Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-10-26
WITH THE LEGISLATURE
WOMEN HAVE NOT INTERPRETED
WITH WORK OF EITHER HOUSE.
Mr.. Jackson's Weekly Payment Bill
Passed the House Wednesday-Also
Mr.. shaw's Woman's Suffrage Act
One Seat Declared Vacant Yesterday.

After brief sessions Friday morning
both houses adjourned until Monday ar
ternoon. Senator Phelps introduced a
bill Friday which is of interest to the
druggists of the state. 1t relates to
the sale of poisons and amends the
present statutes so that opium, NOR
phine and cocaine cannot be sold by n
druggist or apothecary except on the
prescription OF physician, Another
bin introduced by Senator johnson on
the same subject provides that NOR
phine. laudanum. cbloral and cocaine,
or compounds of these drugs, when they
are purchased for narcotic effects can
only be furnished by regularly quail
hed physician and that pharmacists and
drug clerks cannot sell them without
a physician 5 prescription. The pen
atty for so doing is not less than SO
nor more than 800.
Not Much Doing Monday.
The senators and representatives
were slow in assembling Monday and in
the house. where important measures
were to be considered, they were tenn
porarily laid on the table until there
should be full attendance of members.
One bill introduced by Senator
Moody, which went to the committee on
judiciary, will make him solid with the
women of Vermont, inasmuch as TINS
bill provides that women may be ap-
pointed or elected trustees of public
libraries, town clerks or town treasur'
ors.
The Joint resolution introduced by
Mr.. Sentcr of Montpelier, which pro
vides for an investigation of the DIS
cased meat scandal by a committee
from the house and senate, empowering
TINS committee to summon persons and
papers and to employ a clerk and stem
ographer, this committee to report by
bill or otherwise, was also laid on the
table and made special order for
Tuesday afternoon at 2.45.
Among the bills introduced IN the
house was one by Mr. Grafton of Bur
Iington providing that grand and petit
iurors shall be selected by the assistant
indges of the county courts and the
county clerks. instead of being elected
in the annual town and city meetings.
A bin introduced by Mr.. Finn OF
Springfield for the protection of sheep
provides that between April and No
vember / a dog running at large, eX-
cept in public highways and in view OF
its owner or keeper, may be killed by
any one.
Mr.. Bickford of Sheffield introduced
q bill amending the license law and de-
fning specifically what constitutes IN
toxicating liquor, viz: distilled spirits,
malt liquors. lager beer, fermented
wine. fermented cider or any beverage,
containing any per cent. Of alcohol
This bill went to the joint committee
on temperance
The Judiciary committee from the
senate and house gave a public hearing
on Monday evening in representatives
hall on the bills introduced by MT
Archibald of Manchester abollshlng
capital punishment and substituting
therefore life imprisonment for conyle-
ton of capital crimes and the one in
troduced by Mr.. McCuen of Nergennes
the electric chair for the
rope. The hall was crowded and IN
the audience were hundreds of women
The bill granting municipal suffrage
TO women was also considered by the
Joint judiciary committees. Represen-
fatives Shaw of Marlboro, who intro
duced the bill, and Dewart of st. Al
bans favored the bill, as did Mr.. Hap
GOOD of Peru in humorous speech, who
said in closing, "vote to let them
vote as well as hang. -
Tuesdav,s Heavy Record
BY yea and nay vote of l5O to VI
tbe house ordered to third reading
the weekly payment bill refused to
adopt in concurrence the joint resolu-
ton providing for the recount of votes
for officers in Bennington county and
bv "A yea and nay vote of l4l to 90
refused to pass the joint resolution IN
troduced by Mr.. Scnter of Montpelier
which provided for an investigation by
a committee from the legislature OF the
diseased cattle business.
Among the bills of Importance IN
troduced in the house in the afternoon
was one by Mr.. Cady of Middlebury,
by request, providing aid for agrlcul'
tural fairs 1nis bill provides that af-
ter three years any agricultural society
NAV receive from the state sum equal
to IS per cent of the amount 1t mas
expended in premiums for any one year.
Anv indecent or immoral shows connect.
ed with fairs or gambling devices VIII
agricultural societies having