The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-12
Heated Discussion Also in
the House Over Their
Taking the Oath
FOLLOWING FREEDOM
OF THE BALLOT
The Bill Was Recommitted
After a Lengthy
Debate


spent ip discussion on H. !, the bill-pro-
viding that women voters shall take the
freemans oath and pay poll tax, while
the Senate took up the greater part of
the morning in debate over measures re-
garding deputy attorney general ire
iected and S. 80, relating to assistance
for the attorney general The Senate
| also got into hot debate on the federal
| farm loan measure.
After debating the suffrage bill for
nearly an hour, considering two amend
ments one amendment to those amend
ments and another amendment to the
I bill as amended. the House finally voted
TO recommt the bill on motion of Mr..
Estee OF Montpelier, This bill came into
! the House this morning as a special or
| der from yesterday afternoon Amend
ments to the bill were offered by MIR.
Alexander of st. Albans, providing that
women who SO requested should be al
lowed to pay a poll tax and be placed
on the list, also that this bill should go
into effect April /, 1919
MIR. Cudworth of Londonderry opposed
both the bill and the amendments. He
was supported in his stand by Mr.. Orton
of Walden, who spoke for the listers and
offered an amendment which would in.
clude all the women of voting age in -
state, whether they requested to be
/ placed on the list or not. Mr.. Dunklee
of Vernon had previously offered an
amendment 10 the amendment of Mr..
| Alexander. requiring that the request of
women desiring to be placed on the list
be submitted in writing before the time
of fling Inventories.
Mir White of Georgia. Mr.. Tracy of
/ johnson, Mr. White of Woodstock, Mr.
/ Dyer of Salisbury, and Mr. Hopkins of
| Burlington favored the passage of the
bill, although Mr.. Hopkins made it clear
that he was not in favor Of suffrage as a
general thing, but he thought that, under
the existing circumstances, this bill
should pass.
After a heated discussion on S. 50, re-
lating to assistance for the attorney gen
eral, which was adversely reported this
morning, the Senate refused to reject the
/ bill, by yea and nay vote of q TO .,
and the measure was ordered to a third
reading. Senators Villas, Payne and
| Amey urged against rejection, while Sen
ators Maurice and LaFleur favored re-
lection
On motion of Senator Amey. S. 50, re-
lating to attachment and sale of prop
erty subject to mortgage, pledge or lien,
was ordered TO lie Third readings were
ordered on II. 4G, III. 50, Fl. 90, II. l4l and
S. So.
When the senators had expended con-
siderable oratory over H. IL, permitting
banks to invest in federal farm loan
bonds, the bill was finally ordered to lie,
and made a special order for Thursday
morning.
This measure has attracted a great
deal of attention since it passed the
House, and it is receiving much opposi
tion in the Senate. 1t came in under an
adverse report this morning and the re-
port was explained by Senator SchoG
for the committee on banking and in
surancc. Senator Hill moved that the
bin be ordered to lie and made special
order for Thursday. Senator Schof called
for a yea and nay vote on the question,
which resulted in the motion carrying,
Is TO 10,
Tn the House this morning, H. 76 re.
lating to the Importation testing and
examination of horses, cattle and mules,
which came in under a favorable report,
was made a special order for 2:i5 o'clock
this afternoon in order that more time
might be given for its discussion.
There was a question pending on Ii.
ll2, relating To the settlements of ac-
counts of executors, administrators, trus-
tees and guardians, and there had been
some discussion on the matter by Mr.
Austin of Highgate in favor of the bill,
and Mr.. Williams of Proctor, in opposi-
tion.
May Get Through by Middle of March.
Plans for final adjournment began to
form Yesterday when the speed up
committee met with the chairmen of the
various committees and made a careful
check of the various measures pending
in committee, with a view to the best
expedition of business
The Senate committees are practically
clear of business, so that the Senate took
an early adjournment yesterday morning
and did not sit in the afternoon. There
are about l25 bills in House committees
and up to yesterday 207 had been intro
dueed in the House and So in the Senate.
The legislative craftsmen had 35 bills
"in the works" and there may be 10 or
more introduced from committees, but,
after the craftsmen finish their work
and the committees formulate their own
measures, it is doubtful if there are more
than 300 bills i'll sight.
In the 1917 session, 465 bills were in
troduced in the House and l6l in the
Senate, so the chances are excellent for
there being less than one-half the num-
Der of bills to act upon during the pres
ent session.
If the committees continue their al
most daily good work, final adjournment
by the middle of March ought to be not
only possible but entirely practicable
and likely to come about. There are, of
course, some important measures to be
considered yet, highways, accounting and
state pay, for instance, but the work of
the legislature of 1917 is practically all
in sight.
Bills introduced in House
By Mr.. Merriam of Elmore Thy re-
quest) to amend section 4,S24 Of the
general laws. relating TO exemption from
attachment of lots in burial ground
and monuments thereon. (Shall not be
exempted in an action brought by the
(Confiuued On eighth Oaupl