The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-04-06
S1S0.000 BOND
ISSUE is VOTED
BY THE HOUSE
Money Is to Be Used on Account OF the
New State Building at Montpelier
House Rejected Three
Measures.

During a short session this forenoon
before adiourning to bid farewell to the
Vermont soldiers, the Vermont House
passed the bill to bond the state for
SlS0,0en on account OF the new state
building; also these bills. creating a
highway district OF the town and village
OF Bennington, permitting state religious
organizations TO hold property in trust,
providing that the state treasurer may
appoint deputy treasurer and a deputy
commissioner OF weights and measures,
relating TO traffic regulations and the
erection Of warning signs near school
houses, authorizing the attorney general
TO proceed against foreign corporations
doing business within the state without
legal authority, amending the act in
cooperating the village Of Newfane and
authorizing the commissioner OF agri-
culture to deed certain lands to the
state.
The House refused to aid the town of
Jay in improving a highway; and it also
rejected the bill relating to licensing of
persons transporting persons for hire in
automobiles and the making of traffic
rules and regulations A third bill
which fell by the wayside was that APP
propriating money to build highway
bridge between Alburg and Swanton.
The House by a vote of SO to 10, yes
terday afternoon passed the bill provid
ing regulation of disputes between EN-
ployers and employees by having public
service commission act as arbitrator and
making it penal offense to call strike
or lockout employees until sixty days
after the commissions report of the dis
pute is published
The budget bill also passed the House,
the only changes being raising the agri-
culture appropriation from $4,000 to-
$4,000 and the livestock commission
er's from $4,000 to $65.000. An attempt
to strike out the Smugglers' Notch APP
propria tion failed.
The bill prohibiting granting second
class licenses while the country is at war
was passed, 92 to 81, after an amend
ment TO prohibit such granting while
the general assembly is in session, made
by Mr., johnson OF Somerset, failed.
The Senate yesterday afternoon by
the decisive vote of 22 to 1 rejected the (
customs brokerage bill prohibiting the
railroads from engaging in the customs
brokerage business. The measure came /
N with unanimously adverse report /
rom the Senate corporations and fran
,hises committee and there was but COM I
,aratively little argument regarding it.
Bigelow proposed some amend
nents which were refused. Senator Nc
1lellan, who reported the bill, stated that /
10 evidence had been heard by the com
nittee showing that the railroads were
lnfsir to independent brokers.
The bill granting equal suffrage to the
women of the state so far as possible
vas passed by the Senate with the clause
,royidng for a referendum stricken out.
he vote was 10 TO s. The voting right
5 granted to women OF legal age on pay
nent of the present poll tax. The meas
re relating to the hours OF women and
hildren in manufacturing and mechani-
al establishments was rejected by vote
( % to 3.
Governor Graham sent his first veto
Z the session to the House yesterday
fternoon II was on the act Of appro-
Rating S2O0,0O0 TO provide equipment
nd supplies for the military forces Of
he state There was no reason for the
nactment Of this bill because of the one
pned by the chief executive on March I
/. sppropriating 81 l000noo for the sup I
ort OF the militia.
The governor also vetoed the first bill I
sorganizing the state board Of health, {
eoause Of inconsistencies which arose G
ON the repeating Of certain sections Of =
le Law and the enactment Of new sec !
ons. A second bill remedying these de- !
cts has already been passed by the !
enate. The governors veto in the first :
lse was sustained by a vote Of POI e
and unanimously in the second case.
Among bills rejected was the one in
easing by FIVE dollars for each Sjo.00o
fractional part thereof Of capital stock
deposit Of corporation in excess Of
I0e00. the annual license tax. The
easure providing for the granting Of :
rtifCate Of public necessity or conven- r
nee by the public service commission {