The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-01-09
HOUSE VOTES TO GET
PLANS FOR STRUCTURE
The Report Favored a New
Building Rather Than To
Build Wings to the Pres
ent Main Building.

State House, Jan. 3.
The looked for report of the special
committee to investigate the need of ad.
ditional room at the capitol came into
the House this morning, being made by
MIR. Watson of St. Adams. He went
into the matter of overcrowded offices
at the capitol and told of the storing
of valuable documents in the basemen
and in the dome. The work of the COM
mittee was given in detail and special
mention was made regarding the title
of property adjacent to the State House.
The committee recommends the erec-
tion of an office building to cost from
S235 900 to S250,000 and introduced a
joint resolution providing for the Sc
curing of plans, at an expense of not
over 81 200 to be presented to the leg
islature at this session. Under a sus-
pension of rules, the House adopted the
resolution.
The report goes into detail concerning
the advisability OF erecting new build
ing, rather than extending the wings of
the State House and thus marriag the
classical design of the structure.
The resolution adopted by the House
was as follows:
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives, That the joint special
committee to investigate the need for
additional buildings for certain state
purposes, appointed pursuant to joint
resolution approved Oct. "a 1912. be
hereby authorized to procure the services
OF an architect in the preparation of-I
complete plans and specifications for a
new building proposed to be erected on
land owned by the state in the city of
Montpelier, said building being designed
for use by the state library, the supreme |
court, the Vermont Historical society |
and various administrative officers and |
commissions of the state; said plans to
be prepared and available for use by |
said committee in season to enable it to
report finally to the present session of
the general assembly and to be of such
character as fully to present to the gen
eral assembly the recommendations to be
embodied in the final report of said com
mittee; and that sum not to exceed
twelve hundred dollars be hereby appro-
prated for the purpose of procuring said
plans and specifications. to be expended
on vouchers approved by the chairmen
of said committee on the part of the
Senate and House, respectively.
Bosworth Got Little Sympathy.
The House refused to makesa special
order on the bill to commute the death
sentence of Arthur Bosworth, the Essex
Junction murderer of Mae LaBelle, and ]
after Mr.. Hapgood of Peru had cham
pioned the bill the House killed the /
measure. The House also refused third |
reading to the House bill relating to the
Vermont state library. {
The committee on internal affairs in ,
troduced bill to-day as substitute
TO II. 50, relating to the sale of COM I
modities. 1t provides that commodities
except vegetables customarily sold by :
the head or bunch, or dispensed for con
on the premises, cannot be sold /;
other than by standard net weight. The !,
original package must bear stamp of !
net weight of contents. measure or nu- )
merical count. with reasonable variations
This is not to apply to in
iividual units of II or less or three fluid :
,unces. or four avoirdupois ounces or
ess, or il packed in container prior to :.
Ian. /. 1914 The penalty for violation
5 from s. to 800. The bill was read !
vice and ordered to be printed. !
The Senate had little debate over
he House bill making an appropriation {
or decorating lhe Duth dHtlNeIsdtf oi :
he battle of Gettysburg. Senator Pres
on opposed the bill, thinking that the
tate had done enough in appropriating
Is ,000 for a monument to General VIII
lam Wells. Senator Dyer of Addison |
ounty thought it entirely fitting and
roper that the veterans should be pro-
ided with means to visit the ground
ghere Vermont soldiers gained renown. N
sbo hill xas aIso faynrad hx savorai Az
theirs and was passed, % to /.
The Senate passed these bills: Relat-
ng to bonds Of county clerks; amending
harter of the village OF Morrisville:
elating TO fees of health officers; re- l,
iting to sales Of concentrated feeding >.
tufts: authorizing towns to appropriate .,
ioney for maintenance of cemetery as \;
ociations. T