The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-11-19

associations, relating to the charter of
the Brandon Savings bank, amending act
establishing Phillips academy IN Dan
vile, protecting muskrats in Addison
county, relating to liens on colts, relating
to appointment OF assistant town and
city clerks and amending act Incorporate |
ing American Fidelity company
Several new measures were introduced
in the House yesterday afternoon, one
Of which was to authorize Burlington TO
issue bonds for $4,000 to enlarge and |
improve it's electric light plant This
bill was introduced by the judiciary COM !
mittee.
Legislative Notes.
Senator Taplin OF Orleans made his !
maiden speech in the Senate yesterday
during the debate over the bill to allow
towns to vote to exempt hotel property
from taxation, and it was a corker.
Whether the senator has heretofore re
Trained from giving utterance to his
views through his modesty is not known,
but it certainly cannot be for any need
he felt for lessons in voice culture. HIS
remarks were distinctly audible, not onlS
in the Senate chamber, but out in the
lobby as far as the entrance to the
House. Not this session at any rate
has the air in what E. B. Finn was
pleased to refer to as the cold and silent
tomb Of political ambition been 80 dis
turbed as it was yesterday, when the
senator was yoicing his objections to
MIR. PowelPs bill.
Now the senator is q versatile man
and among the many things to which he
turns his hand is auctioneering, which
has given him what might be called q
speedy delivery and good command
Of language This vocation, combined
with his earlier efforts as a singing mas
ter, has also given him powerful lungs
which are an important adjunct TO a
rapid delivery and decided help to
the carving tones Of the voice. There is
but one defect in the senator's qualiiica-
tions as a speaker, and that Is the alb
sence OF a soft pedal, which seems to
make it difficult for him to properly OBJ
serve the pianissimo passages.
Now All this pleasantly should not
be taken to imply that the senator's
speech was largely a matter oil sound,
for he had an excellent argument that
WAS logically stated. His allusious We're
apt and his references to Senator Daniels
OF Washington were iii good point. The
senator from Orleans is certainly a relief
| from the monotony that occasionally
pervades the Senate, and there are not
/ 4 few who trust that it win not be
| long before he is heard from again.
The fight over Senator PowelFs hotel
exemption bill was one of the hardest
of the session and resulted in the killing
of the measure, but the gentleman is
4 game fighter. as certain ex-governor
can testify, and he succeeded in resur-
recting the bill at the afternoon session
and may yet pull il through
/ Mason S. stone, state superintendent
Il of education, was one happy man yes
terday afternoon, when he saw his arch
enemies. the normal schools 60 down
to defeat in the passage By the Senate
i of the bin to establish training courses
/ for teachers in high schools and acad-
emies. 1t was a great victory for the
adroit state superintendent, and incl-
dentaIiy for Governor Mead, and the
smiles that wreathed his tStone'sl face
as be hurried to and fro in the corridors
had that won't -wear-of aspect. And then
when the Senate, to put the finishing
\ touches to the normal schools passed
the bill TO establish state agricultural
school at Randolph. his cup of joy was
not only running over, but sloshing
down the sides To state it mildly, he
was pleased. and lie did not seem TO
take any particular pains to conceal it,,
even from such warm friends as eX-
Lieut. Coy. Stearus and Others Of the
normal school supporters who were about
the State House.
II was the elimination Of long and
bitter fight for the passage Of these
bills that really means the beginning
of the end of the present normal school
policy of the state. which the passage
OF a law to establish a centrally located
normal school viii complete. It is un
derstood that a bill to bring this about
has already been drawn, and it IS also
understood that Mr. Stone has aspira-
tions to become the principal OF this
school, thus providing himself with a
snug berth, which is apt to be more or
less permanent.
The normal schools died hard and the
fight in the Senate was tooth and nail.
lIt was well understood Just what the
passage Of the bill meant, and, If it had
not been, the speakers made II perfectly
plain, for they did not mince words in
the debate. There was a determined ef-
fort made to lay the measure over until
after the Thanksgiving recess, and when
that failed the tactics Of amending the
bill to death were tried. but in vain.
This might have been accomplished but
for a ruling by LieutGOv. Slack. for
liz the bill had not been read the third
time until this morning there might
have been q chance for it's opponents.
The ruling came on a motion by Senator
Daniels of Washington, that the rules
of the Senate be suspended and the bill
be read the third time then and there,
4 Now the Senate has a rule that requires
a three iourths vote to suspend a rule,
and this the supporters of the bill did
not have. His attention was called to
such a rule by Senator Powell but NE
ruled that motion for the third read
ing Of bill at q particular time did
not require suspension Of the rules,
and consequently required only ma
iority vote No appeal was taken from
this ruling, and the bill was read the
third time and passed.
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The passage Of the weights and meas
ures bin BY the House yesterday after
noon was a great victory for Chairman
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