The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-02-19
HOUSE PosTPoNEs VOTE ON
EUGENlc MARRIAGE BILL
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being called up Wednesday morning
This bill is favored by some motor
mems union and is opposed by rail
way men. Mr.. Stone of Vergernes
believed that the public service com,
mission already had jurisdiction in
this matter and that the law was un
necessary. He wished time to look w
the,laW gsss
What Is Lake Champlain. when
one wants to shoot pickle ,el?' This
question was answered by House bill
BAG. which makes the lake include
tributaries as far back from the
mouth as there is no visible current
This was passed. by. the House Wed.
nesday morning.
Other fish and game laws passed
by the House Wednesday raise the
bounty on bobcats from two to FIVE
dollars and provides for protection
for bull pout in June and allow set
lines for bull pout upon payment Of. q
license fee of one dollar.
The armory bill. which would al
low the State to contract with the
towns to bHild armories, was ordered
to lie Wednesday. A committee bill
will later be introduced as q substi.
tute. The bill which allows the State
to use its present appropriation to
buy armories from towns on the in.
stalment plan passed both houses.
The Governor, however, insisted upon
limiting the amount which could be
contracted for under the act This
is now suggested at $4,000. b
The detention farm bill will come
in from the appropriations committee
with a second unfavorabIe report
Wednesday The committee was un-
animously opposed to the farm be-
cause OF the expense and because it
was not considered feasible to en-
ploy several hundred men on one
farm.
The bills taxing bank stock will
not be acted upon until the general
tax bill is disposed of.
At meeting of the general commit
tee Wednesday afternoon the Sim
onds bill s. 60, providing for finger
print Identification and Bertillion sys
TEN, was favorably reported fo- pas
sage Senator Simonds appeared he
fore the committee and told of run
ming down gang of yeggmen by
means OF a thumb print on the top
OF an aluminium pot which enabled
hln to locate Nevada Mike" in an
other state and thus secure the con-
ylction of gang OF over 20 danger
Gus criminals.
Despite the big meeting in Repre-
sentatiycs hall at which Curtis Child
OF Massachusetts was the orator
Wednesday evening. and hearing IN
the Senate chamber on the medical
inspection of schools, about 20 farm
ers gathered in the Supreme corut
room to discuss the tax bill.
Mr. Hamblett of Barton asked how
the committee proposed to secure
residence II the tax on intangibles
was reduced TO seven-tenths of | per
cent Mr.. Demeritt OF Duxhury, who
has the bill in charge, called atten-
ton to the city of Baltimore, Md, in
which the listed intangibles increas-
ed from 100000 to 100000 under a
fiat rate
In answer to Mr.. Hamblett's query
as why only rs PEI cent of offsets
were allowed Mr. Demeritt stated
that it was compromise between
those who wanted To limit offsets To
so per cent and those who, like Mr.
Hamblett, thought they should be put
In at 100 per cent
There was a general discussion OF
the bill in which Messrs Foote OF
Cornwall Rublee of Berkshire and
Senator Dunkle of Windham county
participated
At tile hearing on the bill for i'll
spection of schools by school physi
clan Miss Anna Dawson of Brattle
boro. representatives Of the Woman
Federation, and DR.. G.. f. Dalton oi
the state board Of health appeared
i'll behalf of the bill.