The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-05

excited the usual interest, the bill be-
ing passed by the senate and killed hv
the house The bill would have al
lowed women to vote in municipal
meetings aud for presidential electors
\ mix-up over poll taxes resulted in
the measure being defeated in The low
or branch.
Fish and Game.
Fish and game legislation occupied
. large share OF the attention of the
house. especially, and two really i'm
portant departures were made, one the
passage of the bill providing for a fish
ing license, or combination hunting and
fishing license. and secondly, buck, doe
and fawns may be shot during the open
season on deer next fall. BY having
fishing license, a great deal o. rev
enue for the department will be raised
and the state will not have to make a
special appropriation.
Bible Bill Defeated.
A bill to cause the Bible to be read
in the public schools brought forth
much opposition and the measure,
passed BY the senate, was defeated in
the house The bin aroused much dis
cussion throughout the state and many
were the reasons advanced for its pas
| sage and defeat.
Attorney General Stays.
| Efforts were made by tho house to
abolish the office of attorney general.
state factory inspector and to allow
the commissioner OF agriculture TO
handle the weights and measures de-
partment The senate killed the bin
| to abolish the attorney general s Of
fee, but a bill was passed so that 81
f.big detective expense account cannot
be run up.
Statewide Prohibition.
Vermont will be confronted with a
! question next March which is not only
nationwide, but worldwide. as the. re-
suit of the passage of the Perry pro-
hibition bill, which would Ito away
with the local option law now in Ell
feet The referendum provides that if
the people vote favorahlv the bin shall
go into effect, May, 1916, but if IN
| favorably received, II shall 20 into
effect May 1927. Some legislature be
tween 1917 and 1927 Is IN duty bound
the repeal the law if the people vote
no. The prohibition bill was not ex
pected when the legislature convened
but the solons seemed to feel that thei1
constituents should have chance t.
express their views on the subject af
ter many years of local option Leg
islators who worked hard for the bill
will, it is expected. work for no ma
iority next March.
Five-Cent Direct Tax.
A direct state tax of per cent /.
to be levied, the legislature having
found it impossible to retrench sufi
emily so that tax would be avoided
The tax is but one-half that of tw,
years ago.
Colleges Maintain Support.
The colleges, Norwich. AIiddleburs
and Vermont, received practically tn,
same appropriations as two years agt
although the University of Vernon
college of medicine received Sigh
increase. If the educational bill ha,
tPaSscd, the colleges would not have re
ceived any state aid The appropria
tions bills passed provide fer annua
sums, and are aimed to do away witt
the biennial increase asked for at ev
cry session.
Memorials Provided For.
The sum of $4,000 is appropriate,
e TO erect a marble, granite or bronz
statue on the state house portico o
, Ira Allen, brother of Ethan Allen, an,
money was appropriated for the pun
! pose Of erecting a marker for Rufus /
Percy, the Highgate boy who was kill
ed during the occupation of Vera Cru
in the spring of 1914 by United State
marines during the trouble with Mex
leo. One thousand dollars is appro
priated for the restoration of the oil
Constitution house at Windsor.
Other Acts.
2 Among some of the other importan
: general laws are: The providing o
| machinery for the election of Unite
States senators by popular election
congressman are to be elected by
: plurality instead Of majority; tex
e book on Vermont industries and re
n sources will be introduced in tn
/ schools; stringent regulations are pro
K vided for the control of the sale 0
opium, morphine and other narcoti
drugs; provisions for the organizatio
! of cooperative fire insurance corpora
P tons; added protection to ereamer
G patrons; more automobile regulations
4 uniform bills of lading; tax commission
1 er on request to appoint special dept
y ties to assist listers in the preparatio
= of the grand list; chairs to be pre-
vided for female employees; sanitar
regulation of barber shops; uniforl
apple grading law; added appropris
: tion to the department of agriculutr
: for the establishing of q bureau Q
farm labor and a bureau of markets
y improving the automobile registratio
= laws; regular state highway approprif
: ton; $1,000 to Randolph agriculture
e school for the construction of do
u mitory; founding of the T. n. Va
y school of agriculture at Lyndon; ri
fusal on three successive times to pas
I a bill requiring lights on vehicles otl
er than automobiles; appropriatin
$4,000 for home for feeble minde
Y children.