Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-10-26
THE LEGISLATURES DOlNGS,
THURSDAY. Oct. is

In the Senate the act appropriating
S25,0 900 for the Soldiers Home was read
a third time. Several unimportant bills
were introduced.
These among other bills were intro
duced in the House:
Requiring vocal music to be taught i'm
the public schools for at least fifteen
minutes of each day and by the regular
teacher. Method of instruction to be
prescribed by special State committee
appointed in 1888 and every fourth year
thereafter; teachers are not required to
be ''mocking-birds,' but only to be able
to teach the theory of music from chart
or Blackboard
Continuing the normal schools at John
son, Randolph and Castleton until Aug
ust, 1915.
To amend chapter 1856, Revised Laws.
Every able-bodied husband shall be liza
bic to a fine of from ten to twenty-five
dollars for failure to support his wife and
children to the judiciary committee.
These bills were refused passage: II.
p, defining the privileges of freeman;
II. s, to exemplify the collection of tax
es; II. 80, relating to the duties and COM
pensation of town clerks.
The two houses then met in Joint as
sembly to elect judges of the Supreme
court. The following were elected by
cica coce vote: Chief justice, Homer E.
Royce; assistant judges, Jonathan Ross.
II. Henry Powers, Wheelock G. VeaZey,
Russell S. Taft, John w. Rowell, James
NJ. Tyler. The joint assembly then dis
solved.
FRIDAY.
These bills were introduced in the Sen
ate:
An act to incorporate the Maritime
Canal Co. of Nicaragua.
An act providing for the formation of
cooperative savings and loan associa-
tiOns.
An act to amend section 13 of No. ~
of the Acts of 1886, relating to the settle
ment of paupers, Amends the POLAND"
law, by making the term of residence re-
qulred under that act one year instead of
three.
An act relating to the insane poor. mo
persons to be received at asylum unless
upon finding of probate court that such
persons are insane, destitute of means,
and have no relatives in the State bound
by law to support them.
An act IN regard to appearance in be-
half of the State in divorce cases. IRE
peals No. SO of laws of 1886, which re-
quires the appearance of States attorneys
in divorce cases.
A lot of House bills were read and re-
ferred.
The committee on game and fisheries
submitted the following report on Senate
20. relating to cruelty to animals (allow-
ng turkey shoots) "The committee have
wrestled with the bill as the subject of
preventing cruelty to animals, and per-
mitting turkey shoots, seemed to them to
demand. They have pondered on tur-
keys and fowl-on fowl turkeys and tur-
key shoots with their benzne accompani-
ments. They have been mindful that
Thanksgiving is near at hand, and of the
important relation of turkeys to that
New England festival. The committee
are unable to see why turkeys should be
singled out as the only bird which may
be thus cruelty prosecuted, and rather
than be instrumental in the legal torture
of the family favorite bird: they say let
the bill die and the turkey live, and beg
leave to report that the bill ought not to
pass" third reading refused.
Adjourned to Monday afternoon.
Among the bills introduced in the
House were the following:
TO appropriate $1,000 annually for the
Dairymen's association, to promote the
dairy interests of Vermont.
Relating to the repairing of highways
and bridges Provides that after raising
tax of fifteen cents on the dollar for
repairs of highways, towns may vote
balance OF tax either in labor or money.