The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-11-03
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

The Senate is not getting down to IT.
work as well as the House.
The House voted today not TO come
back until Wednesday afternoon when
it adionrns tomorrow afternoon
Gov. Bell and 20 members OF the leg
islature will go to East Montpelier this
evening 10 attend grange meeting.
Three weeksi from today will be
Thanksgiving day and according to Gus
tom the legislature will have adjourn
cd Can it this yearl
Col. Albert Clark, secretary of the
Home Market club Of Boston, was an
apparently interested listener during
part OF yesterday afternoons session.
Among the bills passed were, by the
Senate, the House bill providing for fire
drills in schools. by the Senate incor
porating the West Berlin Cemetery As
saeiation.
Newspaper publishers who continne
10 send their Journals after being mott,
fed Ia discontinue win do So at their
own risk ii a bill introduced BIZ Mr.
Nutting Of Westminster goes through
the legislature.
Various members Of the House dc.
clared only millionaires own antomo-
hiles and can afford to own them. Ac
cording to that, there are considerably
more than score Of .millionairess in
Barre city alone.
The Norwich University cadets put
up fine exhibition Of drilling yester
day afternoon; whether they impressed
the legislators enough to secure the
revenue from a qaarter of million is
another matter.
By resolution OF Mr. Eddy OF Stowe
the state auditor is requested to furnish
a statement OF the expense OF the rail.
road commission. SO that bin now I'm
der consideration can have more I'M
telligent consideration.
Ex- Senator Chauncey Brownell of
Burlington is an ardent supporter Of
plurality election OF representatives and
he has been putting in some hard work
about thc state house IN behalf of the
measure which viii come before the
House from the Senate.
Ii Tile amended auto bill goes through
as now constituted every driver Of a
machine mist stop dead still 75 feet
from a team. on, country road, and
can't move until fhe horseman gives tho
signal OF until the latter passes by
The Senate samo down on a PROPOSE
tion 10 pay a. Zee Holmes sthe sum
therein named and decided to make
special order of the Morrill, Hall bill for
tomorrow afternoon at 2s90 o'clock. a
warm debate is looked for at that time.
Mr.. Campbell of Bellows Falls may
not be cut up over the treatment Of
his automobile measure yesterday af-
ternoon, but tile bill certainly Isl No
less than fourteen amendments were
agreed to and the House stuck on the
next one.
Mr. Granger of Williamstown Isl
wrong il saying that Barre has the
largest number Of automobiles Of any
place in tile state. Barre claims only
about 80, while Burlington goes it sew
eral better. Mr.. Granger said that moi
less than fourteen Barre machines went
To the Gulf IN one day last summer
That's possible.
Fletcher y, Proctor and Thomas g
Cheney may now consider themselves
even When the former nominated
Clerk Cheney at the opening Of the ses
sion he declared that Mr.. Cheney would
fill the speakers chair most aceeptably.
The genial clerk got back at The Proc
tor man during the banquet Of the 1900
Legislature by declaring that they never
would be satisfied until 4Fletch7 i ii