Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-23
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and game committee.
H.52-By Mr., Hastings Of Glover. 10
amend Section 6717 of the General
Laws, relating to the licensing OF vi.
vious dogs, Unjust have signatures OF
Ave persons in State. instead OF town.
in order to secure a license or vicious
dog TO general committee.
H.5s-By Mr.. Estee of Montpelier
an act to prohibit misrepresentation
to the assured by insurance companies
their officers and agents; penalty $lOo
for each offense. to banking and IN
surance.
H.54--By Mr.. Cownal of Newport
town, an act to authorize the state
librarian to deliver set of the Yer
mont Digest" to the town OF Newport,
to library.
H.55--By Mr.. Estee of Montpelier, an
act to amend Section 1852 of the Gem
eral Laws providing that insurance
companies shall be responsible for the
acts of their agents and repeating Sec
ton 1858. Any provision contrary to
the contract shall make void the con-
tract, to banking and insurance
LEGISLATIVE STATISTICS
| Some interesting statistics regarding
the legislative body of 1919 have been
compiled by the office of the secretary
of state. From this recapitulaton We
! learn that the total membership of the
House is H6, the representative-elect
from Windsor being deceased. OF this
number. % have been members of the
House once before; five have been MEM
beers of the House twice before; one a
member of the House three times before !;
one a. member of the House four times
| before; and one member of the House
six times before.
Five have been members of the House
| once and Of the Senate once; one a mem
Der of the House twice and Senate twice
one member of the House twice and
| Senate once: and one a member of the
| Senate once.
The Oldest member of the House is Will
! liam Paul of West Fairlee, born Jan
uary q, 1889. Ernest w. Dunklee of
| Vernon. born November 20, 1890, is the
| youngest member
The Senate is composed of 80 Senators.
| of whom % are republicans and one a
| democrat. OF this number is have been
| members of the House once; three have
been members of the House twice; two
| have been members of the Senate once.
| and one has con a member of the Sem
| ate once and the House twice, The old
| est senator is David L. Morgan of Rut-
| land city, born October 80, 1916. Senator
| Fred Olin Billings of Sharon, born June
| Is, 1881. is the youngest member of the
| upper branch of the Legislature.
The greater part of the senators were
born in Vermont, q claiming the Green
| Mountain State as their birthplace. Two
| were born in Canada. two in Massachu-
| sets, two in New Hampshire and three
| In New York.
| There is a wide variety of occupations
| among the members of both the House
| and the Senate. Lawyers predominant
| in the Senate, there being six members
Of the bar in that body, while farmers
practically rule the House with 1871 mem
bers.
| When it comes to religious preference
the Congregatonalists seem to have it al
over the other creeds in both the House
and the Senate, there being IL Congre-
gationalists in the latter body and CO in
the former. The Methodsts are a close
second, with seven members in the Sen
ate and 40 in the House. There are five
Episcopalans in the Senate. one Uni
tartan. one Catholic. and not a single
Baptist.
Other denominations represented i'm IT,.
House are Baptists %, Christian Scicu
list l, Episcopalans 3. Federated or Con
gregational l. Liberals 8. Pentecosta
Church of the Nazarine ], Presbyterian:
g. Protestants IS, Religion of Service /
Roman Catholics II, Second Adven
Christian /. Union |, Unitarians 3. Uni
versalists Y, Wesleyan Methodists |. II
the case of II no religious preference wa!
stated, while IL stated that they had n,
preference.
The House is made up of 2ll republi
| cans. IS democrats. four independent re
publicans, one independent. one pro
gressive republican, while four did no
state their political preference.
An even 200 of the representatives wer'
born In Vermont Nine were born il
Canada, ~ in New York. one in England
one in Illinois. two in Iowa. two in Ire
land. two in Maine, seven in Massachu
sets, one in Michigan. one in Mississippi
seven in New Hampshire and one in Wis
, consn.
Among the occupations represented b,
, five or more members Of the House are
Carpenters S. lawyers 8, merchants p
physicians s. There are 6S different oc
equations represented In the House. rang
; ing all the way from county fish an,
game warden" to proprietor of a tele
phone exchange" and from an "eXecu
tive clerk" to a pulp mill worker
There is one manager of condense
milk company and one undertaken an,
farmer" combined. There are two minis
ters of the gospel In the House and on
minister and merchant"
, LEGISLATIVE NOTES
William Dudley Policy writer of not
and a former editor of the St. Johnsbur
. Daily Caledonan, was a visitor at tn
{ Legislature to-day. Mr.. Policy has re
Gently returned from an extended tri
abroad in the interests of several maya
: zines. He has just completed arrange
ments whereby he will again take owe
i the interests of A. G. Stone of St. Johns
y bury in the Daily Celedonan. and it i
understood that Mr. Pelley will aga
take charge of the paper.
, c. II. Stillman, highway engineer fror
the Troy office of this federal road dis
trict met with several committees, III
. Guiding the committees on highways an
= bridges, and held one public hearing !
-, the Senate chamber to-day, relative |
y questions arising in regard to the rec
r eral aid road act. Mr. Stillman viii d
| in Montpelier for couple or days an
will be glad to answer any questions RI
garding the federal aid road act. lie
making his headquarters at the once
the State engineer.
n Mrs. w. r. Slayton and two chlldre
accompanied Representative Slayton
Morristown when he returned 20 the cal
ital this week. after passing the recess
his home.
Harry A. Black. the new secretary
State. .was heard to remark recently
his iniuita HE NAV. 'If we are going