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Amendments to Increase $500
Flat Salary Bill
BILL MADE SPECIAL ORDER
Considerable Sentiment Favors Origl.
nal Figures of $500 for Members
$500 for Presiding Officers.

Montpelier, Feb. 3.The salary bill
introduced by Representative Eaton
of Woodstock has been amended to
make the pay of members 1860 for
the session and the pay of the speak
er and president of the senate $500.
The bill in this form has been made
a special order for Thursday
There is. however considerable
sentiment fayo.n the original Gg-
ures, $500 for members and 5000 for
speaker and president of the senate.
Twenty new measures we're drop
ped into the House hopper tllis after.
noon, making the number Of lower
branch measures introduced PA. BY
request Mr.. Chalmers OF Rutland city
contributed three bills. or those pre-
sented by the Rutland ci,y member
Fl 203 is decidedly unique II fixes a
poll tax of 81 on males from 21 70 20
years of age and the money must be
expended only for election purposes
Civil war veterans and poor debtors
arc exempt Mr.. Chalmers has re
quest" bill TO exempt all ilreproof
buildings from taxation for a term Of
10 years.
Mr.. Peckham of Pownal proposes
10 purify the body polite and has in
troduced a measure calculated to
achieve that end Ills bill is II 209
which would impose fine OF 5000 10
$1,000 on employers who distribute
political literature in shops or coerce
employees.
Gov. Gates has announced the ap-
pointment of Fred l.. Davis of White
River Junction as cattle commission.
er. This is n reappointment.
The proposed addition to the State
House for the library and supreme
court was subject Of q democratic
and progressive caucus held in the
supreme court room Monday night
House bill 14S would repeal the act
apprG,riating sS00,OoO for the State
House addition. The G were speak
ers who earnestly advocated the kill
ing OF this measure.
Mr. Stone of Woodford said in the
course OF his speech against repeal: !
There are eleven State officers |
who have offices outside the State !
Honse at cost to the State in rent,
lights, heat. etc, Of $2,5364O annual
ly. This cost excludes the cost OF
fire insurance on the State property
in these Offices and the mileage in
volved in scattering the Offices out
side of Montpelier. Including these,
the total annual cost is $4,000 for
these outside offices There are eight
officers not provided for in the State
House, including the commissioner of /,
agriculture, the secretary of the State
board OF health, the secretary OF the
State board of education. The need
Of more room in many Of the Offices
is great, especially in the State audit
or's Office.
The proposed act would give the
commissioners the powe- to construct /
a new building east OF the State
House, and to move into it the State
library and supreme court room
The present library wing would be
then made into as many committee
rooms as possible. The lack Of com
mittee rooms is an important facto.
in making tho sessions drag out, and
this lack is already being greatly
felt adequate committee facilities
would, at a conservative estimate,
save the state ten days of legislative
time and would shorten the session
that much The legislative session
costs about $4,000 per day.
so the total saving biennially
would be the $2O,OOO OF legislative ssl-
aries and expenses, plus $4,000 for Of
fee rent. The total cost would be the
interest on 100000 This could be
borrowed at three and one.half per
cent, but putting it at three and three
fourths per cent. it would cost the
state annually S11,250, or $22,5O0, BIZ
ennially, The biennial saving, there
fore would be $3,5OO.'
He analyzed the vote cast on the ad
ditional proposition. He was of the
opinion that ten per cent of those who
voted mo" wanted the addition, but
did not want 1t started during such an
expensive year as 1914.
Among the new bills introduced are
the following:
Pirie of Williamstown, an act relat-
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