The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-04-10
1919 SESSION OF
VT. LEGISLATURE
WINDS UP WORK
Senate Disagreement With
Governor Was Held
to the End
3 OFFICES NOT FILLED
The Hold-over Officers Will Remain
Unless They are Removed by
the Governor
3 OFFICES NOT FILLED

At the hour of noon Wednesday
Lieut.. Gov. Mason S. Stone and
Speaker Charles S. Dana formally ad-
iourned the Senate and House Of
Representatives, respectively, for the
session of 1919. The morning was
spent in the Senate in presentation
speeches, the Senate presenting 1t.
Gov. Stone, who left Wednesday
for New York to sail for France in
Y. M. C. A. work, and Secretary Guy
Page handsome loving cups. AS
sistant Secretary Millward c. Taft,
Chaplain J. M. Hamilton, Official Re-
porter Charles DeForest Bancroft,
the doorkeepers and the pages were
presented sums of money. Lieut..
Gov. Stone, in thanking the Senate
for his gift, paid high tribute to the
body as a whole, and to each men,
Der individually. The other recipi-
ents responded briefly.
In long executive session Tuesday
evening, the Senate refused to con-
firm the appointments of the gov
ernor as follows: John S. Buttles of
Brandon for commissioner of indus
tries; M. G. Morse of Hardwick for
commissioner of taxes; and ]. G.
Brown of Montpelier for insurance
commissioner. The Senate confirm
ed the appointment of Elbert S.
Brigham of Montpelier for commits
sioner of agriculture; Linus Leavens
of Cambridge for fish and game COM
missioner; and George e. Carpenter
of Montpelier for state purchasing
agent; in place of Dewey T. Hanley.
Brigham and Leavens are reappoint-
ments. Charles Plumley, tax commits
sioner and Robert w. Simonds, COM
missioner of industries will remain in
Office. unless removed by the govern
OF. The name of c. L. Lang of Mont
pelier is mentioned for the office of
insurance commissioner.
Without the least hesitation, the
House buried S. 1913, taking the ap-
pointment of certain state officers out
of the hands of the governor, provid-
ing that these officers shall be elected
by the general assembly in joint ses-
sion. The vote against the measure
was overwhelming, and left no doubt
about where the House stood on the
bill, which was rushed through the
Senate Monday evening.
The lineup of the Senate Monday
evening in its now famous raid on the
gubernatorial power of appointment,
in the form of S. 128, introduced, put
through all the stages of legislation
and passed, was as follows: Voting
for the bill, Senators Adams, Amey,
Ballou, Bates, Belknap, Billings, Hall,
Hamblett, Hendee, Hill, Jackson, Le-
wis, Payne, Schoff, Steele, Stuart,
Taylor, Tenney, Villas; voting against
the bill, Senators Carr, LaFleur, Nc
killip, Morgan, Root and Varnum;
absent and not voting, Senators How
land, Kingsley, Noonan and Tracy.
The report of the committee of
conference on the budget bill recon-
mended that the Senate recede from
the first, second, fourth, sixth and
eighth proposals of amendment, and
that the House concur in the third
and fifth proposals, while both should
recede from the seventh proposal,
which regards the appropriation for
the board of charities and probation.
The original appropriation for this
department was $4,000. The House
amended to read 100000. The Senate
put it back at $4,000, and the bill
now provides for $25,000.
AS the bill now provides, from the
report of the committee, the publicity
department gets it's full $4,000 (cut
to $500 by the Senate); the edu-
cational department gets it's full
$264,000 (the Senate tried to cut it to
$200,OOO); the appropriation for
grade crossings is cut from $4,000 to
$4,000, as amended by the Senate;
the original $4,000 for armories, but
another $4,000 appropriated by the
Legislature of 1917, to be available un-
til June 80, 1925, but which has not
been needed during the past year, is
cut out; the $1,500 for bounties for
animals remains (from which the
black bear bounties will be paid) ; and
there is no renumbering of sections,
according to the Senate plan.