Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-10-16
Senate Dillingham; 49, Grout 8, Ross |, Prouty g.
House. Dillingham; 88, Grout II, Aaze|ton
49, Prouty IA, Ross IA.
THE BuNDY LABOR BILL INTRODUCED
In the House To-day. Foil Text Of Measure. Great
Crowds in Montpelier To-day

Montpelier, oct, l6.-The interes
in the great senatorial contest over
shadows everything else today and i
is the one topic talked about on th'
streets, in the hotels and around th'
state house.
The House will begin the battle a
2.30 this afternoon when the name!
of the different candidates will be pre-
sented. Dillingham; will be named b.
Representative Moody of Waterbury
Grout by Representative Graham o
Crafvsb1ry: Ross by Representative
Huntington of Rochester, and Prouty
by Representative White of Rutlant
City. The name Of the democratic
candidate, Simeon Hazleton of Bur
lngton, will be pesented by John w
Currier. All the nominations will un
doubtedly be numerously seconded, ,ant
it will be after four o clock when tht
result of the vote is announced.
The Senate will open the battle al
Is this afternoon. Senator DeBOeI
of Washington will present the name
of W. p. Dillingham;; Senator Dun
nett of Caledonia will present Gen
Grout: Senator Clement Of Rutland
c. A. Prouty Senator Royce of Frank
lin, Judge Ross. There are no demo
Gratis in the Senate, and the demo
cratic candidate will not be presented
and will have no votes.
Tomorrow at II noon, the two
houses will meet in joint assembly
and vote for senator
The speculation here is all as tt
who vi i'll lead on the first ballot and
the concensus of opinion is that Grout
and Dillingham; will be very close to-
gether with Grout slightly in the
lead.
The result of the ballot will be
given in later edition of TIE TELE'
GRAM, issued about ) o'clock
Bundy, of St. Johnsbury, introduce
cd into the house today the following
,,nvv,o,,f kill.
Every manufacturing, mining or
quarrying, mercantile, railroad, street
railway, steamboat, telephone and
telegraph corporations, every incor-
porated express, electric and water
company, shall pay weekly in money,
each and every employee engaged in
it's business, the wages earned by such
employee to within six days of the
date of such payment: provided how
ever, that if at any time of payment
an employee shall be absent from his
ri gular place of labor he shall be en-
titled to such payment at any lime
thereafter upon demand. The provis-
ion of this section shall not apply to
an employee of a cooperative corpora
tion who is stockholder therein, un-
less such employee shall request such
incorporation to pay him weekly.
Sec. 2 An incorporation violating
any of the provisions of this act Shall
be punished by fine not exceeding
fifty and not less than ten dollars for
each violation, 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 respective
counties, shall, upon complaint made
or knowledge brought to them, bring
such action against any corporation
which neglects to comply with the
provisions of this act.
On trial of the action such corpora
ton shall not be allowed to set up any
defense for a failure to pay weekly an
employee engaged in it's business the
wages earned by such employee to
within six days of the date of said
payment, other than the attachment
Of such wages by the trustee process
or valid assignment thereof or
valid setoff against the same
or the absence of such employee from
his regular place of l,bor at the time
of payment or an actual tender to
such employee at the time of payment
of the wages so earned by him. No
assignment of future wages, payable
weekly under the provision OF this
act Shall be valid, it may to the cor
pOration 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 relicv-
ing such corporation from the obliga-
tion to pay weekly under the provi-
SionS of this act.
The house was in session about 30
minutes Yesterday and the senate