The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-02-11
Gov. Hartness Appointed
Fair Haven Man as Fish
and Game COm'r
VOTE WAS 16 TO ID;
BATTLES CONFIRMED
Last Named Was Reap
pointed as Commissioner
of Industries

BY close vote of Is to IA, the Ver-
mont Senate in executive session this
morning refused to confirm the APP
pointment of Captain Harold ?. Shell
don of Fair Haven as fish and game
commissioner to succeed Linus Leayens
of Cambridge. This is the second of
the appointments of Governor Hart
ness which the Senate has not APP
proved. The Senate confirmed the re-
appointment of John S. Buttles of
Brandon as commissioner of industries,
and three trustees of Middlebury col
lege as follows: P. NJ Meldon of Rut-
land, Judge Harland B. Howe of Bur
lington and L. A. Darling of East
Burke
The first thing the House did this
morning was to reconsider its vote Of
yesterday afternoon, whereby it re
fused to adopt the recommendation of
the committee of the whole that sec
tion three should be stricken from
II. 3s. the standard time measure, so
that the railroads would be left un-
hampered az to making schedules. Mr..
Newton of Clarendon moved for recon
sideration, and Mr.. Luce of Pomfret,
who has all along led the fight for
the bill in It's present form, stated that
he had discovered that there is law
on the statute books which allows rail-
roads to change their schedules as they
please. without giving reason therefor,
and that the supreme court has ruled
that matters pertaining to interstate
traffic shall be under the control of
the interstate commerce commission,
50 that the state really has no author
ity in the matter
Considering these findings. Mr.. Luce
said it would place the state in very
embarrassing position 10 pass bill
of this kind and he was ready to
change his stand in favor of striking
out section three of the bill. Mr.. Bar
Der of Brsttleboro commended Mr..
Luce for the stand he had taken and
favored the bill with section three
stricken out, He also stated that he
wanted il understood that he had not
been retained by any railroad to fight
this bill. He simply opposed section
three on general principles Of fairness.
Mr.. Simpson Of Sheffield thought
that the bill should be ordered to lie
until Massachusetts had taken some
action on the daylight saving law, but
it was amended by striking out section
three and was then passed. thus reg
istering Vermont's protest against day
light saving. but not attempting to
rgUulafa train schedules
Dempsey's Salary Questioned.
When Ii. l23, fixing the maximum
salary of the commissioner of educa
tion at S4 1000 came up for passage this
morning, Mr.. Stearns of johnson was
successful in having the bill laid on
the table. He gave as his reasons for
this action the stories which had been
circulated that he was in some way
connected with the bill.
This bill is something which I know
nothing about and have had nothing
to do with" said MIR Stearns. But
there is a question after hearing the
present commissioner talk the other
night and belittle the schools Of Yer
mont and compare our normal schools
to the nigger schools of the south
whether we have a man who is worth
$4,000. We may want to ask the state
board later why Mr. Dempsey was of
fered 81 POO more than he was getting
in Milton, Mass We may want to
ask also who is paving this propagan-
da which bears all the earmarks of
coming from the commissioner OF edu-
cation
The House took action on a long
calendar this morning with very lit
tie debate and then voted that when
adjournment was taken for the day it
be until Monday evening at 1880.
Two new bills were introduced in the
Senate this mornings s. 70. Senator
Villas. making ehattel mortgage wr!t
ten to cover present and future in
valid security for such in
and amending the affidavit
on a mortgage TO cover any later in
debtedness; and 5 -, Senator Slayton.
for completion of the vital
records Of the state.
Lieut.. Gov. Foote announced this
the appointment Of Senator
Williams Of Rutland and Senator /
Sherburne Of Orange as a committee TO
investigate the necessity OF addition I
al committee rooms,
Barre School Tax Charter Amend
ment.
The senate to-day ordered to third /
reading the Barre charter amendment .
relating 10 the leyNing Of city school /
taxi fixing the maximum az sl.35 T
instead Of 81 and, as amended in the +