Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-10-29
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.

LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Several members Interested have
been busy preparing bill chartering
an electric road from Montpelier to
Newport, and it will soon be in shape
for introduction. The capital stock is
put at 5000 900, and the corporators
named include prominent citizens of
the towns through. which the road will
pass, besides others in the vicinity.
A large financial interest behind the
scheme is syndicate of prominent
capitalists of Lowell, Mass, who see
large profits in the enterprise and are
prepared to contribute literally. In
the syndicate is Hon. j. @. Burke for
merly of Newport, who, with G. T.
Huntoon of Lowell, will be named as
one of the corporators. The members
of the house and senate who repre-
sent the territory through which the
road will run are enthusiastically in
favor of the project and the towns
along the line can be depended on to
do everything within their power to
further the enterprise.
With a unanimousI voice the Gen
eral Assembly of Vermont voted to do
honor to man born in one of its
small towns, educated to certain ex-
tent in its public schools, who has
gone forth into the world and in the
faithful performance of a hazardous
duty has not only made the name of
Vermont more honorable but has
given to the American navy a high
standing among the nations, placed
before the American character
higher standard of excellence and
added another American name to the
worlds category of naval heroes. A
joint resolution authorizing the gov
ernor to secure portrait painted by
a competent artist and place it in the
State House for preservation as a
mark of special honor by the citizens
of the state. to Capt. Chas. e. Clarke,
late of the ,battleship Oregon, was in
troduced by Col. G. s. Emery of Chel-
sea, and when the rising vote called
for by the resolution was taken not a
member of either body remained in
his seat.
A very important bill was introduc-
ed Wednesday morning to provide for
an inspection of of the creameries in
the state by a state inspector. There
are to be two of these officers appoint
ed by the governor and they shall be
competent to use the Babcock test
and not stock holder in any cream
cry. The object of the bill is to make
the books and business standing of
any creamery liable to inspection at |
any time and thus incite the manage
ment to keep their business in proper
shape. The recent experience of the !
Shelburne operative Creamery
shows the need of some such measure. |
Mr.. Davis of Pomfret introduced an
"oleomargarine" bill. The bill re-
quires that anyone selling or exposing
for sale any article in imitation of |
butter shall have the words Limitation
butter, electromagnetic" )" or 4'butter-
inc, - whichever it may be marked in
SOoAAS CJPO OA OLAO pdChdSOs
The same provision for marking any
imitation of cheese is made. The
penalty for violating the law is 800
for the first offense and 5000 for each
offense.
Mr.. Fleetwood of Morrisville intro
duced a bill reducing the minimum
penalty for manslaughter from seven
years to one year.
A rather meritorious bill to make
its appearance was House bill 1877, in
troduced by Mr.. Sheldon of Fair
Haven. 1t provides for the election
Of one lister for one year, one for two
years, one for three years and the
election of one for a term of three
years annually thereafter. The house
was in working mood and large
number of bills were acted upon in the
short session held.
The large number of bills relating to
the supreme court of the state would
seem to indicate that considerable
discussion of that important subject
was impending but the majority of
these bills will be dropped as speedily
as they made their appearance.