Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-11-25
LEGISLATURE ON THE HOME STRETCH
Several Measures of Great Importance Have Not Been Decided
Attorney General Will Be Elected Nov. 3oComposte Fish
Bill introduced

mington village converting "bailiffs" in
to trustees" has been authorized by
the house.
A Fishermans Bill.
1t doesn't often happen that the fea-
lures of a dozen or more different bills
are boiled down into one substitute meas
ure but the joint committee on game and
fisheries reported on Friday morning such
a composite BILL and its provisions will
be of general interest. 1t makes the open
season for brook trout and kindred fish
from May to August 1, in brooks and
streams, and to Sept. l in ponds and
lakes, but the owners of artificial ponds
may take fish between Feb. l and Sept.
/ thereform; changes open season on wall
eyed pike, pike perch and pickerel, except
in Lake Champlan, and makes it from
May l to Nov l; prohibits all fishing ex-
cept by angling; take of brook trout lin
tied to 10 pounds in one day. and of
lake trout and lunge to 25 pounds; pro-
hibits catching of trout and black bass
for purpose of sale; provides that stock
ing of waters by landowners shall con-
sist of placing therein annually not less
than 1000 fry or 800 fingerlings to each
half mile or less of stream or acre or less
of pond, and affidavit thereof filed in
town clerks Office, which shall be open
to inspection; repeats sections permitting
SEEMING under license. Ordered to lie and
be printed.
The Latest Victims.
On Friday morning the employers LA
bility bill, introduced by the labor rep
resentative from Rutland city. was adj
versely reported and refused third read
ing. Mr.. Smith defended his measure,
thus satisfying his constituents; but the
opponents of the bill declared it an I'M
safe piece of law-making, and the house
would have none OF it.
The usual weed-cutting bills were
themselves mown down by the house, and
that body didn't approve of regulating the
sale of merchandise in bulk. The idea
of specifying May and October as the
months in which road commissioners
should make repairs was rejected. and
bill touching on the competency of So
called expert witnesses was also killed
The senate refused to sanction the alb
stracting of individual lists.
Plck-ups.
A number of new bills We're put into
the hopper as late as Friday. One OF
them prohibits the sale of poisons by ped
ders, another prohibits physicians or sur
geons suffering from contagious diseases
from practicing their profession; another
allows towns, cities and villages to aid
manufacturing concerns, and still another
compels the putting of fire escapes on
hotels and boarding houses. bill to
compel the running of all telephone, tel
egraph and electric light wires on the
same poles is among the new arrivals in
| the senate
Unfortunately, the large delegation or
| pupils from Brattleboro, Bellows Fails
and Springfield schools arrived too late
| on Friday to see much of the legislature
| in session, but they got glimpse OF the
| house for half an hour, and looked on
while some routine business was done.
Both houses have passed the two bills
relative to the expense of computing the
reserve liability of life insurance com
panies, and providing that domestic in
! surance companies shall not do business
until copies of their charters have been
filed and their general condition looked
| into by the commissioners.
! A bill introduced by the committee on
highways provides that culverts six feet
in length. and less, shall be under the
control of the road commissioners, instead
of selectmen, so that the fund for perma-
nent road work could be applied to theil
| construction.