St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-01-27

certain members were COHSTaIuldllHk
e themselves that they had at last thrown
e off the democratic yoke. but here they
- are again taking the lead and taking the
4 credit of passing one of the most merto
~ rious measures Of the session. There is
some speculation as to who will be
s. elected to the position thus created.
t When the Senate passed the bill it was
supposed to be in theinterests of Senator
: Butler of Rutland who would make a
o most worthy Judge. 1t now appears
t that Judge Powers will be promoted
\ from the Superior Court and that a
> new Superior Court Judge will be elected
Senator Butler could probably be elected
to the Superior Bench; but he declined
= to be a candidate at the time OF the
: election of Judges by the General Assem-
bly, in October.
There has been a wholesale slaughter
of bills during the past week The
normal school bill which so many people
had hoped to see passed was killed.
The original bill called for the appropria-
ton of $125,0O0 for central Normal
school building. The committee on
appropriations recommended amending
the bill down to 100000 which would
be respectable starter toward the
building The whole bill was killed in
the House and the central school idea
will have two years in which to develop
more strength. The primary election
bill over which the best minds in the
Senate have spent weeks of time was
| killed in the House. The bill passed the
Senate, but the length of the bill and the |
amount of red tape connected with a
primary election seemed more than the
House could stand. A bill to take the
regulation OF apprentices out of the hands
of the labor unions was killed in the
House. Under the present system the
labor unions restrict the number of
apprentices which may Unemployed nicer
tain lines OF business. Somebody got the
idea that this was not as it should be and
introduced bill to remove the restric-
tions. The labor unions opposed the bill
and showed that there was no need of it,
because at present there were not as
many apprentices employed as were per-
mitted by their rules. The inn. keepers
license bill which was introduced in the
Senate by Senator Donaway of Middle
bury and which passed the Senate few
weeks ago has been killed by the House.
The Mock Session which is\always the
beginning OF the end of a legislative
session has been held and was declared
to be greater success than ever before.
There was good reason why it should be
better. The pages never had such
Legislature before to give them living |
examples and able illustrations of what +
a mock session should be. Representative t
Daniels OF East Montpelier was chosen !
speaker. Instead of being opened by t
prayer the session was opened Dy 1.-TWO S
pair" Among the bills introduced was t
one to pay members 81 per dav if they q
adjourned soon and S. if they adjourned
at once. Another one abolished all debts a
owing and placed fiat rate tax of five t
,ents on tanglefoot Another provided h
hat the returns from all license towns n
should be payable to the member from il
At one time during the II
session word was sent in that
prominent railroad official wanted to j
zee Howe of st Johnsburv at the tele- #
phone. This was for the purpose of l.
gettIng Howe out of the hall while lie
ertain railroad bill was being considered
The mock session was a grand success Il
md pointed out many of the pecuIiarities d.
# the present session. d,
But the one great feature which CAPS m
II Others and by which the legislature of l.
90S-9 will be remembered is the fact p;
hat they have raised their own paw. dr
his applies to the House only for up to tn
aturday night the Senate had not acted by
n the bill 1t makes no difference nj
'hether the Senate passes it or not. the Pl
louise is on record as reaching into the de
-easurv and extracting therefrom about ca
rs, 400 of easy money. Every one of ex
lem were elected upon basis of S3 DER ha
av and would have felt grieved if thew gr
ad been obliged to stay It home. Now nu
tier the longest session on record and an
18th the least accomplished. these Be
uardian> of the treasury reach in for no
leir own little slice. The rules of the pa
ouse drawn to cover just such a grab du
this provide that no member shall for
'te on any matter in which he is tn,
1anc'ally interested On the first dav IT
ssion these rules were unanimously oft
1opted, and now when over hundred tn;
embers see nearly a hundred dollars mi
ming their way they ignore the rules I
I'd take their bonus. mi
1t is expected that an adjournment will del
taken some time this week. ma