Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-06-01
Which Is II!

In a late number of the Watchnlan our
esteemed co-laborer Dr. Hoskins, had an
article on the failure of the the trustee
bill" in the Massachusetts legislature
This bill, as we understand it, was to re-
organize to an extent the board of trus-
tees Of the NJ tsstchusetts agricultural
college. by placing ON the bo1rd certain
number of he f,rm"r graduates of the
college. The doctor gives the fate of the
bill
the hill passed the House, but was
killed IN the Senate bv means OF which
the editor of the II rvcrhill Gdzcue, who
was present, chtracterizas as "a disgrace
to the trustees and the Sanate.' We no.
lice that everywhere the Senates are the
str"nehnIdS of lNbbvism, where wicked
Inf rnce' has the most power to defeat
the will of the people Those bodies are
full Of old political rats, as destitute of
honesty as of teeth.
That to our mind was conclusive that
the bill was q good one. and that the old
agricultural craft needed overhauling,
though We hardly were prepared to 90 to
the general and sweeping condemnation Of
Senatcs Il, the srrongholls of wickedne>s
Bat in the very next number of one of
orr valued exchanges. the Massachusetts,
Pougbmt7, was II full column article on
the matter, which took an entirely different
view of the subject. This article was
brought out by Il second bill introduced
and the Pl0W9bmaH says:
The attempt, on the very last hours of
the Massachusetts legislature, to force
through a resolution authorizing the gov
ernor and council and the board OF agri-
culture, to present for the consideration of
tn adjourned session of the legislature II
scheme for rcorgnnlz ltlon of the board OF
trustees IF the agricultural COLLEGE,, was
WORTHY the crafty an Seheming designer 5,
who during he enure winter have been
ptnnlnG amt plotting to destroy IN insti-
tuition winch they have been unable to
controD for petty and purity ends.
Not an Argument was ad iuced in the
Senate chamber in its brhaIf-but the
ringing euQlrncr of the ahIcst men in the
Senate chamber lifted the Disguise and
craft which cnvelopad the resolution,
branding it rs a f,ul inSul. to his eXcelen-
CIV the governor and the able body of men
comprising the board of trustees, and
with Il more decisive vote than that given
to the bill providing for reorganization
of the college, the Senate, twenty live to
ten. voted for indefinite po>tpnnement, and
again endorsed the college trustees rs men
in whose hands the Massachusetts stale
college is secure.
The previous trustee bill which had been
reported and iubbied through the House
by questionable m iorty, and signlti
ctntlv klIld in the Senate after most
eInbor to drba'e, by II large MT. 'rity, was
not sufficient TO meet the satisfaction of
the crafty ploters of the destruction of the
state COLLEGE.
Here the Plougbm1H thinks the lobby
ing was done in the House and the defeat
OF the bill IL sea- hing rebuke to the plot
tiers against the college. and hopes for
peace and prosperity as follows:
If they can give no help, than hands
off, and let the college alone. Ii is in the
keeping of good safe, trustworthy men.
and now hat its enemies have been Tor
the second time this session most signally
rehukel by the Legislature, may we not
hope that the tongue of the enemy, what
ever name he may call himself, will be
stiIrd aud his arm no longer raised &c
produce demora'z .lion and destruction?
So now we are all at sea again, anC
whether the college has again been deliv
cred from the hand of the enemy, OIL
whether ohhyism has again defeated pro