The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-02-03
A LOOK AT THE LEGISLATURE
What it Accomplished What Failed to Accomplish ana
Part Played by Windham County Delegation

4 hilla-a watering trough act, banpltt ph'
making the superintendent OF state pilsun
official hungnan, and IN act reiatihg Ou
commitments for misdemeanois'
The legislature OF l3lu also produces
two candidates Tor governor aileh "
FIn,ober NJ Cavendish, and Leighton L.
Slnck al II. .Iuhmsbnry, and both VIII De
IN the running two years hence lroii sur
face indications At tins tlme.
Spenker Howe, Windham county Doy
retirnd from the eXaGtlng position III
which he was placed with added lanreis
he made an eminently falr speaker ana
dispIaved ability TINT surprised even nus
friends. &c leaves the state house Win
ont doubt the most popular man N nOIh
branches.
Fhe Windham county boys got into the
yomp hefora The session ended. They had
no silver tOngued orators among their
numbers. unless il was the member from
l3rattlehara, but they had lot OF DnosU
ersh and were united ON everything DlluU
affected on Interested Windham county
They were noted FOR team work ind prom
ably in Tins excelled all other counties m
the state Fred Babhltt OF korAnghan'
yas maurstinnably the leader from tins
cn1mt, and many called him the strongest
man in the house lie advocated the
Square deal" on weights and measures
and that Was the impression chat ne gave
IL 10 everyone during the session. Whht
he lacked IN nrdtOrY he made up IN Sin
celTty Bahhltt ought TO be a good man 20
send 10 the senate and higher up ater on
His influence was felt on every act pissed
BY the house. &C..
George Wright Of Westminster got his
Westminster bridge appropriation OF 3d.
coo through both branches by means di
the combination effected with those inter
ested in the Lunenburg and Bradford
bridges. a total appropriation OF Slt3h1.
Wright panned out 20 be a good member
after he got ON 70 the ropes.
Representative Stafford Of Br1ttleborn
went away feeling chesty with hls success
ON the Ausiine bill ON which he had good
support. some highway bills, and the
teacherg pension act Joe Martin OF
Brnollinp. became 40 Interested IN his
work toward the end Of the war dance
that it is SAID he used to forget to sleep
nights He was 1 familiar figure On the
floor the last week. He never got over
tile trick played ON him on the bill estah.
fishing 1 CONT in Addison county when
an the members went back on the com
mittpe and declared nohndy wanted it but
the lalyver joe receded under ire IN
good shape and finally decided that he
didn't want the bill, If the county was
against It,
Marvin Howard Of Londonderry made
such a hit as Annette during the mock
session that the real Annette abducted
INN to 4 photo shap md they sat FOR
their pictures These appeared next day
in the honse selling for 10 cents each. 4
placard vote for Women was held be.
tween them. The pages got a penny on
each sale. but Howard denied that he was
in ON the rake-otf The rest went for the
cause, It's SAID
Representative Alderman of Vernon
had a faint attack Of heart disense the
last forenoon Of the session. when Hunt
of New Haven. who had a habit Of hut
ting in at indellcate intervals, asked to
have s. l02, recnnsidered. Alderman got
so nervous he Went ont INTO the hail
hunting for help and while he was gone
the house killed Hunts request. Hunt
and one other man voted for the recon-
sideration When George Edward came
back excitedly mupping his forehead he
f0und the house going on with other bust
ness, and it took INN a few minutes to
realize that y f02. which would put the
South Vernon hotel out OF business, had
been effectively killed.
Wells Of WardahOrn got his Jamaica
road bill through the house without urou-
Bile, The Windham county boys, other |
wise, were not lime-lighters, but good re- |
ports came from the committee rooms
about their work there.
Wndham county didn't show up very
heavy IN the senate Senator Adams was
invariably on the side that was least
He was sick with rheumatism
the last part OF the session. The night he
went out the vote on the trustee process
bill was Il to Il and had he remained It'll
would have been a tie Adams voted for
the trustee process bill as it came from
the house the night OF adjournment So
lid that other Windham county senator
named Butler
Opinions will not vary much about who
we're the 10 leading members of the
house. This list without reference to order
'i2es them up fairly we'll, Babhitt of
Fletcher of Cavendish, Amey
lf Brighton, Webster Of Swant0n Dartt
u Springfield, Bryant Of Ludlow. Wall Of
Dorsett, Calderwuod of st. Johnsbury
Billings of Woodstock, and McCuen of /
Vergennes. Others would include among
he number Chaffee Of Rutland, CARL of
canaan, Corey of Montpelier, Peck of
Burlington, Branch Of Grand Isle. Page of
hyde Park, C0rwin of Chelsea. House of
Berlin, Burbank of Cabot, all frst-rate
men.
The state fair and agricultural fair bills
or $4,000 appropriation each pulled