The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-12
LEGISLATIVE GOSSIP
AT THE STATE HOUSE
Not Everybody Wholly Satisfied with
Committee Appointments, for That
Would Be Impossible: But Sc
leetions Are Generally Con-
sidered Good.

The general consensus of opinion al
the State House last night was thar
! Speaker Howe had used excellent judg
ment in the appointment OF the HOUSE
committees There seemed to be fewer
members than usual who were very
deeply disappointed with their assign.
ments and while some of coja sc, did
not Land on the committee they had
hoped to, the result was accepted in
! the spirit that the speaker had evidently
1 been fair IN the matter and had done the
/ best he could IN the thankless task OF
trying TO please 246 men and still have
good working committees
4 Those OF Tie Of guard wh) had OPP
! posed Mr.. hoWe's election on the ground
( that he was not safe man tnd those
who looked for something radical in the
makeup of the committees wera iislp
4 pointed. There avs lot a silgle chance
tor AN Il tci1 YOU So" Depao,rais.
numbers taken into consideration, Jared
as well as Republicans, and their floor
/ leader Mr. Webster of Swanton, was
given the craftsmanship of the important
committee on state and court expenses.
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With the appointment OF the clerks of
the committee on the revision OF bills.
the legislative machinery will be com
plete and the bills that are even now
causing the INSIDE pockets of the mem
bers TO protrude will be sent on their
perilous journey Some have even now
been entrusted to the tender mercies of
the committee, Mr. Cory Of Montpelier
being the first to hand over a bill Sen.
ator Powell OF Chittenden was close
second, and from now on il is anybody's
race.
One Of the important bills that viii
soon see light is one to combine the
agricultural aud forestry matters to-
gether with state publicity bureau UNI
der one head The publicity part OF
this bill provides for Vermont the same
sort of advertising that had proved such
a profitable investment of such states
as Maine and New Hampshire.
.
The one session day plan OF Mr.
Fletcher OF Cayendish, chairman Of the
House committee on rules, does not meet
with the entire approval OF all the mem
bers Of the legislature, especially with
some of the Senate members. They fear
that it viii be found impossible to hold
the members in the one, long, continuous
session that little later on would be
necessary to dispose OF the daily routine
of business and that night sessions would
be necessary long before they are usually
held. The clerks and secretaries do not
look with favor on the plan. for IL
would plainly mean for them, perhaps
not extra work. but work that would
have to be performed late at night So,
while such a rule will undoubtedly be
recommended to the House, there is GO
ing TO be some trouble about its adop-
ton, at least, by both bodies.
o.
Senator Powell OF Chittenden, who is
building the new hotel in Burlington, has
obtained a promise from Gov. Mead TO
lay the corner stone of the building on
Saturday, Oct. %. The legislature, the
state officials everybody, in fact, of
enough prominence to lend eclat to the
affair is going to be invited. All Of
which goes to show that when Mr. Pow
ell embraced the legal profession he
made the mistake OF his life. He should
have been a promoter, not of the J. Ru-
fus Wallingford type, but the more safe
and sane kind that are adapted to work
in state like Vermont Now, when
you get the governor of the state to lay
the corner stone of a hotel, that is some
free advertising for said hostelry, and
the man who can do il is entitled TO a
front row seat in the band of publicity
experts
Note also in this connection that SEN
ator Powell has on display in the Sen.
ate chamber a large picture of the hotel
as it will look when the corner stone
is laid with due ceremony and it looms
up across the way TO gladden. the eye
of neighbor Woodbury.. The Senate
awaits the next move Of the hotel Yer
mont publicity game with considerable
interest. and a few quiet wagers are
being offered with nc takers that the
busy little senator from Chittenden coun-
ty don't get President Taft to christen
the tavern,
The new clerk to the speaker of the
House, provided the Senate consents to
the creation of such an official, is quite
lAAfAN " Nt H. L. ntA NVAlf MlAN maui
such an efficient deputy secretary of
state during the administration OF the
debonaire Fleetwood. The assistance
which some of the officials now have IN
doing their work causes some OF the
old -time officials, like former clerks Of
the House and secretaries Of the Sen.
ate, to wonder how in their days they
ever turned ont the work they did with
nothing but pen and ink and long hand
to help them. But they did, performed
their duties we'll and on time, so now
when they see these officials with
stenographer aud an assistant at each
elbow they are TO be pardoned a smile
at the reckless extravaganza of the
times and the degeneracy Of clerks and
secretaries in general
The celebrated Farmers club organized
last evening without any great flourish
of trumncts. b. electiuu these officers: