The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-29
SENATOR LEAv[NS
FISH AND GAME
COMMISSIONER
Member Of Upper House from Gam
bridge Appointed Today
DU yHAm MARRIAGE BILL PASSED
All Couples Must Now Wed in Home
Towns or Be Subject to Five
Days Notice.
DU UyHAM MARRIAGE BILL PASSED

Montpelier, March 29.-Governol
Graham sent the following appoint
ments to the senate today.
John E. Weeks of Middlebury, di
rector of State institutions.
Robert w. Simonds of st. Johns
bury, commissioner of industries.
Senator Linus Leavens of Cam
bridge, fish and game commissioner
Park II. POLAND of Chester. fifth
member of the board of control.
William X. Warner of Vergennes
re appointed to public service com
mission.
Charles A. Plumley of Northfield
tax commissioner.
Frank Williams of Newport. bank
commissioner.
Dewey Hanley of Montpelier, pur-
chasing agent.
Elmer Darling. trustee of Middle
bury college.
Montpelier, March Ex-Governor
Graham is one official in Vermont
who refused to have his salary raised
to the amount that the Legislature
wished to give him. This fact de-
velpoed at this afternoons session of
the House when H. 3S9, introduced by
Mr. Osgood of Rockingham, and plac-
ing the amount of the Governors sal
ary at $4,000 annually instead of
$4,000, was under consideration. The
State and court expenses committee
returned the bill to the House with an
amendment fixing the salary Tat
s3.eo0 ~. .,i4-i.s elected the infoT-
nation that the Governor had inform
ed the chairman of the committee
that he would not accept $4,000 sal
airy. The measure as amended was
ordered to a third reading and there
is not the slightest doubt but that the
original bill could be unanimously
passed.
Attempts to have the House recon
slider the vote by which they yester-
day refused to increase the salaries of
the attorney-general and State high
way commissioner, failed dismally.
Mr.. Williams of Pawlet was the spon-
sor of the attempt to have the meas
ure regarding the encouragement
reconsidered and although both he
and Mr.. Moore of Ludlow made able
arguments in favor of such action, the
vote was 147 to SO against them. The
move to have the highway commits
sioner's salary bill reconsidered was
defeated by a vote of 100 to 60.
After Mr.. Aiken of Putney had
fairly outdone himself at the morning
session in his speech presenting a
minority conference report OF one,
regarding the Senate amendments to
the Dunham marriage bill, and the
measure had been ordered to lie, it
was recalled and the amendments con
Cured in this afternoon by vote OF
109 tore The Senate adopted the
conference committees report this
morning. so that the measure is now
in the Governors hands and will
probably be signed at once. The
measure provides for five days public
ity before the granting of a marriage
license to couples non-residents OF the
State, and to residents, who wish to
marry in towns where neither party
in the marriage resides. This pro-
vision, however, does not apply to
persons while enlisted in the mill
tary or naval service of the United
States.
Senator Villas woman suffrage bill
granting to women the right to vote
for presidential electors met its death
at the hands of the House by vote of
Ill to &C. 1t is quite apparent that
the House, Is determined to pass no
more suffrage bills until ii learns the
fate of the committee bill, now in the
Senate, which gives women the right
to vote in town meetings and for
presidential electors on payment of
the regular poll tax, but submits the
whole question of equal suffrage to
both men and women voters by q ref
erendum The Moore bill allowing
taxpaying women to vote in town
meetings which has passed both
Houses has been in the Governors
hands for only one of the five days
which he may keep bill. so that
speculation is rife as to its fate. 1t
is believed that if the Senate passes
the referendum bill, the Governor
may veto the Moore bill and submit
the question to the people, while 1t is
also asserted that he will sign the
Moore bill.
Despite strong and concerted op-
position the House ordered to third
reading the bill creating board of ap
praisers Of domestic manufacturing,
public utility and trading corpora
tions, not under the law exempt from
local taxation. 1t provides that on or
before the first Tuesday in October,
annually. the Governor shall appoint
two appraisers who shall hold Office