Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-01-20

chairman of the republican state COM
nittee. manager of the Prouty cam
,ass, member of the assembly repre-
,enting Newport, and spokesman for
the ADMINISTRATORS Herald.
In appointing F. C. Williams of |
Newport as savings bank Inspector
Gov. Proutv has performed an act that
will meet the approval Of all--especially
those who have the honor to know Mr..
Williams in legislative capacity. He
is one of the hard. earnest workers In
the General Assembly and is also well
and ably fitted for this responsible
position. Hyde Park News and
Citizen.
A Montpelier Italian. who appe AIRED
before the United States court this
week and asked for the privilege of
becoming an American citizen. In an
swering the questions of his examlna-
ton replied that the laws of this coun-
try were made by Theodore Roosevelt.
There are number of residents OF
the greatest city on the continent with
business interests identified with one
particular thoroughfare who will agree
with him. Bloomington Banner.
The Rutland Herald devotes col
umn leading editorial to most de-
served criticism of Fish and Game
Commissioners Thomas. winding UP
with this:
"This year will see the most lament
able slaughter of deer that the state OF
Vermont has ever known. The very
men who have been active in advocat-
ing and passing the cruel and unneces-
sary doe bill will be imploring the leg.
islature year from this fall to repeal
it. And the man who is most tc
blame for the present condition OF
| things is, in the opinion of this paper,
Henry G. Thomas of Stowe
| Exactly what the Gazette has said
and which it emphatically repeats II
this issue. Thomas was the man who
rubbed their ears and set the blood
hounds on. Out with him !-Hardwicl
Gazette.
Under the administration ship ant
almost as q party measure. the Bar
Der public utilities bill has passed thu
house by large majority. Its pass
age is significant of two things; first
of the fact that the administration
practically for the first time. has beef
able to rally to the support of its leg
islation practically the solid part
strength of the house; and second
. that the house has deserted for tn
first time the counsels and leadershi
of two or three clever democrats a.
arrayed against this bill in the frs
instance.
The amendments to the bill wer
in a large degree a confession Q
weakness. First the clause hedgin
the establishment Of competing con
panies with restrictions. red tap
and delay was dropped out under tn
desperate attack of the independer
telephone companies, very niue
against the will of the author, by tn
way.
Second, the vicious and socialist
! provision for inspecting and regl
i lating companies at their own expens
:. was stricken out. although this wa
: the cherished scheme of the ecol
e omists of the administration. I
establish powerful commission
: with three greatly-to be desired polit
\ cal plums attached. at the expense
T the wicked corporations, that was mig
d to genius. But there was no chan'
: of getting it through in that for
8 and the section was eliminated.
n Third, the reducing of the salari
d from $4,000 for the chairman al
1t So, 500 for each commissioner was a
n mittedly unexpected, but was in Iii
It with the determination of the house
e have. if possible, graftless and harl
!, less public service commission.
:. The Boyce amendment, itself 1
amended and tinkered on the floor
the house, simply says, in effec
'This law is dangerous law.
ID contains great many specific q
peremptory clauses that we can r
in brief study, determine the effe
a. and probable meaning of. So we q
I'd an amendment which says it shall r
to be construed in such way as
=. injure such and such interests" tt
is, "this law may be bad law, but
u add section which tags it good la
A and send it along"
ID The Daniels amendment viii
- was received with good-natul
laughter, was open and definite a
IL undertook to exempt telepho
he poles and lines specifically. It "
in honest and fundamental compared w
ya the continual patching and clippi
. which the Barber bill has received.
as The bill as it stands is of W
ny doubtful value. The provision VIII
ol. declares that where a rate is 'insu
= cient" the commission may regula
it might permit this tribunal to com
ID the Orange county telephone &C
We paay to RAISE ITS RATES if I'll
Is. took notion. The rights it gi
- of looking into the private details
90 public service corporations busin
ne are certainly unusual in this state
we would not be tolerated by any legii
M ture if they were applied to indlvid
- business. They are capable of inf
ao ing extreme hardship if the comm
a sion so desired and the bullying a
nat tude of Chairman Redmond at cert
dc notable public hearing is no particl
assurance that the rights of the
Ine poratlons will be respected ii the
M ~, should pass the senate and bect
ei law.
lei The Barber bill will be overloo
oh ,I with considerable particularly be-
sly it is permitted to pass the senat
Oh Montpelier Journal.