The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-03-29
LEGISLATIVE
ACTIVITIES At
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Of slaughter, the House passed the mn,
lion dollar special appropriation Din
III. 426l), without opposition.
Included in the bills killed by the
Housc last night was that providing for
an aviation board III, 442l, an admin
istration measure, which was stoutly
defended, but went down to defeat by
a vote of II to "a, and was refused re-
consideration by a vote OF ~ 70 VI
after another hot debate.
Among nine bills signed by Gov,
Hartness yesterday were: H. "a, the
100000 bovine tuberculosis eradica-
ton measures; s. so, the Durham Sun.
day observance bill; $. II, Westport-
Essex ferry; and the two Boston q
Maine measures III. 2Sl), the merger
bill, and (H. 3Sl), the taxation on cor
porations bill.
Both houses started rushing legisla-
ton last evening, all bills which were
ordered to a third reading being put
through the rest of the procedure UNI
der suspension Of the rules and mes
saged along.
In this way the House passed: ),
1902. relating to state library; H. APT,
issuance of stock in corporations anu
providing for the issuance OF non par
value stock: II. 42s, changing the date
Of the annual meeting of the village OF
Wells River; II, 249, making women
eligible to hold public office the same as
men, and H. 430, relating to issuance OF
marriage licenses to minors.
On this last bill, there was consider
able difference of opinion, the measure
going 10 a third reading by a vote OF
l04 to 20, and being passed by a vote OF
1903 to 2l. This bill provides that mi
nors cannot get a marriage license ex-
cept with the consent of parents, and
that those under Is years Of age can
not get such a license even with such
consent, unless furnished with a certi-
ficate from a municipal or superior
Judge that the public morals require
that such license shall be issued.
After some debate, the House killed:
H. 433, providing that drivers of motor
vehicles shall take out insurance or a
bond as security for personal injuries
caused by such motor vehicles, This bill
was opposed by Mr.. Johnson OF West
Fairlee, Mr.. Blood of West Windsor
and Mr.. Pollard of Cavendish.
There was a spirited debate on II.
1870. providing that towns shall main
tain roads by the patrol system.
Messrs. Cushman of Rochester, Carpen-
ter of Cabot, Capron of Leicester, Rich
ardson of Concord all opposed the bill
on the ground that it imposed a duty
on the town which should be left to the
discretion of the town. Mr.. Bush OF
Benson favored the measure as progress
sive. Mr.. Mckinley of Stowe said that
in the conference which the committee
had with the new highway board in re-
gard to the bill, Stoddsrd Bates had de-
clared that the legislature might pass
the bill, but it couldn't be enforced.
The bill was killed.
Another move to expedite legislation
was the resolution adopted by the
House last evening directing the clerk
of the House and the secretary of the
Senate to transmit othe governor all
bills now in their files which have been
passed by both houses, and do likewise
as bills are passed. This resolution was
introduced by Mr.. Button of Middle
bury.
An attempt to get reconsideration on
S. l07, exemption of homes from taxa
tion, moved by Mr.. Blood Of West Wind
sor. was refused, 90 to 81.
Senator Durham introduced in the
Senate last night a bill Is. la to en-
large the village of Brattleboro.
Senators Sherburne. Williams and
Durham were appointed members from
the Senate on the committee of con-
ference for H. l4l. the prohibition act.
The Senate passed and messaged to