Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-11-20
MANY bill. have ra...a 10th hous..

ue $4,000 Tor thu Lake Chsmplaln
,elehfaiiou and uu- roSidihg that PER
,ons Convicted % mis,lsneauor aud .
sentenced Tor DOT more than one year .
shall be committed to the County Jail .
instead Of the Hons- Of Correction have /
both heen sigu-i and have hrcome law.
The House has passed bills Of varions
kinds Of minor Importance. No bill oi
state importance Was passed except one
10 establish a State Board OF Education
of the Governor, Supt. at Eiu-
cal ion and three members to be aplS'inted
by the Governor. The hoard is vested
with the powers OF the Normal school
and has control over
school haildings owned hy the state, the
divisions Of school money, etc.
Tue House has killed. many bills.
among them one to prevent the decking
OF horses; providing for weekly pay
rnerts for cream and mills several polln-
tioHs OF river bills, making close Sea-
son on raccoons; appropriating moneN
for the state geologist; bli. raising
pay of juror. providing that the union
label must be on all state printing Great
ing a new agricultural department and
,bolishing the state hoard, During the
week ending Saturday noon the Senate
had neither passed nor Siiled auy i'm
portaut measure. The Senate has been
BUSY all the time and has Turned out
considerable work but it has been By
way Of cleaning up to get down to the
more important legislation relating to
district courts, taxation, education aud
election laws.
There has been considerable excite
| ment in the House OF Representatives
over the Sunday blue laws. The agricut.
ture bill again came in from the cont
ni,tee and was finally killed after a
stormy debate. The farmers insisted
| that if they could no, have such bill
as they wanted they would not have
any. The bill that was killed provided
for salary of $500 and the farmer:
claimed they did not want All $500 man
State hous. gossip says that they killed
the bill because they feared that Hitch
| cock the author OF the bill would be ap
pointed.
Que OF the most Interesting occasions
Of the week was the debate on the state
printing bill. 1t appears that the Tuttl'
Co. Of Rutland, The st. Adams Messen
ger Co. and the Burlington Free Pres
Association has not received their pal
tor the state printing done by them. A
bill had been introduced to give then
their pay and the same had been favorab'
ly reported by the committee Oh Claims
When the question was put regarding
the third reading, Mr.. Howe Of l'ennng
ton, printer himself, asked why the bill
had not beeu paid ia the regular way
The members immediately began to 81
up aud notice. The state auditor va
sent Tor and asked ghv he did not pa
the bill and he then told 4 story whic
startled many OF those present. 1t AZ
psared that some one connected with TIA
Vermont Watchman Co. at Montpelie
had died and certain papers came int
the hands of the administrator. One c
these papers was an agreement betwee
several leading printers Of the state an
showed up the fact that there was
conspiracy to get good prices from tn
state for all printing done. 1t WAS Iik
the conspiracies between doctors t
: charge certain prices, and the one b'
= tween BARRIERS for the same purpos
This printing conspiracy differed in thu
it was all agreed between the parties jui
S what kinds of work were to be done +
each and the prices each was to cha,g
: aud on certain class OF work which l.
agreement was to be done by certai
company there were several bids bt
: none so low as the figure agreed upo
5 1t was q clever proposition and worke
s splendidly uutil one of the parties die
J. and the agreement was brought to ligh
Such clever minds were certainly deser
" ing Of success. The legislature will vo
|" them their pay alright, but not unit
y after they have been kept in suspen
II for few days. | heard one Old farm
saying Them newspaper feliers ha'
u been hollcrin' about graft and tellin'
q we'd got to &c, done and go home SOS
e save the expenses to the state. No
. we've got them where We want 'em al
~ we're goin to have some fun" OF cour
~ these three papers are not the only on
81 i'll the conspiracy, but the rest Of the
D. got their pay before the conspiracy "
)" discovered.
The feature in the senate during
past week has been the debate of t
=. trustee bill, The republican pa,
through its platform has promised ii
it would do something about the trus,
process laws 10 favor of the work.
:, man. Governor Proctor recommend
=. the passage OF law providing that OF