The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-02-25
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FttoPSo Wits vi, Law VI itut
land town, undertook to amend the bill,
in regard to the dimensions Of the barrel
to be used m packing the apples, and this
led to an interrogation from Mr.. Taylor
of Hardwiek, which in turn opened up
more questions, and Mr.. connal of New
port town finally cleared up the matter
of dimensions of the barrel by showing
that the bill as it first read included the
government and by other states The
house then had to reconsider the adop-
ton of the amendment which had already.
been offered and adopted.
In the meantime, Mr.. 0'Rourke of DER
by had developed healthy dislike for
the bill rs a whole and vigorously OPP
posed it. The bill was favored by Mr..
Mcfarland of Hyde Park, Mr.. Connal of
Newport town. Mr.. Buxton of Middle
town Springs, Mr.. Aiken of Putney and
others.
Mr.. Aiken, who introduced the bill,
made the final speech in favor. He ex-
planned the purpose of the measure as
being to assist both the large and small
apple growers to get a better standard
md sell their apples at better rate
outside the state. He said it would not
interfere in the least with the farmers
who desired to sell their apples Ill bulk
direct to the consumer here in the state.
In closing, Mr.. Aiken related several
stories OF how apples had been packed
in the state in the past He told OF one
dealer who classified his apples zone worm
| hole, No Is; two worm holes, No Is.
and said that he wanted to see how many
members of the house stood for that sort
| of thing. Ii they did, he hoped they
| would vote against this bill. He called
| for standing vote, and the bill passed
| with only one vote in opposition.
| AT the opening of the morning session
Iof the senate, Sen. LaEleur resigned as
a member of the committee on minor
courts. Sen. Varnum was made MEM
Der of the committees on education, judi
ciary, mileage and debentures, and chair
| man of the committee on minor courts.
Senator LaFleur was designated chairman
| of the committee on municipal corpora
| tons.
Once again HI, the long discussed
bin providing that women shall pay a
poll tax in order to vote in town meet
ling, came up in the senate this morn.
ling. On motion of Senator Steele the
hill was ordered to lie and made 4
special order for the end of the ealen-
dar tomorrow.
There was some discussion on II. ~,
/ relative to the transportation and
Soard of pupils. Senators Carr, La
Fleur and Villas opposed the bill. Sen
ators Kingsley, Ballou, Adams, Bates,
Noonan. Hill and Taylor spoke in favor
of the measure. On a yea and nay vote
/ AZ third R
IS to I.
Third readings were refused on s. 81
! maxine uniform the law of partnership
hy a rising vote of Is to 4, and on s
. 45, making uniform the law of sales OF
goods. An amendment to the latter
proposed BY the committee on Judiciary
vas defeated by rising vote OF
10 to 4.
The senate passed, S. 70, to enabl,
the public service commission 10 at
thofize companies operating street rail-
ways to discontinue service thereon OF
dispose of the property thereof: 5. 3
, to enable towns so voting to eontribut'
|, ID the cost of operation and fxes
.. lcharges of street railroads operated
therein. II. $50, relating to the classi
tication of state forest reserves for tn,
purposes. was passed in concurrence.
The senate eoneurred in the hous
proposal of amendments TO S. %, to pa
the Barre & Montpelier Traction com
/, pany the sum therein named.
) Senator Villas of Chittenden count.
!, introduced in the senate last evening
! another bill providing for extra schol
:. arships at the University of Vermont
/ This is SIS, appropriating $4,000 an
nually for payment of buttons of $50 t
. each student in the academic and med
= cal departments who requires such aiC
The bill was referred to the eommitte
on educational institutions. One othe
itill was introduced in the senate las
icvening, S74, reported from the commit
{ tee on suffrage and elections, extendin
the time for fling petitions in prims
ries.
Harvey w. Farnum of Jeffersonvill
d recently appointed senator from l.;
noble county to succeed Melville
Maurice, resigned, appeared in the sci
q ate for the first time and took the oat
of Office
A joint resolution. introduced in Il
|, house last evening by Mr.. O'Dowd {
Brunswick, provides for the payment
800 on account to each member az
u official of the legislature on the first I
March, or as soon after that date /;
y convenient. No one objected to Il
I, adoption of the resolution.
For the first time this session, Il
senate and house came to deadlo,
~ over measures, which can only be sc
tied by means of a committee of 60
ference Two bills viii be taken up |
= such committee. H4o, including t
:. commissioner of agriculture on Il
- board of control, is the first measure
cause disagreement. The house pass
i, this bin in its original form. The Sc
" ate discussed it at some length, and Fl
A. ally passed it with proposals of amen
ment to the house which would subs
:, ture the lieutenant governor and t
- secretary of state for the commissio
er of agriculture and the director
az state institutions. The house refus
l.