Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-11-09
Mr.. GIBSON PRESIDED
Occupied the Speakers Chair at
Houses Session Yesterday
Twenty Bills Disposed Of in 20 Minutes
Excursion TO Granite ouarries In the
Afternoon.



Montpelier, Nov. s.
Thursday mornings session OF the
House was presided over by the indie
pendent and level-headed legislator from
Brattleboro, and IL goes without saying
that he was equal to the business. Sew.
eral new bills came I'm. among them two
looking TO a reorganization OF the railroad
commission, one introduced by Mr.. SEN
ter OF Montpelier the other by Mr.. Glib
son OF Brattleboro. Mr.. Gibson's bill is
reviewed in another column. Another bill
was from Mr.. Finn OF Springfield, to re-
wise the railroad law on the lines sug-
gested by the late Judge Ross four years
ago. There was also bill TO prohibit the
giving OF rebates on insurance premiums
to induce insurance.
a bill to incorporate a brewery company
at Burlington was asked TO be recalled
from the committee on corporations and
sent to the committee on temperance, but
that committee did not want II; the House
decided to leave the bill where II was.
The reason for asking change was that
the bill was in its terms antagonistic to
some features of the existing license bill.
The matter of whether the right to
walk on a railroad track should be taken
from the public and made a punishable
offence was discussed freely but mostly
one-sided as far as the views of the
speakers were concerned. Most OF them
wanted to retain the privilege OF taking
a short cut on the railroad track and
take their chances as to meeting or being
overtaken by train. Mr.. Shipman of
Westminster and Mr.. Shaw of Marlboro
both wanted 10 retain the privilege. The
House decided to allow the present. privi-
lege to remain with the public.
Londonderry sent a petition asking for
drastic apti-automobile legislation.
In the Senate in the forenoon the plu-
oil al
second time. The cattle commission bill,
a Senate measure was ordered to a third
reading, after being amended so that cat
tie condemned should be destroyed on the
premises where found.
No sessions were held this afternoon,
both branches attending the excursion TO
Barre to look over the granite industries.
IN the evening the Senate chamber was
in use for hearings on the proposed
amendments of the license bill, while the
house. to make up for time lost in the
afternoon had a session. and demon
strated that by strictly attending to BUSH
ness an adjournment can be reached by
| Thanksgiving.
Twenty bills were disposed of in 40 min
utes, as follows; 10 read a third time in
fun and passed: three killed. seven or
dered to third reading. The bills like the
vast majority of pending measures were
mostly of local or private nature. Among
the 10 passed was II. 334 to give Brattle-
boro Home for Aged and Disabled ,-.e
power of acquiring personal property, and
exempting from taxation $4,000 worth Of
property located in Brattleboro.
II is up to the committees to bring
! about or Illustrate an adjournment by the
| end of the month AS a body the House
| land Senate, tool works well and trans
acts business. expeditiously but the com
mittees are slow-or have been. They
are waking up somewhat now. and re-
| turning measures to the main bodies at a
/ more rapid rate.