Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-11-07
Both Houses Adjourn and Resolu.
tions of Sympathy Will Be
Sent Family.
TRUSTEE PROCESS BILL ALAW
Senate Spends More Than an
Hour Trying to Understand
Amendments before Pass
ing the Measure.

Montpelier Oct. 9l.-Both the Senate /
and House of Representatives. adjourned /
this afternoon out of respect Of the late /
Hon. James $. Sherman, vicc-president |
of the United States, Flags upon all |
public buildings in Vermont are ordered |
placed at half mast for the next 80 days |
and a copy of the resolutions, mourning |
the death OF tho vico-presidont, will be +,
sent to the family of the deceased
In the opinion of some members the |
General Assembly has handed a gold
brick to the labor men of the state
by the passage of Senate bill NO l, the
trustee process bill. with the amend
ments placed upon it by the House. Tn
der the old law no action in trustee
process could he brought unless the debt
amounted to $40 Under the new law. as
amended by the House and signed by
the Governor action may be brought for
any amount and costs may be placed
upon the debtor, though there is so of
wages or compensation for personal serv-
Ices exempted by the provision of the
act. This phase of the matter was not
discussed in the House and it is the gem
eral opinion that somebody rather put
one over on that body. These amend
ments. however, meet the objections of
some of those opposed to the bill in its
original form, and may have made pos
sibe Its passage by the House. The
Senate spent more than an hour this
morning considering the amendments
proposed by the House, not in debating
them, but in frying to learn just what
was meant by them.
DEBATE ON TAXATION BILL.
There was another debate this after
noon on S. 81, Senator Babhitts bill,
exemptins from taxation money loaned
on real estate mortgages bearing inter-
est at not more than five per cent.
Senator Laird moved to amend by strik-
ing out all after the enacting clause and
inserting a bill which he introduced this
morning, Is. go, which provides that
money loaned on an obligation on mort
gage on real or personal estate or a bond
for deed at not exceeding five per cent
interest shall be exempt from taxation
u loaned within this State Mr. Rabbit
eaad he did not object to the change If
the senate thought it wise, but he doubt
Cd the advisability of giving the prin-
cipe underlying it great an extension
at this time. On motion of Mr.. Laird the
bill. with the pending amendments was
order for Tuesday. November T., at $50
p. m.
The special order. s. 10, relating to dis
qualification and fees of jurors was
taken up, but before action could be
taken or debate commenced, the Senate,
ON motion of Mr.. McCuen, ad iourned out
OF respect to the vice-president
The report of the committee in the
Guildhall contested election case recon-
mending that the seat he declared vacant
was the special order in the House this
morning. The report OF the committee
was not sustained, either in Recommend
ing that the seat be declared vacant, or
IN its finding that certain defective
ballots should have been counted on the
hrst ballot which would have served to
1lect Mr. Ball, the contestant.
WOULD NOT PUNISH TOWN.
There seemed to be no doubt that thee
were irregularities in the Guildhall cleo
tion. but the House was not disposed to
punish the town for the fault Of it's cleo
zion officers by depriving it of representa-
t'on, and such a course seemed iniudicious
because the members thought that if there
should be close scrutiny of the cleo
lions it would be found that few towns
In the State complied completely with the
specific and dc tailed requirements of the
law.
The Joint committee on highways and
bridges listened this afternoon to a talk
by j. r. Wilbur of Manchester in the
supreme court room on the proposition
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