The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-12-19
And Will Not RecOnyene Un-
til January 4
COUNTY OPTION DEFEATED
House Voted to Pay Full Salary to the
Widow Of Man Elected from Ham
cock-Short Sessions Held
To-day.


State House, Dec. 10.
Brief sessions Of the House and Sem
ate were held this morning and then
the members of the legislature sour
ried for their homes for the holiday
recess which, contrary to the first voto
of the House, viii continue for two
weeks until January 4, 1909. The SEN
ate amended the Houes resolution re-
latipg to adjournment TO the above date,
and the House concurred by a vote OF
95 TO 50, the vote showing that many
members wished TO come back to Mont
peler on December 2s to resume the
work Of long drawn out session. This
mornings work was hustled through
as rapidly as possible to enable the
solons to catch the early trains for home,
and nothing of consequence was done.
All the House did to-day was TO ac-
cept the amendments Of the Senate to
two bills, relating to the taking OF pick
erel, eliminating lake trout and longe,
and relating to an appropriation OF mon
ey to build a barn at the house Of cor
rection, and to refer the Senate bill to
amend the act Incorporating the Central
Tel. Co. The Senate did little more,
simply passing two bills, viz, relating
to forest fire wardens, providing for a
courthouse at Bennington, and recalling
from the House the bill relating to sales
of intoxicating liquor by licensees Of the
second and seventh class.
County Option Killed.
After advancing the valued FIRE insur-
Ill - led
| terday afternoon, the House killed the
bill to establish county option on tho
| liquor question.
Mr.. Fuller Of Bloomfield, the author
of the bill, told of its merits and the
successful working Of the law in states
where ii had been tried Mr.. Bacon was
/ time the Mr.. Speakers were coming
SO thick and fast that they sounded like
the popping Of corn Everybody had q
petition or two, varying in length from
one yard to seven. At last Speaker
Cheney, from his seat OH the floor Of
the House, attempted to call halt on
the business, as he said that the COM
mittee had already considered the. bill
and decided not to report one way or
the other. He said the petitions were
USeitsh tllu Wou14 Unb Dc NOHnlutHkQ anu
simply caused the clerk lot OF extra
work.
Among those who favored the bill was
Mr.. Seaver of Williamstown, who sent
in petition containing the names Of
81 people. He was very much in favor
Of the bill. Orange county had some
tpies gone dry altogether He called
attention to the time Washington county
voted mo" except for Barre Town, which
was nuisance to his town. Mr.. Ames
of Holland, minister of the gospel,
said that he was "teetotaler,' but no
was not in accord with the idea Of the
biIl Mr.. Williams and Mr. Leary Of
Burlington opposed the bill, as it took
away the principle of local option, in
which the town was made the unit. The
bill made it impossible for q town vot-
ing yes to have a license if the whols
county vote was mo" A town voting
no in a county voting yes" could not
have license. The yeas and nays were
called for and the bill was refused
third reading, l2l to 81.
Bills were passed establishing munic-
ipal courts at Springfield and Bellows
Falls and then the bill calling for the an
nexation of part of Monkton to
Starksboro was taken up again. The
blackboard came into play again and Mr.
Lamb Of Monkton called Mr.. Williams Of
Leicester up and queried him as to sew
eral points on which the House had no
light, either before, during, or after the
interview. Two amendments were killed.
One provided that the towns vote on the
division at their March meetings. The
other one BY Mr. Davis of Springfield
purposed to make the division SO that
those who wanted to be in Monkton
would be there and those who desired
Starksboro could make their residence
there. Mr.. Fuller Of Starksboro called
for the yeas and nays and then the
bill was advanced l04 to rs.
Appropriation for State Laboratory.
The House ordered to q third reading
S. 9, giving the board Of health an APP
preparation Of $4,000 for the laboratory
of hygiene House bill 233, calling for
an appropriation of 81 500, for q branch
laboratory at st. Joh.sbury was called
up and Mr.. Bacon of Hartford spoke in
its favor, saying that the principal rea-
son for the laboratory was the fact that
the people in that locality had difficulty
in getting the specimens to Burlington
for examination. Mr. DeBoer asked if
the state board of health favored the
bill, and was told that it did not. Then,
upon motion Of Mr.. DeBoer, the bill was
ordered to lie.
The third reading was ordered to the
bill appropriatinz several thousand dol
lars for the repairs and alteration Of
the county buildings in Montpelier.
Pay Widow of Mr.. Marsh.
Mr.. Spoor Of Ripton succeeded in get
ting a resolution through the House to
pay the widow Of G. e. Marsh of Han
cock, who died before he took Office as
the full pay he would
have received with mileage had he lived.
The resolution was unfavorably reported
by the committee on state and court
expenses, Mr.. Barber explaining that la.
gaily Marsh had performed no les
and they could not fnd : precedA %
justify their paying when the rsprsse.-
tative had never lived to take his seat.
Mr.. Spoor read speech. in which he
called attention 10 Mr Marsh's war rec