The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-08
DUNEAM BILL PASSED BY HOUSE
Continued from Page. J.

Judge Darling said he never voted
for license in his life but upheld the
present law because it gave the state
the best temperance government It
ever had.
He deplored the attempt to subvert
the will of the voters Of Burlington for
the sake of five or 10 students out of
600 and challenged the advocates Of
the Hunt bill to find a college boy in
an open saloon. He said:
! The direct primary was placed on
the statute books and it stands, the
people for the second time have de-
termined that the local option law
shall stand
We can run our own business with
out any help from the people out west
or down south We don't even need
any help from Danville.
4 Certain people have never liked it
because we got a local option law,
they want to get one more no-license
town on the map. If this law is
passed it will be because Burlington
don t vote dry as often as it ought to
and the people of Burlington do most
emphatically object to having foisted
on them ? despised law that viii be a
thing of laughter. without respect,
, something that the public officers
can T enforce
c. NJ. Bosworth, student, objected
to the Hunt bill and John Ii. Mimms
protested against being disfranchised
thereby. REPRESENTATIVES Cannon of
Mortified and LaFleur Of Middlebury
objected to having their towns de-
prived Of the right to vote on this ques-
ton.
For the other side, Clifford H. Smith
$ DIR. &. G. Groat. DR.. +. f. Clark and
Judge Z. G. Mower spoke briefly. also
Mrs NJ L. Pearson, head Of the state
e w. t. G. t.. of Orleans.
J, V. A. Billiard Of Burlington made an
!. impassioned plea for the protection OF
G youth.
e When the house adjourned just be
q fore noon the business on the calendar
t had been disposed Of up to the Dunbar
n marriage bill, the intention of which
+ is to establish tive-dav law, so called
: to check the rush into the state and
? especially to Bellows Falls and Brattle
: boro Of persons residing in nearby
states, to be married. The bill II 1G i
reported fayorablv by the committee
: on judiciary, but with an amendment
!, which completely changes the bill from
Il the form in which it was original,
) presented.
The amendment provides that per
sons authorized to solemniZe marriage
v shall require of the parties before per
I, forming such marriage, a certificate is
+. sued from the office OF the town clerl
k Of the town where the groom resides
or if the groom resides outside of TIT
h state, Of the town clerk where TIL
bride resides, or if both parties resid
from without the state, from the oific
n Of the clerk Of the town whore the MAJ
n riage is solemnizcd. If neither brid
nor groom is 4 resident Of the stat,
. such certificate shah not be delverc
70 by said clerk to said parties until afte
> the lapse Of five days from the dat
thereof, during which time there shal
be posted in conspicuous place il tn
office of the clerk the names Of III
bride and groom under the caption
Applicants for Marriage Licenses.
Opposition to the bin in the comm
u lee room was led by Mr. Aiken Of Put
ney, who also Informed the eommitte
ID Of his intention to oppose the bill on til
floor Of the house.
n After two attempts to make the hi
a special order for some date in I'll
II near future, the bill was ordered to
third hearing Yesterday afternoon.