The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-16
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Abram w. Foote, took the liberty of com
mending and endorsing what the two sena-
tors had said
The Stearns bill came into the house
with is amendments attached tending to
give the state board of education and the
commissioner of education more power
than the original bill provided. 1t was
favorably reported by - members of the
committees on education and educational
institutions. and unfavOrably by II mem
berS. Pending the question of adoption of
the first amendment Mr.. Darling of Chel-
sea offered as an amendment to the amend
ments substitute bill embodying the
substance of all the amendments that the
house might have before it the proposed
bill in its entirety. 1t was then voted that
the bill be ordered to lie and made spe-
cial order.
The house passed two bills, H-191, pro-
yiding $500 aid to the town of Jamaica in
rebuilding a bridge, and H-3S9, relating
to legislative directories. Among the six
bills which were ordered to a third read
ing were 1880. appropriating $1,000 to
aid the town of ReadsbOro in repairing
bridge across the Deerfeld river, and
H-267, relating to taxation of insurance
companies
Among the four bills rejected was S-6S.
increasing salary of insurance commits
siOner. Mr. Chase of Bennington, for the
committee on state and court expenses,
said the bill had been adversely reported
because it was found the insurance COM
missioner is making enough outside his
salary to make up for any inadequacy in
salary.
The house adopted the report of the
committee ON rules amending the rules so
that pending the rejecting of a bill amend
ments from the floor shall be in order.
Six bills were passed by the senate,
among which were H-l6S, limiting la
bility of towns for defective bridges :;
H-2S3. relating to livestock commissioners
and defining the powers and duties
H-359, relating to inspection of diseased
cattle. The bill providing for the registra-
ton Of nurses (S-7D, which came in
under adverse report, was killed by the
senate.
Hopes Of final adjournment next week
went glimmering yesterday when the
house put over the bill to repeal the pri-
mary tSG1) to Thursday afternoon and
the senate did likewise with liquor law
enforcement bill with the committee
amendments to the bill which substitutes
the greater part of the present law and
do away with most of the anti-saloon
league language of the bill as it came
from the house.
As a final touch, Mr. Peake of Bristol
moved in the house that when the house
adjourned Saturday noon it be to meet
at > o'clock on the Monday evening fol-
lowing, which was agreed to.
Steams Bill Report.
The favorable report on the Stearns
bill, with amendments, is signed by Con-
nal of Newport town. Piper of PantOn
Perry of Ira. Stowell of Windham
Beard of Waterville, Bentley of Sand
gate, Dyer of Salisbury, Blood of West
Windsor, Curtis of Lowell, Churchill of
Gilmore. Lyman of Hinesburg and Ryan
of Fairfield. The unfavorable report is
signed by MesSrs. Patterson of Newbury,
Cushman of Rochester. Smith of Land
grove, Webster of Hartland, Simpson of
Sheffield. Beattie of Maidstone, Tyler of
EnOsburg, Parmelee of Putney, Smith of
Stannard, Carpenter of Cabot and Beat
tie Of Brunswick.
In the senate yesterday afternoon SEN
ator Sherburne made a statement of the
reasons why his committee had proposed
amendments To the enforcement act
141). He called attention to the pro-
vision for the supreme courts removing
a states attorney who failed to do his
duty. whereas the constitution provides
that he can only be removed by impeach-
ment. He also spoke unfavOrably in re-
gard to the provision for haling a re-
spOndcut into court without specifying
just what he was charged with and of
the chancery provision whereby under
the nuisance clause the owner of prop
erty could be imprisoned without a jury
trial.
| (Williams) and l." said the senator
| from Orange. have been accused of be-
| ing 'rummicS' because we have been try
| ing to fix this law up so it would be
workable. / am in favor of prohibition
and l think the senator from Rutland
| county Is. but we must use our Judgment
about an enforcement law. There are
| temperance fanatics just as there are re-
| ligiOuS fanatics. We have a very good
| prohibition law on the statutes now. We
| know what it means and it has been
| passed on by the courts. | don't think
| we ought to junk it and start in on some
| thing new that we don't know very much
| about-a law that is subject to fiux and
| change. such as the Volstead act"
| The amendments set the alcoholic con-
| tent at one per cent. as in the present
| law, and Senator Kingsley moved to
| amend by making the specified content
| not more than that designated in the
| federal law. All amendments and the
| bin are put over until Thursday
/ The senate refused to amend HES.
! limiting the liability of towns under
| faults in bridges and culverts to $1,000,
/ and the bill went to third reading on a
close vote with the limit standing at
H-50. which virtually repeats the law
! requiring executors. administrators,
| trustees and guardians to report every
| year. was rejected after lengthy eX-
| PLANTATION by Senator Villas. who read
/ from letters from probate Judges. stat
/ ing the present law was working out
| well. Third reading was refused $50.
extending the law appropriating 90 per
cent of taxes to electric railroad corpo-
rations which fail to meet operating ex-
| penses and fixed charges.
| The senate cOncurred in house pro-
posals of amendment to 500, requiring
| town clerks to publish in the annual re-
| port a list of births recorded during the
| year Concurrence was refused in house
amendments to 500. relating to invest
ments of banks in the stock of other
nur - city and ,r gds' Courts u 1ns
1 rejected On motion of Senator Sher-
burne, H-2S6, requiring justices of the
peace to make returns. was kept alive
| and advanced to third reading on amend