Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-10

huences he had seen had been 10y Mr.. Brooks
and his associates. He produced a copy Of
the report of Mr.. Brooks to the stockholders
OF the Vermont and Canada, in which that
gentleman attacks the supreme court with
his accustomed vigor, and reminded the mem
bers how those had been found upon their
desks one morning, and of how many news
papers full of abuse Of the supreme court and
OF Judge Royce had been mailed to them by
some interested parties. The burden of all
these songs had been RAILROAD, railroad"
IL Judge Royce had done wrong in the rail
road litigation, then Judge Redfeld and all
the other judges except one lwho differed
from them in single poinU had erred with
him. If the hostility of Mr.. Brooks on ac-
count of the decision against him was not the
real motive of much of this opposition, then
appearances had greatly injured that gentle
man.
Various Exhorta!ions-Thc Decisive
ballot,
Mr.. Chids again cxhortcd him to be true
to his conscience and exhortcd the members
to vote against Judge Royce. Col. Walker
replied TO some of Judge Thompson's points,
and cautioned the members that If they gave
way here in their adhesion to the great
principle of the law, they were gone. Speak
or Martin and Col Hooker advocated Judge
Royce's election. Senator Childs of Walling-
ford, MIR. Merrill of Fairfax, Dix of Mont
gomcry, Bricn of Castleton and Stickney of
Brookllnc seconded the nomination Of Judge
Redficd. The result of the ballotlng was,
whole number Of votes 252, necessary for
choice 1917 Homer +. Royce, 1874; Tim
othy p. Redfeld, 1906; James Barrett, 81
Ii. Henry Powers. a Wheelock G. Veazcy,
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and Judge Royce was elected. 1t was near
" five o'clock when the vote was declared.
The other judges, Redficld, Ross, Powers,
Veazcy, TAFT aud Powell were elected unan-
mously, and the joint assembly came to an
end
Causes Of Opposition.
The House was crowded to its utmost ca
pacity during the debate, many ladies and
many prominent men being present. The
result was n great victory for Judge Royce,
although the size of the vote against him
causes some disappointment to his friends
One cause of this was the somewhat natura
desire on the part of many of the Democrats
to have Democratic chief judge, another
was the intense feeling in favor OF making an
! inventory which exists throughout the State,
and still another was the hostile feeling that
obtains in certain quarters against Governor
smith, which for reasons best known to them
selves, and perfectly unjustifiablc, the hostile
parties choose to visit upon Judge Royce.
To my own knowledge all these elements
have been very skilfully worked up and no
stone has been left unturned to accomplish
the defeat of Judge Royce. The last effort
was the most abominable since it took the
shape of mysterious charges against his per-
sonal character which the makers whispered
around for day or two, and which no one
could favor enough to repeat, yet they were
50 used that doubtless some lmid souls were
affected By them After promising to make
them public the sprcaders of the ISLANDERS
went back this morning whence they came,
carrying their filth with them.
The defeat Of Judge Royce would have
been loss to the State and to four juIspru.
dencc which we couldn't we'll afford to -sus-
tain. III his long career us a member of
Congress- as lawyer and Judge he has re.
Elected honor upon the State OF hs birth, and
it is to be hoped tina, II long life Of usefulness
in his high station is before him. Mr.. L. A.
Brooks, who has been here for some days re-
turned to Boston last evening.
The cjmmitce OF the members of tho
House from Chttenden county will give a
public heating tomorrow evening upon the
bill 10 make Potash brook the southern boun.
uiry ol burlington.
The Town system OF schools.
The discussion OF Senator Towards bill,
providing for tao compulsory substitution oil
the town system of public schools. for The
district system " as resumed in the Senate,
this loren on, and Senator Howard finished
his argument. He read from the report OF
the JOINT committee of the Massachusetts,
legislature in 1869, upon which the town
system was lnauguraied there in 1870 and
IRON The report OF the Massachusetts, School
Board in 1880, giving an account of the ben.
eticlal results of its adoption. de gave a
short history OF The experiment in this State
since the adoption of the permisslve statute
in 1870. He said that eight or ten towns had
adopted the town system-tlree of which,
Essex, Jericho and Corinth. had relinquished
1t and had gone back TO the district system.
He showed that the reasons which acluated
the citizens of those towns in making the
change back were local and did not affect the
question of the utility of the town system.
lie then reviewed its operation in the other
towns which had adopted the town system
: since 1870 and claimed that it had been emil
: nently tsactory. He read from the re-
ports of the superintendent Of schools in
, Aliddlesex, Waitsfivld and Hinesburgh in
1876 and of Brighton in 1889, in which the
: workings of the town system were extoled
There had been more and better schools at q
less cost. He next alluded to the diminntior
of population in our back towns in Addison
county II towns in Bennington, 10; il
= Caledonia, s; in Chittendrn, 10 IN Essex
, .; in Franklin, $; in Grand Isle, ; in La
noble, in Orange, TO- in Orleans, D !; il
Rutland, 13; in W ashington, ID in Wind
I ham, II in Windsor, 49, Thus the rura
/ population was diminishing, and consequent
ly the districts had run down. Schools which
once had 40 10 90 scholars now had but s OF
= 10, and it was with the utmost difficulty tina
some of the schools could be maintained by
the districts. In Other districts there wer,
men with large grand lists who employed The
4; power OF their wealth to keep the school taxes
small. Under the town system taxation
:, would be equal upon all the citizens and The
money could he used TO maintain good school.
h in poor sections. Originally, lie said, TIT
= scholars had been taxed to pay for the schools
and the district system had been adopted
< about 1877, upon the hypothesis that al
citizens in each district should be taxed
n to support schools, because education was
public blessing, The town system was only
D an extension Of the application Of this theory
e to its logical conclusion.
f Senator Ide moved that the bill be amend
ed SO as TO provide that it shall not take effec
) until 1885 instead of 1888, aud pending thai
: motion the bill was ordered to lie. Mr.
Howard will assent to this amendment. Tn,
G discussion will be resumed tomorrow.
Bills Introduced.
There has been great rush of bills in tic