The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-16
Globes Special from Montpelier.
MONTPELIER. Jan. Is. lS1!

ment, which increased as the question of
location was debated and test votes we're
taken. The temper of the house has been
constantly tending towards vergcnnes,
which eliminated in heavy vote for the
appropriation of 100000 to purchase and
fit up the arsenal property.
A bill was introduced into the senate by
Senator Reynolds, providing for new
form of commitment of boys to the re-
form school, and that the parents or guar
dian shall be summoned to attend the ex-
animation. Also that no boy under years
and over 16 years shall be committed to
the reform school. The morning session
OF the senate was devoted to discussion
upon the repeal of the act of 1864 relating
to Migrants. Senator Albert Clark made
speech against the repeal, on the ground
that the work of the school is retormatory
and repressive. Vagrancy was the school
of crime, and it was the duty of the state
to repress vagrancy and idleness and should
educate the erring boy to some needtul in
dustry. The repeal was also opposed by
Senators Page and Laid.
Senator Reynolds asserted that the law
was originated as a war measure in refer
cnce to the st. Adams raid, and as 1t stood
was disgrace to the state. He was fol-
lowed by Senators Wilson of Orleans,
Walton, Wilson of Windsor, and Smith.
On the vote being taken the bill was passed
by large vote.
Some little excitement was created in
the house by the introduction of bill to
abolish the reform school, which provided
that all its present inmates under the age
Of ten years shall be discharged before
March 1, 1875, and transported at the ex-
pense of the state to the towns from which
they were committed and left with the
overseer of the poor of the town, who
shall maintain them at the expense of the
town and if his relatives are of sufficient
ability, to compel them to support him..
The remainder of the inmates over ten
years of age to be discharged within one
year from the passage of the bill. No com.
initials shall take place after the passage
OF the bill, and all persons now liable to be
sent to the school shall hereafter be pun
ished by fine not exceeding $500, or by i'm
prisonment in the county Jail in the discre-
ton of the court.
Mr.. Rowe of Poultney presented a bill
that no boy shall be sentenced under twelve
years of age.
The friends of the famous nuisance
bill made determined effort to bring the
measure before the house to-day, by the in
PRODUCTION of the bill by Mr. Peck of Ira.
The speaker decided that while the bill re-
motley related to the interests of the re-
form school, yet it could rot be entertained
under the Joint resolution restricting the
legislation Of the session. Having been
defeated by the operation of the resolution
its friends rallied in another form, by the
introduction of joint resolution by Mr..
Buell., of Middlebury, to rescind the reeo-
luton restricting the business of the pres
ent session, which the house defeated by
large vote.
Mr.. Smalley introduced bill on We'd
ncsday to secure the right of conscience to
all inmates of state institutions, which the
house, at that time, refused to have read a
second time. To-day, on motion of Mr.
Rowe of Poultney, the vote refusing its
second reading was reconsidered, and the
bill referred to select committee of seven.
This bill is to allow those persons who are
Roman Catholics to have the benefit of
the ministrations of a clergyman of that
church. The committee on this subject are
Messrs. Tyler Of Irasburgh, Cook of Men
don, LaFountain of Colchester, Lefevre of
Grand Isle, McGaffey of Lyndon, Daven.
port of Wilmington and Buel of Middle
town.
The reform school location was opened
by the introduction of bill to rebuild the
reform school, appropriating 100000, ia
purchase the Champlain arsenal building al
an expense not exceeding $11, 200, and ia
purchase other lands at an expense not ex'
ceeding $4,000; which was refused.
The act for locating at Waterbury was
taken up. On motion of MIR. Dana Of
Cornwall, the bill of Mr.. Sprague to locate
at Vergennes, which the house adopted by
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