The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10
The LEGISLATURE.
Thursday, Dec. ?, 1909.
SENATE-MORNING,

Thursday, Dec. ?, 1902.
SENATE-MORNING.
Passed. IS. 207. To equalize school
advantages. Provides for transporta-
tion of pupils, or tuition, in adjoining
towns, and how to compel school
boards to provide the same. Gives
school directors more latitude as to
place of provision of schooling.
81 POS, relating to duties of truant
officers and school attendance. Sen
ator Spencer moved to amend by strik-
ing out clause which excludes child
rem with visible employment from
compulsory attendance.
S. 1872, relating to salaries of
States attorneys. Does away with
necessity for Judges certificate.
Third reading. $. 80, resgistra
ton Of births, marriages and deaths;
S. 1854, relating to purity of bal
lot.
Geological survey. Governor rec
ommends act giving surveyors, State
geological survey, right to enter on
lands in acts necessary to their work.
Same message sent to House.
S. PA, relating to taxation of saw
ings banks. Only change is that CO.
operative savings institutions are ex-
empted, law being now of doubtful
meaning.
HOUSE-MORNING.
Bills introduced. H. 438. by Mr..
Dartt of Springfield, for committee on
ways and means, substitute for H. 2
and II. 3l2, amending the statute in
relation to taxation of corporations.
! Ordered to lie and be printed. This
bill makes no change in the rate of
taxation, but does make a change in
the method of administration with a
view to facilitating the collection of
| the corporation taxes. 1t increases
the amount of exempt savings banks
deposit from 81, 500 to 50, 000
| H. 439, from com. on railroads,
substitute for H. "a, incorporating the
Essex and Waterbury Traction Com
pany. Ordered to lie and be printed.
| NoXious animals. H. 115, bounty on
foxes and hedgehogs. Senate amend
! L..
! striking out 40 cents bounty on hedge
hogs, disagreed to. Minor amend
ments adopted.
Passed. = S. 6, amending charter
of Burlington and Hinesburgh rail-
road S. rs, incorporating Wells
River and Barre Electric railway; S.
17S, amending charter of Conso lidated
Lighting Co.
SENATE-AFTERNOON.
Relief for Mendon. H. 80. 1t APP
peared in debate that Mendon's tax is
81. 60, and town debt is $l4. 600. Road
to be fixed is stage road to Rutland.
Relief opposed on general principles
-Mendon no worse off than many
other towns. Favored as an excep-
tional case. Ordered to lie.
No help for Norton. 6S, appro-
priating money to build road from
Norton to Brighton was killed
Fair grounds. S. 21O, to exempt
grounds and property of Rutland ag.
ricultural society from taxation
Killed. Exempt one exempt alex.
emption could be made by town.
Doherty and Eastwood. The com
mittee appointed to examine Doherty
and Eastwood submitted the subjoinet
| report:
TO the Hon. Senate and House Of
Representatives Pursuant to join
resolution, the committee appointed tt
visit Charles Doherty and Frederick
Eastwood now under sentence of dealt
in the State prison, and to eXamin,
them in regard to their mental con
dition, performed that duty ON Tues
day, November 26, and hereby repor
as follows:
Being fully aware of the fact tina
!, it is very difficult, and in many case
! impossible, to determine the fact o
sanity or insanity of person upol
one examination, nevertheless in tn,
case of Mr. Doherty your committe,
are unanimously of the opinion tina
he is suffering from that form of men
tai alteration known as paranoia
and is therefore insane.
Being insane at the present time
and the variety of insanity beinj
pa anoia, we have no doubt of tn
act that he was insane at the tim
he committed the deed for which h
3 was convicted. The onset of thi
} form or variety, of mental disease j
3 always gradual and usually it ha
been in progress several years befor
3 recognition. 1t is an established fac
s that all paranoiacs are dangerous
and more or less prone to homicida
and other criminal acts, as a result O
the systematized and fixed delusions o
9 persecution from which they suffer.
Your committee found conclusiv
evidence that Mr. Doherty's condi
ton is as above described.
In regard to Mr.. Eastwood we az
t unanimously of the opinion that he
, suffering from alcoholic Dement'S
complicated by the degenerative dis
: ease of the spinal cord known as loco
Z motor ataxia; there being present III
d mistakable signs and symptoms {
this last named disease. AS to his dt
mentia being that known as alcoholi
= or the result and part of general pa
u esis (paralytic dementia) there
some little doubt, with the consensr
q of opinion Of the committee in fav,
+ of the former.
The man is wreck mentally al
d | physically His weight has droppt