The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1910-11-24
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= BfNNfNGTON tOUNT1's REPRE-
4 sENTATiNEs IN MONTPELIER
! A CIose-to-Hand View By the Jour.
nails Special Correspondent al
the Capitol.
Montpelier. Nov. Fl with III,
7 legislature at home for the Thanks.
4 giving recess the question arises
as 10 whether there will be holt.
| day recess or the work completed In
season for final adjournment be.
| fore Christmas. brief summary
of what has been accomplished and
what remains to be done may throw
some light on this question, The
| House has had 35 Of It's bills of
a public nature enacted into Law
and the Senate 10. total OF Al
measures finallv disposed OF In thii
way Then the House has killed 5s
public bills aud private bills
and the Senate 3, a total of SO
| finally disposed OF In this man
ner. This makes Ill out of to-
tai OF G26 bills already Introduced
Ia both branches that are out of
the way for good. OF the 5l5
measures remaining III have been
partially considered, the House pass
ing 66 bills. both public and pri-'
sate and the Senate as. This leave
i04 measures that have received
no consideration except In commit
tee Save few bills which have
beer ordered to lie after a par
tial consideration and few order
ed to third reading. These will
not number in both branches over
so 50 there are 354 bills now in
with prospect OF at least so more
TO come, to dispose of In the -four
weeks before Christmas
Now the legislature has been in
session seven weeks OF which two
were practically devoted to organi-
zetion 80 that IL has taken five
weekl to get Ill bills out of the
way and III partially considered,
the majority OF them Of minor i'm
portanee.
II must, however. be taken into
consideration that some of : the
bills have received considerable at
tention In committee and that a
good many of them are about ready
to report; also that the committees
are becoming more experienced and
so able to turn off the work faster.
One thing is certain and that
is there will be a determined effort
TO adjourn without holiday recess
n II possibly can be done. Most
of the members want to get through
az soon as 1t can be done credit
ably and the Governor is anxious
20 have the session off his hands
and the $500 a day expense stop
ped and there Is no disposition TO
prolong the agony except among
very few who are holding down
better paying job than they ever had
before.
The session has now lasted A
days and the average length of all
sessions since 1870 when biennial
sessions were instituted, has been
SO days. The sessions OF 1850,
1898, 1904 and 1906 went over
Thanksgiving and the 1908 session
went into January, 92 days. the
longest on record.
The past week saw the culmina-
tion of the great fight against the
Normal Schools OF the State in a
victory for the Governor and the
State Superintendent of Education
over these institutions. The fight
came in the Senate over the bill
introduced In the House to estab-
lish training courses for teachers
in high schools and academies. 1t
was passed by the Senate by the
narrow margin OF two votes after
an extremely bitter fight In which
the opponents OF the measure tried
in every way to postpone final ac-
tion until after the Thanksgiving
recess In hopes that something
might happen to give them a few
more votes, This the friends OF
the bill would not allow and II was
rallroaded through In the most APP
proved fashion.
Events Saturday morning showed
that Fridays fight might not possi-
bly, be the end OF the matter after
all for 1t may be possible to recon
slider the vote passing the bill when
the legislature returns. As there
was no quorum IN the Senate sat
urdav morning Senator Gordon, one
OF those who fought the bill on
Friday would allow no business 70
be transacted in the hope that the
session Saturday would not be con
sidered an actual sitting. This was
TO avoid rule Of the Senate that
prevents reconsideration of vote
after sitting. or In other words
a legislative da has interviewed.
Senator Gordon's action also came
very near resulting in the nine mem'
bers present being locked up IA tht
senate chamber until the Sergeant
Mt Arms could secure the presence
OF enough absentees 10 make
quorum.
There was a fine mis-up IN the
House early In the week over The
question Of the Thanksgiving recess
Some Of the membrs wanted 10
stay right up 10 "Wednesday Of this
week hnt they could not carry
their point They did succeed. how
ever in postpcning the Adjournment
from Friday until Saturday morning
with the idea that lot OF commit
tee work would be done Friday ev-
enlng and considerable routine bust
ness disposed Of IN the House az
tho least. Saturday morning The
result was not ali that vas antiei-
pated however. for the members
s,reaked IL for home all day Friday
and when esenin~ came there Sere
no committee meetings for the sim
ple reason that not enough mem
bers we're left 10 hold them Then
90 Saturday morning sc msmheFs
"a, 10 the House long enough ~
hear II bills introduced and 10 pass
bills OF a private nature, aud the
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