The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-20
HARTNESS MAKES
TWO APPOINTMENTS
Names World War Veter-
ans Judges i'm Rutland
and Burlington
WINDHAM COUNTY
is FOR LUMP SUM
Delegation Almost Unanimously FavOra-
BILE to Salary Proposition - No EX-
citement Over Prospective Election of
Judges This Afternoon.
Especial to The Reformer.)
MONTPELIER. IAN. 20

| Especial to The RefOrmer.)
MONTPELIER, Jan. 20.
! Governor Hartness this noon an
nounced his first appointment. The gov
crnor said he had decided to name Henry
T. Shaw judge of the municipal court
of Burlington and Leonard F. Wing
judge of the Rutland city count Both
| of these men are veterans of the World
war and members of the American Le-
gion. Major Shaw served in the judge
advocate generals department at Wash
ington and was later appointed a member
| of the board of contract adjustment of
| the war department.
| Judge Wing went out as a private in
the First Vermont infantry and worked
up TO the rank of captain. He is a mem
| ber Of the Republican state committee
and was in charge OF the Republican
| state headquarters at Burlington during
! the election campaign. Both of the new
| judges are married and are active in the
! practice of the law
| The house and senate disposed of un-
| important routine business at the morn
! ing session today. clearing the way for
| the election in joint assembly this after
| noon of such officers a have to be chosen
| by the general assembly.
1t is almost impossible to believe that
the afternoon il to be taken UP by the
election of justices of the supreme court
and superior judges for there is no ac-
| tvlty i'm the lobbies or elsewhere all of
which points to a mere formal session
at which reflections will be the rule.
The supreme court Justices coming up for
election are: Chief John II. Watson.
William ii. Taylor, Willard W. Miles.
and Leighton L. Slack. The names of
these superior judges will be- presented
Ied >. Stanton, Fred NJ. Butler. Frank
l.. Fish. Stanley &. Wilson. Sherman r.
Noulton. and Harrie r. Chase.
Three trustees of the University of
Vermont are to be elected. The program
calls for the reelection of Warren II.
Austin of Burlington. Merton &. Rob
bins of Brattleboro and Herman X.
Chaffee of Rutland.
The joint assembly must also elect
Sergeant-at-arms and an adjutant gen
cral. The present occupants of these Of
fees. Dwight J. Dwinell. sergeant-at-
arms. and Col. II. +. johnson. gave no
opposition to their reelection.
Eighteen bills were introduced in the
house this morning. Among this num-
ber was the first bin ever TO be intro
dueed in a Vermont legislature by
woman, Miss Beard of Orange. offering
an amendment To the present law by
which aid is granted to mothers so that
such aid can be given to women whose
| husbands are incapacitated by illness
| from earning a living.
In connection with the house bills
which would have exempted veterans of
the World war from the payment of poll
taxes Mr.. Barber of Wilmington read
into the records of the house a resou-
tion adopted recently in burlington at a
conference of American Legion officials,
which objected to the passage of the
bills.
The resolution sets forth that the Le-
gi0n appreciates deeply the generosity
manifested i'm the bills" but adds that
the prime object of the American Le-
gion being service to the country. state
and community, it would be n failure of
its purpose to accept this gratuity." The
resolution then requested that the bills
be reported adversely and killed. The
| legislature had complied with the request
of the Legion and Mr.. Barber wanted
the resolution read into the records so
| that those who come after may under
stand just why this action was taken at
| this time
| The house this morning passed the bill
repeating the presidential primary law
| after il had been amended 50 that the
| provision for the holding of state con
| YentiOnS for the purpose of electing del
egateS to the national convention might
| be retained. As first introduced the
| bills struck out this provision and had
the defect not been detected there would
| have been no legal way for Vermont to
| secure representation i'm national conyen-
| tionS.
The lump salary proposition gained
some friends when the Windham county
| delegation almost unanimously decided
to support such bill. The members of
| the delegation feel that the lump sum
| bill should not be used as a means of
increasing the pay of the legislators.
Constitutional Amendments Discussed
The proposed constitutional amend
ments were taken up by the senate last
evening and discussed by Melvin e.
| Morse. state tax commissioner and sec
| retary of the commission which prepared
the report on the proposed amendments !;
Hale X. Darling. who appeared i'm be-
| half of proposal eight, giving the pub
| lie service commission the power of a
| court Walter \. DuttOn of Hardwick
chairman of the public service commits
| sion. who opposed proposal eight W. j.
Bigelow. who spoke in favor of a propos-
al which provides for the election of one
third of the representatives every two
years for a period of six years: Mayor
/ Harry &. Shurtleff of Montpelier. who
opposed the minority proposal removing
| the timelOck from the constitution
Senator Villas of Chittenden county
was called to the chair during the com
mittee OF the whole into which the sen
ate resolved itself to consider the pro-
posed amendments. Senator Villas
brought forward two new proposals Of
| amendment. one of them the proposal
to elect one-third of the members of the
house every two years and keep them in
service and the other proposal to limit
the membership of the house of repre-
| sentatives to -. distributed among the
| several counties according to population.
The eighth proposal was taken up
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