The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-08
IN THREE-coRNERED FIGHT.
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taking appointments out of the hands
of the governor, will be messaged into
the house this afternoon. Opinion is still |
divided as to what should happen to
this bill If the house passes it, it /
seems likely that the session will have |
to be extended. On the other hand, if |
it is killed, the senate is likely to hold |
up the budget bill and also the state |
tax bill, the latter having been held oy-
er from last evening.
1t is reported that having turned |
down the resolution for final adjourn |
ment, the house will be adjourned for
the session when the speaker s gavel
falls at noon tomorrow. But in this
ease, if the senate holds out, special
session may be necessary in order to
carry through the budget bill and state
tax measure.
Senate Defies Governor.
Smoldering embers of disagreement
between Governor Clement and the SEN
ate of the general assembly broke into
flames in the senate chamber last eve
ming, and developed into eonflagra
tion which carried everything before it.
The whole big program started when
Senator Payne introduced a new bill,
| S. 12S, which provides that all officers
| required by law to be filled by appoint
ment by the governor biennially in the
month of January, with the advice and
| consent of the senate, that were not
| filled and confirmed by the senate dur
| ing the present session of the legisla
| ture prior to March /, 1919, shall be
| filed by election by the general assem-
| bly, in joint assembly at such time as
/ the general assembly may by joint reso-
luton prescribe. Under suspension of
| the rules this bill was put through the
various stages of legislation and passed
| This was not done, however, without
i considerable opposition on the part of
i Senator'S Carr and LaF'leur. After the
bin had been readsthe second time, Sen
| ator Carr moved that it be ordered TO
/ lie The motion was. ruled out of or
/ der. Senator Carr took exceptions to
the ruling of the chair. The president
asked the senate not to consider his
feelings in voting on the ruling. SEN
ator Steele urged the senate to sustain
the ruling. Senator Hill supported Sen
4 ater Steele in this. After some discus
sion in which Senator Carr accused
those who favored the bill of trying to
railroad it through the senate, which
was vigorously denied by Senators
Steele and Ballou, Senator Carr with
j drew his former motion and moved that
) the senate adjourn. The motion was
: lost by vote of Is to s.
The bill then went to third reading
4 by q yea and nay vote of 20 to 9, and
was passed by the same vote.
/ Immediately afterward, Senator Stu
art of Caledonia introduced reso-
luton to reseind the agreement upon
final adjournment at noon on Wednes-
day and directing final Adjournment at
a time to be later agreed upon. This
resolution was strenuously opposed by
Senator LaFleur, a member of the com
mittee on final adjournment, who said
that he knew nothing about it and
thought that the legislature ought .tc
adjourn on Wednesday. 1t had been
learned shortly before this that the
governor had signed the resolution pro
viding for final adjournment or
Wednesday.
t In spite of the protests of Senators
) LaFleur and Carr the senate suspended
: the rules and adopted the resolution
+ Senator LaFleur then asked to be ex
e eused from further service on the com
5 mittee for final adjournment The sen
t ate refused. to excuse him by a vote OF
8 IA to 10.
$ If S. Us becomes law, it win NEAR
! that, for this session at least. the ap
d pontments of the six state officers re
L Gently sent to the senate by the gov
d ernor will be taken out of the hands o
the chief executive of the state an,
placed in the hands of the general as
sembly.