The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-07
GOOD VOLUME OF
BUSINESS WAS
TRANSACTED
Legislature Closes Ninth Week
of Present Session
SENATE GETTING NERVOUS
Appoints Committee to Hurry Up
Business in the Lower
Branch.

Montpelier, Dec. 6.-The ninth
week of the Legislature closed this
afternoon and the members of both
branches have gone home with the
exception of the committees on state
school appropriation and agriculture
which go tomorrow morning on a
junket to Lyndon, where a visit will
be paid the Lyndon institute.
A considerable volume of business
has been disposed of this week
though much of it has been in The
nature of reconsideration of measgr-
es. When the Legislators returned to
work last Monday it was apparently
with the intention of getting at the
various taxation measures and to
that end much debate has been in
dulged in during the past thee days
No results have been obtained, how
ever, and the fiat rate bill for taxing
intangibles as well as the Rabbit
bill, to exempt money loaned on Yer
mont real estate at rot exceeding
per cent, are still ii the air Both
have been discussed and are entered
on the calendar as special orders for
next week
Today dogs and marriage license.
held the attention of the House for
scme time, when the lower branch
learned that the Senate had decided
to adjourn tonight until Monday
night the House members quickly
agreed to do likewise am only the
suggestion of Speaker Plumley that
considerable routine work could he
disposed of during the following 50
minutes kept the members in their
seats. That the House is not lnciin-
ed TO renoSo from the position II has
taken in declining to raise the sala~-
les of various state officers was
shown today when il refused 20 re.
consider the bill to increase the
salary of the adjutant general
AT 1890 next Tuesday morning
the socalled state option" bill, II
$40, comes up as a special order and
il is expected that both sides will be
represented on the floor as the con
tention of the advocates of licenses
that the measure embodies practical
prohibition. II is conceded by the Ii
cense advocates that the enactmen:
of such a law would probably Jesuit
in dry" Vermont after the ccmina
annual meetings in March.
The state fair appropriation bill
has been held up in the Senate That
body cut the appropriation OF 81
in half.
The coming week brings public
hearings on the inn holders license
measure, the 81 hour bill restricting
the hours of labor for women and
minors and the fish and game law
All three bills will bring many inter.
ested persons to Montpelier and es
pecially will the labor measure 1T
tract visitors.
Mr.. Howley of Burlington intro
duced today in the House a bill pro
yiding for licensing pawnbrokers.
The measure fixes a license fee of
$40, payable annually. and provides
that pawnbrokers must furnish
BOND OF $500 and keep an accurate
account of all business transacted
Another conservation measure
made its appearance today when Mr.
Hapgood introduced a bill providing
that all timber lands of 100 or more
acres, which shall be put under per
petual control of the state so far as
cutting of timber is concerned shall
Tor taxation be set in the list in
towns situated, at one-half of 1 n,
cent of appraised value.
When House Bill 9s. relating IN
the exception of soldiers homesteads
came up for a third reading Mr.. Jose
OF Johnson offered an amendment
making the amount of exemption
$500 instead of $1,000. Mr.. McCel.
Ian OF Plymouth, author of the bill
accepted the amendment but his seat
mate, Mr.. Hapgood of Peru, Thought
that we have done enough for the
old soldier" The bill was passed
with a rush.
Inc Senate is getting nervous
about the chances of getting home
Tor Christmas and this morinng
ADOPTED a joint resolution providing
TOT a committee to investigate tho
condition of business in the Leeisla.
| ture. e'''o
According to the statisticians Il ,s
unlikely that the Legislature can
reach final adjournment until we'll 70
ward the end Of January as a recapi.
tuiauon OF business made this week
showed that there were 2e2 House
oills and 20 Senate bills in the hands
OF House committees. The commit
tee on revision had 80 House meas.
ures and 20 Senate bills. Among the
oills in the hands Of the revision com
mittee are is village and city chart.
er bills awaiting a decision from the
supreme court in the Albany rail-
road case, relative to the constitu.
uonality OF the acts Of the public ser.
vice commission.
More worthless dog, legislation
made its appearance this afternoon