The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-10-13
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

general satisfaction. It had been
tacitlv conceded that Proctor of Proc
tor would head the ways and means
committee. and none will gsinsay the
wisdom of the Speakers selection.
The men associated with Mr.. Proctor
on this committee are pledge that
the business of the most important of
the standing committees will be ably
done. Fits of Brattleboro. chief of
the judiciary committee, is the strong
head of strong committee. Ex-Gov
Grout of Derby is notable head of a
notable committee, the one having to
do with the railroads, Dartt of
Springfield looks little odd at the
business end of the military commit
tee, but in good position as head man
of the education committe. z
1t is an assurance of peaceful rela-
tions with the United States that the
venerable Mr.. Fish OF Ira is chairman
of the committee on federal relations.
Agan of Ludlow. chairman of COM
mittee on manufacturers, Sherwin of
Jamaica-a familiar name-on grand
list, Darling of Chelsea, on corpora
tions, are good men in important
places, and they are we'll supported by
their fellow assignments Pape of
Barre, on the general committee, and
O'Sullivan of st. Albans on the lib
rary, are right and proper recognitions
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OF the Democratic minority. In gem
eral and in detail, the committees de-
serve and will receive-further COM
ment as good working appointments
in what ought to be good working
Legislature.
The ball was started rolling on the
liquor question in a bill by Mr.. Mar
tin of Hinesburgh. A matter of i'm
portanoe begun on Tuesday was the
resolution offered by w. W. Miles,
the member from Barton, for an in
vestigation of the expense of State
institutions by an appointed commit.
tee
The liquor law, the automobile
question, the creation of the Office of
attorney general and the caucus laws
have all been the subjeors of material
for bills presented thus far. That in-
oludes nearly all the planks of the Re-
publican State platform. The orig
inals do not generally come in the
first part of the geometry.
Washington county is we'll repre-
sented on behalf of the Senate in the
joint standing committees. NJ. D.
Wells is chairman on insurance, W.
A Lord is on the temperance and re-
vision of bills committees and o. G.
Eaton is on the library committee.
Mr.. Pierce of Fairlee, in bill
presented on Tuesday, places a ourfew
IN automobiles and sets the hour OF
retirement at noon.
President Fish of the Vermont Fish
and Game League has completed the
list of orators for the banquet of that
organization which is to be held at the
armoTy on the evening of November
u, pHp JuuS'hR Ny tho pdhb ~ ID bhl6
to assume that there will be no lack of
wit and oratory on the occasion. Mr..
Fish has invited Hon. George M.
Bowers. chief of the bureau of fisher
les at Washington, and his right hand
man, John w. Titcomb, for several
years president of the league. 1t is
hoped that both will attend and it
may be expected that the remainder of
the speakers will be drawn from the
States long list of young oratorss as in
the past.
After ali, It may be reasonable
question, Does Mr.. O'Sulligan's S reso-
luton limiting visiting committees
to State institutions to three Repre-
sentatives and two Senators go far
enough? 1t is assumed-and the rule
is that it need not be an assumption
that the institutions are we'll and hon
estly managed. But if they are not,
how is a legislative committee to find
out the fact? It's coming is previously
announced, defauiting superintend.
enu has time to fix up things that may
be wrong, to put his best side out,
his best foot forward, and the COM
mittee finds the goose hanging high
and every thing serene-and so reports.
A few hours visit, by strangers, un-
familiar with the practical affairs of
State institution of any kind, at its
best is very much of farce. There
was something in Mr. CIRCUITS pIo-
possl to cut out these visitations, al
together, unless the resolution author
izing them specifies that there is need
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