The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1902-11-21

: uD the whole system.
And the House isn't hair behind
when it comes to Orange County.
I Always conspicuous in the legis1at.
i've councils of the state, it is rig hi
: up on the front seat this year. First
in prominence of course is the gen
tleman from Newbury. Always well
thought of and considered wherev.
er known Mr.. Bailey has very large
, 1y extended his field of acquaintance
. this year. and as natural and inev-
liable result has made hosts of new
friends His ability was at once
recognized by his appointment as
chairman of the important commit
tee on railroads and later by his
virtual chairmanship of the temper
ance committee on the part of the
House. With Senator Emery as
chairman on the part of the Senate
certainly Orange County will GO
down in history as fathering what
ever liquor measure may finally be
evolved. The democracy is very
strong in the House in quality, and
this is heavily contributed to by
Garfield of your town, Comstock of
West Fairlee and Martin of Corinth.
All have made most excellent rec
ords and are entitled to the cordial
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a man. Another Orangeite who is
found near the head of the front
rank is Warren Hood of Topsham,
who has most ably and abundantly
maintained the reputation of old Top
sham in the halls of Legislation.
The people of that town made no
mistake in sending him to the
House, and unless their expectations
were away up they could hardly have
realized how eXce1lent1y they were
to be represented. l suppose l ought
to tell the truth about my old friend,
Jim Morrill, of STAFFORD, but all the
good things l could, should and
would say of Jim would roll off him
like water off duck. He is born
and trained legislator, and has more
than fulfilled the reasonable expecta-
tons of his constituents. If he
cared to, he might attain political
distinction in vastly wider fields,
but, who knows? A quiet life is
best, after all. About every good
thing in praise and to the credit of
good men who do good work intelli-
gently and faithfully might we'll be
said of Frank Allen of Brookfie1d,
H. N. Mattison of Chelsea, Lyman
Heath of Fairlee, Charles Carpenter
of Orange, F. o. Newcomb of Thet-
ford and B. F. Fuller of Vershire.
All are most creditable and efficient
Legislators, and their verdict will
read "Well done, good and faithful
servants.''
A combination of gentlemen of
large means are seeking incorpora-
ton under the name of "The YER
mont Industrial Association" with
a present capital stock of $50, 600.
The object of the company is "to Sc
cure the settlement of people within
the state and thereby advance the in
dustrial interests of Vermont, to buy,
hold, sell and convey real estate, to
manage an industrial farm or farms,
to propagate blooded stock, to i'm
port such stock and deal in the prod
ucts thereof" The company is
made up of men of large wealth and
energy who believe in Vermont and
their project will have the best wish
es of everybody. Certainly it will
be watched with much interest.
A bill which has passed the House
and which seems to hit the nail
squarely on the head is that which
provides that money loaned at AZ
per cent or less on real estate shall
be exempt from taxation to the
amount of the appraised value of
the real estate. Why not? The
House has also passed the bills al
lowing the governor to name one
woman for membership on each of
the boards governing state institu-
tions, to require a sworn statement
of election expenses from candidates
after election, to permit towns to
elect two road commissioners at
their discretion. 1t also passed the
bill raising the state highway tax
to ten cents, after a hot opposition
from the cities and larger towns.
These characterized the measure as
simply highway robbery under the
guise of Legislative sanction, and
hot1y opposed this plan of taking
from the we1l-to-do to give to the
destitute. The small towns were in
a large numerical majority, howev-
er, and after their big brothers had
wearied themselves with their vehe-
ment protests, winked the other eye |
and passed the bill.
The House has also passed the |
bill abolishing the blank space at
the head of official ballots, regulat-
ing the practice of embalming, APP
propriating s., 500 to be laid out in
permanent road work in the town of /
Woodford, appropriating $4,000 of
the state school tax for the relief of |
needy towns, restricting vicious
dogs, requiring street railroad com
panies to erect stations when re-
quired to do so by the supreme
court. This last seems little sim
gular, when you come to think of it.