The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-03-04


the committee with a view Of getting
some public expression on the ques-
tion.
The splendid offer Of Theodore N.
Vail TO give TO the state the Spcedwell
Farms and Lyndon Institute situated
AZ Lyndon which has been the subject
Of investigation by special commit
tee, Is now before the house, the COM
mittee having reported favorably on
the matter Of its acceptance and have
recommended an annual appropriation
Of $4,000 to maintain the school. Mr.,
Vail makes no restrictions on the gift
other than il be used as an agricul-
tural school. He thinks that eventual
~ every county in the state will de-
mand such an institution and points
out that the state will save capital
cost Of over 100000 il his offer is
accepted. A joint resolution accepting
Mr.. Walls gift has been adopted by
the senate under the suspension of
the rules.
The senate, having refused TO adopt
the amendments proposed by the house
to the senate bin providing for the APP
pointment Of special deputies by the
commissioners of taxes TO assist town
listers in the appraisal of various
classes of property, committee OF
conference composed of Senators Cady,
Dunklee and Blake for the senate and
Morse Of Hardwick, Proctor of Proc
tor, and Russell Of Kirby, has been
arranged for. The amendment pro-
posed by the house and which the sem
ate refused to adopt provided for the
appointment of the special deputies
only on request of town listers and
that the expense should be borne by
the towns making the request instead
of by the state as the original bill
provided.
A third reading has been ordered on
an act which as amended would pro-
vide instruction at home or at some
place designated by school board of
children certified by legally quail
fed physician to be permanently dis
able from attending school. The ex-
pense for such instruction, which is
not to exceed 81 per week for each
pupil, is to come out of the regular
school fund.
Another hearing on the educational
bill at which the members of the edu-
cational commission under whose di-
rection the bill was drafted, were to
appear, was to have been held last
week, but owing to the unavoidable
absence of Lieut.. Gov. Darling and Mr..
Geo. l.. Hunt, clerk Of the commission,
who were to have presented the views
of the commission on the subject, the
meeting was postponed until the lat
ter part of this week. An act by
which the avails accruing from the
state licensing of peddlers, auction
GERS, circuses and SO forth, are to be
granted to the trustees of the perman-
ent school fund, has come from the
committee on education and provides
for the annual distribution of such
fees among the various towns for the
purpose of equalizing educational op-
portunities at the same rates and by
the same system as the income of the
permanent school fund is distributed.
An act to provide for the organiz-
ing Of cooperative fire insurance cor
porations and which is Of interest to
farmers throughout the state, having
had the endorsement of the State
Grange, has been passed by the house.
Mr.. Foote of Cornwall, explained that
the act was in the nature of permis-
sive legislation carrying no approprl-
alton and was modelled on similar laws
existing in the State of New York
The act to provide uniform law for
the grading, packing, and branding of
apples which is Of immense import
ance to the large fruit growing inter
ests, especially in the southern part
of the state, received rather scurvy
treatment at the hands Of the house.
II was passed, to be sure, by a vote Of
l40 to 35. but with an amendment
which had been offered by the gentle
man from Peru, who apparently had no
particular use for the bill, to the effect
that "this act shall not prevent any
person from shipping apples in the
old fashioned or any other way in case
he SO desires" Just why the house
should have allowed this amendment
which is as thought sentence Of death
should be passed upon a man with the
proviso that he should not be evecut-
ed unless he desired to be, il is diff
cult to determine. If in a spirit of
humor. il Is rather expensive fun. IT
probably was done with the idea that
the amendment would be taken care Of