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VERMONT LEGISLATURE.

TUESDAY EvENI>G, Oct. %.
SENATE Rcpon-By Mr. Sabin, from the
com. on education, the bill relating to common
schools, with the following amendments; which
we're severally adopted :-srikng ont the sec
tons providing for the Office and prescribing the
duties Of town superintendent relieving the
county superintendent from the duty of visiting
and examining schools making it the duty of
district CLERKS to furnish the county superintcnd.
ants W tn information upon the state and condi-
lion OF lheir respective schools Limiting The
salary oi the state superintendent to $500 :
making 1t the duty of town clerks to render such
returns TO county commissioners, in relation to
schools, as lie is now required by law to render
to the Governor. The bill was subsequently
amended so as 10 constitute the Lieut.. Cover
nor State Superintendent. 1t was then read a
third Timely Nr Vim, from com. on manu-
features, in favor OF the silk bill, with an amend
mcnt raising the bounty from 10 10 Is cents ;
amendment adopted. and bill passed
The resolution for removal of U. S. Courts
was ordered to lie on the table.
The question on the passage of the education
bill was now taken, and the bill defeated, yeas
9, nays II.
Repor-From the com. on education, in favor
of bill providing for the division of dist. schools
in certain cases bill passed.
HOUSE,. BWs from The Senate-Tn addition
to chap 05 X 5, ordered to 81 reading. Bill
amending listing act of Al. (for trenna ap-
prasaD rejected In addition to New York and
Champlain Steamboat Co. act, (extendlng time
for payment OF s,ock,) passed.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30.
SENATE. Licenses The bill relating to IL.
censes was taken up and passed.
message was received from the Governor,
containing the returns of the statistics of com
mon schools, of which the following is an alb
s'ract: Returns have been received from only
l59 towns, containing. in 1913, 25,S74 families,
lSU9 school Districts 64,950 children between
the ages Of 4 and Is, J2,665 children attending
school in said year schools were taught by male
teachers 1896 months, by female teachers 69S7
months; 5l,0iS dollars were paid To the former
for wages, 33605 dollars to the latter; 60, 69l
dollars of public money were received by those
districts within the said year.
From these data it results that 10 per cent. Of
the children between and Is did not attend
the common schools; that the average monthly
wages of the male teachers was Sl3ll, of the
female teachers $3.50; that the average num-
Der of months taught was 6; the average mum
Der of children that attended school in each dis
trct, 20 and that the amount paid teachers
was equal to Sl,6l to each scholar taught.
1t also appeared that the population of the
towns from which returns have been made, was
l93,353 in 1910, and that the amount paid to
common school teachers in the whole State,
giving the towns received, and assuming the
remainder, is Sl2s.000.
House. Report-By com. on educ alton, Sem
ate bill in amendment Of chap Is r S, and it
was passed.
Senate bWs-Tn addition to chap 95 r S fix.
! ing times for holding Cnittenden Co. courts /;
passed. Adj.
2o'cLocK, NJ.
SENATE. From The table-Bill repeating act
relating the punishment of capital crimes. Mr.
Scott proposed a substitute, providing that
person sentenced to death shall suffer one years
solitary Imprisonment, at the conclusion of
which, on issue of warrant from the Judges
sentencing, he shall be privately executed with.
in the walls of the prison. The substitute was
adopted, and The bill passed. Adj.
HOUSE. Protection and DiStribuiion-The
| second resolution of tho majority that the Tar
if of 1912 has proved highly beneficial to the
people OF Vermont, was adopted, 100 to 10
The first resolution, declaring that protection is
necessary, and ought 10 he adopted by the "a
tional government, was called up, when Mr. w.
of NJ. moved an amendment, declaring (sub-
staniially) that the confidence of the friends of
protection is not due to the scandidae for the
Presidency, who, like James X. Polk, declares
he is opposed To the doctrine OF Protection and
to the Tariff of 1912: ayes H. noes 50; 50
the amendment was adopted. The resolution
was then adopted, ll3 to 81. The third reso-
luton, declaring that the distribution of the pro-
ceeds of the public lands is due act of justice
to the states, and necessary for the perminency
of the Protective system, was also adopted, ll9
to 81. The fourth resolution, ins,ructng oal