The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-11-14

Middlesex comes up with the petition OF |
City -nine legal voters in favor VI the pro- |
hibil DRY law, and petition Of seventy-six
legal voters in favor OF the local option |
refe. endum bill.
The introduction of The bill for the re-
movsl OF the State Capitol was greeted by |
the House with derisive laughter. The bill |
was at first regarded as q joke, but later |
seemed to be taken more seriously.
The Burlington petition for local option
is headed by Hon. Edward Wells, and |
closely below Is that OF Arthur q. A. Hall. |
Episcopal bishop OF the diocese OF Vermont. |
Only fourteen bills have been signed by the |
governor, eight from the House and Six
from ii e Senate Only one OF the House
bills approved was q public act, that allow |
ing women to act as notaries public. All
OF The Senate bills thus far approved are pri- |
Vate bills
Twenty-Five bills in affect the school
laws twenty the highways and sixte n pro-
hibition. Forty bills affect the fish and
game laws, from which it appears that this
vastly important subject leads all others in
legislative attention
About $4,000 will be paid the Legislature
III OoSs Oihb Wutu II WAS nOU In session
mp to this week. The uninproved time
this week will add about $4,000 to the
above. And yet the Senate is afraid that
the State laboratory at Burlington will re-
ceive pay for work that it doesn't dol
Up 10 the beginning of this week the
Legislature had been in session nineteen
and one'haf days out of twenty eight work
ing days, and not an average of more than
two and one-half hours day. This would
make total OF forty-eght and one-half
hours that the General Assembly has actu-
ally been in session, safely less than fifty
hours in all
MIR. Hodges OF kipton, who introduced the
bill to permit of change of the State cap.
1tol, of course is not the power behind the
DILL IT Is understood tina it was drawn by
a prominent Rutland lawyer, and that
large element in that section and on the
west side is actively moving in the matter
Possibly it may Lot prove so much of joke,
after ALL
The bill to carve up Grand Isle county
was evidently waiting until after electitn
1t came in Thursday via Senator Ballard
and gives burg and North Hero to Frank
lin county and South Hero and Grand Isle
to ChiteDder county. What is to be done
with Isle LsMotle is not known, but it will
probably be made into an independent
prihclpality or colonial possession like VII
noosk, vii b Gov Fisk as vice regent and
Elk Senator Fleury as field marshal. Sc
riOusly, Franklin and Chittenden are not
going to be- allowed to embezz(e little
Grand Isle and it ia in no more danger of
being cut up than the capitol is of being re.
moved from Montpelier,
AT least three members of the joint com
mlttee on temperance have expressed them
selves iavorably on the bill to create State
inspector Of liquor agencies, and there IL
quite possibility that the bill may be re-
ported layorably. The bill of Mr.. Taylor
of HaIdwick provides for about the same
thing and The bills are, in sense hanging
on each other.
Three probate districts, Chiftenden,
Marlboro and Washington, asked for con-
siderable addition of salary for the Judges
but the committee on State and court ex-
penses fes decided to recommend an in
crease OF 800 per annum each In WMhing-
ton and CIitt nden coun les and nothing to
Marlboro. What an admirable split OF
economy!
The House got in irs fine work today on
big bundle OF ridiculous bills reported ad-
VeIsely by the fsh and game committee,
and several were killed 80 quick that they
didn't have inc to fall dead, vast num-
Der more are loaded certainly and newt.
ably toward destruction, and the commit
tee can find only three or four in the whole
bunch worth saving.
The House committee on highways has no
bill TO report which will make any radical
change in existing highway laws, and can
see no prospect OF III ateTial changes in them.
1t is very 30 dom tn, 30 days that mem
ber has the nerve to Hay anything about
ECONOMY in expenditures. Frailty, thy
name il (modeA) woman.
A commission to improve the forests? In
view Of he fact that the forests are contn-
ually eDcroaching on the farms, why not
help the under dog he farms-instead2
For ests will grow faster without attention
than fields will.
The cOmmitte on the revision of bills is
active II not startling When the gentle
man from Hard wick arises, the House be-
gins to repeat the formula.
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