The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-09
LEGISLATURE ADJouRNs.
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ton for cooperative extension work in
agriculture and home economics in
rural communities through the county
farm bureaus. IT was rumored that
the governor might hold up this meas
ure on the ground of too great an ex-
pense, but the bill was signed shortly
before adjournment. There was also
some uncertainty about the signing of
s. 63, the teachers retirement system
bill. This bin was also signed late this
morning.
| The appointments remain as they
were left by the senate last evening, no
further action having been taken.
Antics at Night Session.
Until nearly clock this morning
the legislature sang and shouted,
whooped and yelled like pack of
school boys on the last day of school.
/ Everybody got hit at least once with
paper wads fred from the hands of
some friends who had some time during
THE session fred vocal volleys in his
direction And it was all in the game,
I'swhen good fellows get together
Amid it all, the good -byes'' were be-
ing said for many left on the carly
morning train.
Included in the legislation which was
finished up during the wee small hours
of the morning was the state tax bill
Oh. 1922 which was passed in concur
renee by the senate with proposals of
amendment TO create SO called civilian
war tax, consisting of an extra So added
to the poll of each taxpayer who was
not in the military or naval service of
the country during the war, this to con
tinue for 10 years, which would prac-
Etically take up the bond issue for the
l 81 100000 to give state pay to soldiers.
with this amendment in force, the state
Tax for the next two years would have
s>sbeen reduced to 80 cents on a dollar.
i, When the house learned of this pro
e posal of amendment every member who
: had left and could be reached was
$ brought back in order that quorum
I might be present to consider it. Shortly
: after midnight the house was assembled
and the bill taken up Mr. Durham o.
q Brattleboro and others called attention
]. to the unfairness of this amendment
d which would place the burden of the ta1
q on the poor man instead of on the mar
who was able to pay for it The amend
t ment was rejected by practically unanl
~
r ed to recede from its proposals of amend
e ment and the tax bill, carrying 40 cen
n tax, was signed by the governor thi
q morning.
r. Other legislation of the midnight ses
n sion was the adoption on the part of bot
l. the senate and the house of the confer
It enee report on s. l23, relating to the cor
:. veyance of record titles TO real estate
he ,.aoorj hold 80 daaaas soil hi
g. estate unsettled, and without beneheis
D. interests in the property, the repol
,e recommending that the senate reced
N from its proposal of amendment.
as Prohibition Bill Dies.
Is One of the strange happenings of I'll
,. closing hours was the action taken 0
S. lls, relating to the sale Of intoxieath
in liquors, and prohibiting its sale after I'll
" Sheppard amendment goes into effect.
If committee of conference recommends
10 that the house recede from its propos
: of amendment, including fifth class
40 censes in those prohibited. The hou
NJ accepted this report, but the senate T
or fused to accept it, and the bill died
no natural death.
". The senate coneurred in the house pr
posal of amendment to S. 81, relating
q. worlSmen's compensation and adoptt
h. the committee of conference report {
he II $50. record of conveyance OF an into
I'M est i'll mines and quarries. 1t passed
- concurrence H. 90. relating to railroi
~. rates, adopted in concurrence j. II.
~ %, an expression of the legislature in
IN. vor of self-determination and the RICH
os of small nations, especially in regard
= Ireland; j. r. Fl. 49, So day salary al
bio mileage for messengers of the senate a
ia house; and J. r. Fl. 40, decoration of t
ne state building on occasions of celeb
of tion for returning Vermont soldiers
osr The house concurred in senate PROF
sails of amendment to S. 2S3, settleme
Tho of accounts Of executors, etc; refus
IA third reading to a measure inereasi
nv the salary of the sheriff OF Benningt
Ia FL. county; and adjourned at 100 am. /,
e, til 8 O'Clock
=, Gov Clement has signed s. 81, mcre
-, ing the salaries of the county clerks
O. Chittenden, Orleans and Windham 60,
10 ties; S. 81, relating to workmen's co
. pensation: II 2S7, relating to moi
trucks; H. 3o7, the budget bill: FL. ?
relating to appraised value Of cat
killed by order of commissioner of ag
cir culture, and H. 1886, increasing salary
os. the state highway commissioner.
- At 1890 last night the senate IN;
!. mopsly adopted the report of the Z,
'c' ference committee OH Che budget
Fl. 327), the house having adopted