The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-20
WHEN WILL 1T
GET THROUGH?
Legislature Has a Bunch Of
Work Ahead of 1t.
SUNDAY LAW KILLED
Barber Is an Anti.vaccinationist az
Well as Believer in More Liberal
Sabbath - Disgusting Features OF
Fish and Game Banquet.
From our Special Correspondent;

From our Special Correspondent:
Montpelier. Thursday.
The chief legislative labor for the
week was the expenditure of couple
of thousand dollars 10 rebuke and
! chasten three wicked printing firms
! that claimed the state owed them
money. in the upshot Of the whole
affair Vermont saved about that
amount of money by refusing TO pay
/ the claims. but the feature of the oc-
casion was the beautiful. crisp, nut
brown toasting that the wretched
printers received The state vindicat-
ed itself. The printing trust was
| bunged open wider than the Golden
Gate and W. b. Howe of the Free
| Press and 4. e. Tuttle Of the Tuttie
company were grilled TO rich maroon.
| They would have il so and the legisla,
ture handed il to them warm ana
! plenty.
II all came up because Horace. +.
Graham. auditor. held up unpaid bal
anees due the st. Albans Messenger
company. Free Press association ana
Tuttle company, claiming that the coz
tracts under which they had been lev
were void. The voidness lay in the
now celebrated printers agreement by
which the following distinguished gem
tlemen agreed not to bid against each
other on certain work or to bid above
certain figure on state printing:
w. B. Howe, Free Press association;
L. c. Tuttle, Tuttle company;
Messenger company, st. Albans;
George +. Atkins, Argus & Patriot;
Arthur Ropes. Watchman company;
Harry f. Parker. for himself;
A. +. Stone. Caledonia company.
The reason the four latter firms were
not involved is because they had col
lected everything due before the agree
ment was flashed on the horrified audi
tor. If the state had owed them any
thing. Horace would have held them up
too. / know he would, because Hor-
ace as a lazy loosener of the states
financial resources is unequalled In
history.
Well, Frank Howe of Bennington
opened the thing up as soon as the
house went into a committee or the
whole He said he wanted several
cruelty aspersed firms vindicated. He
had the auditor sent for, the attorney
general, the printing commissioner,
the commissioner of state taxes ana
finally Chilly" Howe and Egg Tut
tie When the house got through with
them, Franks reputation as vindica-
tor WASH WOTlu IL po"'"SS
stamp in a thin space box. The way
he failed to vindicate those three bad
collectors was thorough.goin marvel.
As an attorney for the defence Frank
would owe his clients money.
The thing went into two pubic
hearings as committee of the whole
and then into regular session OF the
house Wednesday, At the latter, Al
len M. Fletcher and f. G. Williams
spoke strongly of the states duty in
the matter and ]. A. DeBoer clinched
the situation by a clean.cut speech that
left nothing to be done except TO vote
the recommended reductions or FRANK
Langley, printing commissioner, Wmen
sealed down the claims $l56.33. $394.2o
and $l04S.10 respectively in the Mes
senper. Free Press and Tuttle cases.
There were no cards issued for the
funeral of the printing trust.
Brattleboro came up here right after
she had scared the Legislators into pink
fits by letting Luke Landman OF Lon
donderrv "pass through" and visit
the capitol, where it is claimed he in
fected hundred legislators or so with
smallpox. The Brattleboro invasion
came later and included Jim Hook-
er, W. H. Corser. G. W. Dunham,, Y.
O. Robbins. E. G. Crosby and few
more, who met with the SPECIAL COM
mittee on taxation and didn't even
mention their vaccinations. NO, tneia
sore spot was the proposed abolition OF
offset and their alignment of so many
first.class reasons why they should not
be allowed the sacred right-.or rite
of claiming offset makes it almost GER e
tain that the committee will report IN
favor of abolishing the whole business.
Brattleboro lobbyists are mighty
fine crowd of fellows, but as
positive force in moulding legislation
their proper sphere is boys school
model republic. ~
Landman has got the statesmen all
affected by the colly-wobbles. Large,
grown men 60 about, holding thelr
arms in their two hands and beseecn-
inc the rude onlooker to watch out.
WDoc.'' Kidder of Woodstock and
"Doc.n Calvin of Londonderry. keep
on looking wise and scraping shrinking
biceps every chance they get. They
seem to have hopes that even it no
member comes down with the, dread
disease that some of them will be good
and sick with the cow-pox which they
have had jabbed into them. ANY klnd
of sickness is better than none at all.
Honestly, there doesn't seem to be
great deal of panic drifting about the cap
ltOl. Inc HelHDeTS nave
exactly as they did before and don't make
any move toward "some radical and COM
prehensive plan to prevent further con
tagion." as Doc Holton would SO learnedly
remark. No, think they will drift along
home about tomorrow evening, or perhaps
some of them Saturday, and have the
smallpox at home if they have it at all;
There is not more than one chance IN 5O
that a case will develop in the state house,
although Landman shook hands with
few and rubbed up against. lot more.
The bug theory is losing lots OF Pc
levers lately, and even the farmer-falth
in the tuberculin test was shaken recently,
ANYTHING may happen hereafter. Anti-yac-
cinationists have popped up--and Mr.
Barber is one of them, your humble ser
want is another-who declare with trucu-
lence and vigor that they'd just as soon
have the smallpox light as the yyacclna-
tion heavy. Barb" says he was abed ten
davs when he was vaccinated before and
had A fever of lO5 had to keep plowing
ali the time. and l was so sick | lay down
in the furrow and cried. But don't, let
this stop any pleasure you. may find IN
having the cow-pox yourself. l wouldn't
disturb the amiable theories of the medi-
ral profession for farm.
Speaking of Barb, he missed his. chance
when he let them put that blue law bill
of his over Sunday. He had slim ma