The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-03-15
Majority of Committee
Against Repeal of the
Status
REFERENDUM MAY
BE ATTACHED
The Bill, S. 81, Will Come
Up Next Thursday
Afternoon

The fight on S. 81, to repeal the pres
ent primary law, began in the Vermont
House this morning, but did not get
very far, because the bill, which came
in with a majority report against It,
was ordered to lie and made special
order for Thursday afternoon at 2,l5
o'clock on motion of Mr.. Flint OF
Mortified An amendment providing
for referendum was offered by Mr..
Chase Of Bennington
Although 10 names were signed to
the majority report voting for the re-
lection of the bill. Mr. Lord Of Nor
gan asked in the House this morning
that his name be taken from the ma
iority report and placed Oh the minor
ity report, which originally contained
only four names. SO the final report
on the bill was nine against and five
for the measure, az follows:
Against the repeal of the primary
Messrs. Jackson of Burlington. Ballou
Of Chester, Powers of Kirby, Booth of
Waltham. Grove of Sheldon, Churchill
Of Elmorp. Hodgdon of CRANKY, Mer-
rifeld of Newfane and Miss Beard OF
Orange.
For the repeal of the primary:
Mes-r- Bryant of Troy, Ross Of Rut
land Town. Wade of Dorset, Ioslyn OF
South Hero and Lord of Morgan.
The House had a very short calen
dar this morning, passing one bill, and
ordering two to third reading.
The measure which was passed was
II. 3sS. which allows the raising Of the
rate for school taxes in the city Of
Barre from one dollar 10 Sl.35 on the
grand list On motion Of Mr.. Wish
art Of Barre City a new section was
added, providing that il take effect
from passage
The two bills which went TO third
reading were; II. $50, providing more
copies Of the legislative directory shall
be printed and shall be distributed TO
town and county clerks. etc; and II.
1911 10 aid the town of Jamaica IN
rebuilding a bridge.
In the Senate. the governors veto
Of $. %, the homestead law. was or
dercd to lie. without opposition. The
Vermont NolStead act, so called I'll.
I4ll. reported this morning from the
Senate committees on temperance and
judiciary so amended that the whole
bill il practically changed. as all after
the enacting clause is struck out and
new sections substituted, was not tax
on up this morning but may he this
afternoon There are many changes
in the bill.
Most OF the morning in the Senate
wa taken up with routine business.
Neither House assembled until y
o'clock
Senator Williams Of Rutland county
introduced Joint resolution to-day.
authorizing the governor to erect
medallion. with bronze tablet, to Gen.
Lewis A. Grant. in the State House.
Gen. Grant commanded during the
greater part Of his service in the Civil
war the famous old Vermont brigade,
composed of the 2d. 3D. 4th, Jth, 9th
and llth Vermont regiment. The bri-
gade was regarded as one OF the best
lighting units in the Union army and
one whose loss OF lie exceeded that Of
any other brigade.
senator Williams also introduced an
other proposal Of amendment to the
constitution creating a board Of par
dons TO hear all pleas for pardon in
cases Of felony.
Gov. Hartness Vetoes a Bill.
Governor Hartncss has vetoed anoth-
or Of the "women's equality" bills on
ground that il is too soon after the
comforting of suffrage on women To IN
dertake the equalizing process. The
hill sent in laet evening without the
governors approval is s. p. which in
creases the homestead right from $500
20 81 0O0.
The governors reasons for Netoiug
the bill are as follows
81 believe il Is unwise TO try 70 put
through anv satisfactory legislation
aimed TO equalize property rights and
obligations Of men and women. Since
the right Of suffrage has been granted
10 women there has not been sufii-
cient time 10 find a satisfactory basis.
Out Of fairness to women We should
defer such legislation to the 1925 ses
sion"
In extending the time on the cree
tion of a Nacdonough memorial az Yer
gennes. the Senate last night called
for an accounting from the commission
not later than April 20. 1921. amend
ing the bill lH 3l2l in that respect
The increase i'm compensation for
personal injuries was passed in the
original form Of ". - without amend
ment.
The following bills were passed last
night
II. l67. unclaimed deposits IN savings
banks: II. $50. time limit for adjusting
and paying fire losses; u. Isl. 10 IL
cense adiu.tcr of fire losses; u $50.
limiting campaign expenses for csndi-
dates for state Office; II. 353. amend
ing charter Of village ~ Cambridge.
n. 1911. the Dorsey bill. forbidding
rebates on FIRE insurance premiums.
was recansidered and re- referred to
committee on banking and insurance 10
see II the committee would propose the
rejection of the amendment striking
out the penalty clause when informa
tiou j. refused.
n 100. the circus bill. adversely r.
n1rted was rcommittcd. IT. les. max I
ing special fund for workmen's com
pensation in certain cases. made = spe
cal order for "wednesday and : -.
limiting amount wh.ch husband NAV 4
hold exempt from attachment in su
estate hv the entirety was made a .Te-