The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-03-09
Vote of the House on Third
Reading of Bill Was
Ia to 44
FEDERAL AID FOR
AGRICULTURAL WORK
Was Adopted by the House in Concur
renee = Chairmen of Committees to
Meet in Hope of Speeding UP Busi-
ness Toward Adjournment.
Especial to The Reformer.)
MONTPELIER March

MONTPELIER, March 9.
! The hodse had very uneventful
session this morning and little aside
from routine business was accomplish
led. The joint resolution to allow the
state of Vermont to receive the bene-
| fit of federal act providing for co..
Operative agricultural extension work
was adopted by the house in concur
renee.
\ third reading was ordered on II
/ 4l3, relating to schoolhouses, after it
had been amended on motion of Mr..
Soule OF Alburg so that school directors
may cXpend 10 per cent of the grand
list of the town in repairs of school
houses instead of 20 per cent, as pro
vided by the original bin. The house
also passed the bill requiring the fur
nishing of a bond TO secure the pay
Iment of board of any person committed
TO jail and providing for the release Of
the prisoner after 30 days OF commit
ment unless such bond is furnished. Mr..
Hapgood Of Peru believed there could
be no objection to the bill. as ne
thought that in the way penal institu-
! tions were conducted today It would
be more of punishment TO be put out
than kept in.
The bill to provide for the purchase
by the state of the Peru turnpike
leading from Peru to Manchester, and
which is a toll road. was passed to a
third reading by q vote Of ia to II
2 although it had been adversely report
To- ed. Mr.. Hapgood explained that thc
. bill simply amended law already il
: force so that the turnpike could be ae
quired by direct purchase or by arbi
! tration. He also stated that President
= Taft had once been held mp on the roa,
I and toll exacted.
L The house recousidered = So, relatin.
to the disposition of unclaimed depos
I, its in savings banks, after it had beer
= : refused third yesterday and ordere,
. it to a third reading amende,
j, 50 as to provide for bringing of suit
: for the disposal of such sums by tn
state 5 attorneys of the counties in
Il stead of the attorney general. Nh
Moore Of Ludlow explained that tn
bill followed the Massachusetts law
Mr. McClary of Windsor and Mr.. Dick
icy OF Barre town opposed the bilI bu
q third reading was favored by a ii,
ing vote of LOO to p.
1t \ resolution extending the Sympath
of the house to Mr.. Rand and famil
of Cabot on the death Of a little daugi
Id ter was adopted.
m Mr.. Proctor of Proctor. chairman c
u the house steering committee, gay
5 notice of the meeting of the chairme
Is of various committees at 0 clock tn
afternoon with view to devise a wa
sd Of expediting business so that final az
at journment may be made this month.
rt The senate has passed the house hi
relating to penalty for. accepting a
l.. incorrect, inventory, amended so as |
ne make such acceptance a misdemeant
St. if It he wilful, and providing Il fiji
of 500 for violation Of the act.
ho The senate also insisted on its amen
as ment to IL Isl, relating to the sale
intoxicating liquors, and appointed
committee of conference consisting
Senators Simonds. Locklin and Hin
man to meet similar committee fro
the house. The joint resolution rela
y g ing to the acceptance of Speedwt
farms with the house amendment ma
ing the acceptance of such gift depen
: ent upon the approval of the govcrnc
les was coneurred in by the senate
er The Windham county members had
.ha group picture taken after adiournme
he this morning.
~ The taxation bin which was to
,ad put up for passage at yesterday aft,
,as noon 5 session was made special {
+bn der for this afternoon at 2.15 o. clio
,as{ on motion of Mr.. Rublee of Berkshi
who explained that he made the II
tion owing to the absence of Mr.. L
merritt of Duxbury, the chairman
the special committee which int
duced the bill.
cd Senate bill II which adds habit
drunkenness for a period of TIN
years to the present legal cause for
~ vorce was killed III the house vest
and