The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-05
BUSY SPENDING
STATES MONEY
Legislature Votes Various
Increases in Official
Salaries
HOPE TO FINISH
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Senate Adjourned Last Night Until
Monday Evening House Worked
This Morning and Passed Quantity of
Measures.
Measures.
Especial to The Reformer.}
MONTPELIER. April

MONTPELIER, April 5.
With Mr.. Webster of Swanton in the
speaker S chair, Speaker Dana being
sick in bed, the house held busy morn
ing session and cleaned up a compare
lively long calendar in about an hour
and half, adjourning a few minutes
before noon until 7.3O Monday evening
The senate adjourned last night, with
everything well cleaned up, and there
seems to be no reason why final adj
iournment cannot be accomplished next
Wednesday noon without difficulty.
The house was quite lavish in its
handing out raises in salary and ex-
ira mileage for members and attendants
of the legislature, and even reeonsid
cred its vote whereby it refused third
reading last evening to S. III. raising
the salary of the governor from $1,000
to $4,000. Reconsideration was voted
ON motion of Mr.. Slayten of Morris
town and after considerable debate in
which Mr.. Miller of Hartland, Mr. Min
er OF Sherburne opposed the measure,
| and Mr. Carpenter of RiehfoFd, Mr..
Writers of st. Johnsbury and Mr.. Bux-
| ton of Middletown Springs spoke in
favor of the increase.
Among the raises in salary provided
| for by the passage of bills this morn
ing are a raise for the sergeant at
arms from $500 to $500, for the
auditor of accounts from 5000 to SO,
500, for the state highway commission.
er $500 year for two years.
The house also adopted a joint res
olution giving the door keepers of botf
houses, the coat room attendants, the
| deputy and assistant sergeant -at-arm!
the same and mileage received by tn,
| members. Anbther resolution adopted
| gives the members additional mileag,
one way for the trip home at Marcf
meeting.
Mr., Aiken of Putney raised objection
to the increase in the salary of tn,
sergeant-at-arms, claiming that Their
was no personal feeling in the matter
but that he objected to increases IL
any salaries on general principles an,
. that he thought the sergeant-at-arm
was getting good living salary, mcr
in fact than most of the members wer
|, getting.
Mr.. o 'Rourke of Derby thought tn
| increase should be granted. and Nj
, | Clark Of Brookfeid said it made n
difference what the members of tn
house were getting; if the sergeant al
: arms was earning $4,000 year b
: ought to have it, and it was general
| felt that he was earning it.
.sThe gentleman from Putney is a
ways opposing legislation which woul
raise any salary of any kind, and /
: is always referring to pinching SOM
body 5 backbone said Mr.. Clark. !
suggest that we try to get DR.. Thaml
e son or somebody else to pinch his bacl
] bone and see if we can't take the aci
+ out of Aiken. daughter and a
q plause9.
The house passed in concurrence:
Jog, permitting banks to invest
\ bankers aeeeptanees; S. los, relatin
Z to consolidation of the house of CORE
: tion with the state prison; s. 110, /
lating to guarantee funds held by n
tional banks acting in fiduciary c
pacity; S. Ia, allowing exemption
from taxations of investments by BAN
in the Victory Liberty loan; S. lis, |
IS lating to sale of intoxicating liquor
prohibiting same when Sheppa
amendment goes into effect Gas amen
lg ed last night to include fifth class
iii censes), by vote of Ia to Al.
chi The house also passed IL. 334, rela
IL ing to erection of ii county jail in R,
he land S. Is, authorizing city of Bl
at lington to issue bonds for construct
ne and maintenance of permanent pay
OF ments was read second and thi
time and passed under suspension
the rules, as was IS 10 to prevent
promotion of anarchy
At few minutes after II o clio
"a Mr. Austin of Highgate moved that
house adjourned at IL Is in order tt
members might get something to {
xo and catch the noon train Mr. O Do
Ill of Brunswick opposed the motion a
ng it was lost by vote of S5 to 6S.
Ter The rules were suspended and the
,he lowing bills with proposals of amer
vas ment were passed in concurrence:
on 122, relating to discharge of mortgs
on. when mortgage or assignee is deceas,
II. 32S, relating to sale of all assets
a corporation not under jurisdiction
the public service commission.
The house adopted in concurrel
with proposal of amendment, j. r..
er- 26, relating to physical and milit
training in secondary schools.
To Adjourn Wednesday.
chit The senate yesterday aftern
rth passed in concurrence III. 3O7. pro,