The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-16

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side town for public use. An amendment
by Mr.. Ieary 10 the effect that property
so taken should be taxed by the town
in which Il was located at its value
when taken was killed the other day.
Then the vote was reconsidered and the
bill with the amendment ordered to lie.
The bin came into the House yesterday
with an amndment from the committee
on municipal corporations TO the effect
that power or water privileges should be
taxed at their actual value. II was Of
considerable Importance. as there are
many cities which have gone into neigh
boring towns and taken water privileges
or power privileges for their own benefit
or for the benefit OF their public, and
Il makes great difference whether the
city developing the water system has
TO pay TO the town where the property
is condemned a tax rated according 20
the value Of property when taken or
the value when developed for another
town. The amendment Of the committee
finally passed, 1928 TO S. and the bill
was then ordered to a third reading.
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the House had whack at one side or
the other, and there were many more
suggestions running at large. Mr.. Hitch
cock had an amendment which he wanted
TO put in which exempted taxation from
the pipe lines extending 10 the place
where the power vas to be used, but
he'could not put this amendment in I'M
less the committee amendment failed.
The two Howes, of st. Johnsbury and
Bennington, defended the committee
amendment on the ground that it was
not fair for a city 10 step in and de-
prive town OF valuable water privileges
OF powers which, IL sold to private com
panies, would be valuable as a taxable
piece of property.
The argument was also used that
very often when water powers were la
ken up by private companies the towns
were built up on the resulting indnst.
ries. Mr.. Leary contended that when
municipal companies went for water
privileges they went out TO get them
for their own cities and that when
private industries took water rights
they seldom built up the town but sim
ply took the power to larger places.
He thought the small towns should not
complain ii nothing was taken from
their grand list. The power simply be-
came valuable to the city taking it, de-
veloping ii and using it Mr.. Fish spoke
in favor Of the Leary amendment and
Mr.. Watson of st. Adams was strongly
opposed To the committee amendment
According to the amendment. which
was passed. the value OF the water priv
ileges taken il assessed BY the town
located and there Is no appeal
except to the board Of civil authority
of that town. Jones OF Sudbury thought
that the committee amendment was
placing he value Of water for commercial
purposes before the value for domestic
of the damage that had been done to
his town by Barton coming and taking
its valuable water privileges on which
it is getting rich and not paying just
taxes to the town from which taken,
Tnnkeepers' Bill Passes Senate.
In the Senate yesterday afternoon the
innkeepers' bill passed, IA to u, after
a long debate. Licenses, according to
this bill. Of this class can be granted
in towns voting mo" upon petition IL
25 per cent OF the freeholders. The |
bill il strict one. however, and does |
not allow the sale Of liquors TO residents
of a town in which the license is granted |
nor residents Of surrounding towns. The |
bill did not have the unanimous support /
OF the temperance committee.
Senator Cory favored the measure. /
although he. said that he had never
tasted a glass of beer or whiskey IN his |
life. He believing in allowing the sum
mer people and people from other towns
to have what they were accustomed to
without making them obliged to get it
illegally. In reply to Senator Lewis Of I
Lamoille, who asked what about the
platform, Mr.. Cory said there wasn't
any platform now. They threw the
plank calling for the exemption Of wages
20 the extent Of $40 out the window and
the House bad thrown down other
planks. He said that he was the hired
man to the platform for quite while,
but that he was sick of it.
Senators Donoway and Gorham defend
ed the bill on the ground that ii was
temperance measure and would result
IN doing away with license in many OF
the towns that voted for IL simply so
their hotels might get the benefit. SEN
ator Bliss opposed. Those who voted
Against the measure were Senator's Bar.
ney, Bliss, Flagg, Croft, Fairbanks.
Jross, Huntley, Kidder, Lewis of La
noble, Nolan and Walker. Senator
0ryis said that he was hotel keeper
but IL was not his BILL He called at
'ention to the fact that the bill was
measure in one respect. 1t
lid not allow the sale Of liquors on hol-
days even on the table, whereas the
present law allowed that.