St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-24
VERMONT LEGISLATURE.
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Another bill repeats section of No. Il
of the acts of 1898, which forbids frater
nal benefits from employing paid agents
except in preliminary organization o
subordinate bodies, to general commit
| tee.
His weekly payment bill was referred
to the committee on corporations ant
by introducing it Mr.. Bundy becomes its
logical champion and will be heard from
later on this subject. The full text of the
bill is as follows:
Sec. /. Every manufacturing, mining
or quarrying, mercantile, railroad street
railway, steamboat, telegraph and tele.
phone corporations, every incorporated
express, electric and water company
shall pay weekly in money, each and
every employee engaged in its business,
the wages earned by such employe to
within six days of the date of such pay
ment provided, however, that if at any
time OF payment an employe shall be alb.
sent from his regular place Of labor he
shall be entitled to such payment at any
time thereafter upon demand. The pro-
vision of this section shall not apply to
employees OF cooperative corporation
who are stockholders therein, unless such
employe shall request such incorporation
to pay him weekly.
Sec. 2 Any incorporation violating any
of the provisions of this act shall be pun
ished by fine not exceeding fifty and
not less than ten dollars for each viola
ton, to be recovered, with costs of
prosecution, in action in the name of the
state, and paid into the state treasury,
providing such action shall be commenced
within thirty days from the date of such
violation. States attorneys in their re-
spective counties, shall, upon complaint
made or knowledge brought to them,
bring such action against any corpora
ton which neglects to comply with the
provisions of this act. On trial of the
action such corporation shall not be
allowed TO set up any defence for failure
to pay weekly an employe engaged in its
business the wages earned by such en-
plove to within six days of the date of
said payment, other than the attach
ment of such wages by the trustee
process, or a valid assignment thereof,
or a valid set off against the same, or
the absence of such employee from his reg
ular place of labor at the time of paw
ment, or an actual tender to such en-
ploye at the time of payment of the
wages so earned by him. No assignment
of future wages, payable weekly under
the provisions of this act, shall be valid,
if made to the corporation from whom
such wages are to become due, or to any
person on behalf of such corporation, or
if made, or procured to be made, to any
person for the purpose of relieving from
such corporation the obligation to pay
weekly under the provisions of this act.
SENATOR DUNNETT's BILLS.
Senator Dunnett's bill to insure safety
of trust companies met with no favor in
the senate and it was reported adversely
and ordered to lie. Only five senators
favored the bill and though it was all
right in its principle the banking in
terests did not want to see it become a
law.
His bill providing that husbands and
wives shall be competent witnesses in
court against each other, under certain
provisions, has passed the senate and
ought to pass the house.
Another bill which he introduced last
week would, ifit became law, enable
towns or cities to contract with hospi-
tails for bed for one year, or to perma-
nently endow bed, for any patient
that may be supported by said town.
Senator Dunnett expects to introduce
one or more bills the coming week.
ELECTION OF JUDGES AND STATE sUPERIN-
TENDENT.
The election of supreme court judges
occurred Thursday afternoon and all the
present incumbents were elected by accla-
nation. Judge Stafford was placed in
nomination by his friend and townsman,
representative Bundy. The contest for
of education was also
devoid of excitement as E. L. Temple of
Rutland withdrew from the contest and
Principal Ranger of the Johnson Normal
School was elected by acclamaton
Prof. Ranger was gracefully nominated
by Representative Fleetwood and Mr..
Weeks of Lyndonville and Senator Dun
nett seconded the nomination.
For Seroean1- farms Senator DeRoer
nominated T. c. Phinney of Montpelier
and he was unanimously elected.
Mr.. Currer of Troy introduced a Joint
to postpone the election of adj
jutant and inspector general, quarter
master general and judge advocate gen.
eral, until the first Thursday in Novem-
Der OF 2.30 p. m. Adopted.
Redfeld Proctor, f. J. Ormsbee and
Nelson W. Fisk were elected trustees of
the University of Vermont and State
Agricultural College. The joint assem-
bly, was then dissolved.
DOUBLE TAXATION BILLS
Thanks to Commissioner Bigelow of
the Burlington Free Press the bills on
this important subject promise to be the
most numerous and perhaps the most
important of the session. Mr.. Bigelow's
own ideas were involved in a bill intro
duced by Mr.. Hale OF Lunenburg last
week. His bill would equalize taxation
by exempting the creditor.