The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17
Several Members of That
Body Opposed to Board
Of Control Bill
DRASTIC STRIKE
MEASURE PREPARED
Is Sure to Create Disturbance in Labor
Circles - When House Reached Last
tenn on It's Calendar Today a Quo
rum Was Lacking.
Especial to The Reformer.)

Inc state house today has returned
to q dignifed quietness after the
stormy session on the board Of control
K bill. In fact, when the house reached
the last item on its calendar it was
found that quorum was lacking and
Adjournment was taken.
The committee on commerce and Ia
/ Dor has introduced a bill providing for
compulsory arbitration in cases of a
/ controversy between employers ana
their employees. This is said bv the
labor people 10 be the most stringent
law ever proposed to the legislature
affecting the interests of labor. The
employers in the legislature are ac-
cnsed of preparing the bill, which pro-
yides that il shall be unlawful for anv
labor organization or association Of
employees, or order, to procure or assist
i'll procuring or for two or more of its
members to confederate a strike or
suspension Of work because Of a con
troversy until so days after the pub
Hcatlon Of the report of the public
service commission as provided IN the
bill This bill is sure to create some
thing of disturbance in legislative
circles
Through the efforts of Dr. Oseood
of Rockingham and G. L. Dunham OF
Brattleboro the senate bin pTomulgat-
ing sanitary regulations for barber
shops was concurred III by the house
this morning. r. f. Robinson of ia
maica opposed the bill as he feared it
would make it hard for small town
barber shops to continue in business
/ The Dunham bill providing uniform
traffic regulations passed the senate in
occurrence with the house The senate
took adjournment until Monday even
ing at 30 At that time the board
Of control bin will be in the senate
for the senate to concur in the amend
ment which the house adopted, substi-
tuting the auditor of accounts for the
commissioner of agriculture 1t will be
strongly opposed by several members
Of the senate.
board of control bill IS 70) came to a
sudden and dramatic end yesterday
afternoon when the house without one
dissenting vote, passed the measure,
after refusing to agree to the Moore
amendment which would have meant
q clash with the senate and the prob
able death Of the bill
The climax came suddenly after two
days and two nights of the most siren
uOus agitation that the state house
has witnessed III decade.
1t came after Speaker Stanley c.
Wilson had taken the floor and thor
oughly disavowcd any part in the al
legged 'frame-up Which the gentle
man from Ludlow has described to the
house III the morning.
1t came after the astute and crafty
anti-administration leader had been
told fatty that one more amendment
meant the death of the bill and that
neither the governor nor the senate
would accept the measure III an emas-
cuated condition.
There had been 4 certain amount of
| triumph for the Moore forces when the
first amendment passed the house in
the morning, after a hard, fierce check
for the antls, then a generous yielding
by the administration leader, Mr.. Fen
ton of Rutland, Of which the Ludlow
man took the fullest advantage. He
did more. lie disclosed his full plan
and IL that moment he lost his leader
ship completely.
When Mr.. Moore told of the alleged
meeting in the speaker s office, at
which he declared the governor s ex-
+! ccutiye clerk had agreed to accept the
/ first amendment-to substitute the an
| ditor for the commissioner of agricul-
ture on the board of control-hc lost
some ground. When he proposed the
second amendment, which would substi
tutc the speaker of the house for the
fifth appointive mcmbcr, Mr.. Wilson
/ left the chair and the house stood
! a2hast.
Was this the frame-up9
| Was the speaker being involved in a
political deal which meant his own ap-
pointment on the very board which
was about to be created?
The house adjourned in a turmoil at
noon and the state house literally
socthed for two hours. When it re-
convened, the speaker was seated in
the body Of the house, tense, resoIute
and ready, and Mr.. Dana of New Hav-
en- was presiding.
EThe gentleman from Chelsea" did
not permit the house and the teeming
galleries to remain long in doubt as to