The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-01-26
OFFSET BILL ONCE
MORE BEFORE
THE HOUSE
Senate Amendments Practical
y Revive Rejected Measure
SENATORS IN WORDY SCRAP
Wranals ovor Bill to Increase Pay Of
Members HsatS the Atmosphere
at the state Capitol


posals OF amendment to the taxation
bill as II passed the House were COM
pleted late yesterday afternoon by
Senator Finn, were reported to the
Senate, read, and ordered to lie and
be printed. These amendments as
they will go to the House provide for
the abolition OF offsets, aAat rate of
seven-tenths of one per cent, on in
tangibles and three-headed tax com
mission, practically the same measure
that was turned down by the House
two weeks ago.
The House reconsidered its vote
adopting the senate amendment to II.
43l, the automobile bill, and refused
to concur.
The following were passed:
H. 640-Budget from appropriations
committee.
H. 615-Clerical assistance for su.
perintendent OF education. Third
reading was ordered on H. 643.
S. l75-Salary. expense and clerical
expenses Of commission OF state taxes
was passed in concurrence.
Two senate amendments were &C.
cepted on II. % and Others were order
ed TO lie; on House 53S, to amend the
charter Of the village OF Milton and II
Oil. amending the charter OF st. AL
bans.
Conference committees appointed.
S. 1872. Messrs DeBoer Of Montpelier.
Parker OF Johnson, and Montgomery
OF Hardwick, Fletcher OF Cavendish
and Williams of Newport; S. SIS, Mes
srs. Hitchcock OF Pittsford, Flint OF
Bethel and Miller of Guilford.
The committee on insane reported,
the report being accepted
s. So, amending the charter OF
Swanton was passed in concurrence
with amendment
Montpelier, Jan. 26-The Senate
was in session for about an hour yes
terday morning, while the members
of the House smoked cigars or took
a row Of seats reserved for specta
tors in the Senate. 1t was short
session, but things moved speedily a
though not without friction. There
is struggle on between the House
and the Senate over the bill to raise
the pay Of the members of the gener
al assembly, and there are all sort.
tof conjectures as to trades between
the two bodies. Senator Cory ant
Senator Lewis OF Orleans crossed
swords in the Senate this morning
on the question OF taking up the bill
to increase the pay Of members. TIL,
latter wanted the bill held up unit
after the return of Senator Gibson
and the former wanted 1t to be takeI
up at once. The scrap was carried
to the corridors after adjournment
and cross words passed between tn,
conflicting parties.
The story of the affair goes some
thing like this. Senator Butler mad
a motion that the committee havinl
the bill relating to the pay of tn
members OF the general assembly b.
requested to report the same an,
that II be taken up as a special orde
for this afternoon. Senator Levi
OF Orleans said that the bill was be
ing held for the return of the chair
man OF the committee on state an
court expenses, Senator Gibson, VIII
intended to return. The other men
bers OF the committee are Senator
Lewis OF Orleans and Scott of Rut
land. He thought 1t would be di:
courteous for the Senate to act upo
! the bill until he returned. as he ha
/ been called home by the fatal lines
OF his father.
Then Senator Cory arose to 81
cond the motion of Senator Butler
He said that he had been told tina
] Senator Gibson did not intend TO re
I turn. He was opposed to the biI
being held up In this manner. II
said he wanted chance to let tn
! state know how he voted on the que'
ton. He attacked Senator Lewis TO
his method in evading the bill. II
I said the Senate had been courteou
to Senator Lewis in matters relatin
to bills Of personal interest to tn
senator from Orleans.
Senator Lewis replied that thi
was the third time the senator fror
Washington had attacked him on tn
floor of the Senate In two days. IL
| maintained II was unjust. He sal
that Senator Gibson had told hin
that he intended to return and ha
asked him to hold certain bills befor
that committee until his return.
AS to the question Of the pay of tn
members, Senator Lewis said tina
the committee did not intend to hol
the bill and he didn't want to sa
how he stood on the bill, because h
yet had no opinion on II. He sal
that the funeral of Senator Gibson
] father was to be held tomorrow an
that Senator Gibson would probabl
} be back so that the bill could be ACT
ed upon Wednesday morning. Ser
ator Cory thought the legislator
4 would be all over by that time.
Senator Finn said that he wa
sorry to announce 1t, but the final at
4 journment could not possibly be TAI
] en- before Thursday. He has bee
working day and night to get Gel
\ tain amendments in shape and tina
they could not be submitted betor
4 this afternoon, anyway. Senate
\ CORY asked what bill 1t was he ha
been so arduously working on, an
I Senator Finn replied It was the ia
measure.
The situation was getting straihe
and finally Senator Donoway sal
J that the feeling between the senator
D had been good until recently and h
thought to preserve this feeling {
fellowship II would be well to orde
the motion Of Senator Butler to III
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