Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-14
Speaker Currier announced the house

Sneaker Currier announced the mouse !
committees Monday night, The chairmen
are as follows; Agricul ure, Lyman OF Ex-
eter: agricultural college, White of Harris
VILE; appropriations, Young of Manches-
ter. asylum for insare, Waterhouse OF Bar
ring,on; banks, Slilngs OF Concord
claims. Atkinson OF Madison ;couny all irs,
Gardiner of Portsmouth; education, Pres
ton of New Ipswich; elet tions, Crutt OF
Bethlehem; fisheries and game, Battles OF
Concord :; forestry, Howe of Lancaste'
Interpretations, Jsquith OF Peterborough;
IN }us,rial school, Robv of Na.hus; in'ur-
ance. Keyes OF Milford; jnurral Of the
house. the speaker; Judiciary, Batchel er
of X, enc labor, Cheney OF Manchester;
honor laws. Bunker OF Rollins ord manu-
{ cures. MAYNARD of c aremont; mirage,
p,erce of Winchester; m tary sff irs,
Lewando of Woliborough; national affairs,
Cloueh of Alton; normal school, Alexan-
der Of Boscawen public health, Clark ct
Concord; public improvements, Morrill, OF
Dov.r: rail- osds, French OF Moulton-
borough; retrenchment and reform, Bailey
ut LYME; revision of statutes, Fuller OF
Exe,er roads, bridges and canals, Gray
Of .Jact.oo; rules, the speaker; sol iers'
home, Colis of Pc tsmouth; state rison,
Wood of Ma hua; towns, Park of Man
chester: unfinished business, Boisverr OF
Manchester; special committee on appor-
ticnment, Morrill, OF Gilfsrd ,int standing
committees, eng @ossed bills, FarI ban Of
Wakefield state house and state house
ward. johnson Of Concord; state library,
Remich Of Lttle'on.
| President Has ings made his senate com
mittesr.-s-lgaa<ii Sesday mcrnirg. The
chsirmqn IN 't6e higher branch are: JudIcl-
ary, S S Jewett revision OF laws, Adams
railroads, Maynard I; banks, Hatch ii ance
Ellis; agriculture, Pierce; manufactures
|Ml err; ducation, Floyd; interpretations
S If I'd /; military affairs, Proctor; claims
Fox; towns al d pari-hes, Collins; roads
bridges and canals, Yeaton; state prison
and industrial school, Field; Il ctions
Cbatel; asylum for insane, Dantorth
|lahcr. Sanborn; soldiers home. Putney
fisheries and game, Brown; int standiri
committees, engrossed bills, Morse; st't
library, Gordon; state house and stat
house yard, Frede lex Jewett.
This aitel noon the senate and house /
convention reelected Ezra S. Stesrn
secretary of state and Scion A. Carte
state treasurer, they rece wing 239 and %
votes respectivel to the sc ard 95 Of th-l
opponents, Colonel Thomas Ccg,wtl Il an
Editor Henry H. Metealf. 1t was vote
to postpone the electi n of public printt
nrtl after an nyest;gstirg committee ha
MAJ de its report on the wav in which th
public prin'lrg is done. S nator Ellis {
Keene is the chairman Of thi, joint comm
tee.
Among the bills SO far introduced ths
presage trout l. are two authorizing ii
construct m of railroad lines from MAJ
chester to Milford. Oae is in the intere
of the Boston & Nam and the other OF II
Fl chbrrg and while the former will u
: d1ubtedly prevail there will be frewoil
first. One charter for an electric ros
from Derry to P, ham has been asked IL
and others will be.
In the line of reform proposition b.
! hepn made to consolidate the forestry cen
mi sion and the labor bure au with the sta
b ard of agriculture while indept nde
bills have been introduced doing ava
with the fore stry and labor commission
: separately Mr. Remich OF Liltleton, WI
; a,pices to be the republican leader on th
floor Of the ,use, has put in bill crea
ing the { fiji e of state highway commit
soner at an annual salary OF $500 yea
Several bills are in for changes in the q1c
laws for restricting the use of money
elections, etc.
1SThe county delegations in the legisls
: lure organized this afternoon Cheshir
4 chose Willard Bill of Westmoreland chair
man, d Shedd OF Keene clerk, while Sn
ivan made S ockwell OF Claremnnt chat
man, and Hayward OF Acworth clerk.
!, The senate has achieved q1ife recor
e in one respect thus far not one bill havir
h been introduced or given notice of in Il
upper branch Toat be dy IS in good co
dlti to tackl. buslness as it comes I
n from the house and the lower branch m
!; will begin to grind out the bills rext wee
BUTLER.