The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-04-01
HOUSE PASSES
B I'D GE I BILL
IN BRIEF TIME
Appropriations Aggregate Five
Million Dollars
HOTEL EXEMPTION GAINS
Governor Clement Signs Bill TO Pay
No. Bennington Incorporated School
District Sum Therein Named


less than five minutes the House this
evening passed the budget without de
bate and with only routine amend
ment. 1t provides for appropriations
aggregating $5,O00,0OO In addition
three aid.to-town bills were passed.
appropriating $500, and the bond
issue bill, covering $l,5OO,000, was adj
vanced to a third reading.
A Joint resolution was introduced
in the House, raising the pay Of the
state highway commissioner $500 FOR
the past two years and the following
bills we're passed IS, relating TO
bank investments in railroad bonds;
S l01, exempting hotels from taxa
tion; II 7, appropriatinT $4,000 for
bridge In Albany; Fl 1853, appropriate.
ing $500 for same purpose in Sears.
burg; II 2O5, appropriating $1,000 TO
improve Weston.M Mount Tabor road;
II 3O7, providing for states carrying
own insurance; II S25, relating to sale
of corporation property outside juris-
diction Of Public Service commission;
]. r. S. "a, providing for printing and
distributing proceedings OF Vermont
Historical society.
There was furry over S
10l, the hotel exemption BILL Messrs.
Blood OF West Windsor, Aiken OF
Putney and Luce of Pomfret opposing
its passage Mr.. Blood said he knew
of farms that were run for the bene-
fit of the public and did not pay yet
they were taxed and Mr. Luce asked
why q hotel should be exempted any
more than street railroad The bill
was passed 81 to 76.
Montpelier, March 3l.--Alhough
the Senate committees and flles are
pretty we'll cleaned mp, there being not
more than 20 measures yet to .be dis,
Pee;su OF 1t rs Understood that sey.
eral new bills are to come in this
week, some of which are OF more than
ordinary importance Another work
mems compensation measure IS prop
hesied and 1t is rumored that other
new measures win keep the Senate
busy we'll into next week.
As for the House, its case is some.
what different. II seems likely that,
so far as the work in sight goes, the
House could adjourn at the end OF
this week, although II has more impor
tant measures still up for considera-
ton than has the Senate. and should
the Senate propose other important
legislation, the hands Of the House
would again be filed.
Among the bills which are likely
to cause discussion in the House this
week Is II 3l2, the Sunday permit
bill, which comes up q special order
on Tuesday afternoon
The new Normal School bill, II. $50.
introduced Friday by Mr.. Tracy Of
Johnson and providing for tho con
tinuance of the normal schools az
Castleton and Johnson until August,
1941, viii not get by without strenu.
GUS opposition from those who believe
that the normal school work of the
state should be consolidated, there
being many advocates of this plan in
the Legislature.
/ According TO the statutes both nor
NAL schools came near losing their
lives, for the statutes only provide
for the continuance OF these schools
up to August, 1920 Somebody acct
dentally discovered this fact the 9TH
er day. Otherwise both normal
schools might have gone out of exis.
tence before another legislature
could meet to provide for their con-
tinuance. Mr. Tracy of Johnson now
proposes to put both schools within
the safety zone once again by extend
ing their time 20 years.
Plans for the mock session are
progressing satisfactorily and it is
expected that this years "box of sur
prises will be more fun than a barrel
of monkeys and better than ever
before 1t has been decided not to
hold the mock session in the city hall
as was at first planned 1t Will be
held in representatives hall as in
the past, but 1t Is planned to change
admission, the money to be donated
for the benefit Of Heaton hospital
Governor Clement has signed the
following bills
IL. 2l7. An act to amend section
454i OF tho General Laws, relating tc