The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-10
Montpelier Correspondence.

The opponents of the present school law
make several objections to the statutes, and
the complaints are not all against the SET
rotary or the board. The power given the
superintendent Is one OF the causes. 1t is
claimed the prudential committee of dis
trict may employ whom they please TO
teach, yet the town superintendent has the
power to retain the teacher, however
worthless he proves the committee cannot
discharge him or, If the teacher is giving
good satisfaction to the district the superin-
tendent may remove him and install
another in his place Again 1t is claimed
that examinations are all farce, as the
asking of few set questions cannot deter
mine the qualifications of teacher They
claim teacher should be examined only
in the branches taught in the particular
school for which he is engaged.
The expense of the system is another OBJ
lection urged. They say that Vermont has
$50 towns and cores, averaging eight dis
tricts to town, with twelve weeks school
in summer and winter. The teacher takes
out every Saturday, all of the holidays,
and time to attend teachers institute,
making in all loss of six weeks in the
year. The pay through the state will
average little over three dollars per week,
which makes about eighteen dollars loss
to the district, making in the aggregate
thirty-siX thousand dollars. 1t is claimed
this Is paid to teachers for services not rem
dered. In addition is the amount paid
superintendent for examination and visit
ing schools at two dollars per day, one day
to each district and one for examination,
which is eighteen dollars per town, making
total of four thousand five hundred dol
lars. 1t is claimed the results do not iusti-
fly the expenditure.
The bill of Mr. Smalley to remove the
State Capitol to Burlington is reported by
the Montpelier Journal to have been drawn
by a prominent disappointed resident of
Burlington, supposed to refer to Gov. Taft
who desires to remove the executive de-
partment to his own neighborhood. 1t
provides for bonding the city for $4,000
to build the capitol and purchase site.
Capt. w. ii. Root, Of Burlington. will
read his eloquent and excellent paper on
the "Battle of Cedar Creek" before Camp
Brooks, at Montpelier, on Tuesday evening
of next, III the Representatives Hall,
which has been granted for that purpose.
THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
Hon. David Z. Nicholson of Rutland, ION
Thursday afternoon last, made an elaborate
and able argument before the special COM
mittee against the proposed license bill,
On Friday evening he appeared before
the joint judiciary committee as the advo-
cate of the bill introduced by Mr.. Peck of
Ira, to amend the general statutes in refer
encc to the traffic in Intoxicating drinks.
He spoke with great earnestncss and at
times with eloquence, pleading the neces-
sity of the enactment of this measure, to
make effectual the suppression of the traf-
flc in liquor.
The following is copy of Mr.. Peck's
bill, which Is perhaps the most stringent
measure ever presented to the legislature
on this subject.
Sec. /. Section nine of chapter ninety
four of the general statutes is hereby so
amended as TO read as follows IF any
person by himself, clerk, servant or agent
shall sell, furnish or give away any intoxi-
eating liquor in violation of this chapter,
he shall forfeit and pay TOR each offense, to
the treasurer of the state, upon the first
conviction, ten dollars and costs of prose-
cution, and be committed to the county
jail not more that two months nor less
than one month on the second conviction
he shall forfeit and pay for each offense as
aforesaid, twenty dollars and the costs of
prosecution, and be committed to the coun-
| ty jail not more than four months nor less
than two months and upon the third and
each subsequent conviction he shall forfeit
and pay for each offense MS aforesaid forty