The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-11-11
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

The members salary grab appears TO
be a dead issue for the rest Of the ses
sion.
This forenoon air Hapgood OF Perm
occupied thirty minutes Of the Houses
time.
The Berlin school children are The
guests Of Representative Covell Of Ber
lin today.
The Rev, w A. kinzie Of Barre con
Quoted devotional exercises ia the House
this morning.
q M Craigiu and daughter, Maudc,
Of Springfield are guests Of Governor
Bell this week.
Senator Diekey Of Orange county was
one OF the two Senators to vote against
the third reading Of the Morrill, hall bill
Nellie Gin has been appointed clerk
Of the committee on temperance. Col
John H. Mimms Of st. Albans was 4
candidate for the position.
The governor has designated Thurs.
day, November 2fth, as Thanksgiving
Day, and his formal proclamation an
nonncing the Same viii be issued with
in few days.
a few faithful ones Of the Vermont
Press Association gathered at the rooms
1of r. a. Mutt at the Riverside last
might and talked over matters interest
ling to the profession.
Representative Graves of Bennington
thinks that it wouldn't do any good To
raise the per diem Of legislators. Mont
pelier hotel and boarding house keepers
would raise their rates accordingly
i The morning after the national elec-
I tion the State House attendants found
Senator Redfield Proeior's picture tilted
at an angle Of nearly IS degrees. Charlie
/ Walters, secretary Of civil and military
affairs, ascribes the tilt to the Republi.
/ er having seen Proctor taken SO com
lpletely OF his feet before.
! There will be something doing next
| Tuesday mornig at 1890 o'clock when
a bill substituting life imprisonment for
death penalty will be taken up as a
special order. A majority of the iudic-
liary committee has reported the bill
favorably with certain amendments
| One bill abolishing the death penalty
was killed yesterday afternoon.
/ The FIRST conference committee be-
tween the two houses is necessitated
lby clash on the Sunday hunting
clause of the deer, moose and caribou
/ hunting bill. The Senate insists on
striking out the Sunday clause. Like
wise on the bill making the auditor Of
accounts certifying officer the Senate,
through motion Of Senator Lord, insists
that the auditors Vouchers be public
records.
Ii was 1923 o'clock in the House yes
lterday afternoon. There was no business
on hand; the desk was clear 1t was
l37 minutes 70 o'clock, when q special
order was to be taken up. 4 motion
to adjourn was made and then With
drawn. There were 81 minutes with
nothing to do. What should the House
do to pass the time awayf The mem
bers glanced at the House clock IL
was o'clock. The special order was
taken up with the members watches at
1924
MIR. Hapgood 81 Peru is still the cen
4 tral figure m the House. After the in
PRODUCTION Of several bills by unanimous
consent yesterday afternoon his pen
was busy for few minutes and Mr..
ITapgood popped up with q resolution
/ resembling the rules" and allowing mem.
bers To introduce AZ many bills as they
want to. The Speaker put quietus
To the resolution by referring 1t to the
committee on rules 1t win probably
40 where the "intoxication rule intro
dueed some time since has gone into
the waste pile.
Said one visitor at the State House
yesterday, ~ went TO Barre today To
see the quarries and couldn't find them.
Think Of It, going to Barre and not
finding the quarriesl The auto-driver
took lis all around the mountains up
there but we couldn't locate the granite.
Then we started on another tack and
drove until we came TO a blacksmith
shop. We asked the blacksmith where
we were and found we were most in
Williamstown. We gave up defeated
and came back to Montpelier without
seeing the quarries.
Snow in Rhode island