Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-11-02
House Worked Last Friday.

House Worked Last Friday.
The senate adjourned at i o clock
Friday morning until Monday after
noon. but the house was in an lndustri-
Gus mood, and sat in the afternoon,
thereby getting through with consider
able routine business.
The joint assembly to receive the re-
ports of the joint committee to canvas
votes for members Of congress was held
in the forenoon.
The most important bill introduced
in the house in the morning was by Mr..
Porter of Wilmington for the committee
on ways and means. This bill relates
TO the taxation of corporations and IS
designed TO favor the small railroads
in the state. The roads whose gross
earnings per mile do not exceed S2O0O
are only to be taxed l-3 per cent,
and. on a gradual rising scale up to the
roads the earnings of which are S45OO
pcr mile, the rate of taxation shall be
1 per cent. ,,
Sixteen bills were introduced in the
house in the morning, one of which, IN
troduced by Mr.. Shipman of Westmin'
ster provides that where claims for
damages against railroads and other
transportation companies do not exceed
$50 the same may be paid by the local
agents. 3,
Mr.. Senter of Montpelier introduced
bill which was referred TO the com
mittee on railroads which provides that
the charter of the Montpelier & Rut-
land railroad shall be toid il work on
the same is not commenced by Noyem-
Der 20, 1911, and the road ready for
o~eration by November 20, 1916.
Senator Holden introduced bill IN
the senate providing that licenses to
druggists to sell Intoxicating liquor for
! medicinal, mechanical, chemical and
sacramental purposes shall not be less
! than SO per year.
Among the bills of interest intro
duced at the Monday afternoon session
were the following:
House 262. by Mr.. Latham of Milton,
TO amend See. of No. ll5, acts of
| 1904, relating to license commissioners
! fmakes selectmen or aldermen the
| board of license commissioners; wheh
| license is voted first class licenses must
be granted before other classes).
House 2G5, by Mr.. Ray of Rocking
ham (by request) to regulate the manu-
| facture and sale Of patent and proprie-
tarv medicines (provides for complete
schedule of all ingredients, to be PRINT
ed on paper)
House 267, by Mr.. Bailey of Essex, in
addition to No. 1877 of acts of 1901, on
public health, relating to tuberculosis,
! tgives state board of health same pow
ers that tuberculosis commission had.)
Senate 43, by Senator Van Patten, to
amend See. of No. "A, acts of 1904,
entitled "an act in addition to Sec,
297l, Vermont statutes, relating TO
voters in city, town or village meet
ingsn (provides that delinquent tax.
nayer shall not vote at the annual
meeting unless he has paid 30 days prior
to such meeting).
To Celebrate Lake Champlain Discovery
The house Tuesday afternoon devot-
ed an hour and half in debating
whether or not the member from High
gate, Mr.. FELTON,, should retain his seat;
The committee on elections reported
last week against seating Mr.. FELTON,,
and accompanied its report with a reso-
luton that Mr.. FELTON, was not entitled
TO a seat because at the time OF his
election he was a fourth class postmas'
ter in Highgate. The house has, from
time to time, put off deciding this un-
pleasant matter, but it tackled it Tues
dav afternoon and finally by yea and
nav vote of 1913 to 73 voted to sustain
the report of the committee. On the
ease hinged the fate of the remaining
fourth class postmasters who were
elected representatives this year, and
in their cases the committee on cleo
tions made similar report. These
were Mr.. Slade of Rutland town, Mr.
Burnham of Woodbury. and Mr.. Spauld-
ing of Sherburne. The report of the
! committee on elections was sustained
in each case and the seats of the gen
tlemen named were declared vacant.
The bill introduced in the house Tues
day by Mr.. Mead of Rutland provides
| for a permanent school fund. Without
a dissenting voice the house passed the
! Joint resolution relating to the ceiepra-
| tion of the 300th anniversary OF the DIS
covery OF Lake Champlain, which was
introduced by Mr. McCuen of Yer,
gennes. The resolution was amended
SO that the commission appointed shall
serve without compensation and, after
an explanatory talk by Mr.. McCuen, no
opposition developed. This joint resola-
ton was taken up as special order.
Among the 81 bills introduced in the
house Tuesday morning were several OF
general interest. Mr.. Adams of Wind
ham introduced another measure to
eoualize taxation. Another bill intro
duced by Mr.. Carr of st. Johnsbury,
alos bv request, makes the open season
for trout, land locked salmon, salmon
trout or longe from April to August
of each year.
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