The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1910-10-27
BENNINGTON COUNTY's REPRE-,
sENTATINES IN MONTPELIER.

A Close-to-Hand View l., the Jour.
nails Special Correspondent al
the Capitol.
Montpelier. Oct. 24-The legisla-
the session aud has three weeks OF
Very oreditable work to point TO
There is always delay In getting
I started that TO those unacquainted
| with legislative procedure seems
needless and waste OF time and
money. Ii should be borne in mind
that the General Assembly is a
complicated machine, composed OF
about 20bfIlrts, that IL Is no slight
task TO III these separate parts to-
! gether so that smoothly working
machine win result; that this ad-
lnstment OF parts is accomplished by
lunrolling the vast amount of red
I tape with which all legislative bodie
are tied up; that these things are
z all presented by law and must be
done al Gel tain time and in a GER
tain way and 1t will be seen that
/ II a legislature gets the work OF
organization out OF the way In the
= first two weeks II has done pretty
/ well.
I Last week saw considerable OF
1 the routine work of the session, law
( making some call IL, undertaken
and some disposed Of The greater
part OF two days of the week were
devoted as required by law, TO the
( election Of United States Senator
and the election Of Judges aud 9th
er state officers.
i The election OF United States
Senator really came on Tuesday
& when both houses voted, but the
following day when joint assembly
was held TO complete the election
was the time usually regarded as
the election and the day the people
gather 10 watch the proceedings.
As has been known for months,
there WAS no opposition in the Re
J pubiican party to Carroll s. Page
of Hyde Park. and when the Demo
Gratis in the House paid him the
unusual compliment of not nominal.
ing anyone against him, he, would
have received every vote cast had
moi some unknown reason led Mr.
Woodruff OF Burke to cast his
vote for David j, Foster and Mr.
liulit OF New Haven, after an at
tempt TO be excused from voting
10 cast his for Charles A. Prouty.
4 Perhaps they sometimes did not
get quite the returns for bunch
Of calf skins they thought they
ought or maybe the hens did not
ali lay after feeding the Senator'S
poultry food, but whatever the rea'
son was II was the only discordant
note In the otherwise perfect har.
Inony.
Al the joint assembly on Wednes-
day Senator Page. looking trifle
older after his two years at Wash
( ington, but with the same old win
ming smile aud the same old hear
~ hand clasp for all his acquain-
lances. and that means pretty much
everybody In the state, was present
was introduced with due form by
the presiding officer and delivered
a speech that was talk on national
affairs, an explanation OF the income
tax amendment. which by the way
the Senator advised the Legislature
not 10 ratify, and the customary pro
fusion of thanks politician is ae-
customed 10 render when he has
been handed a nice fat job without
any great exertion on his part
< On Thursday came another love
feast when the joint assembly re-
elected the supreme aud superior
court Judges and at the same time
gave 10 Mason y Stone his job az
superintendent OF education for two
years more and did likewise 10 q.
n. Ferrin as sargeant-aiarms, Gen
l.. \. Tiiloison as adjuiant and in--
spectnr general, and elected A. II.
t.rout OF Newport 10 that highly I'M
portant office 80 long and 20 ably
filled by Gen. u. J.. Bates Of Ben
nington, that OF Judge advocate gen
eral Al the same time Gen. J. q
Mccullough OF North Bennington.
casslns Peck Of Burlington aud @
:. TAsseit were reelected trustees
OF the q. v. NJ and State Agrical-
lnrai College and \ X Chaiiee 0l
Rutland was elected on that board
10 fin the vacancy caused by the
death Of George Aiikln ~ Wefd-
stock
The only contest came through al
attempt BY the friends Of Col. Clay
ton j. Wright Of willlston TO ossi
Mr Tasse;i from the membership be
has held 70 long but V did not sue
cs-ed The nominating speeches and
the numerous seconding speeches
,by those who wanted 10 SAY s0tne-
thing nice about the judges and 9th
81 state officers, seeing they we're
all going to bold office two yeafA
more took considerable time and
there has bse9 a dsrth OF eneon.