The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-12-12
FARMERS OBJECT
TO CHANGE IN
COURT TERM
DisapprOve Of May Setting at
Manchester
GENERAL PlCKEREL LAW
Bill Permitting Fishing Through Ice
Passed by House to Third Read
ing.

Montpelier Dec. l2.-There were /
$50 members present during the SEES
sion of the lower house of the leglsla-
Hre today and no adjournment was
taken until afternoon when tho mem
hers left the hall with the understand
ing that they were to resume business
at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
The house this morning passed the
hill introduced by Representative
L,oomis of SALISBURY providing that
electric railway companies provide
waiting rooms at centers along the
lines for the accommodation OF pas
sengers.
The house this morning killed the
bill prohibiting the sale OF small
Christmas trees.
The bill to prohibit pupils Of high
schools from becoming members oi
secret fraternitics passed the house
mis- morning. The bill provides that
students may continue as members "i
existing IIdltlulllto OliiJ
permission Of the trustees.
The representatives from the norm
ern towns OF Bennington county got
,ogetber last evening and discussed
the proposed change in the sitting
time of the Manchester term OF county
court from June to May It was ar
pued al this meeting that the farmers
in the small towns about Manchester
are more closely occupied with their
work in May than in June aud 1t Is
nroposed TO have the bill recommlt'ed
10 the committee with the idea oil con
unuing the present order OF things
The house this morning ordered 10
a third reading the general plckeiel
sshipg bin which permits hshihs
,brouph the ice in all waters in which
sucb fishing win not endanger the
,reyailing conditions. The bill Is
corded 10 take effect from its passage
and permits fishing during the months
Of December, January and February
The House yesterday refused oy
,retty decisive vote to concur III 'he
senate's proposal OF amendment u"
Tho printing bills. which have been the
sphiect of so much lobbying for the
mast TWO weeks. THESE are the bills
,b,ch the auditor refused to pay 10
the 81 Adams Messenger, Free Press
aud futile companies on advice OF the
attorney general, who declared tha'
the contracts under which they were
contracted were illegal and void.
The Senate set the figures BACK
where they were in The first place ana
thus practically accused the House
Of attempting to delraud the honest
nrinters whose bills were scaled down
On advice of the printing commission
ar as excessive Messrs. Fletcher ana
DeBoer were very emphatic in the pos
nion that the House should not accede
10 any proposition that included ulS'
orediting the officers Of the state VINO
had passed upon these claims anu
,ho House seemed, by its vote to be
decidedly Of the same opinion.
The Senate yesterday passed the
house bill relating to the salary Of
nrobate Judges after proposing amend
ments raising the salaries oil Judge NJ
Bingham of Burlington from SlSoO
10 sliOO and OF Judge Hiram Carleton
Of Montpelier from $1,000 to SliVO' Al
amendment was also proposed ra's'hs
the salary Of the Judge of the hu'''""
district 500. -,
A committee bin was introduced III
the House yesterday which provides
TINT railroads may give transportation
10 newspapers In return for od'eruS
ing space In the newspaper at the 'a'u
rates. If the bill rs passed 1t Will prop
shlv mean that the time tables VIII
ogain appear In most Of the papers
Editor II. c. whitehin of Waterbury
,,as instrumental IN having the Dill
introduced. a.. -. nu relat
inc 10 the cattle commission ana ue
snipg his powers and duties HAVING
srst amended II to take eifeet Feoiu
-, tho House yesterday resumed
40 discussion Of the bill repeating al
-..sor, laws providing for deduouoi
sor dents owing from the appra'Se'
value of their personality The meu'
Sors had not finished when Dime
lime came. and the consideration Q
the bill was resumed this "''''HO'"