Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1911-01-13


1t was a jolly good crowd that re-
urned to Montpelier last week to take
up anew their duties as statesmen. IL
was indeed a reunion of the legislature |
IF 1910 and although there was much |
they proceeded to get in a
couple of hours work Tuesday evening. |
The work of the evening was mostly
routine in its nature but it saved two
hours of the next days work. Nothing
extraordinary was done "Wednesday
except to clean up much unimportant
matter. The House did, however, pass
Mr.. Carll's Essex County Deer Bill
which gives that county the whole
month of November in which to hunt
deer. There was some opposition to
this bill but the popularity of Mr..
CARL pulled the bill through by an
overwhelming majority. The bill is
endorsed by the joint committee on
game and fisheries and will probably
have no trouble in the Senate.
THE CENTRAL NORMAL SCHOOL
The Farmers Club held the weekly
meeting Wednesday evening in the
Hall of Representatives and it was
largely attended Oh account of the notice
given out that Mr.. Stone, Supt. of Edu-
cation and Elk. 1t. Gov. Stearns OF
johnson would oppose each other in
Joint debate. The Free Press in giving
notice of the meeting spoke of it as
three ring circus, but that was an exag-
geration. 1t was only two ring circus
1t was highly entertaining and instruc-
tive. Mr.. Stone undoubtedly recovered
much of the ground lost at the former
meeting of these two champions of
their respective causes; but that Mr..
Stearns and other friends of the John
son Normal School have made good
fight is evidenced by the report that a
compromise has been affected whereby
johnson does not lose her normal school
but is to have it enlarged and improved
at State expense. There is going to be
one nice large Normal School estab-
lished and the johnson School is going
to be improved which makes everybody
happy but the friends of the school at
Casteton which will probably be abol.
ished. If things work out as expected
this will be the third step along the road
of education and progress as advocated
by Gov. Mead. The first two being the
creation of an agricultural school at
Randolph and the establishing of the
teachers training courses. Hurrah for
Gov. Mead and the better education of
the sons and daughters of Vermont.
THE TEMPERANCE AND SUFFRAGE COM
BINATION.
On Thursday morning House Bill 1873
giving women the right to vote on tenn
perance questions came up as a special
order and the galleries and Hobbies we're
packed with interested spectators. The
members of the House had been flooded
with petitions asking for the passage of
this bill. The bill was ordered to a
third reading before the holiday recess
and at that time had fine majority and
would undoubtedly have passed the
House but for the indiscretion of the
friends of the bill. This should not be
construed to mean that all the friends
of the bill were indscreet. The bill
had many friends who worked earnestly
and sincerely for it and had the matter
been left to the members alone it would
undoubtedly have passed along all
right. But one especial champion of
all temperance measures, the Grand
High Chief of the Anti-Saloon League,
made his customary blunder and so dis
gusted the members of the House that
they turned down the bill by a very
narrow margin. 1t is too bad that
meritorious temperance measures are
killed through the ineticiency of sim
cere though misguided individual. Mr..
Ferguson had mailed letters to members
OF the House thanking them for the
stand they had taken on the bill and
then went out of his way to libel two
respected members of the House. He
insinuated that Webster of Swanton
had been contaminated by contact with
the "Slush Fund" of the breweries and
that he was in league with the "Saloon
Keeper of South Vernon. Mr.. Amey
OF Brighton arose to a question of prvi-
lege and read the letter before the
House and the good things he said
about Mr.. Ferguson were about az mega
tive as the good things he said abou
Mr., Webster were positive. Mr.. Anne,
had no sooner resumed his seat thar
Mr.-Peck of Burlington and severa
Others arose and expressed their faith il
Mr.. Webster. The bill had once beer
acted on favorably by the House ant
the only excuse for its defeat must b.