St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-11-19

to pay the expenses of the convention
called by the council of censors in June
next.
Such sum, not exceeding $50, 600,
as may be in the treasury, not otherwise
appropriated, and such further sum rs
may be received from the UAited States
government on account of the claims of
this state, is appropriated for the pay
ment Of the bonds of the state.
A deduction of four per cent. is TO be
made on all taxes paid to the collector
OH Or before the first day of February
next.
The treasurer Of the state Is author
lied to borrow sum not exceeding
$20O,0O0, at rate not exceeding :
3-l0ths per cent interest.
Friday morning the committee on the
Judiciary reported to the house in favor
OF the bill increasing the salaries of the
JUICES of the supreme court from $500
to $4,000, which elected lengthy dis
cussiUn in which the farmers and labor
inc men were pitted against the legal
profession. Mr.. Joyce of Rutland, made
an able argument in favor OF the bill,
and was followed by Messrs. Dickey of
Bradford, Bisbee of Newport, Garfield
of Arlington. and Hunt Of st. Adams
but the crude hits of Mr. Bull of Han
cock and Mr.. Boyce of Fayston, met
with more sympathetic response from
the house, ard the third reading OF the
bill was refused by n vote Of ayes 6S,
nays l43 Another bill has been intro
duccd, which gives the judges a leave of
absence from duty, for a term Of not to
exceed three months, and not more than
one Judge al any one time; the governor
TO appoint some suitable person to dis
charge the duties of the office during such
absence which may possibly pass.
The senate refused the third reading
OF an act for the more eliectual prcvcn
ton Of cruelty TO animals on the ground
that our statutes are already numbered
with sufficient laws OF that kind which
are a dead letter
The bill providing for the commuta
ton Of the sentence of Horace II. Plum
Icy, which had previously passed the
hou-r. has been concurrcd in by the SEN
ate, after Il protractcd debate. The re-
.u>al of the senate To abolish the death
penalty had caused some fears on the
part Of it, friends. that this bill would
not succeed before that body. but i'll this
they were mistaken.
The teachers OF common schools will
be pleased To learn that the legislature
have passed q law, which allows them
five days for actual attendance upon the
teachers institute, held in the county in
winch they may be teaching, which time
Shall be considered rs lawfully spent in
the service of the district employing them.
On Satur Jay, the senate refused the
third reading of the bill in amendment of
an act to enable the towns therein named
70 and III the construction of the Mont
II
railroad; and passed the house bill in
relation To- Phillips acaArmy and school
district No. % in DanviIlc They also
passed q t.ll which provides that when
any married woman shall die, her prop
ertv "hall, lin case she leaves no issue
and ~!.ali leave husband surviving her.
dc-,. .ioi - such surviving husband. in
the I.anu,r provided, as to II widow, in
>rc'l'n one of chapter tftv-siN of the
general statutes" The bill which has
passed the mouse, amending the "iiquor
law 81 as among other things, to make
the person who sells contra to law. liable
tor damages which may be committed
by person while intoxicated, hangs fire
in the senate, and is to he considered this
afternoon, while the house are "iishing."
In the house. the bill authorizing the
state treasurer to pay the seven dollar,
per month state pay 10 those citizens of
this state who enlisted into the REGULAR
army during the late rebellion. and were
honorably discharged, elected Il spirited
discussion, and was finally refused a
third reading 10y Il vote of ayes 10, HAYS
100, The bill making an appropriation
Of 5000 each to the Normal schools at
johnson and Randolph. was also ordered
to Il third reading. The bill Incorporate
inc the international telegraph company,
(along ,thc line Of the Lamoille Valley
railroad, and the bill TO enable school
districts 10 send scholars TO academies.
were both passed in concurrence with
the aenatc.
But few bills have rs yet been approx
ed by the governor, and should not be
surprised if some of them should fail to
receive his approval, either ON account
of their detective provisions, as have
three already, or for the want of sufficient
time TO carefully consider them. The
governor appears TO art on the principle
that it Is lis business 10 aploore bills, and
not merely to sign them; and in this |