Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-12-04
Att AGAIN.
Legislature Right Onto its Job. After
Thanksgiving Recess.
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Seventy-three bills handled in the House
4s in the Senate, nearly half of which were
definitely disposed of, was the record o
the first day of the post Thanksgiving ses-
sion.
The day was also notable for the first
veto by the governor, who returned to the
House a bill authorizing the town oil
Woodbury. TO appropriate 5000 in aid OF
the Fletcher Granite Co. His objection
was that the courts have held such acts
unconstitutional.
Another feature of the day was the re-
port Of the special committee appointed to
examine the condition of Doherty and
Eastwood, condemned murderers await
ing the death penalty. Five doctors, mem
bers of the assembly, viz, Mayo, Greene,
Fish, Peck and Conand visited these men
IN states prison last week. They report
that Doherty is undoubtedly insane, suffer-
ing from the kind OF insanity known as
"paranoia," and that he was probably ir-
responsible when he killed Murphy. As
to Eastwood, they say be is a victim of
"Alooholic dementia,n also a trouble of
the spinal cord which has induced loco
motor ataxia, and has lost greatly in
weight. This report will undoubtedly give
the assembly the desired avenue of escape
I from ordering that these men shall hang.
! They will be commuted. Frank Shaw 5
sister is here today lobbying in his behalf,
and Il looks like wholesale delivery from
\ the gallows.
The House "did things" to the bounty
\ bill as il came back from the Senate. The
Senate proposed to have a bounty Of 1925
on foxes during the summer months and
l 10 cut out the 4Oc. bounty on hedgehogs
voted by the House. The House said init
/ to the fox bounty and insisted on the
| hedgehog reward.
There was some talk on the outside
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enter into the deliberations Of either
house The time has now elapsed within
which the House can reconsider. The
Hoase bill has gons to the Senate, where
It viii be taken up in due course of busi-
ness. The Senate bill is now in the House,
but will be allowed 70 slumber in commit
tee, awaiting the action OF the Senate on
the House bill which differs slightly from
the one that passed the Senate, II is
thought the Senate will insist on the half
and half division OF license funds and this
may make necessary conference to har-
NOME the differences on this point. II
is reported that there viii be some changes
made in the referendum provision in the
Senate, as a result Of concessions that the
license men are willing 10 make, putting
of the date at which the new act will be-
come effective in case Of "No' vote un-
til 1906, and possibly date a little more
remote than the first Tuesday in January
viii be set for the vote. All this is talk,
as yet.
There is some discussion as to the pros
pect of adjournment this week but it looks
now as II II would run over into the Sec
ond week surely. There are good many
important bills yet 10 be taken up.
The Senate killed the House bin refusing
to allow as offset against personal property
debts owing outside the state; also TO
pay ID G. Jones the sum named; also the
Senate bill restoring the Australian ballot
'in its integrity"
The Senate passed Senate bills relating
to disposal of tax Inventories; providing
for reeounting OF votes; aholishing re- /
quirment of judges certificate for states /
attorneys salary; two bills relating to /
schooling OF pupils in towns outside, I
conveyance Of pupils and truancy; also /
passed House bits allowing towns TO 4
unite Zoe Improvement OF highways; re- I
lating to i1v.ntoc.es not returned; re- 1
latdg 10 ime for ape. i from real estate /
to paw I0maine Il. Spaiford /
the sum named; relating to summer 4
schools aud educational meetings.
in the House, an important new bin 1
was introduced from tue committee on /
ways and means relating to taxation. Ii /
deals with the method Of imposing aud 1
the state taxes. Perhaps its
most important provision is that increas-
ing the amount OF savings bank deposits
exempt to the depositor from $500 to
s2O0O.
The House killed an appropriation for
a desolate highway in Elmore; also a
bill prohibiting the sale of trout and
other fish.
This evening, in Representatives hall,
ihe "foot and mouth disease was thor
)ughly aired before the committee on
agriculture. &. J. Bell and Geo. T. Il
Aitken of the state board, who have
been following up the disease in Chester
md vicinity, explained il and the steps
AIKEN to check il. Il was introduced into
Vermont by carload of cattle that came
rom Concord. The towns Of Chester,
Andover, Grafton and Windham have
)een strictly quarantined. II has not
lppeared elsewhere. Incidentally, the
Russell tuberculosis bill came in for an
'ver hauling, and was vigorously de-
ended by its author. An amendment
5 to be offered. as the result Of the
PRESENT scare authorizing the commission
o institute a quarantine, m cases Of
attic epidemies, but not tuberculosis.