News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-22
LETTER FROM MONTPELIER.
What the Legislators Have Done During
the Past Week.
MONTPELIER, Oct. 81.

There are two topics especially
prominent at the state capital
namely, liquor legislation and bovine
tuberculosis. 1t is nip and tuck
between them in the competition tor
popular interest, with the odds IN
favor of the latter as storm breeder
at the present writing. A good deal
of feeling is manifested, many OF the
farmers are up in arms against the
cattle commission bill now before
the committee, and two decidedly
animated hearings have been held.
Ex-senator Higbee of Charlotte and
Rev. E. ]. Ranslow of Swanton have
spoken in opposition to the measure,
and warm fusilade ofinterrogatlon
and exclamation points have been
INDUCED in. The opponents of the
bill object to the tuberculin test as
altogether too fallible, and regard a
physical test, withimproved sanitary
conditions, better ventilated stables
and more outdoor exercise as likely
to be more effective in warding OFT
tuberculosis. Some of them do not
believe that the disease is communl-
cable from the animal to the human
family. The advocates of the bill
argue from a more or less SCIENTIFIC
standpoint; if there is any doubt as
to the possibility of communicating
the disease to the human family,
they are inclined to give the human
family the benefit of the doubt; and
they urge the utmost precaution
against the devastation of dairy
herds by the dread disease in ques-
ton. A strong effort will undoubt-
edly be made to kill the bill.
THE REGULATION OF INTOXICANTs.
If the traffic in Intoxicating liquors
is not duly regulated at this session,
it will not be because nobody tried
to regulate it. Already six bills for
this purpose have appeared, and it is
not unlikely that two or three more
will be introduced. Three out of the
six your correspondent has previously
mentioned. The latest arrivals in,
clude one-hundred- and Intersection
bill put in by Mr.. Fletcher of Caven
dish; measure introduced by Mr.
Conland of Brattleboro in behalf o.
the Democratic contingent; and q
dispensary bill by Mr.. Battell of Mid
dleburv. The two first mentioned
bills differ from those spoken of last
week in but few respects. One o
them provides for a seventh class Ii
cense Ito apothecaries, who shall sci
on physicians prescriptions only
and turns over to the state all the
revenue from licenses; the other, thu
, Democratic measure, provides tor
state inspector, allows the fee for {
frst-class license to vary from $500
to $3.50, fines a physician heavily
for giving a prescription for liquoi
) that he knows is not to be useC
strictly as a medicine, and puts spe
cial restrictions on the druggist tt
guard against unwarranted sales b.
him. There is no referendum fea
ture in the Democratic bill. Their
: naturally would not be, since tina
7 party recent campaign declaration
didn't read that way. Mr.. Battell
the chairman of the House committe
on temperance, has aimed to so fran
his dispensary bill as to harmonic
the different sentiments in the join
Y committee, Just what luck he will
have remains to be seen.
ELECTING A SENATOR AND STATE
OFFICERS.
There wasn't anything exciting
about the election of a United State
;. Senator, since Mr.. Dillingham; had
4 clear field and received 179 votes t.
: AZ for the Democratic candidate
Elisha May of St. Johnsbury. l
, nominating the latter, Mr.. Bund
= spoke of him as man whose service
i were always at the call of 1.-THE III
e fortunate ones of earth v; which RI
t mark may presumably be taken a
/, the speakers classification of his fe