The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-27
Great Fight for Supremacy
Being Waged Today
CHANCES FAVOR B. & M.
Majority of the Special Committee Re.
ported in Favor of the New Haven
Subsidiary Road, Against
Vigorous Minority.

On split reports, brought in by seven
and six members, respectively, the Yer.
mont Senate at ii O'Clock to-day took
up the Brattleboro RAILROAD war" be-
tween the Boston & Maine and the Cen.
trail Vermont railroads. The majority
report of the special railroad committee
favored the Boston & Maine railroad
and proposed four amendments. The
minority OF six favoring the Central
Vermont, urged the adoption of a bill
which struck out all after the enacting
clause Of the bill before the Senate
and substituting therefor bill which
! would be favorable to the railroad all
ready located, which is the Central.
The debate continued till 1920 this
afternoon and was resumed following
the reassembling The four amend
ments proposed by the majority were
as follows: az that if any time. the
location of the Boston & Maine tracks,
as proposed, interfere with the terminal
facilities OF the Central Vermont they
shall be changed as the railroads agree;
~ that the b. & II. shall raise all
tracks and land lying between the river
and Vernon street; 81 that the control
Of the situation shall be put in the
hands Of the public service commits
sion; "a changing q clerical error.
Senator Porter for the minority pro-
posed to amend the bill by inserting aft
er the enacting clause the original bill
ho lie q IL. Il.
take any land of the Central Vermont
and that the latter road should provide
enough tracks for the needs OF the Bos.
ton 4 Maine. An attempt to consider
this minority proposal Of amendment
first failed and then the four majority
proposals Of amendment went through
without objection.
When the minority report came up,
with the amendment proposal, Senators
Porter, Archibald and Dale supported it,
while Buttertield, Clark and Davis were
opposed. Senator Gordon was about to
speak when adjournment was taken to
give the senator's chance to get nour.
ishment for the inner man.
Other Business In Senate.
Following the opening Of the Senate
this morning joint resolutions fixing 81
per day additional pay for members Of
the revision committee, relating to paw
OF Edward r. Buck as counsel for the
state, relating to pay Of committees
attending the funeral Of late members
OF the House and extending She time
of engrossing bill for thirty days were
adopted
Then Senate bill 20. restricting trus.
tee process was, on motion of Senator
Archibald, made a special order for this
afternoon. The difficulty between the
House and Senate on the trustee process
seems in a fair way to be settled as the
conference committee, or rather a ma
jority of the committee composed of the
House members and Senator Dale OF
the Senate end Of the committee, have
recommended that the Webster bill.
making a $40 exemption Al promised bY
the party platforms, be adopted with an
amendment providing that it shall not
apply to the collection of debts con-
tracted prior to February /, 1911.
After the trustee bill was ordered to
lie. the Senate attacked big pile of
bills on the presidents desk, passing
the following in concurrence; providing
apartments for records of public SER
vice commission, providing investigation
Of the water resources Of the state,
relating to the sale of land for taxes,
the Fifteen-Mile Falls
Power CO., authorizing the town Of
Brighton to purchase and construct a
water system and issue bonds, revising
he laws relating to savings banks and
rust companies, regulating the blowing
If whistles and ringing Of bells on To-
incorporating the St. Albans
md Swanton Traction Co., giving juries
n homicide cases right to tixdeath penalty
n life Imprisonment, amending charter
# city of Rutland. authorizing Rieh-
ord village to issue bonds, to permit
TO build a town hall. pre-
renting the white slave traffic. ineor-
,orating the trustees Of Vermont aead-
my, relating TO inspector Of weights
nd measures This salary, Incorporating
he village of AIiddlebury, changing the
hire town of Essex county with pro-
osal of amendment, repairing the state
cad in Wardsboro, amending charter of
illsge Of Morrisyille.
Fight on Paying Employees.
The House had a fight this morning
eEdIulilg tiit pay oA STATE mouse en-
loyes. The joint committee on state
nd court expenses proposed an amend
lent making the pay sS. instead OF Sc
er day. The amendment was opposed
v Messrs. McCuen of Nergennes, Amcv
{ Brighton. Fletcher Of Cavendish. Cor-
= of Montpelier. Schofeld Of Richford.
ryant of Ludlow, and was favored bv
Iessrs Martin of Brookline aud Ives of
t. Holly Mr.. Williams demanded the
revious question. and the amendment
as lost and the Point resolution for SO
as adopted.
Other Joint resolutions were intro
iced. one by Mr. Amey Of Brighton
,oviding for a commission to procure
bronze medallion of Governor Mead to
placed in the State House. This was
vored by Mr.. Amey and adopted Au-
her, BY Mr.. Bryant Of Ludlow, would
npower the governor to appoint dele
ties 10 conventions outside the state.
his was adopted.
A bin was introduced to promote the
of forests and the preven-
On of forest fires. substitute for II.
s. Favored by Dir. Battell Of Mid
ebury, opposed BY Mr.. Shaw Of Stowe
ia Alr. ives Of Mt. Holly. Third read
z refused
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