News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-11-20
LEGISLATIVE NOTES

Will have banquet Thursday evening o
this week at which p. M. Meldon of Rut
land is expected to be POSTMASTER
The legislature has decided to take 6
Thanksgiving recess and will adjourn
next Friday until Monday eve, Dec. 2
without pay and with mileage one way
Hedgehog bounties have been reduced
by the Senate from thirty to fifteen cents
and that will probably be the price until
next session, when up they will come
again.
They say that Representative Wilkins
of Morristown is homesick-that he is
really ready to go home and stay there.
Too bad, Glenn" is a useful and work.
ing member.
Representative Brown OF Eden is looked
upon as a strong member. He OCCASION
ally says something and what he does
say is always to the point. Eden has a
good man in him.
The Lyndon Agricultural School ex-
!
House, wagon, traverse sleds, iron
hooks and tools made by the pupils of
the school and the exhibit attracts much
attention.
An effort is being made to take the APP.
pointment of license commissioners out
of the hands of the Assistant Judges and
give it either to the Selectmen OF the town
voting license or having a state board of
license commissions.
The income tax amendment to the Fed.
eral Constitution, defeated in the House
and Senate of 1910, has made its appear.
apce bills in that line being presented in
the House by Mr.. Miller of Bethel and in
the Senate by Senator Laird.
1.-TWO standpatters is what they
call the two representatives from La
noble county-Smilie of Cambridge and
Strong of Hyde Park. They don't .say
much, but both are onto their job every
day and nothing important gets away
from their eagle eyes.
DR.. Coburn of Milton, introduced
primary election law, drawn by Secretary
of State, Guy w. Bailey, which retains
the convention system and provides for
referendum vote at the March election
next year to determine whether the peo
pie really want such a system.
Lots doing in the House this week,
there being several Especial orders"
Among them the adjustment of capital
punishment, Brattleboro bridge bill, re-
quiring engineers and conductors to serve
three years as fremen and brakem en-,
electing selectmen annually, and so on.
Representative Jose introduced cou-
Pile of important bills last week. One of
them exempt mortgages on real estate
located within the state from taxation.
The other abolshes exemption for debts
owing This latter repeats sec. $40 OF
the statues as amended by sec. of 35 of
the act of 1910.
At the last election the town of Glas-
lCHDui SdSL III NOlSs' nat lOWn 10
in the Legislature by one
member of the House and one Senator
and it is suggested that this is probably
the only township in the United States
which has 25 per cent of voters as mem
bers OF the Legislature.
When will the Legislature finish upand
go home! That is question that is
hard to tell. Here we are almost at
Thanksgiving, the time session used to
have all business closed up and the ses
sion ended. But in these latter years
this is not the case. 1t looks as if the
session would continue right up to the
holidays and beyond. Oyer 225 bills in the
hands of the revision committee and the
md not vet. 1t looks now aSif this ses.
sion would "beat the record " and be the
ongest yet. But then-things may take
a turn and work move on rapidly.