St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-03-21

NIAGARA OF WORDS
FLOWS OVER ISSUES
Villas Charges Attempt To ''Jam Wei
GUS Board OF Control Bill Through
and Claims Governor Has Grossly
Violated Rights of
Office
w. III. jeffrey, Special Correspondent


Montpelier, March 20.-Words,
words, words! Never in the history
of the state Senate has there been. q
more liberal. and useless spilling Of
wor6s,-spiAing them TO no end. and
for no purpOSe,-as was witnessed to-
day. Several Of the Senators in a
vocal runaway, contested for the bout
as champion WORD spller. If the
Senate continues along the same line,
we will De compelled to bid goodbye
to all thought of final adjournment.
A proposal to grant full suffrage to
woman taxpayers over 21 years OF
age. and then to submit the measure
to a referendum of both males and
females, who would be eligible to vote
under the new law, was made in the
Vermont Senate this forenoon when
the Moore bill to grant woman suf-
frage was taken up for discussion.
Everybody knew that it would go
to third reading by a safe majority,
but there was q large number of WO-
men present, and for more than two
hours there was a Niagara of words,
pro and con. Then the bill was or
dered to third reading, IS to 10.
Sen. Proctor being unavoidably de-
Sen. Hubbard of Essex County being
out Of the city.
The following Senators who voted
for the bill were: Bancroft, Cady,
Daniels, Dewitt, Diamond, Dunton,
| FOOte, Ladd, LeavenS, Martin, Nc
| Cleeand, Morse, Peck, Kicker Russell,
Taylor Villas and Wheeler.
/ Those voting against were: Adams,
|! Bigelow, Chalmers. Day, Demerritt,
Fairchild, HaWley, Howe and Steele.
The bill is absolutely sure to pass
| tomorrow and will then so to the Gov
/ er1or for his signature. Sen. Hawley
/ Of Burlington made the best speech
| Of the day in opposition to the, bill
The Senate then took up Senate
bill 20, which is the board of control
bill which had come over from the
| House with the proposal to cut out
the commissioner of agriculture and
| substitute the auditor of courts.
Never in the knowledge of old tim
ers has the Senate appeared to break
so far away from all restraint The
| House question seemed to be thrown
| upen to debate, and Sen. Villas, in u
particularly Vitriolic speech, denounc-
ed this measure and said the thought
seems to be to jam this vicious meas
ure through right or wrong" He
charged that the whole power and
force of the executive is behind the
measure and that the executive had
Wilfully and grossly violated the right
belonging to that office.
Senator Morse called the Senator
to account for his words, which he
said seemed to be wholly uncalled for
and stated>that he did not believe thai
Nany Senator had been unduly influ-
enced or coerced The tempest pass
ed finally, and the House amendments
, were concurred in "a, to 3 and the
bill now goes to the Governor for his
! signature.
The House ordered to third read
ing over an adverse report the Gov.
ernor's bill consolidating the office o
. commissioner of weights and meas
ures with that of state treasurer The
vote on roll call was 1873 to 81
- The House today spent consider
able time on the fish and game bill
= fixing the open season for deer from
= Nov. to Nov Is. The bill was or
dered to a third reading after q pro
:, posal to amend by permitting the kill
. ing of does had been defeated by
y vote of 142 to 62.
Il The conference committee on tn
> salary of the fish and game commits
. sioner has completed its work and tn
House has won its fight for $500
. salary, as against the Senate reques
for $2500. The committee will rec
. ommend to the Senate that it reced
from it's position.
The special commission which ha
been investigating the Brattleboro re
treat has not yet finished it's work an
may not report before the latter pal
of the week or the first of next weel
!, In the morning session Of tn
y, House, Senate bill number 100, a hi
=, to stablish the boundaries of the vi
lage of st. Johnsbury was ordered to
third reading