Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1919-01-15
BILLS BEGIN TO
MAKE APPEARANCE.
Holden, Connal, Dwinell and Phillips
Head House Committees. Both
Senators Well Assigned.

With the appointments of both
house and senate committees after
the weekend adjournment of the leg
islature. the work of the session is
in full swing with many bills being
introduced.
Orleans county was well taken care
of on committee assignments, getting
four chairmanships in the house and
two IN the senate.
Perhaps the two most important
chairmanships went to Z. \. COnnaI
of Newport town, who is chairman of
the committee on agriculture, one of
the important committees of the
house, and D. y. Dwineu Of Newport,
chairman of the house committee on
commerce and labor. c. r. Holden
of Troy is chairman of the library
committee and @. ". Phillips of
Irasburg is chairman of the rather
important committee on minor courts.
Assignments of other Orleans
county men are as follows: J. q.
Martin of Albany is on the committee
on education;F. c. Brown of Barton,
the committees on temperance and
on state institutions; I. W. Brown Of
Bloomington, state and court eX-
penses, taxation; ". c. Hinton of
Charleston, highways and bridges;
w a. ElllOl VI SONSulIN. G4dlIllS. W.
S. Sawyer of Craftsbury, military af
fairs, public buildings; I. F. O'Rouke
of Derby, appropriations, banking
and insurance, federal relations; F.
". Hastings of Glover, conservation,
general; F C. Kinney of Greensboro,
public health; H. NJ. Page of Holland,
mileage and debentures. Besides be-
ing chairman of the above-named
committee, Mr.. Phillips of Irasburg
is on the committee of educational in
stitutions; G. c. Lucier of Jay, town
lines; A. P. Sweet of Lowell, banking
and insurance, penal institutions; c.
R. Durgin of Morgan, suffrage and
elections; besides holding the chair
manship of the committee on COM
merce and labor, D. n. Dwinell of
Newport city is on the committee on
ways and means; c. r. Holden of
Troy is on the committee on corpora
tions and franchises as well as being
chairman of a committee previously
named; H. B. Hitchcock of Westfeld,
state and court expenses; NJ. E. Calk-
ins of Westmore, fish and game.
In the senate c. E. Hamblet of
Barton is chairman of the public
buildings committee and also MEM
Der of the following committees, ap-
preparations, fish and game, state
institutions, and mileage and deben-
lures.
H. H. Lewis of North Troy is chair
man of the senate committee on joint
rules and a member of the commit
tees on banking and insurance, gen
eral and state and court expenses.
The first bill placed upon the mem
bers' desks was Senate No. l which
repeals the direct primary law. The
F second bill fixes the liability of mu-
inequalities in regard to the main
{ tenance of sewers, water systems and
electric light plants. The bill makes
/ the communities liable the same as an
/ individual for damages sustained on
account of negligence.
/ The first house bill was introduced
+ by Mr.. White of Georgia and grants
/ full suffrage to women who take the
/ freeman's oath and pay q poll tax.
A joint resolution was introduced
Rutland county, providing for the ap-
4 in the senate by Senator Kingsly of
pointment by the governor before
May l, 1919, of q commission of sew
en- citizens of the state to act with
t,le 2-tc--ey zeal f. tao ~I--C-e
constitution of Vermont. The reso-
luton provides that this commission
shall serve without pay except ex-
penses and it shall report its pro-
posals to the people of the state pre-
vious to June I, 1920.