The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-12-04
Bill introduced in the Vermont
House Today
TO ESTABLISH A STATE FUND
Under Provision of the Act the Teach
ers of Is Years Service Would Be
Entitled To Share In the Pen
sion Arrangement.
state House, Dec. 4.

I. State House, Dec. 4.
}. One of the interesting and important
!. measures of the session came to the
+; House this morning when Mr.. Hunt OF
: Fairfax introduced bill to establish
the Vermont state teachers fund to
: provide a pension fund for teachers who
! have taught 25 years in Vermont
schools. This is the first attempt made
: BY the teachers OF the state TO provide
{, against old age and will find plenty of
, support The fund will be raised by
voluntary subscription and paid out
through the office of the state auditor.
The House passed the Brattleboro and
/. Wilmington railroad charter bill and il
is understood that no opposition will
: appear in the Senate. The House voted
to allow the town of Bristol to annex
part of the town OF Ripton as pro-
yided by law.
The morning business in the lower
branch was strictly of routine nature
, and was not interrupted by debate.
! When the House bill. relating to pay
ing certain towns the amount due for
advanced instruction, Mr.. Miller Of Beth
el asked for a minor amendment and
Mr.. Comings of Richford wanted to
know If provision was made in the
bill for eliminating the need of furth-
4 er special acts of this nature. Mr..
Taft Of Townshend explained the need
OF a special act at this time and said
that bills are now pending in the leg
islature which will make further spe
cial acts unnecessary, if enacted into
law
When House bill 100, relating to plu
rality elections came up this morning |
il was recommitted upon motion OF Mr.. |
Hapgood as no provision was made for |
| the possibility of a tie vote on a third I
! ballot.
Passed By House.
| An act to provide for the payment Of
rebates for advanced instruction; TO in
corporate the Brattleboro and Whining
| ton Railroad Co.. to change the name OF
Monkton pond to Cedar lake; to annex
part of the town of Ripton TO the
town of Addison; to amend an act to
incorporate the Wallingford Water Co.
Bills introduced In House
By Mr.. Hunt Of Fairfax, 20 estab-
lish the Vermont State Teachers Re
tirement fund TO committee on edu-
cation. BY Mr.. Martin of Bennington
to incorporate the Chas. Cooper Indus
trial school, to committee on corpora
tions. BY Gage of Weathersteld, to pro-
vide teacher training courses for the
benefit OF rural schools. to committee
on education. BY Mr. Foote of Corn
wall, an act relating to carload ship.
ments of freight from two or more sta
tions, to committee on railroads. BY !
Mr.. Perry of Meudon, relating to tax )
alton of land of municipal corpora
tions, to committee on municipal cor
porations..
Debate in Senate on Sabbath Law.
In the Senate to-day there was a de-
bate on s. 1870, relating to Sabbath
breaking. The general committee rec !
commended a verbal change which was $
adopted. but made no reccommenda- y
tion regarding the bill itself. Mr.. Pres /
ton opposed the bill as opening too wide
Mr.. Dyer of Rutland fa- e
vored the measure. Mr. Davis ex-
planned the report of the committee. n
Mr.. Elliot presented protest from the r
churches in Woodstock. Mr.. Barber, =
the introducer, explained the purpose a
of the bill and denied that it was in Q
tended to commerciaize the Sabbath. U
Mr.. Blanchard of Orleans declared his g
opposition to local option in this mat "
ter as he had been opposed to local -
option in the sale of liquor. Mr.. Laird D
favored the bill and called attention 81
TO the fact that while conditions have g
hanged the law had remained un- ci
hanged. He characterized the statute o'
is dead letter and believed neglee re
led law was detriment. The yeas
md nays were demanded by Mr.. Davis OIL
md the bill was ordered to third as
-eading by vote of 10 to s. u
The Senate yesterday afternoon pass ca
d its own bills, as follows; To inror. o'
,orate the Henry w. Putnam Memorial to
Iospital; to enable the Bennington W
Water company TO donate TO the village da
# Bennington its system of water
works; amending an act TO incorporate
he Newport graded school districts r"-
sting to sales of adulterated articles. r.
{ also passed in concurrence these meas
res: Relating to Northfeld graded
chool district; amending the act to in st.
the St Albans and Swantun Mi
raction company; Incorporating the Ra
verlook Cemetery associations: relating m,
D the North Troy graded school district as
After refusing reconsideration OF the Ve
leasure requiring lights on road vehi- Ju
es. the House passed its own measures. n
; follows; To limit the amount to be TO,
aid annually by the state in abolish rel
x grade crossings; relating to broker pa
ge in insurance. Mr. Martin OF Ben- 70,
ington opposed the bill. while Mr. Brig r.
am Of Bradford urged its passage; TO Ho
Nv C. y. Martin and J. II. Austin the
ms therein named; to pay W. A. Dut- i'm
m the sum therein named; to pay T. ID. fac
avies the sum therein named: to ap- an,
-opriate money for the state school of fel
yriculture. FIR,
Want Admiral Clark HonOred. eia
The House adopted the following res '"'
ution introduced by Mr.. Bowman Of
aterford;
Resolved By the senate and House of ]
Ma
~Tha. the state Of Vermont hereby mo
gCests 10 the honorable secretary of
p navy. OF the proper authorities hav-
2 the matter in charge, that when the
mama canal il is'formally opened thai = reg
ouli be sitting that the process on day
ould b. led BY the uattieship Oregon. me-
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