The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-29

did not use them.s Neither did the |
young ladies.
" In Offering his liquor traffic bill Mr.. |
Battell accompanied it with the state |
ment that the bill contemplated a |
"Vermont system - The measure had |
been carefully drawn, he said, with |
the assistance of the best legal talent, |
and it was believed would satisfy the |
State and the members of the General |
Assembly
a gentleman from Rutland county
is doing some third house work to pre-
vent the passage. of the bill extending
the open deer season fifteen days. He
offers to deposit $1,000 with the State
treasurer to make good the losses far
mers may suffer from the alleged dep
rotations of the deer, provided the
season is not extended
Mr.. Pape, the gentleman from Barre
city, make the hit of the session thus
far in neat little speech in support of
his bill which gives justices authority
| to commit minors to the Industrial
! school for part of their minority.
! Through strange framing of the
present law, children, if committed
at all, must go for their full minority
Mr. Pape stated this. and said his at
tention was called to it by the case of
a number of Barre lads who were
caught in some minor misdemeanor.
They had to go to Vergennes for a
term averaging twelve years. Mr..
Pape said he Investigated these cases
and found that with one exception
the boys were not habitual wrongdo-
ers, but sons of poor and worthy par
ents who were trying to rear them
properly and who would need their
help as they reached years of useful
ness. Mr. Pape dwelt on the mon
strousness of law that would i'm
prison mere lads for years for an Of
fence which, if committed by adults,
would only mean months. "The
bank wrecker,'' he said, "gets seven
years in Jail, but the little boy who
steals candy gets twelve years at the
Industrial school - Mr.. Pape receiv-
id round of applause when he sat
down and the bill was ordered to
third reading with will. The Barre
Representative is an easy speaker, with
clear voice and forcible utterance.
AS expected bill has been intro
duced asking that the sentence of
Frank Shaw be committed from death
to life imprisonment. This measure
will and ought to receive careful at
tention. Windsor and Addison county
members ought to give the measure
careful consideration and lend their
efforts to secure a favorable report
from the Judiciary committee
The patriotic resolution introduced
by the Democratic Representative from
St. Adams, Mr.. O'Sullivan, express
ing the gratitude of Vermonters to
President Roosevelt for his splendid
effort in the settlement of the coal
strike was greeted by round of hearty
applause. 1t was timely stroke and
counts much for the St. Adams mem
ber's thoughtful foresight
The gentleman from st. Johnsbury
wants less blowing up of boilers, and
so has introduced bill providing for
county inspectors of engines and boil
ers, and for the regulation of en-
gineers through system of licenses
and penalties for operating without
one.
The morning session of the Senate
on Tuesday became the magnet of
visitors when it was known that
the plurality bill was under discuss
ion Immediately upon adjournment
of that body the third house went
into executive session to discover if
possible who Senator Russell referred
to when he spoke of cetain town
sending an inferior man to the lower
house after balloting several times
and saying that such would not have
been the case had the plurality bill
then under discussion been in force
at the late election.
With all that has been said, done and
written about license the prohibitory
law still has friends-and many of
them.
Possibly G. H. Dayenport's license
bill was incorrectly reported by the
State press. By the time the temper
ance committee finish overhauling this
bill or any other-it will resemble
the Massachusetts law as much as it
will anythingi
Senator Emery's bill relating to the
"eXpense" account of candidates for
political office, to pass either the
House or the Senate, will have to be
revised as regards the clause referring
to newspapers, The opinion prevails
that, so long as publishers continue to
publish newspapers and pay the
publication bills, they will be en-
titled to support any candidate they
see tit and receive remuneration for
such seasonable items of labor, post
age, paper or Otllef lncluentalS as the
support of candidacy may entail upon
them. The impression is somewhat
too prevalent that newspaper exists
only to incur unlimited expense i'll
advertising church suppers and SINH
lar events, support all good causes
and all good and proper candidates.
for public office, and do it all and
solely from pure and unseltish regard
for the public welfare But printers
paper makers or any others do not do
business on these principles, and so
long as their bills have to be paid a
candidate4for Office must pay the pub
Usher
The judiciary committee already
has on hand something less than a
cord of petitions for the right of suf-
frage for women when the referendum
looms up. The women of the State
;, are especially anxious to have a voice
in the diSDOSal of that measure