The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-06
ILUSTROUS
TOM CHENEY
He Made the House Work
Over Election.
WESTMINSTER'S MIXUP
Got Some Attention This Week
George Miller on the Sheriff Graft
Representative Bacon Trimmed on
Tereentenary Appropriation.
From Our Special Correspondent

lfrom Our Special Correspondent
Thursday p. M.
worked, while the senate insisted on Loaf
ihi. there were seven senator's on th
| job Monday afternoon and they wer
only there because they couldn't ge
away. All they really needed was Secfe
iary Homer Skeels and Frank CORY
| The scheme was that Homer would cal
the bunch 10 order and Cory would b,
called 20 the chair. Then some near.at
hand handy man would move TO adjourn
until Wednesday afternoon and she'd b,
adjourned A. il was. the revision com
mitiee fired in nine bills and Homer and
Frank fixed up the committee reference,
all night. 20 II really was quite = siren,
uous afternoon for the nine old gentle,
men, as senate afternoons 90.
Certainly last weeks mus and It's out.
come reflects more lustre on Tom Cheney
than any one else. Personally, al hrt
gle.handed, then finally with a strong
organization, he not only held the house
to its position OF staying here to do the
work it is paid 10 DO, but impressed on
the senate the importance Of passing the
bill TO permit voting at the state.h house.
| This bill met with no favor in the senate
committee and the genial Glib" was
quite flushed when he explained that
.
and such bills never had, still the senate
would better pass il. considering what il
represented. II was very kind OF Glib"
The state-house vote OF 226 showed
that the claim that the state had never
polled vote that amounted to anything
in the capitol was no reason why they
never could. All in all the boys are
metaphorically tipping their hats TO Tom
Cheney, even those who tried hardest TO
beat him.
The careful and scientific trimming of
John l.. Bacon was one OF the enjoyable
events OF this weeks demonstration.
John owns the committee on apprupria-
tions and wants state fair bill passed. |
Perhaps he thought the way TO get peo-
pie in the mood for passing special bills |
was to pare down a few So he put the |
plane to HIS, which appropriated $4,000 |
for a celebration OF the tercentennial Of |
the discovery OF Lake Champlain (by /
Samuel de of the same name) and |
il down to $4,000, $4,000 to go
into a monument and 5000 TO 20 into
ting magnates. John gave his r.asons
One was that he didn't expect the state
would have more than sl00,000 to the
good next June and perhaps a good deal
less II the cattle commission business
Kept up. Then he got it.
Frank l.. Fish, the sturdy statesman
rom the Ancient City, told in a voice
'ibrato with emotion and husky with
,rease paint how McDonough built his
loops at Veryennes and then handed {
ew hot ones to the British at Platts- {
1urg. Vermont's glorious history up and !
lown the wet strip beyond Shelburne, {
}harlotte, Ferrisburg and Panton was re- z
ited in periods that dnpped with noble {
ears: II was sloppy afternoon. Then
Ioe Martin OF Brookline told about the !
,attle OF Bennington, which was fought :
nder his personal direction-wasnt it? /
anyway, Joe sets heap OF store on Y
he stone needle with the freckled face a
hat points the way to glory and cost the I
tate $4,000. My native town, said Joe, ;
ever regretted the money that monu- n
lentt cost. And then bis voice got to
'iggling, too. &
DeBoer of Montpelier made q good, c
trong speech and said his figures indi. u
ated that the state would have 100000 V
ext June d
The finishing touch was put on by Nc il
arghan of Richmond, who said he didn't Il
alieve the state should invite New York, e.
anada, France and all New England p
nd then pass around sandwiches and q
no beer. G.
The vote was 10 to 81 and the mem. Ii
IL.
The legislature has got itself into such ii
lovely mixup by the various deer season pl
lis that no one really knows where the
inter will get off. AT first every one
pposed the governors proclamation
erely postponed the open season until
lnday night, instead of which, it ap- in
ars that he has not only suspended the la
zen season for week but he has abol VI
ned it. Then a few of those critical m
nators like Ed Finn and Judge Butler
pressed reasonable doubt as to wheth. sa
even a governors proclamation could or
store that lost, lamented open season, do
d it was up to the fish and game com lar
ttee to do something. That something ar
IS an emergency bill, H24, which Mr.. tn
bhardt of Shelburne rushed in Wednes- re;
Y afternoon, got it passed by the house J
d senate under suspension of the rules in
d it is now law. This permits the ~ ~;
xious hunter to exterminate bucks y. ua,
.h three-inch horns from Sunday night e ~
Vestminster's little corporation mixup i;a, iaS
getting. some attention from the COM ne ny,
tee on municipal corporations this ns are
elk. It seems that under the general ni,, nn'
settlement, plantation or agricul- III III
al oasis of 80 houses may incorporate ~, H.
Ter the general law and become real ait, III,
age. So the village of Westminster ,n u,s :.
set itself apart from the town. WIN r.
,ut two miles of highway and % per v
It of the grand list, while the town, mig
h "a miles to care for can whistle for ses
two-thirds of the highway money, tina
ich, under the general law, the hamlet dat
retain. The committee .sympathizes ago
h the selectmen, but finds that, for INT,
lance, Groton has gotten itself into ma
It's for lights, sewers, etc, and doesn't ha1
ut the law touched What's the an pas
,r9 Let the committee think. pas
he amiable Windham county custom Dill
electing a sheriff who will knock down two
or $50 from each deputy for the priv one
e of being appointed seems to be the dl,sI
iect of Representative Miller's bill. I'm
Ter comes from Guilford and the things hou no!
doesn't know about the crooks and dlcl .,
Ms of Windham county sheriffs aren't blll'
tn much. Hence his bill to prohibit com
very profitable and innocent gaft. has
!. A. Halliday, the Rockingham fruit roat
4. is up here to tell about the rapac- mas
|; wickedness of the cedar waxwing. mas
saws these highplumaged pests are taxi
song birds, they do not eat, insects, gent
her have they decent and proper mur
elite for cherries. No; he says they com
from tree to tree, take one bite from
berry, knock it off the tree and then I
v to the next. And so he wants Bro
t to shoot them. Hence the usual mar
star
,o &c Mr Walker of Dummers- the