Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-12-10
HOUSE FAvORS
NEW TAX BILL
CONTINUED from pnge one)


Mr. Bean Of wheelock opposed the bill
believing 1t Discriminate against the
poor man and In favor Of the rich man.
THE TAX COMMISSION.
Mr.. Fish Of vergennes in discussing the
question said that IL this bill and the
bill to tax intangibles and to create a
tax commission pass, II Is proposed to
mako the present state tax commissions
err chairman OF the commission at an
| added expense OF $500 per year with two
other commissioners at an annual salary
Of $500 with necessary clerical assist
anco. This would be the main expense
Of n tax commission. Mr.. Fish also fave
ored tho hill under discussion because
1t would distribute among the towns of
the State for school and highway pur-
| poses annually sls5 80 that they do not
now have. The fundamental principle Is
that property should he treated alike
Abolish offsets ard real and personal
property stand on the same level.
Tho bill was opposed by Mr.. Tilden OF
Mortified who thought It would be the
greatest damage ever done TO the peo-
pie of Vermont to pass such bill.
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u sale course 10 iolo" ,'io reco''''i'e'iud-
ton Of the tax commission o. TWO years
ago and Of the Joint commission on taxa
ton IN the present Legislature. lie
| thought our course here n plain one on
general principles. lie said although
| great pressure has been brought upon
| him by his constituents to vote against
the bill he stood on the broad platform
| whether or not such n bill was FOR the
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WILL. LOWER RATE OF INTEREST.
NJ Coodau n, Nottingham favored the
nil a. 4 -o,rcs.n,,tivo Of one OF the
srnsller towns NJ H.. state. Mr.. Barber
q, rrat .Ieboro said the bill is in the in
,eres,s o, fine small towns. the farmers
and tho manufacturers The bill Is right
IN principle and If we pass II we shall
never 20 back 10 the old methods. It will
surely lower the rate of interest paid by
the farmer and the laboring classes.
The hill was also favored by Mr.. Hard
ing O, Vershlre. Mr. Fletcher Of Cavern
dish and opposcd by Mr.. Hinsdale OF
ST. George. Mr.. French OF Concord and
Mr.. Watson of St Adams City favored,
Tie bill was ordered to n third reading
bv yea and nay vote of us to ~. The
vote in detail follows:
Yeas-Adams. Ames, Amsden, Balm.
Rallou. Baldwin. Barber. Bates of Land
grove. Bates o, Sherburne. Eatchelder
Becker. Beals. Pshop. Boomer. Boyce
OF Proctor. Bradley. Brennan,
utton. speaker Church, CO.
burn, Cook Crawford, Croft, Dan
iel-. Darling, Davis Of Barre town,
Davis Of Derby. Davis OF Springfield,
DeBoer, Dlvorl. Donahue, Duba Ellis OF
Goshen Everleth. FELTON,. Fish. Fland-
ers. Fletcher, French. Fresh Fuller OF
Bloomfield. Gates Gebhardt George.
Goodell of Elrora. Goodell OF Whiting
ham, Goodhue, Goodrich. Green of Md
dletown Springs Iannnnt, Hard. Hard
ing, Head. Hewes. Hicks, Hitchcock,
Horr Hosford, Howe o; Bennington.
Howe OF St. Johusbury. Howes. James.
Johnson Of Woodstock, Kendall Of STRAIT
ford. Kendall OF West Windsor, Kendall
Of Weathersfiol1 Reyes. Kilburn. Kins-
ley. Le-ay, Loou's, Martin of Brookline,
McI.aren, McC1intock, Miller Of Guilford.
Willard. Mills. Montgomery. Morgan,
Parish. Park. Parker of Lowell. Partch.
Patch Peckham. Perry, Pitts of MeS1on'
Pitts OF Tinmouth, Potter OF Belvidere.
RIPLEY, Rowe. SherWln, Sherlnan' oiHs'
Smith Of Addison Smith of Shrewsbury
Smith Of Weston, Sowles, Spoor, stat
ford, Stanley, Stotson, Stone, Watson
Webb Weber. Wheeler OF Jamaica
Wheelock Virgins Of Andover Virgins
OF CorintA, Williams of Newport. Wood
Woodcock Yeaw.-nS.
Nays-A..yn OF Charleston, Bacon
, Balch, Bal Ientine, Bean Of Glover. Beanc
OF Whcelock, Bemis, Benedict, BlaisdeN
, Boutwell,, Boyce Of Waterbury, Bresse
Brown o, Ludlow. Brown of Mddlesex
Brown Of Wilmington. Calhoun, Clark
; Crossman, Cushman, Davis OF Brighton
Davis OF sheffield Deyette. Drew, Edger
ton, Ellis Of Barnard, Emerson. Fitzger
aid, Fuller OF Starksboro. G!ddings, Gil
feather. Goodwin, Gould. Gray, Hart
Hewitt. Ifinsdaie. HILL Howard OF Geor.