Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-12-01

complete wrangle over it, and at one
time it seemed impossible to do any
thing. Somehow nobody now seems
to know what it was that the county
board and the office of supervisors
have been dispersed with, the law of
1888 repealed, and the old law of the
past is reenacted the whole matter
of school laws is again thrown into
confusion 1t seems pity the law
of 1888 was not amended in some
particulars and allowed to stand
until it could have been fully test
ed A state tax of per cent is
to be raised for the purpose of
equalizing the expenses of schools
and to help the poorer districts.
State Supt., Palmer is retained
for two years more.
The new State Agricultural Col
lege bill was another matter that in
volvedl lmuch labor and discussion ;this
passed the House by large majority
but was defeated in the senate. Con-
siderable antipathy is eXtant against
Burlington college, and considerable,
as we look at it, unjust criticism has
been made against the college. Gov
ernment having made new appropria-
tions toward agricultural colleges, it
was thought that separate institu
tion ought TO be created, one which
should be strictly an agricultural and
mechanical school, and experiment
station. Great effort was made,
R3uiitfahd 3iilffafd6i' cotferedf to give s56,0U6 tow
ard starting the thing, and it looked
as though the senate might pass the
bill, but the senators thought it
would involve, much expense for the
state and would be making a new
pensioner on the trasuery of the state
created while there was no good rea-
son to believe the institution would
derive creditable patronage from the
farmers sons of the state, should it
be created. The long tussle over the
matter of judges finally ended in re-
tanning the old number, seven, land the
salary of So 900 with $500, for ex-
penses-virtually So, 300. The Aus
trail an ballot system was adopted
for towns whose population exceeds
1000. A cooperation tax bill places
tax on railroad property, and on
the gross earnings of railroad COM
panies, telegraph and telephone COM
panies. This Legislature, like pre-
ceeding ones, found the matter of
lem that it could not solve, and all
the proposed laws failed Of passage,
the matter is left where it was be-
fore. The attempt to create high
| license law was a fizzle, the law is
somewhat strengthened and entirely
reenacted. The antipathy against
Mr.. Valentine, the efficient ''aban-
doned farms" commissioners, for
what he has done toward repopulat-
ing the state, causel his bill for the
establishment of bureau, to go by
the boards. The attempt to raise
money to assist the Worlds Fair
commissioners in making a credita-
BILE show at Chicago in 1898 was a
practical failure. only S15, 900 being
votod- This iG annnnmy over the left
with vengeance. The highway law
has been considerably amended and
if we understand it, restores the
highway surveyors The fish laws
have been remodeled, and So, 400
is appropriated to fish Matching. The
fine for adulteration of maple sugar
is doubled, while oleomargarine must
be colored, if sold in the state, and
its manufacture is prohibited. Tele-
phone poles must be Strengthened
and painted, if erected in incorporated
villages. A state tax of Is cents Il
voted.
The leading appropriations are
$40, 700 for the support of the Soldl
ers' Home at Bennington and FOL
building hospital, so, 900 for build
wing to the new insane asylum a
Waterbury, $4,000 for the World
Fair at Chicago, S2400 for a tis
hatchery, $1,000 to aid in the com
pletion of a statue of Gen, Stannart
to be placed over his grave, S65,OO'
for debentures of General Assembl.
f 100000 for such expenditures
are usually paid on the state auditor
2 orders in 1890, S425, 900 for 1892
e and $4,000 each year for the sur
a port of the penal Institutions.
/ The movement to readjust or re
t duce state officers salaries came
: naught. There was an attempt
e the senate to fix the gross sum
S pay the judges at SIS, 600, afterward
{ raised to S21, 900. 1t was defeate
q and their salaries remain as hereto
fore, $4,000 each with $500 expenses