The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-10
STATE REFUSES TO CONFIRM.
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full that the senate would confirm Mr..
Brooks so that the house would not be
forced to see the affair THROUGH to the Z
finish and so that the public hearing set
for this afternoon might be avoided 1t
is not improbable that the hearing may
be dispensed with if any way to do it is
discovered. L
The city manager plan charter of the
city OF st. Adams was passed in the
house this morning under a suspensIon
OF the rules. In order that it might be
messaged Immediately to the senate a
motion to reconsider it was made and
defeated. technicalitv making it pos
sible to have the bill taken over to the
senate chamber this afternoon II
While the governor was receiving I
set back in the senate the state board of
education was receiving one i'm the house
where the bill fixing the salary of the
state commissioner of education at ST..
coo was passed and attemDts to amend
| it by increasing it to $1,000 were killed
The state board at present fixes the sal
! airy and is pawn Clarence H. Dempsey,
| the new commissioner $4,000. 1t IS gen
erally expected that if this bill passes
| the result will be considered as q vote OF
| lack of confidence in the present state
board of education and should this take
place some startling developments might
! be expected. 1t is rumOred in some
quarters that it is a part of the Stearns
normal school plan to bring about sit
uation in which Mr.. Dempsey will leave
the state and Prof. Edward ID. Collins OF
| Middleburv. a stron" advocate OF the
Stearns bill. will be put at the head OF
/ the educatiOna system.
/ Before taking u other business tins
morning the house reconsidered its vote
of Yesterday whereby it refused to in.
crease the pay of assistant Judges to 81
| a dav and then killed the measure. The
vote was III to lO6 in favor of recon
sideration and Ia TO 9S against the pas
| SAGE of the bill
Senator Sherburne of Orange county
| this morning introduced proprosal Is to
I the constitution changing the time. that
n woman would become legally of age
The house rejected two bills. H-14G. /
Ipermitting the town of st. JohnSbury To
ieXempt from taxation the club house OF
! the St Johnsbury Woman's club; and
H-197. an act to provide municipal court /
rooms.
Nineteen bills were passed by the
! house: HI, providing that no railroad
doing business within the state shall at
I tach to the rear of freight trains operating
outside of yard limits cabOOSe car not
equipped with toilet, water coolers and
monitors 81, providing for a separate
ballot for each party participating IN d.
| rect primaries and that voters therein
shall declare their party utilization; So,
amending the general laws relating to
! homestead S-23, relating to a surviving
| husbands interest in the real estate OF his
deceased wife: S-2S, extending the time
! within which the construction Of railroads
! heretofore authorized may be commenced
or finished H-110. relating TO deer doing
damage to crops; HIP, providing for
! placing the construction of a building tor
town purposes under the general super
| vision of a building committee; H-l34,
! providing for n demonstration of ability
| by an applicant for license to drive a
motor vehicle before an inspector appoint
| ed by the secretary of state; Il-loJ. to
pay William X. Wyman of Starksboro
| S12S.40 for wearing apparel lost or stolen
| while member of the student army train
| ing corps at the L. Y. NJ; H-166, relating
| to boarding a passenger train without
! paying fares and lettering about railroad
| property H-16S. relating to the taking
OF land for school purposes H-l10, provid-
ing for taking shad with u spear from
| Seymour lake during October and NOvem-
! Der; Hing, changing terms of Grand
| Isle county court 80 the last Tuesday in
/ April and October; HID, prescribing the
i ColorS and label for gasoline receptaceS
i H-1S1, relating to misrepresentation by
Insurance companies of the financial CON
ditlon OF any company: H-132. TO pay
Holden p. Beach IF Ferrisburg $500 for
damage done by inmates of the Vermont
Industrial school in destroying 40 colonies
of bees H-194, providing for the appoint
ment of five to include the secretary of
civil and military affairSl to compile a
history of NermontS part in the World
| war; E1--I-. providing IUaJ county USu
and game WardenS may receive not more
than 500 a month when continuously en-
I. ployed and not more than $3.50 a day
when not continuously employed; H-221
making the salary of the chaplains of the
, house of representatives and the senate
the same as that of a member.
In despatching the largest calendar of
the session SO far, the house yesterday
| went on record for closed primaries,
] against raising pay of side Judges for
J | a 100000 biennial appropriation to Grad
icate bovine tuberculosis and against
J $3.50 salaries for certain fish and game
4 lwardens.
Among the bills rejected by the house
8 without voice being raised in their
4 favor were the full crew bill (H-9l,) the
J engine foot-board bill (H-72l and the bill
q to require train numbers to display
! numbers tH-G6 THE standard caboose
4 bill (H-7D was wR;'.lnd down so that
! all it provides for is a caboose with two
= four wheel trucks, the provisions foT
4 toilets, water coolers nd monitors being
: stricken. The house killed (H-99) to re
8 quire banks to pay interest from day OF
a deposit to day of withdrawal: iH-ll9,)
> relating to burial permits; tH-lll.l to
amend the peddlers license provisions
: (S-2,l relating to number of witnesses to
& a deed.
y One of the first bills to come before
y the house at Yesterdays afternoon SEES
q sion was (H-74. appronriating $4,000,
: yearly for the next two years tor the
q eradication of bovine tuberculosis. The
d bin came i'm amended so as to reduce
s the appreciation to 100000 yearly; Mr.
q Luce of Pomfret, who has been cham
y pioniug the measure explained that {
Il satisfactory argument Lad been reached
d between the mittees on agriculture
81 and concentrations as to this reduction
a and the amendment was adopted by tin
y house. MIR Reyes of Reading moVe'
q that the bill be ordered to lie. - he sane
~ | H., 4l,n,,oht II nIaUbf m no considered n
& connection with CH 1917 relating. to dis
d posaI of carcasses of condemned bovines
y His motion was carried.