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

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BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS.
Nothing has given the farmers OF
the legislature quite so much trouble
at this session as this question of bo-
vine tuberculosis-ho to most effect
lively deal with it in justice and fair
ness to all concerned. AS we said in
a previous letter, the committee on
agriculture have had several bills un-
der consideration touching this mat
ter, and have given great deal OF
time to the discussion of them. On
Friday the house passed bill re-
ported favorably by this committee
and sent it along to the senate; but
a change of base was made evident
on the next day, and the bill was re-
called from the senate, the vote pass
ing it reconsidered, and the matter
made the special order for yesterday
afternoon The bill as passed pro-
vided for the quarantine of suspected
animals, the prevention of their sale,
the condemnation and their slaugh-
board of agriculture; the penalty for
disregarding the orders OF the board
in these matters was fixed at fine
of not more than 5000 and an i'm
prisonment of not more than two
years. The condemned cattle were
to be appraised by d1slnterested par
ties, the appraisal not to exceed $50,
and the owner of the slaughtered
animals was to be paid by the state
SIS per head. The vote passing this
bill was reconsidered in the house
yesterday afternoon, and cOns1dera
BILE discussion resulted as to what
ought to be done in regard to this
yexed question. The measure was
finally recommitted to special COM
mittee OF fifteen, with instructions to
report thereon by Thursday of this
week
DIDN'T KNOW 1T WAS LOADED.
The small amount of thought
which is given to some of the bills
that slip through the house was
demonstrated in connection with a
bill providing that town school di-
rectors shall furnish instruction for |
advanced pupils of school age in the |
higher branches of English-either in |
the graded schools of the town dis |
trict where such pupils live, or in adj
lacent towns. The vote passing the |
bill was very light one. the meas |
ure being read by its title only, and |
very little attention was paid to it.
After it's passage several of the mem
bers who had thoughtlessly voted
for 1t realized that the bill had teeth
which ought to be extracted before
it became law. The severity of the
measure was, however, tempered in
the senate, the ''shall' being changed
to may" and the bill being other
wise amended so as to preclude the
entailing of financial hardship in
towns SO situated shat this higher
educa ton could not be furnished ex-
cept at great expense. The house
has changed its mind on several bills
this session, after their passage,
simply because of carelessness in let
ting them go through before they
were fully understood.
FREE TEXT BOOKS AND TOWN BOARDS.
One of the special orders for yester-
day afternoon was the bill providing
for free text books and county boards
to select the same. This measure
was introduced by Mr.. Parker of
as a compromise between
state uniformity, which was advo-
Gated to someextent at the beginning
OF the session, and town uniformity.
The committee on educa ton, in re-
porting the bill favorably, proposed
several amendments, among them