The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-27
SENATE SADDLES EXPENSE.
Continued from Page IL

AS pdsSeu Tie barge Terminal Oil pro-
vides for state appropriation of $500
600 and the creation of a barge terminal
commission The companion bill. also
passed this morning. provides fer bond
issue of $4,000 on the part of the city
of Burlington
The senate also killed H. 2s3, requiring
settlement of accounts yearly by execu-
tors. administrators, etc.
The senate passed the following: s.
l02, enabling state board of health to
cooperate with United States in rural
sanitation; S. l04 relating to burial
| grounds; IL IL, to pay Bennington Battle
| Monument association the sum therein
named; II. "a, for permanent improve |
meht of Sandbar bridge; II, 81. appro- |
| priating 500 annually for 1he G. A. r.; |
/ Fl. So. appropriating 800 for soldiers |
monument at Royalton H. 1S1, amend |
4 ing the charter of Newport;, III. 1919, |
i authorizing bond issue by Burlington for
state barge terminal; II. 200, to pay state
board of dental examiners SUN therein
named; I'll. 277. regulating transportation
/ Of dynamite. etc: II 2S4, relating to
town accounts; Fl. 2sS, providing for re
turn by state auditor to town auditors
Fl. 300, raising qualifications of applicants
for examination in medicine and surgery;
III. 1872 relating to fees of deputy sheriifs;
land Ii. 293, raising standard for practice
of medicine, surgery, osteopathy and CHR
opractie.
The senate adopted the amendments to
rules A and 70 providing for considera-
ton Of the budget item by item.
The house passed II. 81, providing for
additional compensation for the secretary
of civil and military affairs for war
- Il 4 NJ ,la,. -
4 through the board of control; 81. SO, re-
lating to medical treatment of inmates
u of state institutions afflicted with com
!. municable diseases; H. $40, relating to
conditional pardon; Ii. 81. relating to
the printing of the legislative journals;
/ H. 322, relating to the soldiers home !;
H. 323, providing for purchase of the
S birthplace OF John G. SAKE, and the cree
q tion thereon of monument or marker
(bill passed unanimously with a rising
# vote in honor of the Vermont poet) II.
S 324. relating to probation, and II. 326
making additional appropriation for the
: expenses of the legislature OF 1919.
a Interest in the house this morning cen
tered ON 5. IS, providing for a teachers
retirement SYSTEM Mao 11garett of Brad
- ford thought chat therbatiiers We're PAID
= comparatively we'll now,T The bill va:
: Favored by Mr. Austin of Reading, Mr.
Clark of Brookfeld, Mr.. Mcfarland o.
ot HYDE Park Mr.. Carpenter of Richfort
and others.
le A resolution introduced in the housC
Highland avenue is undergoing exten
ID chester and referred to the committee OF
I'd federal relations. would ask the Presi
wi dent of Rle United States to use his in
fuence that the principles of self-deter
of limitation for which the United States ha
:. stood in the great war be applied TO al
= small nations including Ireland. and ;
copy of the resolution be sent TO tn
state department at Washington.
20 Governor Clement today appointed Tn
III following members of the state board o
as chiropractc registration and examlna
ton: w Allen Gage OF st. Johnsbury
at one year; a. w Farnsworth of Rutlan
y, for two years, Frank T. Bemis Of St Al
ID bans for three years
= Referendum on Barge Bill.
- The senate sent the barge terminf
Nc lf.H back 10 the house yesterday at
ay erncon with n large, eloquent tag a
tached to it labelled referendum.
Previously the companion bill I'll. 1873
y authorizing the city of Burlington
~ issue $4,000 in bonds and convey Il
~ public dock property. was advanced
=" third reading without debate.
The main question arose over II. 20
lis appropriating 100000 of the people
We money and creating a barge termin
an commission Senator Schotf objected
OF the bill on financial grounds and So
Ihe ator Rallou said ii was not sc
Su- soned' investment and was based {
yn- rainbow prospects of the future Il +
Adj NAMED fer Senator Carr to propose Il
the referendum, which makes the bill c
sed fective Nav 1st. 1920, provided a m
jority Of the votes, liesIMarch meetiI
ave are - Yes, otherwise to take effe
ga May |, 1927.
in What will the people say ask
rial Senator Carr, ''whcn they find we ha
nal gone over the top in spending money
unit that in addition to bond issue of
ane million and a half and state tax of
ub- or 40 cents we shall also have de
H. cit Of 100000? TNs barge terminal
18th a speculation gamble. Shall y
no eommercialize the credit of Vermo
re- before we knew what it 5 for?''
Senator Carr urged that long
H. 1879 provided for referendum
the voters &C Burlington ii was on
fair for the voters of Vermont to vo
,oro on the larger proposition
llphI The bin was defended by Senat
Villas, who said that since the cities
,np. Babylon and Nineveh were situated
IN The head waters of the Euphrates the
had been no gamble CT speculate
: out water transportation. This |
81. Senator Kingsley to remark that he W
ui'e not advised as to how Babylon a
Nincveh stood on the question of
eea- barge terminal, but III his opinion t
a. proposition was a cold blooded businC
move on the part of Burlington
arge people of Vermont to pay the freight
hrs Senators Howland, MeKillip and VI
ing. mum also favored the. bill.
) al The referendum amendment "
~ adonted nv n vote of rs to 1 and