The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-18

orous protest in the House Thursday morn
ing against the Wholesale junketing that Is
booked for tomorrow. BY joint resolutions
the joint committees on five state institu-
sions have authority to take with them. at
the expense of the state thirty invited
guests, or 100 people in all. Closely figured,
these junkets tomorrow will cost the state
more than 81 600, beside the 81 200 addi-
tional expense of the legislative day, when,
Of course, no business will be transacted in
either house. With all the cry for retrench-
ment in state expenses that has been heard
this fall from governor down, Mr.. Palmer
was the only man who dared raise his voice
against such wholesale, lavish and useless
expenditure of the state funds.
THE manufacturers of the Blackman Ven
| tilating Wheel Of Boston in some way got
/ hold OF some absurd rumors regarding the
! large death rate among the members OF the
| House, because of imperfect ventilation,
and this week sent D. p. Goslin, their New
England agent, to Montpelier to investigate
the matter. Sergeant-at-arms Phinney took
| Mr.. Goslin through the State House and
showed him the system of ventilation,
demonstrating to him that every fifteen
minutes, by actual measurment, fresh air is
forced into Representatives Hall, enough to
equal the capacity of the room. Mr.. Goslin
told Mr.. Phinney that he considered the
present system of ventiiating the State
House an excellent one, and returned to
Boston with different ideas regarding the
strange rumors he had heard.
JOHN w. TITooMB, president of the Sta to
Fish and Game League has received the
following letter from Hon. George f. Ed
munds, In response to an invitation to at
tend the annual meeting of the society to
| be held next Thursday at the Pavilion:
81 have your notice for Fish and Game
League meeting on the 10Th inst L am
very sorry that it is impossible for me to
come, and write this to put in my strong
adhesion to the League, and to the objects
| 10 nHn |
the interest excited and the money spent in
the increase and preservation OF fish and
game in our own state will yield very
large per cent of profit to farmers and all
sorts OF business men, as well as health and
pleasure to those who have leisure to fish
and hunt"
THE fish and game committees gave a
hearing in the senate chamber Wednesday
night on the sawdust bills aud the bills pro-
vidingfor an open season on deer. Fifteen
men spoke against the bills forbidding the
presence of sawdust in the streams, and thirty
others were heard from by letter. Nobody
appeared in the advocacy of these bills
Citizens of several counties spoke in favor
of an open season for deer, ard there is un-
doubleday a strong sentiment in that be-
half in many parts OF the state. From Es-
sex county especially comes loud call for
an open season; and one speaker said that
quite number of Essex county farmers had
declared in his hearing that if a law grant
|
this session they would go ahead with the
shooting and take their chances, so numer-
GUS and destructive to crops have the deer
become in that section.
THE society of the Sons of the American
Revolution held meeting at the State
House, Monday afternoon, and elected the
following officers: President, William p.
Dillingham;, Waterbury; vice-president,
William E. Hawkes., Burlington; secretary,
Charles s. Forbes st. Adams; treasurer,
Clarence L. Smith, Burlington; registrar,
Henry L Stillson, Bennington; historian,
George G. Benedict, Burlington; chaplain,
Rev. Charles Il. Seymour, Bennington
board of managers, Edward Wells of Bur
lington, Ebenezer j. Ormsbee of Brandon,
L. Bart Cross of Montpelier, Lyman F. Alb
bolt of Bennington, julius j. Estey of Brat
tleboro, II. p. McClary of Windsor, Nelson
: w. Fisk of Isle La Motto; delegates, Will
liam Seward Webb, at large; Alonzo b.
Valentine BenDington Edward G. Smith,
St. Adams. The following new names
were added to the society: Josiah Grout OF
Derby, II. 8. Taft of Burlington, Albert
Tuttle of Fair Haven, IL. l. Norton OF BEN
nington, G. L. Woodbury. of Burlington, w
j. Van Patten of Burlington +. L. butcher
of St. Adams G.. H. Session of Ludlow, w
A. Briggs of Montpelier, G. II. Gorham OF
Bellows Falls W. I. Dewey of Montpelier,
NJ. E. Smile and G. w, Ripley of Mont
, pelier
THE House committee on education gave
public hearing in the general committee
, room Wednesday evening, at which time
all those who had anything to say for OF
against the bills affecting Normal Schools
were invited to draw nigh and be heard"
House bills Nos. 200, 210 and $50 were con-
sidered. No. $50 repeats chapter 81, " s.,
entitled, " Normal Schools" Mr.. Mott, a
St. Albans lawyer, appeared for this meas
ure He favored teaching Normal methods
in the high schools of the state, or in the
, twelve schools named in the bill. The adj
vantages of Normal training would thus be
> gained in the twelve large cities and viii
lagos of the state, instead of in three small
. villages as at present. What we need most
in Vermont is good educational facilities in
the small schools in the rural districts, and
3 the aim of the Lawmakers to better the
common schools Of the state, by teaching
3 Normal methods there, as provided in the
. bill. In the matter of expense the bill un.
der consideration would be much less than
is the expense of the present Normal
i Schools. Prof. Edwin Conant of Randolph
8 appeared in behalf of the Normal Schools
that have been in operation twenty-nint
and half years. They have graduated
2,154 persons, and from the first course 264
more, costing the state an average OF $94.2l
/; each. They represent 208 Vermont towns
! Normal Schools teach such branches and
admit such persons only as the state directs
3 Mr.. Conant opposed the bill under consid
] GRAFTON, and backed his position by numer
. GUS statistics. He did not believe these so
| called - training SCHOOLS - cOulu ever Odht
the place of the Normal Schools. Judge
+ Clark of Castleton suggested an amend
, ment to section l. II. 209, that the princi
pals of Normal Schools be members Of the
board Of school examiners, and that 6
| school ear in Normal School shall con
, sist of two terms of not less than eighteen
/. weeks and not more than twenty weeks
+ each. He did not believe that House bill
No $50 was presented with any expecta
4 ton that it would pass. Should 1t pass al
k it is, it would lead to grave errors. Mr.
: Sawyer OF Hardwick favored the presen
:. Normal Schools, and believed the prejudice
a against them was the result of ignorance o
a the work the Normal Schools are doing
He hoped the committee would take nj
backward step in the matter. Mr.. Walker
1 of Woodstock thought the best teachers
9 came from the high schools, and not from
d the Normal Schools, and favored the plaI
o outlined in House bill $50. M. s. Stone
o state superintendent OF education, though
+ | the prOViaions M the hill ware family. an(