News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-10-29

dicatiOn now than there was a week
ago of even the usual flood of bills
this session. Interest continues to
center mainl y around two burning
questions What sort of a liquor
bill shall we pass land The Cattle
Commission-what are we going to
do about it," November 1st is the
limit for bill-introducing; how much
beyond that point the would-be i'm
provers Of the statutes will be allowed
to go, remains to, be noted later.
The people generally will hope not
very far,
The bill to reduce the rate of inter
est from six to five per cent. was
killed in the Senate Jackson of this
county opposed the bill on the
ground that if it became a law, mort
cages that were out would be
called in, and that money would be
rushed into the Savings Banks.
The Senate bill making a plurality
an election instead of a majority,
was ordered to lie.
FIR. O'sULLIvAN.
That was a neat hit made bv FIR.
OSullivan, the member from St. AL
bans, with his patriotic joint resolu-
tion bearing on the coal strike settle
ment, and Speaker Mortified did not
care to check the applause which fol
lowed its presentation. The resolu-
ton expressed .Vermont's apprecia-
tion of the splendid conduct of
President Roosevelt in bringing the
conflicting interests together and Sc
curing the peaceful termination of a
labor trouble which had become a
serious menace to every citizen of
this nation. 1t didn't take long for
the Senate to endorse and adopt the
resolution when it reached that
body, and now the President knows
what Vermont's General Assembly
thinks of him as a strike settler.
WOMEN's PETITIONS.
If all the petitions sent in by the
women from different sections of the
State in behalf of the present pro-
hibitory law could be pinned or pasted
together they would extend for a
distance of-well, never mind the
number of miles. The petitioners not
only want the present statute pro-
tected, but they want a chance to
vote on the referendum when that is
put before the people. 1t may be
that the forthcoming liquor law will
contain enough prohibition-or per-
haps it is better to say restrictiOn-to
suit most of the women; but as to
their getting a chance to vote for its
adoption or efection-why, that's
another story.
Mr.. Pape of Barre city does not
believe that a merely thoughtless
boy, who commits a misdemeanor,
should be sent to the Industrial
School for the rest of his minority,
while the man who wrecks a bank
goes to jail for only seven years. He
introduced bill allowing Justices
to commit boy to the Industrial
School for portion of his minority
only, and the House said the Barre
man was right and passed his bill.
OTHER DOINGs.
A considerable number of impor-
tant "doings" are booked for this
week, outside of the regular sessions.
Last night Chaplain Farman of the
Senate delivered his interesting lee
ture on Philip Sheridan" This af-
ternoon there is hearing before the
Ways and Means Committee on the
bills touching corporation taxes
and tonight comes another hearing
on the cattle commission bill. We'd
nesday afternoon, in joint assembly, |
the portrait of Vermont's favorite,
Admiral Clark, is to be unveiled, On
Thursday evening the Vermont His
torical Society holds it's annual
meeting. On Friday evening, Mr..
Clement and representatives of the
women of the State appear before
the joint committee on temperance
to present their views on very inn
portant subject.
THE GENTLEMAN FROM NEWBURY.
The Lamoille county friends of the
gentleman from Newbury" will APP
preciate this little paragraph con-
corning him, from the st. Adams
Messengers capital correspondence;
I'm his speech asking that 1000
copies of the acceptance speech of
Senator Dillingham; be printed for
distribution among the members,
Mr., Bailey paid a most eloquent
tribute to the man whom the legis-
lature honored last week. That Mr..
Bailey was sincere in his remarks,
and that what he said met with the