The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-20
END SEEMS
TO BE NEAR
Final Adjournment Likely
to Come Within a
Week
CONSERVATION BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Primary Bill With Referendum, At
tachment Passed Yesterday After
noon-Substitute Educational Bill ND
Tuesday.
Special to The Beformer.)


Representative Proctor chairman of
the house committee ON final adjourn
ment, said this morning in opposing
the motion for reconsideration of theI
joint resolution passed yesterday relat-
ing to final adjournment on March ~
that the committee would hold meet
ing Tuesday morning at which it
would probably be definitely decided as
to the date Of final adjournment. and
he urged that no reconsideration be
made until then. The motion to recon
slider was ordered to lie The house
resolver itself into a committee of the
whole TO hear Bank Commissioner +,
G. Williams OF Newport discuss bank
bills, II 277 and II 2S2 Mr.. Viii
liams explained extensively the bank
ing system and the purpose of the
bills. When the committee arose the
house on motion Of Mr. Wilson of
Chelsea ordered the bill to lie and be
made special for Monday afternoon.
The senate devoted most of the time
this morning to discussion of the gen
eral corporation bin which was ordered
TO third reading.
The house took mp the education bill
substituted for II 170, and ordered it
I
| Tuesday morning and afternoon.
An attempt was made to suspend the
| house rules and hold & session this af-
ternCon. but the members did not look
upon il with fave and 1t was refused
The senate ordered II 24J providing
for commission to consider the CON
servation of flood waters to a third
! reading with amendments reducing the
oil 3no Of e. Il,
! mission from 81 900 to $500 and for
! expert engineering advice from $1,000
/ to $500.
Primary With String On It.
/ AS had been predicted by The Re
| former in yesterday : issue the house
reconsidercd its note whereby it had
refused passage 10 the primary clec.
tions bill and finally passed the bill
by a yea and nay vote of 146 to p
with referendum attachment making
the law effective March 90, 1916, pro
i vided the majority of the voters vote
eyes and if the referendum vote
results in a majority Of ''no' the Law
will not become effective until Marcel
20, 1927. The bill as passed provide.
!, for primaries on state and congress
sional candidates, but leaves the pres
ent town caucus and county conven
tions system intact.
The motion to reconsider was mad
by Mr.. Melendy of Londonderry an,
followed a message from the governo
; suggesting that the legislature SCENE
, to him in honor bound to pass a di
; rect primary law in order to keep fait
with the people, but that as condition
= had changed since the people had ex
pressed their desire for such legisla
I tion it might be wise thing to pas
: the act with the addition of a refer
n cndum clause. The motion to recor
slider was supported by Mr.. Demerit
t Of Duxburv and Lund of Canaan. bot
t of whom had previously voted agains
y its passage without the referendul
y amendment The motion to reconsidt
was adopted. the bill amended by til
t addition of the referendum clause O
!, motion of Mr.. Wilson of Chelsea an
Il the party platform pledge redeeme
, by the passage of the bill. Windha
+ county voted on the passage of I'll
bin as follows:
In favor Of passage: Perry
Brattleboro, Austin of Brooklin
Leonard Of Grafton. Ingraham
6u1II0fU. 1nNfDeT OF 11dHIaN, GleaSt
n of Jamaica. Melendy of Londonderr
y Higgins of Newfane, Aiken Of Putne
Graham of Rockingham. Eddy
tv Stratton. Ware of Townshend, Stoc
sh er of Wardsboro, ButterfeLd of We1
of minister. .Jenison of Windham
Ii Opposed to passage: Smith of At
ed ems, Snow Of Dover, Worden of Ware
% boro, Wheeler of Whitineham.
Not voting: Howard of Dumme
les ton. johnson of Somerset. Newton
fiji Vernon, Corbett OF Wilmington.
- Tax Bill Passed.
Before action was taken on the 7
mary bill Mr.. Wilson of Chelsea
order to expedite matters made 1
tion to suspend the rules so that
AS, the taxation measure which
lis been passed to a third reading by
house at the morning session, mi.
have its third reading at once and
lry put upon its passage which was agr,
'lb- to and after some debate on the m
I'll ter, during which Mr. Proctor stron