St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-10-17

mess in the state, and domestic corpor-
ations shall forfeit their charters.
Mr.. Carrs bill providing for a new jail
for Caledonia county. outlined in last
weeks paper, was introduced Friday
and referred to the county members as a
special committee.
Mr. Evarts of Windsor has introduced
bill providing for the appointment of a
state fair commission of II, with gov
ernor and secretary of board of agricul-
ture as members ex-officio, for promotion
of agricultural and other interests by
means of an annual fair. A bill of in
terest to the southern part of this county
has been introduced by Mr.. Clark OF
Newbury to prevent pollution OF water
of Wells river and it's tributaries IN
Groton, Ryegate and Newbury. Mr..
Pierce of Hardwick has introduced his
first bill which provides that goods made
in prisons shall be so labelled.
THE FARMERS ORGANIZATION.
The farmers in the Legislature met in
the cloak room last week Tuesday even
ing and reelected officers for the session.
Representative Cady of Middlebury, a
successful farmer, is president of the
association and with prospective auto
mobile legislation and the inevitable dis
cussion of the disposition of diseased
cattle, there will be plenty of work for
this organization. This evening there
will be public hearing by this organiza-
ton of the school district bill
BANQUET TO THE SENATE.
Lieut.. Gov. Prouty entertained the
Senate and few other guests at the
Pavilion Wednesday evening and the oc-
casion was most profitable and enjoy
able one. The presiding officers of both
houses made short speeches indicative of
the business that will be accomplished
this session, and brief addresses were
made by Gov. Proctor, Chaplain Far
man, the state officers and several of the
senators, including Senator Taylor.
PROGRAMME FOR LADIES WEEK.
The official programmefor ladies' week,
the week commencing Monday, October
%, was completed and made public Sat-
urday. On Tuesday evening, October
%, Mrs Proctor and Mrs Prouty, wives
of the governor and Acknowledgements
will give reception from eight to ten
O'Clock in the executive chamber at the
State House. These ladies will be as
sisted by the wives of ex-governors and
acknowledgements. Governor Proc
tors staff will be on duty as ushers and
will have charge of the ceremonies. On
Wednesday afternoon, October "a, from
four to six O'Clock, Mrs. Proctor and
Mrs. Prouty will give high tea in the
parlors of the Pavilion hotel. On Thurs
day evening, October 25, Governor and
Mrs. Proctor will give the inaugural ball
at Armory hail. Governor Proctor's
staff will also be on duty at this ball.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
The adjourned annual meeting of the
Vermont Historical Society will be held
on the evening of Nov. when Judge
Wendall P. Stafford of Washington de.
livers an address on "Thaddeus Stevens
and Prof. George H. Perkins of the Uni.
versity of Vermont will speak on "Pre.
historic Vermont and relics and evidences
of early occupation by Indian tribes. y
The Vermont Association of Boston will
attend this meeting in a body, coming
from Boston in special Pullman cars.
On Nov. comes the annual banquet
of the Vermont Fish and Game League
and the principal speaker will be ar
attache Of the Bureau of Fisheries al
Washington.
MONDAYS SESSION.
The first working day of the week is 8
short session day and good many O.
the representatives had not returned
when the afternoon session was opened
Several important bills were introduced
including measures by Mr.. Senter O.
Montpelier to repeal the caucus law, tc
amend the liquor law by providing fol-
the election of license commissioners by
towns and cities, and exempting from
trustee process wages to the amount o.
$40, which was recommended in Cover.
nor Proctor's inaugural message. Mr.
Jackson of Barre city presented a bill re-
lating to stock gambling, and Mr.
McCuen of Vergennes an act incorporat
ing an electric railroad line from Yer
gennes to Fair Haven.
House bill 50 is the first bill introduced
by Mr.. Holmes of Sutton. 1t amends
Secs. 1863 and 1854 Vermont Statutes re
lating to the instruction of the deaf
dumb and blind and was referred to The
committee on education.
JOINT AND SENATE COMMITTEES.
The joint committees were announced
Wednesday. Representative Brown o
Waterford is on the library committee
Mr. Bickford of Sheffield on the House O
Correction; Mr.. Bailey of Peacham OF
the Industrial School; Mr.. Fisher of Lyn
donville on temperance and on public
health.
The enatecommittees were announce,
Tuesday. Senator Taylor is on tn
revision of bills, chairman of thejudiciary
and on appropriations. Senator Mors
is on the committee on railroads, chair
man of the committee on elections, O
the street railways and corporation
committees.