St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-09
MUCH WORK AHEAD.
Legislature Has Hardly Touched
Important Business of the Ses-
sion-CaIedonia Men Are Busy.

The time for introducing bills
was to end at midnight asst night but
the house has extended the time un-
til Friday evening. This. kills all
hope for an early adjournment.
When the introduction of bills is
over the lawmakers must give their
undivided attention to action on the
matters before it and it will not lack
for work either as none OF the real
important bills have yet been acted
upon. Last week the house killed the
bill granting women the right to vote
by the narrow margin of Ill to ia.
1t sent the hedgehog bill to the SEN
ate which passed it with amend
ments and the bill doubling the tax
on dogs. The proceedings of last
week we're enlivened by several warm
debates and developed considerable
feeling between the two houses. The
Senate yesterday killed the house
trustee bill and the house killed the
Senate bill. 1t reconsidered its vote
and the bill is made a special order
for Friday morning.
A substitute weight and measures
bill that will eliminate some of the
drastic features and noticeable de-
fects of the original bill is to be in
troduced this week by the House
committee on internal affairs.
Narrow Escape for Fairbanks Conn
pany.
On motion of Senator Porter of
I, Caledonia the Senate Monday even
ing requested the House to return
to it's possession House bill No. 80
This bill is one amending the char
ter of the E. & T. Faibanks company
81 TO6 T7csI1T no
houses and went to the Governor for
his signature. Here glaring error
in the bill was discovered which
made it necessary for the Governor
to either veto it >or have it recalled
and the error remedied. The error
was in the language of the bill, which
substituted a section for the first
section of the original charter, when
it was clearly intended to add it to
the first section of the charter. If the
bill had become law it would have
practically wiped out any such cor
poration as the E. & T. Fairbanks
company of ST. Johnsbury. Yester-
day Gov. Mead vetoed the bill and
the veto sustained after Mr. Calder
wood explained that the revision
committee had garbled the bill and
said he would introduce another.
MT. buIUduh OI CdUOI 10 IdhIl1S
an active part in the discussion of
the educational bills before the house
while Senator Porter is doing the
same in the senate. Senator Darling's
bill relating to health officers and
giving them power to quarantine
cases without consulting the local
health boards struck a snag in the
house and Mr.. Williams of Peacham
had it amended, taking away this
power. Mr.. Bronson of Hardwick also
took part in the discussion. Mr..
Bronson is carrying his arm in
sling this week as the result of a
fall in his barn while at home Satur-
day.
Senator Porter let little light in
on the normal school situation by
informing the senate about the nor
NAL school at Castleton. He told
the senate that any real estate used
in the operation of the school was
owned by Principal Leavenworth and
although thousands of dollars had
been spent by the state on repairs
and improvements it had no interest
in it.