The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-20
SENATE EXPECTED
TO PASS MOORE
BILL TODAY
Grants Women Privilege of Voting
In Annual Town Meetings
ANTS PROPOSE AMENDMENT
Opposition Attempts to Delay Decis.
ion by Submitting Question to
Popular Referendum.

Montpelier, March IV.-oeudtoi
Bigelow, in the interests of the anti
suffrage element. today proposed to
strike out all the matter after the
enacting clause of the Moore suf
frage bill and to insert new matter
giving TO men and women of voting
age an opportunity to vote on the
granting of town and presidential
elector suffrage to women. The
Moore bill allows taxpaying women to
vote in town meetings. 1t is expected
that the senate will dispose of the
suffrage matter this afternoon. II
will probably reject the Bigelow
amendment and pass the Moore bill
in concurrence.
The dog bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Day was advanced to a
third reading today by yea and nay
vote.
Montpelier. March 19.-The House
of Representatives passed seven bills
In a brief session this afternoon but
five new measures were introduced
two were put over for special order
and one was recommitted, making the
net gam III deSoHipHohOu p"SS's
small.
The Senate disposed Of 10 measures
and ordered two to lie but the big
debate on the House amendment To
the board of control bill, S. 20, went
over until tomorrow after a brief at
tempt to force vote tonight.
Apparently, there is working ma
iority In the Senate which favors con-
curing in the House amendment, as
the motion of Senator Villas to put the
debate over until Wednesday, was de.
feated but upon his representation
that action tonight would be Unfair to
one third of the senators who were ab
sent. the amendments were put over
The Senate this evening passed the
House bill reorganiizng the state board
of health and imposing upon 1t the
duties of supervisors of the insane
and voted to insist upon its proposed
amendments to the Dunham marriage
bill which the House had refused to
concur in. A conference committee
will be appointed.
Despite the fate of the two dog bills
which were so summarily disposed of
by the house last week. the general
committee introduced third measure
this afternoon with the encourage
ment of the sheep raiser as its object.
The bill which very strongly re-
sembles one presented to the commit
tee by Mr.. Day of Ira, provides that
the proceeds from dog licenses and
anes shall go to the State, and that
the State shall pay for all damage
done by dogs to sheep anywhere in
the State. At the end of the year,
unexpended moneys are TO be re-
turned to the towns in proportion to
the moneys received.
The House passed the bill permit
ting foreign corporations to, act as
executors and trustees within the
State and the measure permitting do
nestle insurance companies to with
draw deposits with the approval of
the State treasurer. The act proyid-
ing that insane persons with estates
less than three hundred dollars shall
be cared for at the expense of the
State was also passed.
The act regulating disputes be-
tween employer and employe by re-
rerring the controversy to the public
service commission and making it un
lawful to call strike until sixty days
after the report of that body concern
ing the trouble has been made public,
was recommitted to the commerce
md labor committee, who had report.
ed it favorably.
The fish and game committee intro
duced bill fixing the open season on
deer from November 10 to 25. from
800 a. IN. to y. m.
An act providing that orders drawn
by town road commissioner payable
TO himself must be approved by one
Of the selectmen. was introduced by
he committee on municipal corpora
tions.
Representative F. A. Wilson of Pow.
nal, who was taken seriously ill on
Saturday, has been ordered to his
home by the attending physician. Mr.,
Wilson was not expected to live over
Sunday but rallied sufficiently so that
immediate danger has been passed
but the doctors forbid him to attend
the Brattleboro retreat investigation
which was ordered as the result Of a
resolution introduced by him. Mr.
Wilson's illness is caused by chronic
kidney trouble and he will be taken
home by Mrs. Wilson as soon as he
is able to be moved