Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-11-02
LADIES' WEEK
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bridge making dog owners pay double
! damages, and another compelling dog
owners to give bond for damages ::
that of Mr. Martin of Hartland per
hitting non-residents who own real
estate to the value of $1,000 within
the state to procure hunter licenses
for fifty cents; that of Mr.. Amey of
Brighton permitting juries to deter
mine whether or not capital punish
ment shall not be administered in
each particular case; that of Mr.
Martin of Hartland providing that
the state should not paw for damage
done by deer on posted lands; that
Of Mr.. Miller of Bethel making the
Board of Health a matrimonial bu.
reau with power to grant or withhold
marriage licenses as to themselves
might seem best for the successful
perK etuation of the species that of
Mr.. Hunt of New Haven for the pre-
vention of disease among honey bees ;;
and an act appropriating $500, coo for
state highways.
The trustee bill came up Tuesday
morning and was one of the features
of the week. The house was full,
and Oratory was uncorked. Those
who favored the bill urged the fulfil
ment of party promises and called
attention to the fact that every other
class of people has exemptions greater
than the laboring man. The profes-
sional man has his tools, his library
and the farmer has $1,000 or more
exempt in his tools ana produce, and
by right of comparison the laboring
man ought to have at least ten dollars
exempt for the support of his family.
Those who opposed the bill feared
that it would grow up race of dead
beats. who would beat the grocer out
of his bill. The bill passed the house
by safe majority and will doubtless
have close call in the senate, altho
there are some good party men in
that body. The bill should be and
doubtless will be amended so that it
will not apply to existing debts, since
creditor of remedy which existed
the first bill to call for the yea and nay
vote.
The Otter Creek bill which has
posed of late in the week, being
killed by a close vote of IS to IS.
Nearly seventy-t1ve members were
The vote was by viva voce and the
chair was in doubt as to the result. A
rising vote was called for and the re-
suit was so much in doubt that at the
suggestion of the Speaker a yea and
nav vote was called for and the roll
cali was taken with the above result.
One member made hit by remarking
that few years ago Vergennes was
changed to city to help the popula-
ton later they changed the name of
the Reform school to Industrial
school for the sake of morality
and now they want the name of the
Greek changed to help develop their
water power. He thought they ought
to do little something now for
themselves.
The matter of hunting has called
for much discussion here as elsewhere.
Bills were rushed through so that the
governor might call the season open,
and his proclamation was issued &C.
cOrdingly. There has been much mis-
understanding on this question, The
facts are these: The legislature of
1908 placed a duty upon the governor
to call off the open season upon GER
tain conditions, VIZ: in case of extend
ing drought in which forest fires were
likely to prevail. While it is not i'm
perative upon the governor to do so, it
was clearly the intention of the law
that he should do so. The week be-
fore our open season this week pro-
duced exactly the conditions called
for. Forest fires were burning in Or
leans, Rutland, Bennington and Wind
ham counties. The governor consulted
the official weather bureau at North
field and was assured that the drought
was to be continued. The conditions
were identical with those contemplated
by the legislature of 1908 and if the
law meant anything it meant that the
governor should act as he did. The
theory that the season was postponed
on account of the doe law and so that
it could be changed is exploded by the
fact that the governor issued his sec
ond proclamation before the legisla-
ture had chance to change the law.
Any criticism about the closing of the
season should not be directed at Gov.
Mead, but toward the legislature
which imposed the duty upon him.
The woman's SURFACE bill has been
considered by the house but no vote
has been taken. On Wednesday
afternoon the house resolved Itself
into commit tee of the whole house
and listened to an hours address by
Mrs. Parmelee of Enosburg Falls.
commonly known as "Annette.' -
This question and its treatment has
ceased to be a joke and is a matter
which this and other legislatures must
consider candidly. 1t will have strong
supporters in both branches of the
assembly and there is some promise
that "Annette's" work has not been
in vain. The bill does not provide for
universal and equal suffrage but it
does give tax paying women munich
pal suffrage and no good reason has
yet been advanced why a woman
should not vote on matters touching
her interest as much as those of her
husband. The most successful and
businesslike corporations permit wom-
en- to vote if they are stockholders.
Why should not the municipality let
them vote if they are taxpay ers? That
was one of the logical questions asked
bu Mrc porpoo1oa