The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-16
LEGISLATURE OF VERMONT.

EVENING SESSION.

approved
Resolutions. By Mr.. Powell of Rich
ford, that the special committee on the re-
form schopl have leave TO sit during the
session of the house; adopted.
Bills introduced and referred. BY Mr..
Slade of Middlebury, appropriating money
to cover the extra expenses OF the destruc-
tion of the Vermont reform school by fire.
By Mr. Hawley of Fairfax, relating to
sentences TO the Vermont reform school.
By Mr. Evans of Moretown, to abolish
the state reform school, and to repeal all
laws relating thereto to committee on re-
form school,
BY Mr. Bailey of Windsor. providing
for the necessary improvements in the
state prison.
BY Mr.. Calderwood Of Greensboro, re-
lating to the reform school, each town
from which any boy shall be sentenced to
the reform school, shall pay the sum Of
one dollar and fifty cents, per week towards
the support of the boy while in the school
BY Mr. Rowe of Poultncy, providing
that no boy under twelve years Of age shall
hereafter be sentenced to the reform school.
BY Mr. Churchill of Goshen, providing
for the discharge from the reform school of
such boys as have been improperly SEN
fenced to said school.
BY Mr.. Peck of Ira, IN amendment of
and in addition to chapter 81, general
statutes, relating to the sale of Intoxicating
liquors.
The speaker ruled that while the bill did
remotely relate to the interests of the re-
form school, yet for the purposes ol prac-
teal legislation il must be held to come
within the joint resolution adopted yestei
dav, and so could not be further entertained
without direction of the house.
Joint resolution. BY Mr. Buell. Of Mid
dletown, TO reconsider the vote adopting
the resolution, restricting the business of
the present session to matters pertaining to
the reform school. Disagreed To.
Mr.. Rowe of Ponltney, moved to re-
consider the vote refusing the second read
ing to II. 4. to secure the right of con-
science to all inmates of state institutions,
which was agreed to
The bill was then read the second time,
and on motion of Mr.. Tyler Of lrasburgh.
referred TO II select committee of seven
members of the house.
The speaker laid before the House the
following,
MESSAGE FROM THE GOVERNOR
GoHtlemen Of the Senate and Horse EFF Rep
TeSeHtdftceS
Facts have been presented to me by the
officers of the state prison, but too late to
appear Ia the message already COMMUNE
Gated, which induce me to recommend a
matter for your consideration relating to
that PRISON.
1t is represented in substance among
other things that the labor Of the prisoners
is let to contractors, and employed
in the manufacture of shoes that
the shop room now furnished by
the state is ample for the convenient
working of sixty-five men, and no more
that there are now on the rolls eighty-nine
men fit for labor; that the contractors de-
mand more room, and have already thrown
out fifteen men from the payroll,
being unable to work them for want
of room and unless more shop
room is furnished, they will throw out
nine more men, reducing the number on
their contract to siXty-five men that the
state is now suffering, and must continue
to suffer, the loss of the wages of all the
men thus thrown out of employment, and
that the additional shop room requisite to
enable these surplus men to be put to Ia
Dor, and the increase of prisoners that may
be expected hereafter, cannot be furnished
without an appropriation for that purpose
from the legislature. The state are not
only at the loss of the wages of the prison
ers, but the law requires prisoners in the
state prison to be kept at hard labor
II is also represented that there is an I'M
peratve necessity for more cells for the
accommodation and safe keeping of pris-
Oneis that there are now one hundred and
six male prisoners, and to lodge them there
are but one hundred and one cells, and
that an appropriation is needed to supply
additional cells.
1t is further represented that there are
female prisoners in the prison, and that
there are no fit or proper accommodations
for them in the prison, and | am referred
for description of the place of their con-
nnement to the report of the joint special
committee of the legislature appointed
to visit the State Prison at the
session Of the general assembly in
1872. The language Of that committee is
That the department where the female
" conyicts are confined, is cold, damp,
announcement and inhuman place, on the
" third floor of the old prison, entirely I'M
50 tit for the purpose of reformation or
punishment OF this unfortunate class of
I" conyicts." 1t Is represented that the
condition of the female department of the
prison has ever since remained and still is
the same, and that an appropriation is
needed to provide proper convcnierces for
the keeping of female prisoners.
These are some of the recommendations
of the officers of the prison which have
induced me to submit this subject to youi
consideration at this time, and which sat
isfy me that, upon ground of economy,
duty and humanity, the appropriation ask.
ed for ought to be made.
AsAHEL PECK.
Executive Chamber, Jan. IA, 1875.
Mr. Newell Of Shelburn moved that tho
message he referred to the committee OF
state prison agreed to.
On motion of Mr.. Perrin of Berlin, ad
journed
SENATE.
MONTPELIER, Jan. Is.
MORNING.
Lieut.. Governor Hinckley in the chair.
Prayer by the chaplain.
Journal of Wednesday read and ap
proved.
Bills Introduced and Referred BY Sen
ator Reynolds of Grand Isle, an act il
reference to the commitment of boys tC
the state reform school, making it neces
sary that the parents or guardian of any
boy arrested for an offence not punishable
| by death, shall be summoned to appear be
| fore the judge at the time of such eXamin
alton, and provides for new system of com
mitments, also that no boy under nine AM
over sixteen shall be committed to the re
form school to q special committee o
one senator from each county.
BY the committee on the judiciary, al
act repeating the act OF 1864, relating L