The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-12-02
KENT CASE
IS ONCE MORE
POSTPONED
House DevOtes Morning to
Sentence of Murderer
LEGISLATION is PROGRESSING
important Measures Are Being Taken
Up, Debated and Disposed
OF

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voted the entire morning to the Elroy
Kent case and then made the bill
committing his sentence a special or
der for next Tuesday. The Senate
adopted resolutions investigating the
rates of transportation by the Rut-
land and Montpelier and Wells River
roads.
The report OF the committee on
constitutional amendments was or
dered to lie and be printed. H 1S1 re-
latlng to the discharge of mortgages
was killed and S "A relating to the
rating of automobiles was passed.
The bills relating to weights and
measures and to additional polling
places were ordered to lie in the Sen
ate.
When the House adjourned yester-
day afternoon, Speaker Howe announ-
/ ced that the desks were clear, that
the House had handled 81 bills yester
| day and 80 bills the day before. This
was splendid record and is another
evidence that the Legislature of 1910
is not marking time.
The principal feature in the House
this afternoon was the consideration
of House bill G, introduced by Mr..
McCuen OF Vergennes relating to free
transportation, and better known as
the mileage bill.
When the bill came up for consid-
Grafton this afternoon, Mr.. Chaifee
of Rutland. chairman Of the commit
tee on railroads, proposed an amend
ment to the bill, which provides that
mileages received by the newspapers
for advertising must be accounted
for to the public service commission
as though sold for cash, and adver
Using bought with mileage must be
vouchered and included in the adver
Using expense accounts as though
paid for in cash
Mr.. McCuen made no objection tC
the amendment and it was adopted
On the question of the third readinl
of the bill, Mr.. McCuen made a strong
speech in its favor.
Not a dissenting voice was heart
to ordering the bill to third read
ing
The House had a lively little dis
cussion late in the afternoon on thu
hin introduced by Mr. Kennedy o
Duxbury which permitted fishing II
Lake Champlain with spear ant
lack light from April l to May 10 o
each year. The bill was almost IN
animously killed.
The biz committing the death ser
tence of Elroy Kent to Imprisonment
for life was reached in the Hous
yesterday morning with an advers
report from a majority OF the con
: mittee to which II was referred. Ken
is now confined in the state priso
AT Windsor, sentenced to be hange
next February for the murder OF DE
in Congden at Wallingford. In
r House was ready to kill the bill br
+ on motion of Mr.. Stone of Wallinl
p ford the bin was ordered to lie an
4 was made sepcial order for I'll
S morning
: The bill granting a bounty OF 81
:, on black bears introduced early
n the session by Mr.. Wells OF Victor
Y came in yesterday with an advers
l. committee report. Mr. Wells plea
& ed for his bill and he was Joined
5, Mr.. Cory of Montelier and Mr. lv'
5. of Mount Holly in witty speeche
n The House i'm this instance overroC
IS the committee report and almost u
A. animously ordered the bill to thii
n reading.
IS The Senate did a good piece
IL work this morning in passing the Ell
ployers liability bill which was pr
T. pared by the judiciary committee
g. a substitute bill for the measure
he troduced early in the session by Sc
" ator Gordon of Washington.
,e The Senate ordered the weigh
nv and measures bill to third readi
n. after making few amendments.