The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-21
Report of Committee Would
Throw Earl Aver Out
of the House
CHIROPRACTOR BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
Senate Recommits Suffrage
Bill Which Gov. Glenn
ent, Vetoed

After passing the chiropractic bill, as
amended by Mr.. Alexander of st. Adams
City in the House yesterday, and as fur
ther amended to a slight degree by Mr..
Belknap of Rockingham this morning, by
vote Of 1873 to "a, the House spent the
greater part of the morning in discussion
of the report from the committee on suf.
trage and elections on the matter of the
contested seat of the returned member
from ST. George, Earl Aver
This report finds that there was tie
vote in the election of the town of St.
George, the candidates being Earl Aver
and Nat. c. Parcher, and the committee
recommended that Mr.. Aver, who now
occupies a seat in the House. be deprived
of his seat and that it be declared that
there was no election in the town OF st..
George.
MIR. White of Woodstock, for the com
mittee on suffrage and elections, ex-
planned the report and said that the com
mittee had tried to be perfectly fair in
its decision.
Mr.. Webster of Swanton opposed the
acceptance OF the committee report, and
went into the st. George election at some
length, interrogating Mr.. White regard
ing the vote Of Frank i. Hinsdale, the
town clerk of the town of st. George
Mr.. Webster claimed that there were
only two ways of looking at the PROPOSE
tion, that il was necessary either to
throw out all of the questioned votes,
which would leave the vote 10 to for
Mr., Aver, as the board of civil authority
in the town of 81. George had reported,
or else count all the 26 votes cast, which
would give Aver IA and Parcher l2 Mr.
Webster maintained that, since the board
of civil authority of St. George had
counted the vote Of Town Clerk Hins-
dale, and the committee of investiga-
tion had upheld the board in so doing,
the committee could not now claim that
this vote was not valid
Mr. Durham Of Brattleboro, for the
committee, answered Mr.. Webster, ex-
planning that the committee had consid-
cred that there were only Is votes, which
were unquestionable. OF these, Aver had
nine and Parcher nine. When it came to
the consideration of the other votes, it
was found that there were only four
other votes which could be considered
legal, One of these was the vote Of the
town clerk, one had Ayers name on it,
but there was no cross after the name,
and two had name with a line drawn
through it, while Parehers name was
written in below and properly crossed.
The committee unanimously agreed that
these should all be counted, and the at
torney general had placed his endorse
ment upon the decision of the committee.
This would make the vote tie, either
way one wished TO look at it, either nine
TO nine, or II to II,
Mr. Miner Of Sherburne, who had ear
lier moved to have the report of the
committee ordered to lie. and the mo-
tion had been lost, said that he thought
it was clearly shown that the voters OF
the town of St. George had expressed
their opinion in favor of Mr. Aver and
Mr.. Miner thought the gentleman ought
to be allowed to keep his seat. There
were other speakers. The House ad-
iourned before action was taken
The Senate this morning recommitted
S. s, giving women presidential suffrage,
the bill vetoed by the governor yester-
day. Senator Amey moved for the re-
committal. Senator Carr opposed it,
Senators Rowland Kingsley, Villas and
Daniels favored recommittal and the mo
tion prevailed.
Passed in Concurrence by House.
S. 81 to pay the Free Press Printing
company the sum named,
S. 5s, to pay the Barre & Montpelier
fraction & Power company the sum
named.
S. 81, relating to burials in Elmwood
cemetery in Barre City.