The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-08
LEGISLATURE is BUSY
Senate Gets Busy and Discusses Many
Bills and House Defeats Lump
Salary Bill

MONTPELIER, March S-Next
Tuesday, March 18th, promises to be
about the busiest day the present
Legislature has INDUCED in to date.
The Senate yesterday made no less
than four special orders for that day,
the House has almost as many, the
usual large calendars of routine bus
mess are promised for each branch
and in addition joint assembly is
! to be held to listen to an address by
| the former commanding general of
/ the Yankee (26th) Division, Major
General Clarence R. Edwards.
/ The Senate worked most expedite
ously during yesterday morning and
by disposing of the routine business
! without discussion and making the
! bills, calling for discussion special or
! ders for next week the upper branch
was able to avoid an afternoon SEES
! sion but voted to meet at nine o'clock
{ this forenoon on motion of Senator
| LaFleur of Addison cuntoy, who eau
! toned the Senate that if final adj
journment is to take place before
/ April sessions must be held Satur-
days. Senator McKillup of Chitten-
den county exclaimed "All Senators
] who will be in attendance Saturday
signify by rising. I'm up" and in
response to the appeal seventeen Sen
!, ators, or a quorum, arose.
The House spent the greater share
of the morning discussing the lump
sum salary bill, which was defeated
Thursday. The trouble and debate
started when Mr.. Connal Of Newport
moved to reconsider the vote. The
House agreed to consider 101 to Is
after some spoken opposition and
then members from every part of the
state evidently felt it his duty to say
| word for or against the lump sum
proposition. The reconsideration was
| in vain, however, for. when the clock
| was approaching the noon hour a
vote was taken and the bill was again
killed, this time by vote of 1877 to
| rs.
81 uE OCIdtS Iitu1ltu ONGI t1tC s1tti-
| form acts, Senate bills AZ and As, pro
viding for the unifcation of the laws
relating to partnerships and sales of
goods and Senator LaFleur violently
opposed the measures, with Senator
Amey as strongly in favor. Senator
LaF'leur said he opposed as a repre-
sentative of the people but favored as
a lawyer and insisted that the present
law was understood, residents of the
state had had but little litigation IN
der the existing statutes, and he
feared the effects of the proposed
changes. During the debate several
Senators had to leave the chamber
and finally on motion of Senator Adj
ans both measures were ordered
pla I'd at the end of the calendar for
Tuesday as special orders. The bill
went to a third reading Thursday by
big majority but it would appear
that the sentiment of some of the
Senators has changed since the fotc.
and their passage is not assured
The chiropractic bill which aroused
such furore in the House last month
was reported by the committee favor
ably yesterday but on motion Sen
ator .Schof was laid on the table tn
til Tuesday.
The fourth bill to be made spec
ial order Tuesday was the Amey
bill amending the workmen's com
pensation law. The bill c lnie in yes
teraay with an adverse cslr mlttee re-
port but during the forenoon a min
ority favorable committee report was
entered, with proposal of amendment
by which Senator Amey evidently
hopes to save the measure. 1t is re-.
ported that the bill does not meet
with the approval of the Commission
er of Industries and it is certainly
opposed by many employers.
The House laid on the table the
| two bills relating to the proposed
barge terminal at Burlington, the bill
providing for the payment by Bur-
lington of $4,000 toward the con-
struction of the terminal being :
dered to lie and the other measure,
which would bond the state for $780,
900 being made a special order for
Tuesday morning, March 18th.
The sub committee of the House
and Senate committees on education
and educational institutions left this
forenoon for Lyndon, where they will
inspect the Vail Agricultural school.
Next Monday the same committee
will visit the Randolph Agricultural
school. Much depends on the re-
port of this committee upon what
action the Legislature will take to-
ward returning the Lyndon school to
, it's former owner, Theodore n. Vail.
By working hard for the next three
weeks final adjournment can be &C
complished by the 28th and 10Th OF
this month but some are already pre-
dieting that unless the legislative ma
chinery is thrown into ssuper-high-
gear April 1st will still find the mem
bers in session and perhaps until the
end of the first week of April.
Speakers at the Equal Fran
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