuller OF Exeter, a lawyer of that
academic town, whose remarks were not
particularly eloquent hut were iull of facts
that appealed TO most OF the members. Tne
test vote of the day was taken on the qpes-
ton, shall the report OF t e minority OF the
committee, ipexpedient to leeislate, be
substituted for that of the mojority, ought
to pass ? On a roll call ITO voted in the
aft native and 215 in the negative. Sew
eral amendments were debated a. d vo ed
on and finally the bill was allowed to pass
without even division.
The partri lge bill brought out consider
able debate and introduced one new ora
tor, Purnam of Hopkinton, who pleaded
the cause of the farmers ard fruit growers
so successfully as to win over a maj rity o.
the house to his way of thinking. The bill
got scant sympathy in the sena'e, however,
being refused a second reading by vote
of II to s. 1t is held by good lawyers
that under the bill Of rights and und r the
decision of the supreme court in certain
celebrated '.mlnk case" owners of fruit
trees have the right to protect their prop
erty against cartridges or any other
enemies OF the fruit. The principal argu-
IUOub VI Jue I'd III thio ctAttbkNiAA
was that they could not afford to defend
their rights in court as thev were likely to
be called upon TO do by fish AMI game de-
tectives if they shot partrldges in the close
season.
Tn highway bill passed by the house is
in a sense step backward and it is prob
able that the senate will refuse to retro
gress in that way. Undoubtedly, as was
stated in the house debate, the present
system does not work well in some sections
because good men are not always chos' n
a. supervisors but that does not seem a
sufficient reason for gong back to thu old
days when in some towns the care Ct the
highways was parcelled out among as many
as SO different agents
MILFORD AND MANCHESTER ROAD.
Next Tuesday will see final decision
reach ID by the house on the bills for q
railroad between M ltord and Manchester.
The railroad committee made its report
last Friday. Chairman French and eight
other members OF the committee voted in
favor of the Young. or Boston & Name
bill Stockwell OF Claremont, Kimball OF
Manchester and WILDLY OF Brookline We mt
on record as in favor of the Fitchburg bill
About this same ratio will be maintained in
the house while in the senate the Boston &
Maine bill will have little if any opposi-
ton.
The final hearing before the house COM
mittee was one of the notable events OF the
session. Hon. Charles f. Stone OF La
coma made an extremely eloquent and
frlicitous closing argument for the Fitch
burg, enlargirg upon the benefits of rail
road c,mpetiIi n and expressing the opin-
ion that Boston & Maine victory at this
time will not settle the question forever.
1.-The Fitchburg with It's new Vanderbilt
strength will come again and again until II
finally does get entrance into this
state" Frank S Streeter of this city for
the B ston & Maine devoted much his
time to flying Messrs. Worcester and Hit
finger, who had now, he said, thrown off
their masks of private citizan martyrs and