Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-11-22
S0L0NS WILL LEAVE CAPITAL TODAY
Legislature to Take Recess Until Dec 2-Braeboro Railroad
Bridge Bill Under Discussion Yesterday

to be opposed in the House, calls for the
adjournment from this afternoon to
Monday evening" Dec. 2, or for the en-
tire Thanksgiving week.
Senator Barber introduced two bills
yesterday, one providing for the recov-
cry of damages against persons, estates
or corporations returning a false tax in
ventory, and the other, by request.
amending the act relating to peddlers' IL
censes
A large number of bills were intro
duced in both branches yesterday. one
presented by Mr.. Wright of Westmin-
ster provides that towns of less than
1000 population may and that towns of
over 1000 shall index its records by the
card index system.
The House gave much of its time
Tuesday afternoon to debating the pro-
posal to abolish capital punishment. on
yea and nay vote the bill was killed,
IS members voting for ii and 1S1 against
1t. This was unusually large vote
against abolshing capital punishment
Mr. Ryder of Rockingham has a bill
providing for an additional fee of 81
for a marriage license in addition to the
regular fee, the additional money so
received to be divided among the home
for destitute children, Kurn Hattin
homes and st. Josephs orphanage.
One reason why fewer bills have been
introduced in the legislature this year
is owing to the fact that the General
Assembly no longer needs to legalize
grand lists and that many private cor
poration matters are cared for in the
secretary of states office without the
necessity of legislative action.-[ Mont
pelier Journal.
Again there is a movement on foot to
legalize the interchange of mileage on all
Vermont railroads. A bill for this pur-
pose was introduced in the House We'd
nesday morning and it would make it
possible to use a Central Vermont mile
age on a Boston & Maine train and so
on. 1t is needless to say that the rail-
roads will fight such a measure, but it
is said that the House is disposed to
be friendly to it.
One bill introduced by Senator Her.
bert c. Barber amends the Public
Statutes relating to the misbranding of
drugs. Mr.. Barber is the author of
another bill relating to the isolation of
persons infected with, or exposed to,
contagious diseases; local health officer
may require isolation of persons and
things infected and may provide suit
able places for their reception at the
expense of the town, if persons are I'M
able to pay. a third bill introduced by
Mr.. Barber defines the words food"
ana drugs
From Oct. 2, when the General AS
sembly convened, to Nov. 49, 81 laws
We're added to the statute book The
new laws include three of a private ma
tur. one of merely local Importance
four affecting automobile owners and
drivers, three having to do with the
probate courts, and four which may be
said to make material addition to the
general law of the state or to promise
some important change. One of these
four last mentioned laws provides that
the governor may appoint to fill va
cancies occurring in the Senate Another
is the ten dollar wage exemption bill.
third is a step in the direction of
uniform legislation in all the states in
that 1t provides for a board of commits
sioners for the promotion of uniformity
of laws. Still another makes 1t possible
for a woman, by a deed signed only by
herself to convey property which was
conveyed to her for separate use, in
stead of having as formerly to get her
husband to sign the instrument. The
most important of the automobile laws
enables the secretary of state to sus-
pend an operators license without
hearing in certain cases, and to appoint
inspectors and examiners with the same
powers Is constables.