The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-25
ARMISTICE DAY BILL PASSED.
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drew his proposed amendment and the
bill was passed.
The house bill increasing the amount
which may be expended con highways
other than state roads, which had been
placed on the calendar for this morning,
was again ordered to lie and made a
special order for Thursday afternoon at
80 O'Clock. This is the measure which
the rural element in the house are back
ing
The senate passed four bills this morn
ing, chief among them being the one re-
lating to the primary law. a measure
which gives the state some degree of the
closed primary.
Senator Villas of Chittenden county
introduced a measure amending the laws
relating to the hours of employment of
women and children. 1t would reduce
the time to nine and half hours a day
end from 20 to As hours n week.
Yesterdays Sessions. .-
With about 100 vacant seats. the house
held its first Monday session yesterday
afternoon. and in Al minutes disposed OF
a good griSt of business, receiving Il new
bills, passing six, recommitting one, and
diSpOsing of several others in various
ways. Expectations are that the educa-
tional bill backed by the state board. and
providing for the establishment of a state
teachers college at Burlington will appear
in the legislature this week and thus open
up matter which has been much dis
cuSsed during the last few months.
/ Among the bills passed by the house
Yesterday were the three National Guard
bills introduced by Mr.. Webb of Shell
burne: II. 60. relating to the status of
National Guardsmen discharged from fed
eral service: II. Ga. providing for appro-
priatlon of sum not to exceed 800 for
i burial expense of a veteran of the World
war. where estate is not sufficient; and
III. 60, fixing new scale of payment for
members of the National Guard. Other
bills passed were $. ,, fixing the qualifi-
cations of voters in general elections :;
$. q. relating to school age; and III. g. re-
lating TO Jurors fees. On motion of Bal
ley of Colchester, the house recOnSidered
/ its action ON rejection of III. >, providing
that state will bear expenses of board
and lodging of petit jurors kept together
by order of court, and the measure was
/ ordered to lie.
! :. 1. permitting candidates to use politi-
cal newspaper advertising. was recommit-
ted to the committee on the motion of Mr..
Flint of Mortified. On motion OF Mr..
Wishart of Barre, III. 81, 70 establish com
mission on foreign and domestic COM
merce. was ordered so lie after il had
been amended by Mr.. Wishart, The same
action was taken on :. ,. relating 60 the
number of witnesses 70 deed. One Of
the bills ordered To a third reading was the
senate bill making Armistice day legal
holiday
Senator Coburn of chittenden county
introduced in the senate last evening by
request new bin Is. 2G)). authorizing
the public service commission to grant anv
street railway not making a reasonable
return on a reasonable value of such rail
way. or a part thereof, to discontinue ser
vice and dispose of its property. This bill
is along the same line aS one which caused
considerable discussion in the house two
years ago and which was finally rejected.
The new measure was referred to the COM
mittee on corporations and franchises.
Another communication was received
in the house Yesterday afternoon from
Weltha c. Todd. the elderly lady who Pc
titiOned the legislature last week for a life
pension on account of treatment which
she alleged to have received at the Brat
tleboro Retreat. She now makes further
charges against the Retreat and asks for
an investigation of the institution. Mrs
Todd is now under the charge of the over
seer of the poor in the town of Rutland.