Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-12-20
CAPITOL EVENTS
What our Law Makers
are Doing

Another adjournment for a holi-
day vacation occurs this Friday af-
day afternoon until January 6, when
the membership will return to Ecom-
plete the work of the session with
out any further breaks in the work.
1t is expected now that the final ad-
journment cannot take place until
the last days of January and it is
more apt to be in February. Among
the more weighty matters to be con-
sidered yet are taxation, preferential
and direct primary, salary of
governor, which it is understood will
not become a law and will be vetoed,
many appropriations that will occupy
time, ninety new bills many of which
will have to come before the House
and Senate, and a good many bills
that will take time, including in
creased revenue from steamboat
and parlor car companies.
Among the bills signed with the
governor is one preventing under
penalty a person going to a.
mother state to marry if for any
reason he can not legally marry in
this state and preventing person
coming to this state to marry if he
cannot legally marry in his resident
state. Since the passage of the law
an instance of this has occurred in
Woodstock, that is being watched
with interest, the parties having been
married in Massachusetts.
The banquet of the reunion of the
members of 1910 was one of the live
affairs of the session and it was with
agood deal of measure that the
membership of that session held
their meeting in the State House.
Senator Dale responded to the toast
upon A Modern Decameron" which
was one of the hits of the evening.
The Inn keepers license bill will be
reported adversely to the House and
a substitute bill is to be introduced
which it is expected will pass.
Mr.. Foss of Brighton, appeared be-
fore the committee on the locomo-
tive engineer and conductors bill,
that they shall have better qualifi-
cations before they shall be allowed
to act in their different capacities.
Harry Amey, formerly of Brighton,
opposed the bill for the Central Ver-
mont railway company, claiming it
was a measure to tie up roads in
case of a strike.
One of the greatest measures in
troduced this session occurred on
Tuesday when one for conservation
of the electrical energy of this state
appeared in the Senate. 1t provides
that all electrical energy shall be
first given to the communities sur
rounding the place in which such
energy is located and before it can be
sent out Of the state.
The committee of conference over
the House and Senate have reported
on a compromise by which the
polls may be opened in towns of less
than 1900 persons if the town so votes
at March meeting and over 1900 at 6
| o'clock in the morning.
A bill has passed the House by
which the women employed in me-
.chanical and manufacturing plants
can not be worked over 58 hours per
week.
The House passed plurality elec-
ton bill on Tuesday by which the
election shall be declared at the end
of the fourth ballot and the one hav.
icg the largest vote shall be declared
elected.
A bill has passed the House that
will be very interesting to Esse,
County in that it provides that al
engines working and running neal
and through forests shall be equipped
with spark arresters to prevent th'
setting of forest fires.
Mr.. Cameron, of Norton, who wa
i'll last week returned to his dutie
this week. He will with some in
terest, watch the municipal cour
bill for Essex County that has nc
been moving along as fast as
, might owing to the way the con
mittees feel about appropriation
1t is generally believed that the bi
will come along all right in time.