The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-12-23
Legislators Will Return to Work
January 3.
RAILROAD HEARING
Is Scheduled TO Take Place Before
Railroad Committee on That Date
Hugh Henry Commissioner OF
Weights and Measures.

they return until spring planting.
over Than ksgivlng was the time nAeu
by custom for final adjournment, put
The session two years ago set an eNHm'
ple about coming back that the session
of 1910 is obviously irving 20 emulate.
IL all means that the people VIII hdopl
the proposal for January. sessions Oh
the general assembly, II they ever Ee'
a chance 20 vote ON that subject. pc
fore the lawmakers went away theN ue'
cided TO do so without pay, Dut Win
nileage, This will make three mileages
they will draw at the end OF the ses'
sion. and there are many TO whom their
mileage for even one Adjournment
means more than their pay AS seat
warmers. a.. ,,..,,l,
some of the state officers yawhed
through their work. and the lahitoi
had 10 stem lively winding his clock 10
keen awake nights. Sergeant'at Arms
Ferrin and his sweepers have been mex.
ing of the dust and mopping ~ out OF
the state house, SO as to nave thlnes III
apple-pie order when session reopehs'
Meanwhile. the 100000 yentilating APP
paratus is having vacation. -,
One of the last acts of the leglsIa
ture before adiourning was TO eject
a
five clerk, commissioner OF welghts anu
measnres II is not understood that
vonno Henry came in with the admins
tration label attached. either, ana tne
governor didn know he was candi-
date until the night before the election;
There were six in the free-for'all. taTi
Fletcher, a Swanton newspaper man
who has been firing hot stun into the
Burlington Free Press during session,
was handicapped in having ahothei
Franklin county candidate IN the per.
son of Ex-senator I. Z. Croit from
Olin Merrillville to buck up agalIls.'
Senator Norton of Huntington, "no
had every senator pledged TO HIM ex-
cent one. was a candidate, and the IN
suroents in the senate camp had a can
didate named &. 4. Hamblett from bar
ton. The democrats, with malice afoIe-
thoupht the republicans say, surrepti-
tiously entered candidate under the
coonomen of Representative a. Y. Ma
son of Pawlet, who got up to 93 votes
ON the fourth ballot until his politics
was discovered, and his republican
friends dropped him like a not potato;
Whatever signs or signals were useu
doesn Z matter, but it was very eVlueh. .
that the word was passed around that
the man some of the straight'iace
slmDU- pure, F"Ss s'N
members of the majority party were
innocently supporting had been brought
up to sing from the democratic, psalm
book. and, of course, that would never
do. When Mason s vote was W. hen.
rvs was IS. Then after the 4-ll-i4
signal Mason stock dropped to 50 ana
then 81. and Henry had ll9 votes and
the election on the sixth ballot. There
ism t any question but Mason would
have received the election if his poll
ties weren't t funny. Henry IS perhaps
lust as well equipped for the position
as any of the candidates, even II ne
doesn Z know any more about scales
than he does about baled hay. Thee
legislature had a perfect right to elect
whomever it desired, but after speeches
made the day before on the ADJOURN
ment question telling about the non,
political attitude of the house it looked
a trifle strange. Henry comes OF
mighty GOOD stock. If the Henrys were
not at the Battle of Bennington they
were somewhere in the vicinity. ana
have been around ever since, holding
some very important and lucrative po'
sitions. The new commissioner is a
Yale graduate, both of the academic
and law departments. and a young man
of many amiable and splendid ouah,
ties He has the ability to make gooo
without question. If he applies MN
self as aptly to the new position as he
has to the office of executive clerk
there will be few mistakes: lie has
been responsible for the five vetoes
Governor Mead has handed out to the
general assembly. He will enter on the
duties of this $1,400 Job with all the en- en-
thusiasm of youth, since he is only ~
wears old, and will try to demonstrate
during the next two years that the
legislature made no mistake in Great
ing the department. -, a..
The $l50,000 highway bill got as far
as third reading in the, senate FRIDAY,
and the matter of finishing it will 90
over % until after New Year, s. Repre-
sentative Stafford's bill to pension
teachers passed the house, and Will pc
considered by the senate when the
leg;slators come back. An increase of
A. 600 for Middlebury college and
100000 for the University of Vermont
were also advanced to third readings IN
the house. L;,l
The state central normal school bill
will come in as soon as legislature re-
convenes and then the war Will be on
again, but it looks as though tne CON-
bination between the good roads SUP, sun
porters and the admlnistratlonlsts VIII
carry the day. J.. oo+
bv without a state tax to pay all these
appropriations is question the leSls,
tators are asking themselves when the,Y
are alone. The question may be ao-
Wanced in an audible voice day or two
before final adjournment. IL mas pesn t,
ouietlv limited around that one OF the :
new schemes to raise more money. IS d
tax on incomes and someone Is ,I saiq m, W =
he now preparing such Dill. ne u
nlan seems to be to kill the. proposal 70
amend the federal constitution g on tms
subject and appropriate this nelq "
The benefit of the state. This IS apou1
the only available unexplolted revenut
territory left. and the sentiment ap
nears TO be that the state can use Iht
money to better advantage to deveio'
Vermont than the nation may IN I'M
nroving the waterways from Mlnnesots
70 the gulf, which is a plan that man,
fear NAV happen if the federal govern
ment steps into the states and taxes III
comes or rather modernizes their ap
nortionment and classification. A..
The house passed favorably on t tn'
hill FOR an open deer season OF ont
month each wear in Essex county am
barred Rutland and Bennington coen
t;es. who iokingly tried also to come IN
| The fish and game department though
+ was better to limit the season to ONT
month in Essex than to have an opei
season of 365 days. as it was charge'
eyists at the present time.
Some of the unfinished business TO p'
+oclied when the boys return Iuesda..
onon;no oaen Januarv 8, will be: The trus