Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-11-19
BILLS
ARE CUT DOWN
House Accepts Report of COM
missioner and Orders Bill to
Third Reading
REJECTED MEASURE PASSED
bir Majority In Favor Of Combinir,
commissioners. Of AprIcuItur. pra
Forestry nj tnnunI Expense
r-ouni Si2.OOO-SinuEh,cr
of Bills Feature

Monipc.ior Nov. 1N.--The House This
afternoon again lad a discussion over
the bill on which IT has twice been in
commute" of tn" whole. TO pay certain
Furnishing concerns for public printing
me bll was called up this afternoon by
MI Fletcher OF Cavcndlsh who read a
report from +. f.. Langley. State print
ING commissioner. recommending that
'he amount In the bill to be paid the
ST. Aihans Messenger company he re
duced Sl68; the amount due the Free
| ircSS association be reduced s3o,26 and
| uI"t tle amount due the Tuttle Publish
ing company Of Rutland be reduced
sI'oio'lo This would leave S2l5.25 due the
| state from the Tuttle company.
| Hr iooie of Dandy inquired as to ho,y
'"e commissioner OF State printing ar
rived at the figures OF tho Futile bid and
| 'APIahatlon was made by Mr.. Boyce Of
! waterbury That the Gobie bid was taken
as a basis to figure out the claims Of the
roe Press and Messenger. and that Mr.
| tut'le's bid in 1908 was taken as a basis
TO hsure out his claim Of 1906
/ MI ito"e OF Bennington believed tina,
Iile COME Did ought not to be taken az n
i"'' oasis 10 work upon to arrive at a
OASIS on the Free Press anG Messenger
! because Mr. Gobie Withdrew from those
! contracts lie said that he probably
/ round that he bid very close on the work
ana did not care for it and therefore if
was unfair TO the other printers In es
to olish that as ii bass. He then orrerod
an amendment To the bill that the ST.
Adams Messenger claim he reduced ,,no
the Free Press $3.50 and the Tuttlc com
pany 500.
This amendment was opposed hv Mr..
Fletcher OF 'Hvendish. who believed IN
standing by the recommendations OF tho
State printer
Mr.. Locklin of Richford favored the
passage OF the bill on the re,ommendo-
tlons Of the printing comm! ssioner. Mr
BoNce of Waterbury took the sam.
ground. Mr.. Howe of 81. Johnshurv
wanted 10 wait and see the printers 70
see II they would settle as rronosed
MI SeaVer of Willamstown defended
the action OF the committee on claims
AS amended the bill Of the burlington
Free Press company IS cut 1924 2s. leaving
the amount $685.. The bill OF the &,
Adams Messenger company is cut sI5s "a
1eaNlnG the amount sl347.lO The bil o- |
the Tuttle company is cut out altogether |
According TO Commissioner Lanrlov,s
report the Tuttle bl was cut l.n,s IA
leaving the company in debt to tho
stat" to th" amount of s2l5 o. hut the
House simply cut out the bill entirely.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The senate gave senator Finn this
afternoon unanimous consent to i,,r,
duce bill but when II was found tba,
thls was bill that has been looked for
al through the session. granting the
right OF suffrage to women, the Sonata
smiled broadly
ne senate spent considerable time this
afternoon discussing the House bill ra
lating 10 limitations Of actions aRainst
towns, making the limit two wears i'm
stead of six years as at present. The
Dill was finally amended So as to come
within the provisions of chapter Is Of
Ihe public statutes and was passed The
senate also had a lively discussion over
Inc Senate bill making the witness fees
II STATE cases ono dollar per dav and
mileage Instead OF s. as at present. The
oiil was finally passed by a yea and nav
vote Of = To ;.
AGRICULTuRAL BILL. PASSED
The House this afternoon had another
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