St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-11-22

| town superintendent in each county
| the board by whom the text books
| for use 10 the county schools should
be selected. This resulted in long
| discussion, the weight of sentiment
being in favor of letting the town
| school authorities select the books
| to be used in the schools of the town,
! instead of RELOCATING that duty to
county board. This sentiment pre-
vailed, by good majority, and
everything in the bill that pertained
to county uniformity was stricken
out. The bill was then ordered to a
third reading, and will no doubt go
through both houses-though in so
| altered a condition that its introducer
is scarcely able to recognize it.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR
Gov. Woodbury. has appointed the
| following State Board Of Dental Ex-
| aminers for the next two years r. M.
Chase of Bethel, A. 7. Parker of Rock
ingham, Geo. F. Cheney of St. Johns
bury, Thomas Mound of Rutland. S.
d. Hodge of Burlington.
The new board of railroad commits
sioners was announced on Monday,
as follows: Hon. Olin Merrill OF Enos-
burg Falls, aon. o. M. Barber of
Arlington and Hon. Chas. J. Bell of
Walden. Caledonia county will be
gratihed al the selection of Senator
Bell as member of this board. A
practical business man, and req resent
ing the progressive farmers of the
state he will do good work on the
commission.
The governor has also appinte
these municipal judges: For Burling-
ton, Julius w. Russell; Bennington,
Chas. H. Darling; Rutland, James A.
Merrill.
WITH THE COMMITTEES
The joint judiciary committee, who
have had in charge the revision of the
statutes, finished their work last
week and submitted their report yes
terday morning; this will be taken
up again as a special order on Thurs
day morning. The committee have |
put large amount of work into this |
revlsion-so much so that the chair |
man, Mr.. Reed of Rockingham, was |
obliged to give up entirely the middle |
of last week, being attacked with |
nervous prostration. Very few mem
bers of the legislature realize the ex-
tent of the extra labor involved in
this revision.
he insurance men were before the
committee last Friday evening and
the valued policy, standard policy
and cooperative insurance were
pretty fully discussed.
THE REPORT ON THE RUTLAND BILL.
The report of the special committee
on the proposed setting off of a piece
of the present city Of Rutland to the
town as it was before the citv's in
two years ago, was pre-
sented in both houses this afternoon.
The amount of lobbying which has
been done by both parties in this
ca 'e-including the legislative trip to
Rutland at the city's expense to look
over the disputed territory-has SER
we'd to deepen the interest in this con-
test, and last Thursday night, when
the com mittee gave public hearing
On the case, Representatives hall was
we'll filed. w. B. c. Stickney of
Bethel and Joel c. Baker of Rutland
appeared for the city, F. c. Partridge
and Ex-Gov. Dillingham; for the
riends of the bill. Strong arguments
we're presented for the passage of the
Dill, and it was shown that the old
own of Rutland had suffered severe u,
V from the setting of most of the
7illage of Center Rutland into the
ity limits. The commit tee are uuan- '
nous in reporting in favor of the I
ill and while it is proba bic that the
Ia Ia & |
is able committee, the opponents of
he bill will make a hard fight to
maintain the city lines as they were l
ira two years ago and some talk f
ng will be in order at to-dav's ses-
ions. T
EFT CETERA. c