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Excerpt from A Green Mountain Boy Born and Bred
He voted Yes on the bill establishing parcel post, the passage of which reduced the cost of living for rich and poor alike by lowering the transportation charges on all kinds of products.
He opposed Canadian reciprocity and spoke against it in the Senate, believing it would be disastrous to the agricultural interests of Vermont.
He voted Yes on the bill to establish a bureau for the welfare of children and women laborers, a measure to make life worth living for every juvenile and woman wage earner.
He voted Yes for the bill permitting the President to put on the free list such articles as were controlled by monopolies, thereby antagonizing the powerful trusts and their army of pair lobbyists at the national capital.
He strongly supported the Child Labor bill, the latest measure for elevating the conditions of toiling childhood.
Vermont d'airymen always found him voting right in regard to oleomargarine. He strenuously opposed all efforts to allow the oleomargarine dealer to color his product so as to resemble butter, which has been the chief contention of the Vermont farmer.
He has had a potential in?uence in the committee on Indian Affairs and has persistently fought from the first the hundreds of bills which if passed would have unjustly deprived the red man of his property. The Indians regard him as their true friend.
He voted No on the motion to strike out that portion of the Conservation bill that gave the Government the right to conserve the resources of the Connecticut river. This was a deliberate attempt on the part of certain powerful interests to cripple the conservation system. Senator Page believed in saving the God-given resources of New England for the people of that prosperous section and their children's children.
He voted for the Dillingham Immigration bill, a far-reach ing measure that offered the proper solution of one of the most complex questions now before Congress and the nation.
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