The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-16
10 Represent State at Var
iOuS Conventions Soon
WERE ANNOUNCED TODAY
House Passed Weights and Measures Bill
and Killed Bill Increasing Length
of School Year-Senate Has
a Busy Session.

+ appointments 10 various cOnNeULlOHss
associations, etc, were announced by
Governor Mead to-day To the deep wa
terways convention at st. Louis on No
vember % and 26, he has appointed Con-
gresham D. X Foster Of Burlington,
4 Congressman Frank Plumley of North
field, f. G. Tuttle of Rutland, L. H. Bah
bitt of Rockingham and Charles Downer
of Sharon.
As delegates to the meeting of the
Road Builders association in lndianap
oils on December 6, 7, and ., the
governor has appointed State Highway
4 Commissioners Charles w Gates of
Franklin, H. b. Barden of Wallngford
and j. G. Stafford Of Brattleboro.
To the national rivers and harbors
congress, he has selected: George 7.
Chaffee of Rutland Maxwell Evarts of
Windsor Arba Pike of Stowe, o. S. An
mis- of North Troy and Joseph Auld of
1 Burlington; to the convention of the
American Civic association in Washing
ton, d. G., December IA and l5, the may
ors of st. Albans, Rutland Burlington,
Barre, Montpelier and Vergennes.
Governor Mead announced to the legis-
lature to-day that he has approved the
Joint resolution for the erection of a
memorial for the author Of Green Noun
tain Boys; also the folowing:-
An act to amend section 54l2 of the
public statutes, relating to public build
ings.
An act relating to evergreen trees
An act to amend section 624 of the
public statutes relating to the pay OF
Z arsI nd NoIa
An act to amend section 1928 of the
public statutes, relating to beaver and
otter
An act to regulate the distribution of
advertising matter or the soliciting of
subscriptions in or about the State
+ House.
Signed By the Governor.
Coy. Mead has signed the following
bills and resolutionsi
+ An act to change the name Of Barton
/ Landing graded school district
Joint resolution providing for joint
committee to investigate the expenditure
for detective service in this state.
! An act to change the corporate name
OF the Barton Landing Cemetery associa-
/ tion.
+ An act in amendment Of section 6.262
OF the public statutes relating to fees
4 for copies, etc.
i an act to amend No. 255 Of the acts
of 1908 entitled An act to grant GER
tain power to the city of Barre relat-
ing TO the watering of its streets.
The House this morning ordered to a
third reading the weights and measures
bin with very little opposition, after Mr..
Babbitt of Rockingham had made one
of the best speeches of the session in
its favor.
Speaker Howe has appointed as
committee on the part of the House to
investigate the expenditure for detective
services, Mr.. Babbitt of Rockingham, Mr.
Chaffee of Rutland City and Mr.. Amey
of Brighton.
The speaker also appointed as a COM
mittee to discover what causes the new
ventilatng system to make a draught
that, it is claimed, is responsible for the
colds from which so many members are
suffering, Mr. Fletcher of Cavendish, who
made the kick yesterday, Mr.. Robinson
of Eden and Mr.. CARL of Canaan
School Year Bill Killed.
II. 81. relating to length of school
year, called up by Mr.. Flanders of Or
ange who proposed an amendment al
lowing small towns to have 2s weeks or
more of school Amendment opposed by
Mr. Martin of Brookline, Mr. Burbank
Of Cabot Mr. Gatohell of Charleston, Mr..
Ives of Mount Holly Mr. Cook of Thet-
ford demanded the previous question.
Amendment lost and third reading OF the
bill refused.
In the Senate, Senator Powelrs bill
to allow towns to vote to exempt hotel
property, which was made special order
of this morning. was further ordered to
lie on motion OF Senator Powell.
The bill requiring kennel license for
persons keeping dogs for breeding pur-
poses was objected to by Senator Dam
iels of Washington who claimed that
the license fee Of S25 for from one
to five dogs was another scheme to raise
the dog license fee and deprive the poor
man Of his privilege Of keeping a half
a dozen dogs He moved that the bill
be ordered to lie, but the Senate could
not see it and passed it.
The Senate passed bills incorporating
the City Trust Co OF Burlington, relating
to duties of supervisors of the insane,
relating TO lights on automobiles, pro-
yiding $4,000 for building a ward for
the criminal insane at Waterbury and
relating TO the formation of corpora
tions by voluntary association.
The Senate passed in concurrence bills
relating TO the Clarendon & Pittsfora
Railway company, to incorporate the
Sanborn Cemetery association. relating
to the Packer Cemetery association, TO
legalize the appraisal Of Readsboro, re-
lating to seining in Lake Champlain.
relating to the Walter Harvey Cemetery
association, allowing the Connecticut &
Passumpsic railroad TO hold stock in 9TH
er railroads and extending the time for
the building Of the Rutland and Mont
pelier railroad.
Legislative Notes.
The all absorbing question Of the
recess was settled yester-
day afternoon. when the Senate without
a yip concurred in the joint resolution
it took the House so much time to adopt.
There was lot Of talk during the noon
recess about what the Senate would do
to the resolution when It got hold Of
it, but it came to nothing. As il now