The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-03
MANY SESSIONS
TO BEGIN TODAY
California Has Plan for
Spending $75O,OOO,OOO on
Irrigation - West Vir-
ginia to Provide $5O,OO0,-
900 for Improved High
ways - Vermont to At
tack blue" Laws

NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-LegisIatures o.
Is states and territories. most OF which
open their sessions today or later tins
month, have before them formidable plo-
grams OF tax reform, dry law enforce
ment election redistrictiug IL accordance
with the 1920 census, soldier bonuses, pub
lie improvements, revision of constitu-
tons, laws for husbauu-and-wit indus
trial and suffrage legislation, state aid
for farmers. boxing commissions, new H.
nanciug, retrenchment by consolidation
or abolition of state departments, anti
}adtcllIsm, automobile regulation, reOr-
ganlZatIOn of state mIlitias, relief for pub
lie utilities. amendment or repeal of pri-
mary laws, commission or manager
plans Tor cites and counties and pro and
autI-blue law enactments
California, with its ambitious $3.50 000,-
UOU statewide irrigation project, leads the
states III the matter Of proposed public
improvements and will ask the legisla-
tors TO authorize survey of the contem-
plated enterprise. Colorado also has a
big mountain tunnel in contemplation.
West Virginia sOlons viii be required to
pass laws At the session opening January
10 providing for the expenditure OF $50
100000 for building good roads, for
which the people voted bond issue at
the recent election. Missouri also must
provide SGO,O0O,0O0 road building IegisIa-
ton.
Establishment Of state constabulary.
urged largely by farmers, and enactment
OF Il bill legalIzmg boxing, in addition to
proposal to repeal her state primary
law, held unconstitutional by the state
supreme court, Will be taken up by the
Legislature OF Illinois sometime after that
body meets for its opening session next
" ednesday. Fights against primary laws
ale TO be made also IN Indiana. Missouri,
Nebraska, New York, New Mexico.
North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and
Wyoming
Vermont liberals plan an attack on
the blue laws OF the state insofar as they
relate to observance of the Sabbath. An
effort viii be made, it is said. to modify
the present statutes so as to permit anna
teur sports, particularly baseball ON Sun
day, where the sport Is not commercial
ized. Local option such as exists in Mas
sachusetts, enabling individual cities and
towns to determine their own practice
in the matter of Sunday games, will be
sought. New Hampshire, Pennsylvania,
and South Dakota are also expected to
discuss anti-blue laws. California, mean
while, will argue the merits or dement's
Of n Sunday closing bill.
Reorganization of the state judiciary
system and a constitutional amendment
proposing that none but "American cItI-
Zens, native or fully naturalized, be al
lowed the right Of suffrage in Texas" will
be before the law-making body at Austin,
Tex, beginning January II. Another
Texas bill would exclude Orientals from
acquiring land within the state. Kansas
representatives will have bills before
them providing state aid for highway
construction and financial assistance to
farmers in purchasing homes.
Capital punishment. a result of legal
discussion over the COle-Grammer murder
case, will confront the Nebraska legisla-
ture and West Virginia viii act on pro-
posals to abolish private detective agen-
Cies The last named state also will con
slider amendments to laws relating to mar
Tiage in order to make non-support an OK
traditable offence California legislators
once again will be called upon to consider
the Act of 1919, which was designed to
place a wife on an equality with her hus
band, and which was defeated last fall.
Many states will be confronted with
the problem of raising funds to pay sol
diers' bonuses voted at the last election.
South Dakota Is pledged to obtain &c.
100000: Montana legislators Will vote on
the question of a bonus for 10000 eE-
service men; Delaware lawmakers will
take a similar vote; Connecticut must
raise s.. 100000 for soldier relief: New
Hampshire, in addition to a bonus, may
exempt veterans property from taxation
M to $500 value; Iowa sOlons at the leg
islative session beginning January 10. also
viii consider a soldiers bonus bill.
Other public questions. as given below,
will be considered by the legislatures OF
the following states:
Arkansas-Abolition of several state
commissions, proposed by Governor-Elect
McRae is expected to pTecipItate a bit
ter. fight State board of health win ask
Q one mill tax to maintain trained per
sonnet in every county. Educational pro-