The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-06
Resolution Presented to Ad-
jOurn Next Wednesday
WAS INTRODUCED TO-DAY
The House To-day Amended the Hunters
License Bill, Making Residents Pay
so Cents, Against SIS by
Non-residents.
Stnta Honse. la. 9.

State House, Ja.l. 0.
The House this morning ordered to
third reading the bill providing for a
hunters license. A debate Of nearly an
hour followed the calling up Of the bill,
which has already passed the Senate.
The House amended it so that the license
for resident hunters will be so cents
instead of 81. The license for non-resi-
dents will be SIS, as it now Is. Mr..
Parker of Lowell tried to get an amend
ment through so that boys under Is
might get license free, but this was
killed.
The adjournment discussion will now
begin to take definite form, according TO
a resolution presented by Mr.. Fish, and
referred to the adjournment committee,
calling for final adjournment next We'd
nesday, q week from to-day. The reso-
luton reads as follows: Resolved by
the Senate and House of Representatives,
that the business of the session of 1908
ought to be completed on or before We'd
nesday, January l3, 1909; that no new
bills should ba introduced unless the
public necessity therefor is Imperative,
and that all bills with committees ought
to be reported not later than Friday,
January s, 1907
The chief discussion in the House was
on the hunters license bill. Mr.. Fish Of
Vergennes explained that as the law
now is, many Of the nonresident hunters
get of without paying their license fees
by stating that they reside in some YER
mont town. II license on all hunters
was demanded, it would be possible to
collect and the state needed funds to
bear the expenses Of stocking streams
and protecting the game interests.
Mr. Ames OF Holland favored the bill,
relating several incidents to show how
the Canadians come down into Vermont
and take away our fur bearing animals
without license. 1t was unfair. Mr..
Ames said that he had the reputation Of
being fisherman and that he enjoyed
fishing, but that Canadians would come
down and take out oil Beaver pond sew
sTal pounds of fish IN day, while he
could get none. Ii was because they
used d method which the law did not
allow him to use.
Mr.. Fletcher OF Cavendish and 1dr. Ad-
ans of Marlboro were not in favor Of
the bill on the ground that it was un-
constitutional Many Others took part
and Mr.. Parker Of Lowell took up the
cause Of the young boys. He did not
believe it was right TO tax them for
hunting birds. Several bovs ia his .iomn
who thought the legislature had already
passed bill, came to him with tears
Ia their evcs and asked IL the legisa-
ture had stopped their hunting.
Finally MIR. Ballou of Chester offered
an amendment making the tax for resi-
dent hunters 80 cents instead OF one
dollar and this passed by a rising vote
of 90 to 90. Mr.. Martin OF Plainheld
did not believe the law was unconsti-
tutional, because it was In operation in
22 states now. The bill was ordered to
a third reading by viva voce vote.
According to the terms Of the bill,
man can hunt on his own land without
d license.
A long and heated discussion took
place in the Senate over the bill prohib-
iting the dumping Of sewerage into Lake
Bomoseen. Senator Walker put up
strong argument in favor Of its passage
and in the interests of public health.
He stated that many cases of typhoid
fever in the town mad been traced to
the use Of water and ice from the lake.
The two senators from Orleans, Lewis
and Donoway, took up the other side OF
the question, scouting the idea of con-
tanaination in so large lake. A num-
ber of other senators spoke on the bill
and finally motion to adjourn was car.
ried IA to IL, before the measure was
Of.