The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-10
L~EGISLATIV NOTES.

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least for two years. The killing of
Representative Pape's bill in the
House yesterday afternoon is only an
indication of what will be done with
Senator Buxton's measure when it
comes before the same body. The
reason, It we are to take the argument
OF the opposition, is that the measure
is too tar in advance of Vermonters-
a candid confession that Vermont is
behind the times. IT'S a dolefuI con
fession to make but it was made in
yesterdays debate and the so.called
argument was largely responsible for
the defeat Of the bill introduced by
the Representative of Barre CITY.
Barre Times.
An attorney general surely Now
count the valiant lawyers who are
willing to sacrifice an extensive and
very lucrative business for the good
the State. And the judges and the
Governor desires an increase of salary
too. Retrenchment does not begin
with increased salaries and a $50, 600
dairy school.-Essex County Herald.
The annual meeting of the Sons of
the American Revolution Will be held
in MONTPELIER on Wednesday evening,
November 16 The meeting will
probably be held in Representatives,
hall. x-Governor Fred Holbrook,
one of the three war Governors now
living in Vermont, will deliver an
address aud Rev. q. Glen Atkins of
Burlington will also speak.
A quartet Of dignitaries strolled in
to a Montpelier restaurant the other
day for a sqaure meal They took
their places in a booth, under the
Australian ballot system, n the
waitress approached TO inquire con-
corning their needs. She stood a mo-
ment, looked them over, and then,
with the air of a lawyer asking a
leading question, quietly said
Four lobsters"? The quartet sa "
the point at once, and promptly said
Yes"
Consistency, thou art a jewel l.
deed thou art a gem of the first
water. The law makers provide the
law and the means that will enable
them to vote for presidential electors
at the State Ospital-then proceed
forthwith to prepare to adjourn from
Friday till Wednesday afternoon
which means Thursday morning-in
order that they may go home (%osten-
sibly) to vote.
That celebrated frog. who in get
ting out of the we'll, jumped ahead
one foot and fell back two, made
about as rapid progress as did the
House of Representatives on Thurs
day. Remembering is a mighty poor
habit for the Legislature to get into.
1t seemed to be Catching" on that
particular day. Foresight is a trihe
ahead of hindsight..
Representative Davis of Chester in
troduced H. 80 which provides for the
payment of cattle slaughtered by or
der of the general government dur
ing the outbreak of the foot and
mouth disease in the fall and winter
of 1902 and 1903 and ought to be we'll
pleased by the recent action of the
House. The bill is one that should
pass both houses and have the Govern
or's approval. But for the slaughter
of these animals there is no knowing
to what extent the disease might have
spread. 1t is feared almost like small
| poX and has been known to travel al
most thirty miles in FIVE days. Mr..
Davis allows the owners of the cattle
30 per cent. from the State which is
certainly conservative.
Here's a two-years farewell to the
five collar trustee process.
Father Fish of Ira proposes to the
House that a member who gets drunk
shalt be expelled. when the fact of
his intoXication has been officially as
certa'ned. The venerable member
ought to take n lesson from Lincoln's
suggestion to visiting moralists to pro-
test against the continuance in com
msnd of the hero of Fort Donelson and
Shiloh because Of his alleged drunken
ness. Notes" moves to change Mr..
Fish's proposition into all order in
struoting the President of the Senate
anu the Speaker of the House to pro-
cure for the whole General Assembly
some Of the brand of whiskey Lincoln
longed to get for the use of the rest
OF his generals.
Gov. Bell signed today at the in
stance of A. f. Sohwenk, States at
torney for Windham county for the