The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-18
LEGISLATURE OF VERMONT
Extra Session.
Iron our Second Edition OF Saturday.
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MONTPELIER, Jan. TO-
MORNING.
Lieut.. Governor Hnckley in the chair
Prayer by the chaplain.
journal of Wednesday read and ap-
proved.
Ellis Introduced and Referred. By Sem
ator Reynolds of Grand Isle, an act in
reference to the commitment of boys to
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 CON-
mitmcnts, also that no boy under nine and
over sixteen shall be committed to the re-
form school to a special committee of
one senator from each county.
BY the committee on the judiciary, an
act repeating the act of 1864, relating to
Migrants read the first and second time,
AMI on the question shall the bill be read
tn third time, Senator Clark said he was
opposed to a repeal of the vagrant law,
though there might be need of amendment
to / since abuses have crept into the eX-
ecG.i ion of the law. The work of the re-
form school is both reformatory and re-
pressive vagrancy is the school of crime
and it is the duty of the state to refuse va
grancy and so check crime in its first sta
ges. And there should be some statute
provision by which idle and vagrant per-
sons could be taken and educated TO some
useful industry. He referred at length to
the operation OF similar laws in other
states, and argued that we should not strip
our own reform school of any of its ca
pacities for the prevention of crime.
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to the repeal of the vagrant law. There
were abuses that had been illustrated that
could be remedied in n better way than by
a repeal of the law
Senator Ladd of Chittenden discussed the
general features of the reform school sys-
tenn, and thought that in most cases it was
an actual benefit for boys to be sent there.
He was opposed to the repeal of the va
grant law.
Senator Reynolds of Grand Isle said this
vagrant act was war measure made in re-
ference to the st. Adams raid, and as it
stood to-day was disgrace to the state and
our statute book. He approved the course
of the committee in reporting In favor If
its repeal.
Senator Wilson of Orleans favored the
repeal of the act.
Senator Walton thought that the word
''vagrant" was of such broad application
that hundreds of boys IN the large towns
might be sent to the reform school and be
supported at the expense of the state.
There was no time now to frame new law
upon the subject of vagrancy. There was
no course left but to repeal the present
law.
Senators Wilson and Edmunds of Wind
sOr and Smith of Addison favored the re-
peal of the law.
Senator Clarke spoke in answer to some
of the objections urged against the law,
and in illustration of its present utility al
luded to the search for the Ball murderer
in st. Adams, when by authority of the
vagrant act in formal examinations of sus-
pected persons were made possible.
Bill read the third time and passed.
From the committee on judiciary, report
by bill, an act relating to convictions and
sentences to the reform school. The bill
provides that mo boy under the age of ten
years shall be sentenced to the reform
school for any offence which by the gene
raj laws is punishable by fine only provi-
ded that when any boy under that age shall
be sentenced by any court to pay fine or
a fine and costs, and shall be committed
for the non-payment thereof, such commit
ment shall be to the reform school instead
of the county jail and the mittimus shall
be drawn accordingly
Head third time and passed.
ii. z, an act appropriating money ia
cover the extra expense occasioned by the
destruction of the reform school by fire.
Read third time and passed in concurrence
On motion of Senator Atwood, senate
adjourned.
AFTERNOON.
Report of Committees. -From special
committee, adversely to senate bill No. 2,
an act relating to conviction and sentence
OF boys TO the reform school. Ordered ia
lie.
Bills introduced and referred. by Sen
ator Wilson of Orleans, an act relating 10
the jurisdiction and authority of the judges
of the Supreme Court on boys confined al
the reform school, providing that on petit
ton of kindred, or town officers, any boy
may be brought before judge, who shall
have full power to determine all questions
in regard to his confinement. Read three
times and passed.
| BY Senator Rogers of Caledonia, an act
to pay certain officers the sums thsrein
named. Read three times and passed.
| BY Senator Clark of Franklin, joint
resolution authorizing the governor to ap.
point commission of three persons to ex-
anime the penal and reformatory institu-
tons of other states, and requiring them to
report at the next session of the general as
sembly adopted.
BY Senator Edmunds of Windsor, an act
to discharge certain children confined in
the state reform school at Waterbury, in
structipg to investigation the reasons of
the commttal of all children under nine
years of age now in the reform school, and
! that they may have authority to discharge