Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-12-14
TO ADJOURN DEC. I8
Resolution Provides fsr'Finishing
Legislative Work Next Week
erattIeboro Water Question Not Taken
Up Yesterday Owing to illness Of Rep
resentatiVe Gibson.


Montpelier, Dec. 49,
strong effort was made Thursday
morning to secure the establishment Of a
school for manual training and instruc-
tion in the Industrial arts Among those
who strongly favored 1t was DR. ]. A.
Mead of Rutland, president Of the Howe
scale works. He pointed out that many
of the best places in the shops of the
company were held by men from other
states and sometimes by foreigners be-
cause Vermont did not produce the young
men capable of filling them. The bin
carried an immediate appropriation of
$4,000 and continuing yearly appropria-
tion of $500, and as the appropriations
already made are expected to consume the
entire income of the state for the next
biennial term, it was voted down. not as
undesirable, but as inexpedient.
Mr.. Latham of Milton, by permission Of
the committee, introduced bill to reme-
dy the evil of double taxation. It pro-
vides that there shall be no exemption
for debts owing unless the amount of the
debt is stated in the inventory and evil
denced by written interest bearing OBJ
legation secured by a mortgage on proper
ty taxable in this state and uncondition-
ally due.
Another tax bill, to exempt new cleo
trio railroads from taxation, was or
dered to a third reading by the House
after a lively debate.
The bill imposing a license on nom
residents who come here to hunt was
ordered to a third reading after II had
been amended so that unnaturalized alien
residents are not included in its pro-
vision.
The bill to regulate telephone rates was
the subject of long discussion Thursday
afternoon. Both those who had favored
II and those who had opposed 1t seemed
xtf1 10 Il 10 hax rtfaf
but the discussion covered such a range
and brought out such matters of preju-
dice that the bill was finally ordered to a
third reading.
A joint resolution was introduced in the
Senate Thursday morning by Senator Col
Inns instructing the Vermont Congression-
al delegation to support President Roose-
welt in the position ne has taken regard
ing an income tax
The Senate bill making an appropria-
tion of $500 for nursery for seedlings at
the Vermont experiment station was ia
vored by the House.
The Brattleboro water question has not
yet been taken up. Mr.. Gibson of Brsttls-
boro has been i'll for two days and only
appeared at the state house a few min
utes Thursday afternoon. Two hearings
have been held before the committee this
week and 1t was expected that the bill
would come to the House Thursday morn
ing, but this was impossible. A delega-
ton of half a dozen Brattleboro citizens
are here and announce their intention of
remaining until the bill has been disposed
OF.
when the Thursday morning session
ended there were so bills in the hands of
the House committees and Is in the Sem
ate committees, but most OF those were
measures that cannot be rGshed through.
The joint committee on final adjournment
had a meeting before the afternoon ses-
sion and reported a resolution providing
for final adjournment on Tuesday morn
ing at o'clock