Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-11-02

lowed TO be sold 1t would have the same
effect here and Vermont butter would
stand everywhere for the pure article, be
cause no limitations were allowed here
The new school bill is receiving careful
attention at the hands Of the committee
having it in charge. Several hearings have
been held by them, at one of which the
commissioners who framed and recommend
ed the bill were present and discussed its
provisions The objections suggested were,
in the main, satisfactorily answered. Con
siderable opposition to the bill is developing
on account of the normal school feature
| 1t provides for throwing up all three Of the
present normal schools and establishing one
school instead. The three sections in which
the normal schools are now located have
combined in opposition to it on that account
| The prospect now is that the committee will
reject the normal school feature and make
favorable report upon the balance. viii
the bill then pass Yes, if the vote could
be taken this week probably not if the
members find an unfavorable sentiment
when they 20 home at election time.
The effort to procure municipal suffrage
for women is a very earnest one. Several
thousand names are appended to the petit
tons already presented, and the returns
are not all in. 4 public hearing on the
subject was held before the judiciary com
mittee in Representatives hall Tuesday even
| ing Col. Albert Clarke Of the Rutland
| Herald, Prof Carruth of Kansas and H.
/ Is Blackwell Of Boston we're the speakers
| The audience was not large, many of the
members being in attendance upon an en-
tertanment at the opera house. Prof. Car
ruth detailed the plan of campaign in Sc
curing a similar law in Kansas, and believ-
ed that the results of the law had been
very beneficial to the state. Mr. Blackwell
summed up the requisites Of an ideal voter
and declared that women possessed them in
a much more marked degree than men In
| 1856 "A similar measure was passed by the
House, but defeated in the Senate. 1t is
not probable that it will become a law this
| year.
The committee ON agriculture went to
| Burlington on Wednesday TO inspect the
| Vermont university and state agricultural
college. There is bill before the House
| granting the institution an appropriation of
| $50. 900 with which to build gymnasium.
and an annual appropriation of 5000,
$4,000 of which shall pay for 30 state schol-
arships to be awarded to candidates select
ed by each Of the 30 state senator's 1t
seems that the university, while ranking
among the best institutions in proficiency,
is running behind in a financial way. Yer.
monters largely patronize Dartmouth, vii
liams and Amherst especially those in the
southern and eastern portions of the state
The friends of the university feel that the
state should give it financial aid, and that
the people of Vermont should exercise their
state pride in educating their sons unless
better facilities are offered outside.
The state agricultural experiment station,
for the support Of which $4,000 per year is
appropriated by Congress, is under the
charge of the university Of Vermont The
old medical college building was turned over
to the station for a laboratory, and worn
out farm of 100 acres or more, some two
miles out of Burlington, was bought. 1t is
the plan Of the managers to underdrain the
land and bring it into the highest possible
state of production. The first general re
port of the station has lately been issued,
and can be obtained by addressing w w.
Cooke, director, Burlington. 1t will doubt
less be found instructive to those Interested
in the analyses of plants, fertilizers and
soils
The hall Of the House of Representatives
was given up this afternoon for an exhibi
ton by the pupils from the American Asy-
lum for the deaf and dumb at Hartford,
Conn. The exercises were very interesting
and surprising to those who had never wit
messed previous exhibitions. One of the
pupils wrote on blackboard a sketch of the
Mills bill, giving the main articles placed
upon the free-list under its provisions, and
stating as his opinion that its doctrines were
pernicious, and that it would come to
naught through the election of Ben. Harri-
SON Vermont pays Sl75 annually for each
of her pupils in the institution, of whom
there are now seventeen.