The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-22
CUDWORTH FEELS IS
SOME RESENT ) III
And Tells Colleagues in VereSsF House
That They Don't Need = o Out
side Their Own Room 90 Get
Ideas About State
Expenses.

After rejecting the committee report in
the case of the contested membership
from St George and seating the returned
member, Earl Aver, amid great applause,
the Vermont House yesterday afternoon
dispatched some routine business and
then broke up in a disagreement over the
Senate resolution to investigate state eX.
penses, J. r. S. II.
The debate at times waxed fast and
furious. Following the remark of Mr..
Estee OF Montpelier that there had been
whispering campaign" against the
resolution, Mr. Cudworth of Londonderry
warmly denied the allegation and insist
ed that such an investigation could not
be conducted within the time remaining
of the present session. He declared that
the very matters covered by the resolu-
tion were already being taken care of by
House and Senate committees.
Later, after hearing the name of Sen
ator Amey repeatedly mentioned in con
necti0n with the introduction of the reso-
luton, he said:
"A name has been mentioned here, the
name of Senator Amey. He has been be-
fore this and that committee and has
been taking a great interest in this in
Vestigation. ! think / have found the
root on which this thing grows, and
want to say we do not need any one man
to tell us what to do about state eX-
penses. We don't need to 90 out of this
room to get our ideas about state eX-
penses.'
The debate started when Mr. Hopkins
of Burlington moved to amend the reso-
luton by limiting the scope of the inyes.
tigation to the present session, the work
| to be done without prolonging it, which
was adopted. Mr.. Buxton of Middletown
Springs moved to amend still further by
limiting the scope Of the same to the
methods Of doing business, which was
lost, but not before the discussion had
covered the whole question.
Mr. Belknap of Rockingham asked
what the result would be if the commit
tee saw fit to report one normal school
at Castleton, one agricultural school at
Randolph and the giving back Of the
white elephant at Lyndon" He said
that it would probably prolong the ses-
sion until summer. MIR. Aiken of Putney
proposed another committee to inyesti-
gate the investigators and Mr.. Tracy Of
johnson said he did not live in Mont
pelier and would like to get home some
time before spring.
Pending the main question, Mr.. Will
liams OF Proctor moved that the resolu-
ton be ordered to lie and be made a spe-
cial order for Tuesday morning at l0:30,
and the House adjourned with a large
section of the calendar untouched.
The member from st. George was seat
ed by a vote of l43 to 36, the House hila-
riously refusing to excuse DR.. Slayton Of
Morrisville from voting, and the next
bill on the calendar H. o., raising the
salary Of the Winooski municipal Judge,
although up for final passage was re-
jected by a vote of 1873 to "a. Mr., Aiken
Of Putney challenged the farmers to take
stand against salary raising, and Mr..
Wilson Of Rutland said the work in the
municipal court of Rutland could be done
in an hour a days work.
Il leave it to you to say he added,
whether salaries should be raised or
lowered
The House passed the following:
Fl. II. uniform provisions for accident
policies; II, l57, permitting teachers to
be hired without the consent of superin-
tendent H. 1853, amending charter of
village of Waterbury; H. liz, specifying
exemptions from process of persons at
tending court; H. 1906, regulating invest
ment companies; II. 2l0, amending char.
ter of JefTersonyille; H. DDS, raising
standard of osteopathy.
Fl. 100 relating to classification of
forest lands, which was passed yesterday,
was recalled and recommitted for amend
ment.