Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-15
u '| Class Ass LICENSE
BILL IS AMENDED
House Fixes a Sliding Scale Of
$1,000 to $4,000 instead
of Flat $4,000.
BANKERS AT CAPITOL.
Appear Before Committee to Oppose
Bill Which Gives Foreign Corpora.
tlons Right to Act a. Executors.

Montpelier, Feb. H.-House bill l59,
which was made special order for this
afternoon after being passed by the House
on Monday. so that the. members might
reconsider the section fixing the fee for
a second class liquor license at $1,000.
was again passed this afternoon after 1t
had been amended SO that the second
class fee was placed sliding scale
of from 81, 900 to 5000 The debate which
preceded the passage of the bill fur
nished the one bright spot in an other
wise dull and lstless legislative day.
DENIAL BY MIR. FENTON.
Representative Fenton of Rutland, on
whose motion the bill was recalled. denied
emphatically the published statements
that he had insinuated that Mr.. Moore
Of Ludlow had put something across on
the temperance and the House by pro-
posing an amendment making the fee
fiat rate Of 5000 on Monday when the
House had only small attendance. MIR.
Fenton proposed an amendment making
the fee from s1,2O to $1,000, but could
not offer it because an amendment had
already been proposed by Mr.. Deyette
that the fee should be fixed at from $1,000
to $2,UD. Representatives Pollard of Caven-
dish. Phelps Of Fair Haven. Stearns
of Burlington and Pirie of Williamstown
took part in the general debate on the
measure. An amendment which was
offered by Mr. Waite of Shoreham fixing
the third class license fee at from $50
to $500 was defeated.
BANKERS OPPOSE BILL.
President H. l.. Ward of the Burlington
Trust company and other prominent
bankers appeared this afternoon before
the committee on banking and insurance
to oppose the passage Of H. 115 which
gives foreign corporations the same rights
as domestic corporations to act as execu-
tors and trustees. Judge Robert S. Healy
of Bennington appeared to support the
bill which was drafted to cover the case
Of member Of the Colgate Manufacture
ing company, whose residence is in Ben
nington, but most of whose estate Is To-
Gated in New York. The Vermont bank
ers opposed the bill because they thought
it would open the door to foreign trust
companies. which might encroach on the
field of the local bankers. If the measure
was passed. it was suggested that provi-
sion should be made for the taxation Of
the foreign trust companies on the same
basis as the Vermont. hanks are taxed
and also that they should be required to
file a surety bond for at least double the
amount of the trust.
The bill in it's present form does not
seem to be favorably regarded by the
committee and it is probable that it will
be adversely reported. There is some talk
of a substitute measure being introduced
allowing foreign corporations to act as
executors and trustees. but without the
features which are now considered objec.
tionable.
FOR WOMAN'S REFORMATORY.
Judge J. E. Weeks of Mddlebury this
morning proposed at a joint meeting OF
the Senate and House committees on penal
institutions the erection of woman's
reformatory at Windsor. in which should
be confined the women prisoners at the
States prison, those at the house of cor
rection and even those who are serving
long sentences in county jails The cost
of erecting such an institution would be
in the neighborhood of $4,000. Judge
Weeks told how the labor of the women
prisoners could be utilized to better ad-
vantage in a separate institution and also
how their condition would be bettered in
various ways.
MILITIA BILL DISCUSSED.
| The greater portion of the time of the
House this morning was taken up with
a discussion of H. 100. the bill reorganiz-
ing the militia along the lines laid down
in the national defense act. This bill
contains 50 sections and was read twice.
There were ten amendments offered to
the bill. which was ordered to third
reading. but eight of them were merely
clerical. The ninth amendment which is
designed to avoid an extra session of the
| Legislature such as was had last sum-
mer. provides that the State shall pay
enlisted men of the militia National
Guard and United States volunteers SO
per month while in the service of the
United States.
| 1t also provides that the Governor,
State treasurer and adjutant-ge shall
make whatever provisions they deem
necessary for the support of the depend
ent wives, children and widowed mothers
of the militiamen and volunteers, provid.
ed that the amount SO expended shall not
exceed $35 per month for any one depend
ent and that no person shall receive the
benefits of the act as the dependent of
more than one soldier. The armory ap-
preparation is increased from $25 900 bien-
nially to $4,000 annually and the total
increase in the estimated budget neces-
sary to carry out the provisions of this
act is in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The Senate to-day granted the n.inov
courts committee an increase of two
weeks in which to consider the bill in
troducei by Senator Villas providing
for trial justices. This extension was
granted SO that the administration bill
creating thirteen district courts might
be first considered.
RESOLUTION ON DR. HOLTON.
The following joint resolution re-
garding the death of DR.. Henry Dwight
Holton of BrattlebOro was introduced
in the House this morning by Mr..
Prouty of Newport and adopted by
that body:
Resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives: That We learn
with deep regret of the death of DR..
Henry Dwight Holton of Brattleboro.
a native Vermonter. who won a ma
tional reputation in the medical world.
an able executive. and always a whole
some influence in politics.
We recall his devotion to the cause
OF public health, his foresight in found
ing our State board of health, and his
unceasing labors as a member Of that
board his record as a student of medi-
cine which won for him "a place in the
medical societies of this and many for.
| eign countries. his work in behalf of
| civic betterment which made him a
valued member of the General As
sembly. and all those sturdy qualities