St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-03
Legislature AdiOurnS.

After an all nights session the famous
legislature OF 1908-a adjourned on Fri
day morning. To enumerate all the
things that have been done and left
undone by the legislature would require
columns OF space. In addition to the
important administration measures that
failed to become enacted into law, was
the employers liability bill over which
So much time and eloquence was spent.
A summary of the important amend
ments to the present license law shows
that second class licenses are regulated,
| requiring sales to be made to a customer
personally and forbidding the express
team features of licensed places. Another
amendment to this law puts all the fees
received for licenses into the state treas
ury for general use instead of one half
going to the town. Another bill which
was enacted into law provides that
licensed places must be located near the
centers of population, and not within
two miles of the state line, The pro.
posed amendments that failed included
the county option bill, the innkeeper's
license measure and the creation of
state license commissioner.
The board of agriculture and the for
estry commission is combined in one
commission of agriculture, and $4,000
is appropriated for the Investigation of
unused water powers. An increased
highway appropriation assures continued
effort in improvements fthe public roads
although the Howe trunk lire highway
bill tailed to become law
Other measures of more or less interest
to the people of the state which have
been signed by the Governor are: The
general increase in salaries of state
officials including the members of the
Legislature OF 1908 and future legis-
lators; limiting the speed of automo-
biles on entering or leaving bridges to
SIX miles an hour; preventing the spread
OF bovine tuberculosis by creameries
empowering towns and cities and incor-
porated villages to appropriate money
tor agricultural fairs; putting the
sheriffs of the state on a salary basis:
raising the salary of several states
attorneys and judges of probate;
authorizing railroads to grant special
rates for fairs and schools; preventing
the fraudulent wearing of badges; per-
hitting officials of towns and cities to
sell liquors that have been seized; pro- /
hibiting the adulteration of paints;
creating commission to prepare pro-
posals in 1910 of amendment to the
constitution providing for a state
board of education; prohibiting the
depositing of sewerage in ponds and
lakes wholly within this state; requiring
action against towns for injuries on
highways to be commenced within two
years; limiting the number of brook
trout to be caught in one day to 10
pounds and lake trout to rs pounds;
permitting shooting does in the open
season; providing for the destruction
OF intoxicating liquor found in the DOS.
session of persons convicted of intoxi-
cation authorizing the Governor to
appoint three commissioned officers of
the National Guard on his staff; appro.
priatng $4,000 in the next two Years
for the state fair and $4,000 for the
precautionary exposition; providing a
bounty OF two dollars on bobcats;
regulating the sale of poisonous drugs
creating the office of nursery inspector;
and a score of others Of equal impor-
tance