The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-10-11
Bill to Provide for County
License Board.
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.
Proposed to Change Town Meet
inss to First Tuesday in May
Taxing Church Property

| Montpelier, October n.-Speaker
Merritield announced the House com
mittees this morning and grist OF
bills were turned into the legislative
hopper.
The attacks on the liquor law began
with bill providing for county lic-
ense commissioners, three for each
county, to be appointed by the gov
ernor for term OF six years each.
The bill also proposes to do away
with second class licenses and propo-
ses to return to force the old prohibi.
tory law relative to search and seizure
in places where illegal liquor dealing
is suspected. IL would compel also
persons convicted of intoxcation to
state where they bought liquor
Mr. Campbell OF Bellows Falls in
troduced bill to regulate the speed
of automobiles and providing severe
penalties for fast driving o. the ma
chimes.
Another bill of interest is one to
change the time OF holding town meet
ings from the first Tuesday in March
to the first Tuesday in May.
Another bill today proposes to limit
the amount of church property exempt
from taxation TO buildings used only
for church, school and convent pur-
poses.
The chairmanships of the important
committees are: judiciary, Fits Of
Brattl boro; ways and means, Proctor
of Proctor; education, Darttof Spring
field railroads, Grout Of Derby, agri-
culture, Aitken Of Woodstock; manu-
features, Agan OF Ludlow; general,
Pape OF Barre; corporations, Darling
OF Chelsea; public health, Darling of
Hardwick. The joint committee on
temperance Is not announced but it is
expected that Mr. Graves of Benning-
ton will he chairman of the House con-
tingent
Bennington county representatives
are placed as follows: Wall of Dorset
on ways and means: harrington of
Searsburg on military affairs; Archi
bald of Manchester on judiciary; Hap
good of Peru on education; Randall
of SALISBURY on claims; Johnson of
Winhall on highways, bridges and
ferries; Wall of Dorset on banks; Roo
ney of Woodford on manufactures;
Potter of Pownal on agriculture; Mat
tison of Glastonbury on land taxes
Fuller of Stamford on general; Bent
ley of SYNDICATE on distributing, Le-
sure of Readsboro on mileage and de- |
bentures; Woodward of Landgrove on |
insane; Graves Of Bennington on lib |
rary; Williams OF Sunderland on game |
and fisheries; Garfield of Arlington on |
immigration and industrial relations;
Hapgood of Peru on public health.
Both houses have today adopted
Joint resolution introduced by Mr.
Miles of Barton providing for joint
committee to investigate state expen-
ses and report to the legislature.
Mr. Pape of Barre this afternoon in
troduced bill providing for plurality
elections Of town representatives and
that the box shall remain open until
o'clock.
DR. Campbell's automobile regula-
ton bill limits the speed OF the ma
chimes to Is miles an hour at any time,
10 miles in incorporated cities and vii
lagos and eight miles in approaching
corners and railroad crossings.
Montpelier Oct l1.-Although the
session of the senate lasted less than
an hour Monday afternoon bills were
providing for the estab-
lishment of the Office Of attorney gen.
eral for the licensing of nonresident
deer hunters, for the repeal of the
noxious animal bounty law, and for
the election of representatives by
majority instead of plurality vote.
No business of Importance was
transacted in the house.
The farmer members met in the large |
cloak room at the state house last I