The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-01-13

propriating $4,000 year for fairs othe
than the state fair has passed thu
house.
One of the state house statistician'
| has prepared figures to show that Yer
mont will spend s1,000,000 on high
ways during the coming wear, taking
| into account the state money, that
specially appropriated by towns ano
cities TO secure state aid, the automo
bile money and the regular highway
tax raised by towns.
Wall of Dorset, a level headed dem
ocrat, wants light on the possibility OF
state tax and has introduced reso'
luton calling for a report from the
committee on ways and means, state
treasurer and commissioner of state
taxes. covering this matter. The house
agreed with him, and the report must
be made TODAY.
The presence of wives of several
members of the legislature in the gal.
leries this week with their knitting or
sewing interested the house. Among
the number was the wife of one of the
members from Windham county.
4 bill has passed the senate for
chancerv proceedings ON the petition
of % freehOlders of town or adioln.
ing towns to review the granting of a
license to determine If such license IS
for the purpose of serving the people
of that town: another measure to
"'swat' - the South Vernon saloon.
The action of the house in adopting
a resolution to inquire into the posi-,
biIitv of state tax and the ramming
Of the senate by someSnewspapers for
killing the direct inheritance tax bill
without debate were factors for the
action of the senate Yesterday in re.
considering its vote refusing third
reading to that bill. and sending il
back 10 the committee for further con
sideration. Gov. Mead has signed the
$4,000 highway bill. The normal
school lobby was hard Mt work yester-
day and was reported to have made
many converts. Mason Stone, superin-
tendent OF education, is blamed for II
all, and they are saving some hard
things about him. Gov. Mead and
other prominent legislators are Just ms
much interested. but they are over
looked. and some have gone so far as
to threaten Mason with .decapitatio,n
two wears hence. There are shoals
ahead for the central normal.
The presence of so mahv corporation
LAWYERS around the capitol Yesterday
made this historic institution look like
a railroad meeting with a contest on
for control of the board of directors
The general committee took official rec
ognition of the presence of the lobby
bv introducing bill requiring the
legislative counsel and agents of the
TO register with the sec
retarv of state under penalty which
may be $1,000, and to go about prom
erlv labelled and numbered and carry
ing red lantern at night. Harlan
Goodhue of Westminster introduced q
similar bin two years ago, but got It
in too early. so that it was in reaper g
first swath.
Kennedy of Williston smoked out
IL bills from the committees YESTERDAY
bv introducing resolution forbidding
the introduction of bills after yester-
dav, except bills of necessity and the
one promised from the committee on
wavs and means relating to the. main
tenance of the government. Martin
Howard of Londonderry tried to stop
the house from taking favorable ac.
tion on the bill prohibiting gun ST.
lencers in the state. but he was unsue-
cessful. although he got an admission
from the general committee that not
a single member of that body had ever
seen one. nor had the man who advo-
Gated the bin The federal income tax
bill will be taken un next Tuesday af-
ternoon. The freak bin requiring
hunters to wear red coat was dis
missed. There is talk of reeonsidera-
tiOn