The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-03
LEGISLATI VE NOTES.

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galley west.
Said the Fox to the Bear, "Then I'll
hustle me home,
And in much more security rest"
just then the Hedgehog came saunter-
ing by
And they broke the new gently to
him;
He fell in a faint-the shock was TOO
great
He'd regarded his prospects as slim
For the lawmakers burden biennially
had been,
To fix a stiff price on that animals
skin.
The Senate thinks that there is law
enough now to prohibit deer shooting
on ~Sunday-if only we will enforce it.
There "signs in the air" Of a caucus
reform bill much more simple and
easily understood than either of the
two very long bills introduced early
in the session. They called for too
much machinery to suit the mass of
voters. However, the introducer of
either of them will no doubt be salts
fed with any step in the right direc-
ton.
The reading of the daily journal of
Ho use proceedings has been given up.
Time is getting precious.
Spunky Lamoille can now spend
money for repairs on her county
buildings, both Houses have given
their consent.
A bill is pending to revise the laws
of the State. This is an innocent
sounding proposition-but what does
it import? The laws we're revised in
1864, again in 1880, and in 1894. Since
the latter date there have been four
sessions of the General Assembly, and
consequently four year books, Now
what is the cost of a revision of the
statues. The following extract from
the report of Auditor Hale, July /,
1896, respecting the last revision is
Illuminating 1.-THE Vermont Statutes,
in it's preparation and publication is
another large item of expense during
this term. The total cost of the same
will not be far from $22, 000." Do
members of the General Assembly
think of this item, the size OF the
item of cost, when a proposition to
revise is made? True the State gets
baok-possibly 50, 000-in the sale of
sur of SIT, 900 is not a bagatelle.
Revision is made easy to some men
the lawyers appointed to do the work
but it is a burden to the taxpayers.
How's this In social functions the
Farmer Goveror outshining his mil
~lionaire predecessors In real, spontan-
eous, good old-fashioned, unham-
pered pleasure and merriment Farmer
Bell and Mrs. Farmer Bell are max
ing a new record in official and So
cial functions at the Capital. There
is a certain kind of s%pontaneity and
Ego" in the social festivities that
smacks of freside Iepublicanism.
"There was a sound of revelry" in
Vermont's Capital, last night, but it
was the revelry of a good time at
home. If it was not exactly a dis
play of "Jeffersonian simplicity, F" l
was a reasonable and wholesome ap
proach TO the simplicity that is high
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Let in the new regime. Long may it
reign!
Never put off till tomorrow what
you can do today" applies to legisla-
tive proceedings as well as to splitting
kindling wood. In the past few days
discussions of several bills have been
made special orders, but when the time
arrived a chairman, or the author Of
the bill, was not on hand 60 attend to
business.
Chaplain Ii w Farman Officiated in
the Senate on Thursday for the first
tine since his recent illness at the
hospital. The Senators were all glad
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.Farman speaks in the highest terms
of the kind treatment he received at
the hospital. He is still weak but is
doing as we'll as could be expected
after the operations which he was
recently sustained.
The last bell was rung on colleo-
tion of bouuties on noxious animals,
Thursday, when the Governor signed
House bill 26 introduced by Mr..
O'Brien of South Burlington The
bill is now a law and takes effect on
it's passage. Hunters will now be
sports instead of business men.
I. ". Cheney of Morristown was
duly declared high bailih of Lamoille
county on Wednesday. The clerk of
the House is too good natured a man
to be assigned the task of hanging the
sheriff