Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-12
The ONE GREAT ISSUE
Local Option Men Organized Last Night---Bi| to
Be Prepared At Once
LEGISLATURE ADJOuRNES TO-DAY
Until Monday Afternoon. First Junket Was to the Fish
Hatchery at Roxbury, Yesterday.

Montpelier, Oct. IA non.parti
san meeting attended by about l0(
members in favor of change in the
present prohibitory law was held ir
the State House last night, After
considerable discussion it was decided
to prepare local option bill with q
referendum clause attached and q
committee of four were appointed tt
draw it up 1t will then be submit
ted to the caucus again and in its tina
form presented to the House as the
authorized bill Of the opponents OF
the present law, SO the struggle from
now on will be between the friends OF
the present law and the friends q
local OPP ion.
SENATE TODAY.
The Senate met at 10 a. m. After
devotional exercises by the chaplain
little business was done before adj
iournment until Monday afternoon at
o'clock.
The more important was the taking
up of the proposed amendment to the
constitution changing election from
September to November from the
table and referring it to the judiciary
committee.
The first bill to pass the Senate was
No. 2,creating a board of public works
for st. Adams.
A Joint resolution was passed to en-
able the proper committee to visit the
states prison. at the expense of the
state.
House met at 10 O. clock with Speak
er Proctor in the chair. After devo-
tional exercises by the chaplain, Will
liams of Bloomfield introduced reSo-
luton providing for joint assembly
at noon Wednesday to complete the
election of United States senator.
Adopted.
The first bill to pass the was No.
to pay Berlin S2S1.27, the amount OF
county tax paid by the town in 1898,
on account of the annexation of Ber-
lin street to Montpelier
Gilmore of Swanton introduced a
bill to permit seining in Lake Cham
plain and Memphremagog in the
spring when Canadians draw their
SeineS.
Emery of Chelsea, a bill to provide
for the sale or lease of certain church
and school lands in that town.
Rounds Of Shrewsbury, a bill allow,
ing towns to exempt certain property
used for town purposes.
Moody of Waterbury, bill to pre-
vent and punish the fraudulent con-
cealment of property from the listers
Pearsons of Coventry,a "a bill relating
to public Instruction, repeating GER
tain parts of the present law.
Blake of Miltonya bill to prevent
illegal fishing.
Adjourned to O'Clock Monday af'
ternoOn.
YESTERDAY.
The sessions Cf both houses yeSter'
day were remarkably short, about sc
minutes in the forenoon and As minu
tes in the afternoon.
The only measure introduced in the
house in the afternoon which will
create any stir, was by Currier of Troy,
providing that the offices Of adjutant
and inspector general and quarter
master general be consolidated. The
bill will meet with some opposition,
but nevertheless commends itself as
sensible business proposition. If the
bill passes General Gilmore I'LL the
combined offices.
Senator Clement sprung real joke
in the senate when he introduced his
bird feather bill. 1t prohibits the
wearing of feathers of birds for dress,
and the penalty is S.. Parties pass
ing through the state on the senators
railroad, among Others, will not be
subject to the provisions of the act
1t is expected that the milliners vii
soon begin to throng the lobbies'
Senator Varney Of Chittcndcr
county wanted to set an >amendmen,
TO the constitution in motion, provid