Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-05
A BUSY SESSION
Ray State Legisls ture of 1907
Es ablished a Record
INTERESTING FEATURES
Autobiography Bill Killed just Be-
fore Propagation. Lover Seven Hun
dred Acts and Resolves Signed by
Governor--Last Days Legislation

Governor--Last Days Legislation
Boston, June 20.-Wth the record Of
having enacted more laws than any
previous Massachusetts legislature the
1907 legislative body WAS prorogued
late last night by Governor Guild, the
house ending its work with a mock ses.
sion. while the senate combined the
killing of the anti-monopoly bill IA to
%, and the presentation of gifts to the
chief officials of the senate.
The disposal of the anti-monopoly
bill came in the form of report from
the second conference committee,
which repor ed that it was unable to
agree, and a third conference commit
tee being sought was voted down by
the senate, allowing the bill to fall be
tween the branches.
The 1907 legislature has been in ses-
sion 11S days, the exact duration of its
predecessor There have been 5S7 acts
and 1873 resolves signed by the governor,
and six acts and two resolves vetoed
and all vetoes sustained. This is in
comparison with $50 acts and 1873 re-
solves enacted by the preceding legis-
lature.
The principle bills passed during the
session were the anti-shoe machinery
bill, understood to be aimed at the
United Shoe Machinery company: the
anti-merger bill, aimed against the con-
solidation of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford and Boston and Maine
railroad systems, and the anti-bucket
shop bill, by which the bucket shops
of the state were legislated out of ex-
istence.
Other important measures passed
were: The overtime bill, which forbids
women and children to work in the cot
ton mills at night; the jury reform bill,
which ensures more care in making up
Of jury lists; the industrial insurance
BILL which gives savings banks the
right to Insurance counters, and in
hertance tax, which imposes tax up
on direct inheritances passing through
the probate court.
The principal bills which failed Of
passage were the public opinion bill and
the anti-monopoly bill, the former re-
ferring to the placing of referendum
questions on the state ballot, and the
latter said to be aimed more espe-
cially against the Standard Oil COM
pany.
Other measures which failed were:
The Sunday law bill, intended to per-
NIT a wider range Of Sunday recrea-
tions; the veterans gratulty bill, giving
d gratulty to veterans who never re-
ceived a bounty; vetoed by Governor
Guild and for the first time in its his
tory blocked in the house.
The anti-merger bill, SO called. was
signed by Governor Guild last night,
and the pen with which the governor
affixed his signature was presented to
Representative Vittum OF Beverly.
The house yesterday sustained Gov
ernor Guilds vetoes Of the resolves to
pay w. F.. Willis and ]. G. Warren.
veterans OF the Civil war. gratuity Of
1925 each. The vote on the Willis re-
solve was 80 in favor of passing it over
the governors veto to 100 against.
That on the Warren resolve was Is yes
and 9S no-not the necessary two
thirds in either case.
The revised and recodified insurance
law bill was passed to be enacted in
the house at the forenoon session, and
later in the senate.
Governor Guild yesterday signed the
resolve to provide for n revision of the
laws relative to taxation. He also af-,
fixed his signature to these bills: To
provide for an east and west subway in
Boston 0he Riverbank subway; for the
laying out and construction as Il state
highway of Washington street in West
Roxbury; relative to the tax commits
sloner; hours of labor for laborers,
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