The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-25
ALSO TO PERMIT
SOLDIERS VOTING
Members Voted One Half
Mileage for Themselves in
Addition to Their Regular
Per Diem - ApprOpria-
tiOns of the Session Are
S130,000

The Vermont legislature, having per
formed its duty by providing pay fo
Vermont soldiers in the United States
service, making provision for the care o.
their dependents and, incidentally, enact
ing two laws to allow the members ot
the National Guard to vote in the Sep.
! tembcr primary and November election
adjournd at noon to-day. The House and
] Senate had completed all business by II
O'Clock and simply marked time until
the hour set for adjournment, which had
been decided upon by Joint resolution
| last night.
| An even half dozen bills were passed
at the special session, as follows: tn
An act to provide for the expenses of the
present session of the general assembly
tprovides for $4,000 to cover expenss of
members and employees, with l0-cents
mileage rate, and carries an appropria-
tion amounting to $4,000 to cover the
expense entailed by the acts relating TO
the troops and their dependents.
(2l An act TO provide additional pay
for the enlisted men of the National
Guard of Vermont from June 10, 1915, TO
not later than Jan. is, 1917.
t3l An act to provide for the support
of dependents of the enlisted men of the
Vermont National Guard.
"a An act to amend the act relating
to primary elections (makes clear that
candidates must file statement of ex-
penses within ten days after the cleo
tom.
t5) An act to provide for soldiers vot-
ing at the general election, Nov. 7, 1915
(6) An act to provide for soldiers vot-
ing at the primary election, Sept. 10,
1916.
After three sessions yesterday, the
House and Senate came together at 10
O'Clock this morning for what turned out
to be the final session. The House imme-
diately passed in concurrence the Senate
acts, to provide for soldiers voting in the
general election and at the primary cleo
tion.
After debate the House also passed
in concurrence with proposals of amend
ment the bill to provide for the expenses
OF the present session of the legislature
Mr.. Graham of Rockingham moved to
consider the second proposal of amend
ment first, which was TO fix the mileage
at 10 cents per mile. The proposal was
favored by Messrs. Proctor, Blodgett,
Stone, Chalmers, Morse, Stacey and Pow.
ell, while Mr.. Hapgood opposed
Mr.. Miller demanded the yeas and
nays. The vote resulted as follows:
Yes, 1888; no, Al; and the House con-
eured in tile proposals OF amendm ant
The proposal to reduce the contingent
expense fund from $4,000 to $4,000 pre-
vailed alse Those voting against the
proposal of amendment were as follows: |
Austin of Reading, Bagley of Searsburg, |
Beattie of Maidstone, Bolster of Win !
hall, Brown of Goshen, Carty of West |
Haven, Clark of East Montpelier, Day OF |
Ripton, Dimond of Manchester, Doty of |
Worcester, Eaton of Woodstock, Gaines
If Pauton. Granger of Tunbridqe, Hap
rood of Peru, Hay of Rupeort, Hitchcock
If Westfeld, Hoadley of Tinmouth, Hor-
,on of Rcadsboro. Howard of Dummers-
on. Lennert of Leicester, McWayne of
Dorset, Mattison of Glastonbury, Mears
# Sandgate, Nichols of Bridport, Parker
# Cavcndish, Paris of Dandy, Pierce
# Rochester Putnam of Middlesex, Rice
# Salisbury, Shores of CRANKY, Smith
# Starksboro, Slayton of Belvidere.
,oule of Alburg, Spaulding of Plymouth,
'tocker of Wardsboro, Stone of Wood
ord, Thurber of Halifax, Ward of Sun
erIand, Ward of st. Albans Town,
Wood of Wells.
That done, Mr.. Hamblet of Barton
moved that a committee be appointed to
-ait on Gov. Gates and inform him that
he House had on its part completed the
usiness of the session and was ready to
diourn. The speaker named Messrs.
Iamblet of Barton and Miller of Bethel,
-ho then performed their duty. The
anne notification was sent to the SEN
te and the speaker finally declared the
Iousc adjourned.
The Senate had little to do this morn
ig. II received official notification that
ov. Gates had signed the bills men
oned above, after which Senator Smith {
loyed that a committee notify the gov {
nor that the business was done. Sena- q
RS Smith and Chedel were delegated {
II the task. Then the Senate told the I
ouse that il wEs ready TO quit, while ,
bout the same time Gov. Gates told the
enate officially that he had no further {
lmmunicstion TO make. The Senate did a
le same a. the House and left the State :
uuse at noon.