The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-29
GOVERNOR MAKES
APPOINTMENTS
Senator Linus Leavens of
Cambridge for Fish and
Game Commissioner
WEEKS DIRECTOR OF
STATE INSTITUTIONS
Robert w. Simonds, Commissioner Of
Industry = Appointments Laid Over
a Hours = Expected to Be Con-
firmed Without Opposition.
Especial to The Reformer.)
MONTPELIER. March >

&bp1GldI u l. ne heIOrmef.
MONTPELIER, March %.
| Through the morning the house lis
tened to many snort speeches on the
Morse bin providing for a YEARLY ref
ercndum on the question of granting
liquor licenses.
A. Z. Cudworth Of Londonderry, op.
posing the bill, stated that he did it
as temperance man and one who vot-
ed consistently for local option and
closed by saving that men could not
be legislated into heaven for the con-
stitution does not SO provide.
T. N. Phelps Of Fair Haven made
brilliant speech in opposition to the
measure declaring that he believed it
was not a prohibition measure, but
would call out the full LIQUOR vote. and
recalled the fact that after the vote
on the Perry bill we were found issu
ing more liquor licenses than ever be-
| fore.
in the course Of his remarks he de.
! clared and stated that liquor had more
enemies in public and more friends in
| private than any other known sub
stance. When adjournment was taken
at noon the bill was still under dis
cussion.
The senate received a favorable re-
port from the majority Of the commit
Zee which has had the administration
bill establishing district courts and
abolishing municipal and city courts
under consideration and inc bill was
ordered 10 lie and he made special
Eorder for tomorrow morning at 1915.
The Governor sent TO the senate this
morning the following appointments:
| Commissioner of industry. Robert W.
Slmonds Of st. Johnsbury; director of
state institutions, John T. Weeks Of
| Alddlebury; fish and game commission
er. Senator Linus Leayens of Cam
| bridge. The appointment of the in
Surance commissioner was not made.
/ The appointments are laid over for "a
hours and are expected to be confirmed
without opposition.
Later III the afternoon Park II. Pol
lard. the representative from Cavendish
| hartman of the Democratic state com
mlttee, was named by Gov Graham as
the fifth member of the board of con
troll. Anti administration men are very
| indignant over his appointment and
said his continuation will be contested.
William K Warner was reappointed q
member Of the public service commits.
sion, on which he has served several
years.
The legislators are past tolerating
further agitation of the woman suffrage
question, especially the house Of repre-
Isentatives. Most Of the members are
anxious to go home and are in rush
ing frame of mind. Yesterday after
noon the house by majority Of As
votes rejected the Villas bill granting
the ballot to women at presidential elec-
tions. This bill had been passed bv the
senate. The large vote against the bill
was piled up because Of the anxiety for
final adjournment, the satisfaction of
many house members with the ants
bill calling for referendum which
Ipasscd the house and is now in the
senate and because the Metzger bill,
similar to the Villas bill, was killed in
the house early in the session.
Gov. Graham has not signed the
Moore bill as yet and various rumors
are afloat. This bill, which allows tax
Ipaylng women to vote in town affairs,
was quickly followed in the house by
the passage of bill granting a ref
tNi'ii'tuih te boti men anu women on the
question of allowing women to vote
and if 1t passes the senate, some say.
the governor will veto the Moore bin.
Others say the Moore bill will become
law without the governor S approval,
that he will be non-committal on the
suffrage question.
The committee on state and court ex-
lpenses informed the house Yesterday
that their recommendation was that the
governor S salary be increased but
900. This pleased the administration
supporters very much that their leader
would stand for economy even on mat
ters affecting his own pocketbook. OPP
ponents were ready to declare it a
grandstand play. An attempt to re-
consider the vote rejecting an increase
III the highway commissioner s salary
lproved useless, also on increasing the
attorney general s salary. Williams of
Pawlet, in asking a reconsideration on
the bill increasing the attorney gener-
al s salary, said that he had been mis-
lead by testimony on the floor of the
house and believed the Office should be
: PIT on a par with the other depart
ments Moore of Ludlow stated that
: he knew the attorney generals to be
the hardest worked officials in the
state and regretted his absence yester-
day when the matter was disposed of,
for he would have objected to the of
flee being termed ornamental or useless.
The senate corporations committee is