The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-03-23
Especial to The ReformcrD
MONTPELIER, March .


MONTPELIER, March %.
Following the enactment Of the high
way board bill yesterday morning and
the adoption of the Kingsley amend
ments to the Stcarns educational bill in
the senate. the house yesterday afternoon
refused final passage TO H3SS. provid-
ing for a dairy plant for the University
Of Vermont, and the senate adopted the
Sherburnc amendments to the Vermont
Volstcad act, H-141, and reduced the
poll tax for men and women in H-22 to
81 instead OF s.. Us originally provided.
Governor Hartness, who signed the
highway bill Just before noon, sent IN to
the senate yesterday afternoon the names
OF Senator w y. Bryant and Stoddard
Il. Bates, present highway commissioner.
az members of the board. the same being
confirmed i'll executive session as soon
a. the days business was completed.
This ends the legislative part of the
most troublesome controversy of the seS-
, sion
The Shcrburne amendments to Hill
were explained by their author in a 10
minute speech and Senator Villas spoke
about the same length Of time in behalf
of the original bill, which, with Is
amendments he proposed. he declared to
be in harmony with Vermont practice
and the N0iStead act, which he declared
to be the best consensus of liquor icsiS-
latiou the world had ever seen.
The amendments were adopted by a
vote of IL to II and the bill went To Il
third reading. Senators Villas and White
alone voting in the negative.
Those voting for the Shcrburnc amend
ments Senators Bryant. Cohurn, Clark.
Dana, Durham, Farnham. Foster. Kings
ley, AIcKillip. Montgomery Newton.
Nichols. Osgood, Sherburne. White and
Williams: Is
Those opposed: Senators Andrews.
Blodgett Bottum. Cady. Carpenter.
Chaffee. Cobb COwlcs. Estee, Taylor,
Villas and Whitcomb: u.
Senator White offered an amendment
to strike out section > which reads as
follows:
The term furnish" or the term
possess" shall not apply to Intoxicating
liquor placed in 4 bona iide private
dwelling prior to January 16, 1920"
HOot, Mon, Hae He Scatch?
/ This amendment led Senator NcKilip
to say that he thought he had the same
right to half a pint of liquor in his pos
session as the president of the United
States had to have a barrel of Scotch.
I Senator Cuburn favored the amendment,
as he said humOrously. that il might give
/ him an idea of how much of n stock his
colleagues had OH hand. Senator Bryant
asked if the amendment would not make
j him lawbreaker on account of a case
of whiskey which he bought for illness
in the Odd Fellows Home and which he
dispensed as ree1ired. Senator Sher-
burnc, who moved to suspend the rules
so the White amendment could be voted
on. said the amendment might endanger
the entire bill.
The White amendment was defeated,
Senators Coburn. Dana, Montgomery.
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! There was a lively debate on the poll
! tax bill. the 81 amendment of the COM
mittee being adopted by vote of IL to
/ u.
Those voting for the 81 tax for men
and women alike We're: Senators An
Carpenter. Chaffec. Cpburn. Clark,
Cowles, Durham. Estee, Sherburue,
Slayton. Taylor. White, and Williams !:
Those opposed: Senators Cobb. Dana,
j Farnham. Foster, Kingsieys McI<illip.
Montgomery. Newton, Nichols, Osgood,
Villas and Whitcomb: Ia
! The amended bill went to third reading
| BY vote Of IS to II. ~.
In defending the 50 tax, Senator Nc
| Killip told of a lady recently elected
/ school commissioner in Burlington. who
! said she preferred to pay the usual 50
/ tax and then proposed to have something
| to say about how the money would be
spent
Pleads for Women.
Senator Cc-7urn protested that it made
| the tax too high for the ordinary woman
to pay. and Senator Blodgett explained
the care with which the committee had
arrived at its conclusions Senator
Dana deplored changing the 50 tax.
which was an old-estahlished custom.
| He said the women were not asking for
special privileges If there were poor
/ families. unable to pay the tax. the town
| could exempt them, just as they do now.
Senator Newton said the young mon
nolI tax-pavers usually told the older
| men. property owners, Whit. tax they
J should pay and thought the ST tax would
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