News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-01-22
LEGISLATIVE NOTES

retirement fund which carries an appro
priation of $4,000.
/ The sawdust bill was passed by tn,
house by large vote, one of the test
amendments being defeated 121 to 76.
Mr.. Breecher, OF Pawlet, introdu res an
other poultry bill appropriating $500 tc
promote the poultry interests OF the state
a subject already considered, but the her
will not down,
The HapgoJ d Integrity" committee
had several meetings last week calling
in members OF the judiciary committee
to secure their side of the story. And the
member from Peru is getting the adver.
Using. RI
Tax Commissioner Cushman went to
Heaton hospital Wednesday for treat
ment and care from overwork. He had
been plugging at tax figures in his office
night and day since session openeda His
condition was better Wednesday.
On Wednesday the Ryegate power bill
was held up on a motion to reconsider
and table. This was done on the sugges-
ton of the committee on corporations
that slong as they have eight or ten SINH
lar biIlsitthe state is to establish the policy
of non-passage of such measures the com
mittee did not want to waste further
time on hearings.
The temperance committee tried to de.
eide Wednesday night if owners of NOV
ing picture houses should be penalized if
children IA years of age and younger at
tended without being accompanied by
parent or guardian. The same rule ap
pI ed to children 16 years of age or
younger attending dances Several min
listers appeared in advocacy of the bill.
The campaign publicity bill was passed
by the house after striking out the sec
ton allowing political friends of the can
didates togo pussy footing, as Cook of
Lyndon called it, around the country
and state. During The debate Mr.. Cook
nominated Redfeld Proctor for governor.
Mr. Proctor and Mr.. Billings clashed
good-naturedly on the bill, Billings tav-
ORIG eliminating the pussv-footing
clause, and Proctor seeing no harm in it.
The veto of the Governor on the amend
ment to the charter of E. & T. Fair
banks & Company was sustained in the
house by unanimous vote. 204 members
voting in the affirmative. The governor
took the ground that the bill created
trust and contravened decisions of the |
supreme court in the Standard oil and |
other cases and that it was not good |
public policy to pass such law giving |!
the company authority to hold the stock
'of any other corporation"
Governor Fletcher on Thursday after
noon submitted to the House his first
veto, sending to that branch without his
approval House bill 371 relating to the
charter of the Fairbanks company, on
he grounds that it grants the company
puwers Of a holding company and estab-
Is hes a trust in contravention of decis-
ons of the United States Supreme court.
The veto message deals with live sub
ect and therefore one of the most i'm
,ortant that may beexpected this session.
The bill providing for state detention
arm carries an appropriation OF $4,000
o pay and equip the farm and $4,000
to pay the expenses OF operat-
no the institution The institution is
or the discipline, correction, reformation
md instruction of prisoners, who are q
CRYING sentence other than the crime OF
murder in state prison or house OF cor
ection and they may be sent to the farm
When their sentence will not exceed two
ears and may be transferred to that in
titution by order of the Governor. The
uperintendent is to receive $500 per
ear and quarters and sustenance for
umself and family