The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-12-04
SET LEGISLATURE
TO SLOW MUSIC
And Run II as an After-Piece Ia
a Local Minstrel Show.
NOTHING MUCH DOING AS YET.
Governor Hadn't Nerve TO Veto Doe
Bill - Barber $40 Exemption from
Trustee Process Killed by Senate
When VIII II All End?

Special TO The Rcfomer
Montpelier. dec. ;.
Of all the lcisurcly. easy going. care
free and independent collections Of reu
bencsccnt law.tinker Vermont ever say
gathered together under one roof-o
| representatives Is entitled to 72.poinl
type on the program and the star dress
ing room.
II is hard 10 say whether these pie-eycd
seraphs Of legislative wisdom and virtu,
can be- classified a. animals or vegetables
Some Of them eat and drink and show
symptoms OF reason. Others merely cx
pand and absorb nourishmcnt. A few
seem TO have the typical thick and shell
| like process surrounding their brains and
finer nerves. together with the lack Of a
spinal column, which would classify them
| as molluscs. A few have erowths Of trail.
ing moss upon their features. while Others
merely sport stiff, outstanding grass-like
formations that seem sometime to have
been green and probably fit for food. All
have been trained to come at the sound
Of bell and go through the motions Of
legislation with an instinct that is often
suggestive of human intelligence.
All through recess this smiling galaxy
OF slow performers was solemnly lectured
by the state press and handed revised
list of attractions which were supposed to
be pulled off before Christmas. They
came back from the bosoms of their fam
lilies and the altars OF their town gods and
gave loud yelps OF glce as they confronted
the trifing task OF disposing of some 800
odd bills, participating in seven or eight
big debates, holding lot OF public hear.
ings, unlimited committee meetings and
committees of the whole and yet adjourn
ing before Christmas with their little So
tucked away in vest pocket and heart
at peace with the world. (Haying drawn
sl20, they keep thinking OF the extreme
sum which they may be expected to
"earn",-I suppose / must use the word
before they finally qit the states pay
roll.)
The first week is practically finished
and what have they done? Press the o
key of your Underwood with the Cap
shift, lift the carriage and read the an
swer.
Clarke Fits, he says the most impor-
tant measure that has been passed or
will be passed this session has been sent
down the line, H450, which allows a town,
village or school district to recover dam.
ages if taxpayer lies about his list and
they catch him at it. If he dies uncon-
fessed and the probate court discloses the
secret Of his life, then the claim will lie
against his estate and the statute OF limi-
,ynn't hold II nuifp n husky |
young law.
Then Frank Williams, he thinks those
court procedure bills, H249, H25s H3l7,
are certainly the real pazaz, as they will
restore masters and referees and jiggle up
little old Miss Justice so she will have to {
wear rubber heels to sterilize the vibra- {
tons from her swift flight. t
1t would be pecans TO ennmerate the q
things that have been done that "hadn't /
oughter" The doe bill, one of the most {
damnable bits of deliberate cruelty ever t
by bunch of slant-browed f
cow chambermads in this or any other r
sovereign state, has been passed by both v
houses and signed by the governor. 1t /
means that the gentle, timid mothers of t
our deer-kind, those beautiful types of $
,rcadian innocence and beauty, will be at r
,he mercy of any, sport or farmer who
IAN scare up a rifle and impose his car q
,ass on the landscape as deer-hunter p
lext season. 1t means that the gentle. i
minded hired man, who will feed does and n
awns in the barn-yard this winter-'cause Il
ts going to be hard one-can mark down @,
he plumpest, keep it tame all summer, ST
IS hundreds of them are already, then, in tt
he holy name of sport, go out next fall NJ
nd lay the lovely creature quivering un- &c
Ter his feet. st
Oh, it's such manly, such noble as. A
ration The fiatfaced and cock-eyed en- n
husiasm that such bloody lust must in dt
pire! The noble joy of seeing doe, the gi
cry emblem of helpless weakness, typical of
f tender trust in the stronger ANIMAL nj
cad under the hand that has fed it! 1t in
lakes man think of the desperate an
'retches who make war on women, who tit
eat their wives, who lash little children
buse beasts. (Tut! Clarice, that is per- fo
,ctly legitimate tirade.) ch
Every newspaper in the state ought to be
egin crusade against these weltering III
nd bloody minded doe-killers The first Pf
ian that brings in a doe ought to be hi
acklisted by all decent sportsmen, his ce
ame ought to head the list of deer
hunters" as cad, and the contempt and of
of all lovers of our wild animals m;
lght to be directed toward him. If, in Ht
cad of treating these ruffians as sports lie
en-, every editor in the state should be- Be
n to show them up as the cowardly, I
liking brutes they are, it would be tic
lightly few does that would be brought in tn,
hung in the shambles. nls
The newspapers of Vermont could veto w
e doe bill even if Handsome Bert me
routy didn't have the nerve. tn,
Then the senate killed the bill exempt val
g from trustee process and deliberately da,
pudiated one of the specific pledges of tot
e republican platform. The process by 500
hch it arrived at this remarkable state VIII
mind, or rather at the lop-sided mental 2l6
,rtness which it regards as decision, are bas
involved that l wouldn't undertake to me
ravel them. In fact, shouldn't really 100
Ter to the senate's mind; it hasn't any, sm
W that Gibson has been sent home to dun
domestic pest house. A few senators am
~ own an individual mind, but collect the
,ly they merely secrete kind of jelli- mig
consciousness, sort of unvitalized 7
otoplasm. In time, stray seed might var
into this quivering and gslatinous ten
lss and take root, but it woull be in the
dim and pre-visionary future; al pres The
the senate never thinks; it merely feet
.lls." pol
That's probably why it intends to take low
, printing scandal bills, over which 81 9
g' Tuttle and BILLY" Howe have vast ing
so many wide-eyed dawns and yearn- T
mid nights, and amend them back to cur,
original figures Great suffering Gaze drol
S ceremonial sarcophagus! LII those rum
s are ever sent back to the house, do ang
! know. what will happen? The house sam
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