The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-07

1903, serving as a member of the COM
mittee on interpretations. The house
chairman is Milton G. Isbell of Anso-
mia, a member of the New Haven coun-
ty bar. Representative E. Allen Moore
of New Britain is the clerk of the COM
mittee. He is a member of the New
Britain school board and is familiar
with the best types of public school
education. He is man of broad
views and is extremely useful in the
committee work. The present is his
first term in the general assembly.
Moses E. Banks of Fairfield has long
been engaged in educational fields, and
was selected for the committee by
Speaker Holcomb on account of his
competency. Hermon M. Chaplin of
New Hartford is a manufacturer in
Pine Meadow and a man of sound
views. Albert C. Bates of East Gran
by, who is one of the leading members
of the committee, is the librarian OF
the Connecticut Historical society, and
a man of exceptional ability from edu-
cational points of view. Charles S.
Hyde of Canterbury has had two terms
in the house, serving the last time in
1903. He was then a member of the
committee on capitol furniture and
grounds under Senator John M. Ney of
Hartford. Gilbert B. Burr of Ridge
field, William H. Geer of Lebanon and
William S. Bishop of Andover, the re-
naming members of the committee, are
new men in the general assembly, rep
resentative of the common schools of
the state and cognizant of their needs.
The committee has been brought into
the lime light during the past two
weeks in the hearings relative to Peck's
bill eliminating the Institute for the
Blind from the inspection of the state
board of charities. This bill, which
provides that right to visit, inspect and
report concerning the Institute for the
Blind in Hartford, shall be vested in
the state board of education, and that
the institution shall not be classed
among institutions for the care of the
defendant or criminal classes, has ex,
cited widespread interest. 1t makes
one think of what John A. Tibbets
once said in New Haven, when making
one of his rafting speeches on the tar
iff in a political campaign Recalling
the free trade teachings which had
been promulgated at Yale, he exclaim-
ed: Burn the college," In Hartford
some have gone so far as to advise
abolishing the Institute for the Blind.
Senator Peck could not have known of
the inf1ammable character of Hartford
tho
stftute, when he introduced the bill.
He is a statesman of the most peace
full and kindly tendencies, and would
not add fuel to the fire if he could
avoid it. The committee will no doubt
keep the institute alive and give 1t a
better chance for the future. Its re-
port on the senator's bill will be award
ed with an interest not unlike that at
tending the state armory complica-
tions. IL
There are two or three measures from
the state board of education I'M
der consideration by the com
mittee coming from Representa-
tive Simmons of Plainfleld, who is
an official of the board. One provides
for the compulsory attendance at
school of children between fourteen and
sixteen years of age, whenever the
state board of education holds that
their schooling has been inadequate.
The second of Mr.. Simmons measures,
provides that towns receiving state
grant for payment of teachers shall not
employ any teacher who has not OBJ
tanned a state certificate. Senator
Everitt J. Lake of Hartford, who holds
a Harvard diploma, and is a member
of the Hartford school board, has a
bill of much Importance before the ed
ucation committee. 1t provides that the
board of school visitors or town school
committee of any town where evening
schools are established, shall annually,
on July /, certify to the comptroller the
average number, of scholars attending
within the current school years. The
comptroller shall pay three dollars for
each scholar to the town where such
schools were maintained, provided sew
enty-five sessions of. grammar grade
and sixty sessions of high school grade
have been maintained during the year.
Senator Lake has taken an active in
terest in the Hartford evening schools,
and is one of the most public spirited
members of the school board in the
state capitol.