The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-01-25
LEGISLATURE WILL
ADJOURN ON
SATURDAY
Senate Adopted Joint ResoIu-
ton This MOrnicg
BIG RAILROAD FIGHT ON
Boston & Maine Bill Special Order in
Senate This After
noon

Montpelier, Jan. 25.-The Senate
this morning adopted a joint resolu-
ton that the president of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House adjourn
their respective bodies sine die
on Saturday morning at s O'Clock
The Senate also adopted resolution
relating to the investigation of rates
charged for transportation by the
Rutland Railroad company.
The Senate passed the following:
II l94 relating to appeals by tax pay
ers and towns from appraisals, S 14S
incorporating the Interstate Railroad
Co, S l65 relating to the taking Of
fish except by angling.
The Senate reconsidered its vote
on II 49i relating TO appeals by tax
payers and after amending the bill
passed it, The Senate killed II 662
relating to the supervision of sources
of water and ice supply.
The House this morning received
the report Of the committee on mile
age and debentures and after correc-
ton In which total of 95 miles was
saved the state, the report was adop-
ted.
The House passed II 40 relating to
restrictions on exemptions from tax
alton.
House bill 46S Incorporating the
Fifteen Mile Falls Power Co., is on
its passage this morning and Is being
Istubbornly fought in the House. Mr..
Corey of Montpe Ter has proposed
several amendments and. called for
the yeas and nays but from present
appearances the bill Will pass the
House.
The railroad fight between the Bos-
ton & Maine and Central Vermont
will be the feature of this afternoons
session. II comes up in the Senate
as a special order at 2:15- Both
sides are confident Of victory but
there is no telling what the result
will be.
For the first time this session, the
speakers vote was required on tie.
This was when the House bill relating
to homicide came up for a third read
ing yesterday. This is a substitute
for the bill vetoed early in the ses-
sion by Governor Mead, because the
bill which he refused to sign contain
ed no saving clause which excluded
pending cases. This bill provides
that juries may qualify their verdicts
In murder cases by adding the words
with capital punishment" and prac-
tically does away with hanging in
| Vermont The vote In favor of the
third reading of the bill was 81 10 81,
Speaker Howe voted in the afiirma-
live and II went to a third reading.
Mr.. Battell Of Middlebury yester-
day turned over to Governor Mead a
deed OF 900 acres Of land on Cancels
Hump. The deed provides that this
shall be used as a State park, that no
automobiles shall be run on the
mountain, except on n roadway built
for them: that the forests there are
to be preserved and that the name OF
the mountain in the future is to be
left to the good sense Of the people
OF the State Mr. Battell does not
press his suggestion made when he
first rendered this mountain to the
State that the name OF the peak be
changed to Mount Ethan Allen"
Senator Cushman yesterday after
noon introduced bill to amend Sec.
$500 OF the public statutes relating to
Visiting traps. Provides every per
son who traps foxes. mink, muskrats
and any other animal shall visit his
traps az least once In every rs hours.
Fine OF 81 for each offense in viola
ton OF this act.