The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-19
Senate To-day Confirmed the
Appointment of State
Commissioner
HOUSE HAD FIGHT
ON MULE BILL"
Measure Was Passed After
a Sharp De-
bate

In a short executive session this morn
ing, the Senate confirmed the reappoint-
ment of Stoddard Bates as highway com
missioner for the next two years.
Once again the "mule BILL" IT, 76,
which was finally advanced to a third
reading, as amended yesterday morning,
after long discussion, took up the big
end OF the morning in the House to-day,
after it had been further amended by
Mr.. Luce Of Pomfret. The amendment
was finally accepted and the bill passed
liz to 95. The big fight came on the
new amendment, which qualities the
amendment offered yesterday imposing a
penalty of $1,000 for exposing infected
carcasses for sale. The new amendment
adds, unless such stock has been in
spected by an agent of the bureau of
animal industry of the United States
department of agriculture" This allows
the sale of meat coming from con
demned animal, provided that it is passed
by the federal board, the same as is the
case in other states,
After Mr.. Luce mad received permis
sion from the House to offer his amend
ment, and had explained it at length,
Mr.. Potter of Pownal remarked that it
looked to him as though the gentleman
from Pomfret were arguing for the
finances of the farmer and against the
public helath. Mr.. Hills of Chittenden
wanted TO know how meat coming from
an animal which had been declared unfit
for dairy purposes could be fit for eat
ing, Mr.. Thompson of Shelburne thought
somebody must be getting a rake-otf on
the deal somewhere.
Mr. Davis Of Rutland Town main
tanned that the question is whether we
are good enough Americans to abide by
the verdict of the federal board in the
inspection of meat. He favored the
amendment, as did Mr.. Dunklee of Yer
non and Mr. White of Woodstock.
Mr.. Writers of st. Johnsbury inter
rogated the committee, and then stated
that, as he understood it, COW was con
demned and killed and then if the meat
did not smell too bad il was served up
to us as meat. He thought the amend
ment ought to be killed. Mr.. Connal of
Newport Town answered that we are al
ready eating the same kind of meat sent
in from other states, and that even con
demned meat from this state is made up
into sausages and sent into Massachu-
setts, where the people seem to thrive
on it. Mr.. Orton agreed with this view
of the affair and favored the amend
ment Mr. Connal, Mr.. White of Wood
stock, and Mr.. Luce again spoke ir ia
- hn 4 nd IL ~ al ftvf
of Milton opposed it.
The closing argument in favor of the
amendment was made by Mr. Edmunds
Of Bristol, a physician, who said that he
considered the meat inspected by the
federal government and passed to be
much safer than that which we are now
eating, which has not been inspected.
The amendment went to a vote and
was adopted, l07 to 81, and the bill was
passed without further discussion, ll2
to 05.
The House also passed:
. Fl. SO, relating to the soIemnization of
marriages.
II. 222, relating to the licensing and
keeping of dogs.
II. ia, providing for the removal of a
from which he last came.
II. l60, as amended, providing assist
ance to the attorney general in certain
cases. The amendment provides that
this assistance shall depend upon the ap-
proval of superior Judge,
With a short preliminary discussion by
Mr.. Dunklee of Vernon, who introduced
the bill the House refused to concur in
any of the three amendments proposed
by the Senate to II. 40, relating to the
membership of the'Aoard Of control, The
amendments substituted the secretary of
state and the lieutenant governor for the
director of state institutions and the
commissioner Of agriculture provided for
in the bill as it formerly passed the
House.
Discussion of Dogs
The House yesterday afternoon debat
ed the dog bill, Fl. 222, and, after sitting
az a committee of the whole and cutting
out the section which would have sen
fenced dogs to their owners premises be-
tween sunset and sunrise, the bill was
advanced to a third reading.
In order to save time" Mr.. Tracy of
johnson moved that the House 90 into
committee of the whole to consider the
bill, which was done, with the gentle
man himself in the chair. Soon after
ward the proceedings took on humor-
GUS hue.
Mr.. White of Georgia moved to amend
by striking out the provisions for the Ii
cense fee of $40 for dogs added to the
family after the first registration, which
was lost. Then, after Mr. Buxton of
Middletown Springs had explained that
the provision was inserted in order to
keep down the number Of dogs, Mr. Blood
of West Windsor moved that the com
mittee report the bin favoraby, which
was so voted, ll3 to 50, but, as no one
moved that the committee rise and re-
port, the amendments went on merrily.
Mr.. Elliott of Coventry moved to strike
out that part Of section three that per
I Continued IN eighth maze