The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-12
House Refuses to Concur i'm
Striking Out HapgOOd
Amendment
ELECTRIC CARS
MUST BE HEATED


Slabs and sawdust Goes to Third
Reading Senate Puts ouietus on
Proposed Junket.
Especial to The Reformerg
MONTPELIER. March i.
The house was 70 have assembled at
~ 0 clock this morning in response 10
q motion to suspend the rules offered
by Mr.. Proctor, but owing to a delay
or the printer in furnishing the calen-
dar IT did not proceed until 9.25. Nerv
little except routine was transacted
The apple grading bin providing for
a uniform system of pa -king and label
ing apples came from the senate with
ia proposal TO strike out the Hapgood
amendment, allowing the shipping of
Iapples IN ANY Old way the shipper de-
sired. Mr.. Brown of Lunenburg said
he was not satisfied with the bill as II
was and wanted a committee OF con.
ference. lie did not want 10 concur
70 striking out the Hapgood amend
ment. Nj. Graham asked Mr.. Brown
II he was in favor Of the abortion Of
the amendment and also inquired Of
Mr.. Foote Of Cornwall. chairman Of the
agricultural committee, if he likewise
favored the idea Mr. Foote said he
.
the bill was not lenient enough 10 shin
: pers. The house refused 10 concur IN
striking ont the amendment. which ae-
ton will probably result in a commit
tee of conference.
MI The house coneurred with the senate
amendment 10 II 376, which provides
: for fine Of not exceeding 500 for
wIlful acceptance by listers OF an in
i correct inventory. Mr.. Graham said
the senate had spent the afternoon in
!, discussion of the bill and had finally
! amended i by providing that accent
:. ance OF such incorrect inventories must
I be wilful in order to incur the penalty
: and he thought the amendment should
u be concurred in
An attempt was made bv Mr.. Put
! nam of MiddleseN to dismiss the bill
|. providing for the heating of ears on
i Grated by electricity. which was favor.
= ed by Mr.. Stone Of Vergennes who
= thought the matter could be regulated
4 by the public service commission. Ar
taTnum Of Montpelier spoke in the in
terest or motormen Of such ears stat
ing that they suffered severely from
cold and could not safely handle ears
II bundled up. The bin was also IA
ID vored by Blanchard Of Vershire. Rev
noldS Of Cambridge Morse OF Hard
wick and Soule Of AlburE. Dismiss
IS al was refused and the bin passed ~
large majority. 4 third reading was
ordered on II 246. ? bill to prevent
pollution Of waters Of the state bv
he dumping slabs and sawdust from mills
i into the streams, by . vote of I2I 10
IL IL, as amended by the senate 20 thar
q the real estate owner and the state
,r each pay half Of any expense 10 install
i machinery 10 dispose Of the sawdust
TO The joint resolution appropriating
lie $4,000 as Vermont : share toward the
u, erection Of memorial 10 Commodore
an Perry at Put in Bay. Ohio, was ordered
Ell to lie.
up The senate put quietus on another
proposed junket. by refusing TO adopt
in a Joint resolution providing for I
n committee of inspection TO visit III,
he house Of correction at Rutland
M As had been expected the senat,
F. yesterday afternoon passed in concur
lf- renee ,he Perry prohibition hill BY
ry vote of 20 TO Z and il viii without an,
le- doubt become a law. The senate ais,
ec passed the workman 5 compensation az
of TO third reading amended in but tw,
particulars which would affect IN,
wo spirit of the bill; the first. that ma kin:
nd the act apply only TO an employer VIII,
IS. employees more than FIVE persons, an,
las secondly that an employer may asses
ne and collect from employees one-half tn
On. cost of liability insurance.
A large part of the house session
af was consumed in listening to a detail
lsh ed explanation of the workings of tn
on, department of weights and measure
Ike by Commissioner Hugh Henry. Tn
~. house had gone into committee of tn
whole in order to allow COMMISSIONS
Henry to explain matters before actin
on the passage of the bill which woul
m terminate his office by combining j
Il with that of the commissioner of agri
culture. He told of the condition
prior TO 1908 leading up to the enact
'ss- ment of the law creating the depart
s ment of weights and measures an
stated that on the first inspection 3
per cent of all scales, weights an
re- measures inspected were unfit for us
IGN He said that the commissioner an
he four assistants were doing the work G
ons the department, that prior to 1911 ther
wal were no accepted standards of weight
APP and measures in the state and ther,
of fore no way of determining whethc
such We're correct or not. lie though
IN 1t was necessary TO have q departmer
his of weights and measures because il
ary necessary TO have proper apparat,
and and men who know how 70 use il.
OF In the course of his remarks NJ