Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-11-06

excess of fines paid to the State under a
The liquor law } to Judiciary committee. c
BY Mr.. Tibbitts Of Sutton, relating TO j
grammar school lands IN Caledonia CO., :
giving lands in Sutton to Sutton Aca- {
demy.)
By Mr.. Marsh of Brandon, relating d
to Lamoille Plank Road Company TO
FIVE members from Lamoiile County.
The chair appointed as select commit
tee on bill chartering Westield Acade-
my, Messrs. Stoddard of Waterford,
Braley of Westfeld, Bascom of Milton,
Frost of Coventry, Farnam of Lowell.
Public Bills rstsrrsd.--Relsting to
public health to general committee. To
/ protect rights of married women, TO select
committee of three.
RePorts.-By committee on Educa-
ton, resolution for printing and distribu-
! ting enc thousand reports of Board and
/ Secretary of Education. Supported by
Nessrs. Needham of Hartford and Ste
; vens of St. Adams. who said the repor!
} contained very valuable matter. Mr..
: Bradley remarked that heretofore all at
: tempts to improve education have been
] IbY fixing 2 standard and forcing the peo-
/ pie up to it by statute penalties. The
: Board nsw adodts entirely the reverse. of
: this plan; it weuld induce the people to
= feel a deeper interest and voluntarily
= make improvements. Mr.. Little of
! Cornth objected to the proposed distri-
o button as inadequate. Mr.. Olmstead of
e Budport, said the people who really need
4 tie report will not read it if ii is pat in
# their hands, The Secretary had better
~ select the most important points and pub
~ fish in all the newspapers. Mr.. Marsh
. Of Brandon said this plan would fail, as
such people do not take the newspapers
that viii pubIis such matter. He would
y send the report tewn town and sehOo
. district meetings, if he could, to be reaC
and discussed. He approved the plar
Of the Board. Mlmstead said that near
- lly every family in his section takes on
70 Ior more newspapers, published in tn
- State and out of it. The difficulty
that the report is 50 voluminous that
will not be generally read if furnished
Mr.. Hubbard of Stockbridge noncurre
in some Of the suggestions of the gentle
men from Bridport and Brandon, but h
=. would print one thousand copies neve
theless, and distribute 70 those who wouI
., read them.
On Mr.. Mazfeld of Vershire wishe
re- enough printed to supply every distric
bs to be studio and mastered and referred
y when wanted. Newspapers would 4
.,.sy a-.zr--z., elr. .his purpose
Mr.. Rounds Of Chester observed h
Try people who read newspapers, read ju
to what pleases them, and skip therest, al
es. then the paper is done with. It viii L
bill be preserved for study and reference.
is true that Vermont has the credit
on building school houses and raising a
i'd educating men; but She is deficient
of many points still This report is want
bill to bring out these defects for discussi
and correction. Let New England
nit the nursery of men, to go out into
,un- great West with sound heads and hea
to found new States; and let US spre
ring these reports to aid in this work.
?. Mr.. Stevens Of St. Adams moved
!, il amendment, to furnish one copy to e;
pro town superintendent and school dist
on clerk, to be distributed as the laws
distributed.
.cia- 3Ir. Colby Of HartIand moved to
by commit; agreed TO.
urts Special Order.-The House consit
tenn ed the bill repeating act of last year
/, Or Iating to the judiciary the question
ing on the motion to dismiss.
Mr.. Woodbridge OF Vergennes s
the act OF last year is imperfect, an
rad not repealed, it will need additional
islation to perfect it. He would not
per- peal, but perfect the system. The
Id to Of last year restored the system wi
? in long prevailed in the State, and in OIL
tfcrd States, borrowed from the jurisprude
the Of England; a jurisprudence the v
of centuries, and the noblest in the VIC
Irren 1t is the system of the United St
ltlon, government from the beginning, WI
.ules, with a recent exception, has give
Judges of the highest character, pee
Mr.. the best the world ever seen. So il
2 sec States those adopting that system
=, re- have had judges whose opinions we
rlli OF the highest authority in their own
lrried other States. So in Vermont 10,
Yer Skinner, and Prentiss, and William:
stock Royce, and Collamer-judges edut
lpply- under that self-educating and self-sus