The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-04-07
Vermont Legislature Assem-
! bles Tonight to Wind
Up Affairs
THREE VETOES ARE
TO BE CONSIDERED
House Has 16 Bills and the
Senate Has Over
%

This evening the Vermont legislature
viii start its squirt on the home stretch
OF the race for adjournment Wednesday
at noon. To-day is the Goth day of the
session, the opening of the 18th week,
and if the legislature of 1919 is to ad-
journ short of 90 days, it will have TO
make every minute count from the time
the gavel falls for this evenings session
until the last bill has been disposed of.
A summary of business in both houses
up to Saturday noon shows that there
are about l6 bills in the House yet to be
disposed of, while the Senate has be-
tween % and 80, including resolutions,
which have not yet received final action.
The House has six bills and one resoll-
tlon still in committees and six bills and
two resolutions on the calendar for this
evening. The Senate has nine bills and
resolutions still in committees. There
are six bills and several resolutions on
the Senate calendar for this evening
There are three bills in a committee
of conference, among them H. 327, the
budget bill, which is likely to cause some
difficulty before it is agreed upon. The
Senate committee of conference is made
up of Senators Stuart, Villas and Amey,
the senators who fought the hardest,
especially Villas and Amey, TO get the
reductions in certain appropriations, as
amended by the Senate and turned down
by the House. The House committee is
made up of Representatives Buttles,
Alexander and Austin of Reading Mr..
Buttles being the chief representative Of
the military department in the House
tthe Senate cut out $4,000 for ar
moriesl and Mr.. Austin, the champion OF
the educational department 1.-THE Senate
clipped the educational appropriation
from $264,000 to $200,000l. Mr.. Alex
ander is the chairman of the House com
mittee on appropriations.
With this array of lawyers to fight
out this matter, it is doubtful if the
committee OF conference on the budget
will be able to report by o'clock this
evening, as requested by resolution in
trodueed in the House on Friday.
All three OF the governors vetoes are
on the calendar for consideration this
evening. There is no possibility that
any of them are likely to be passed over
the governors veto. The House will
take up the two barge terminal measures
and will probably relegate them to the
Junk heap for other legislatures to haul
out and worry over. s. 95, providing
that the public service commission may
initiate proceedings for the alterations
of railroad grade crossings, which will
come up in the Senate this evening, will
hardly be passed over the governors
veto at this stage OF the legislature, con-
sidering the objections which the gov
ernor has raised.
On the Senate calendar for this even
ing, also, is H. $50, relating to registra
tion of traction engines, bill over
which there has been much debate in the
Senate, and which comes up this time
as a special order. The Senate will also
consider S. 1926, relating TO procedure in
cases before the commissioner OF indus
tries, UP for second reading; and House
proposals Of amendment to 5. 100, char
ter of Lyndon, and 5. l07, relating to
prostitution.
The committee Of conference report,
recommending that the Senate recede
from its proposal of amendment to II.
279. relating to bond by taxpayer ap-
pealing from decision of board of civil
authority, will be acted upon.
In the House there is a favorable re-
port on the resolution providing for the
same per diem salary and mileage for
chaplains of both houses thatNthe mem
bers receive, and favorable report with
amendment to $. l23, relating to the
conveyance Of the record title to real
estate where the record holder Is de-
ceased. his estate unsettled and without
beneficial interest in the property.
On the House calendar also is ;, III,
increasing the governors salary from
So 900 to $4,000 year called up by Mr..
Writers of St Johnsbury, the question
being whether the House will reconsider
its vote whereby it refused the bill a
third reading. The same question ap-
plies to II. l33, to provide for change
in the taxation of express companies,
called up by Mr.. Hopkins of Burlington.