The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-20
WHEN WILL 1T GET THROUGH?
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jority when the members went home, but
| when their wives and their constituents
wives got at them at church on Sunday
! they wilted. Shall we set our boys and
girls the example OF selling ice cream on
Sunday" demanded the whiskered mem
Der from South Burlington, and thus open
wide the doors for all sorts of traffic. On
| this question | demand the yeas and nays,
so every member can be put on record"
The bill was lost by good fat vote.
1t was the greatest example OF skirt
sovereignty you ever saw. Talk about let
ting women vote. If they had their way
they wouldn't let man buy cigar or a
package of tobacco except on a doctors
prescription. The men do the voting now
but you and | amt voting against our
wives convictions, not if they can catch
us at it. That's one advantage OF the
Australian ballot.
By the way, Ed. Finn has furnished
the usual diversion of bill to establish
woman suffrage. He also shook hands
with Luke Landman and says he ought to
have the smallpox. Any man that don't
know any more than to shake hands with
Windham county man ought to catch
it, says Finn.
BARRIERS public service commission bill
is perhaps the most important measure he
has fathered as yet 1t is under discus
sion at present and is supposed to be the
best effort he can put forth in the law
making line. 1t simply extends to all
public service corporations the same super
vision now given to railroads.
The problem of adjournment has been
up this week and the concluding days of
the week before the Thanksgiving recess
are marked by good deal of feverish
activity. Considerably over 600 bills have
been introduced and, until the big squirt
that followed some very decided prodding
by the state press, less than 100 had been
finally acted on. Since then, 40 or 80
have been gotten out of the way each day.
1t will be grave question If the work
can be done before Christmas, but the
speaker and the new" house leaders,
DE Boer and Williams, are set
ting their faces steadily to that end and |
it may even yet come to pass. Important |
measures that will certainly evoke debate
and which are as yet Enacted on are:
Taxation, Temperance, Tuberculin Test,
Direct Primaries, Employers Liability,
State Normal School, Highways.
Senator Gibson, by the way, is going to
have public hearing on his bill for pri-
nary elections, also one on Frank Ho'we's
dill to the same end So far, the subject
hasn't had fair chance. Too much dis
,raction.
The fish and game league banquet was
zig affair and developed some interesting
md disgusting features. DR.. Bishops
uniting stories, illustrated by Photographic
ides and moving pictures, were the
,reatest things of their kind Vermont
portsmen have ever seen. 1t was pity
hat few muckers should have been able
o mar the sober mans enjoyment of this
bsolutely unique address. st was dis
ourteous to President Evarts and his
uests, an insult to the governor of Yer ;
mont, and a disgrace to self-respecting ,
portsmen everywhere.
Goodell of Nottingham has made two {
pigrams. He said, when some unwise *
1ember spoke slightingly of the Italians '
Mr.. Speaker, l cannot set still and hear
~ neighbors spoken i'll Of There are ,
everal hundred Italians in my town and j
hey went across the state line short t
ime ago to a picnic. 1t was said they c
ad six barrels of ale and beer at that '
icnic and they all passed my place coming !
ONE. The only man that couldn't take
are of himself was a native Vermonter!" I
Referring to the argument that the L
tate, having paid some of the printers, t
ught to pay them all, Goodell said: IF v
here's a lot of chaps stealing my chickens y
can only punish the ones ketch." 1