The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-01
COMPENSATION BILL.
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Pitkin of Marshfeld. The proposed
amendments would provide for the ex- r
emption of all money loaned in the =
state by banks or individuals at five ,
per cent or less and the provision for +
offsets is cut out 4
Education Bill Progresses. {
The educational bill has passed the
senate in concurrence with 80 proposals Z
Of amendment by yea and nay vote
OF IS to 10, and these amendments have
been concurred III by the house. Among
the changes proposed by the amend
ments is one providing that a town or
district having p or more legal schools
may appoint its own superintendent OF
education TO be paid partly by the town
and partly by the senate The propos-
ed amendments also recede from the
house amendment with reference to the
personnel of the state board Of educa-
ton, making it consist of five persons
instead OF five men, thus allowing wo-
men to be members of the board The
senate also passed in concurrence II |
463, the sister educational bin to estab-
lish junior and senior high schools and
/ providing for vocational training
The direct primary bill has passed |
| the senate with 3S proposals OF amend |
ment which if adopted by the house |
would place the bill back to its origi- |
nal form, making 1t apply to all candi- !
dates, town and county instead OF only
to state and congressional candidates
as the house amendments provided. The
referendum clause is allowed TO re-
main, however. The senate also passed
III concurrence II 29S, appFopriating
900 to build a dormitorv for the
state school AZ Randolph, and Il 40,
Irelating to the bank commissioner ana
his duties.
The senate concurred in the Joint
/ resolution making the time of final
adjournment Saturday, April 3, at 9
a. m. Senator Conant. was opposed to
this action and urged further delay
+ before setting a date and moved that
| 1t be ordered to lie. but the motion
was lost.
/ Senate bills 5 I42, extending the
time within which railroads hereto
fore authorized may be constructed or
finished, and S 145, relating to rail
roads, We're also passed by the senate
{ B. & NJ. Bill Delayed,
r Action on the Boston & Maine
, bill has again been delayed bv a mo-
ton by Mr.. Stacey of Hartford, who
stated that more would be known later
concerning the action AIKEN by other
Legislatures in the matter and il will
come up as a special order today at 3
o clock. The house passed III concur
l renee S 1877. providing for the repre-
I sentation of Vermont at the meeting of
the National association of insurance
commissioners; S 10, an act concern
/ ing savings banks and trust companies
n 5 III, an act concerning insurance cor
= porations, and s I13, an act concerning
I foreign corporations. These last three
+ bills are three out of the five corpora
ton bills introduced III accordance with
the recent amendments TO the state
constitution, and are to provide for
interpretations under a general law in
stead of by special legislation.
Mr.. Hapgood of Peru introduced a
resolution requesting the governor and
;, attorney general TO forward to the
members of the next legislature within
one week after they are elected list
of the laws then in force which they
recommended should be repealed and
{ the reasons for suggesting such repeal
bur the house took the matter as 4
t joke and after an amendment had been
n offered by Mr.. Wilson of Chelsea au-
= thorizing Marshall J. Hapgood of PERT
e to perform this service at his own ex
n pense if he so desired, the resolution
was defeated.
l. Both houses held evening sessions
e last night at which business Of a rou
Is tine character was transacted. The
e house concurred in the senate pro
T. posals of amendment to FL 476, reat
e ing to the bank commissioner and pre-
= Iseribing his duties, and passed some
y bills to third reading, among then
being S al, making the term of Office
of the attorney general co-extensive
: with other state officers, and S 1879
: authorizing the city of Burlington t
: issue bonds for the purpose of build
= ing a convention hall.
The senate passed in concurrence f
la, providing for the restoration Of
% the Old Constitution House at Wind
It sor with proposal of amendment cut
= ting the appropriation from $4,000 I,
of 1000; II 422, providing for the in
er corporation of the village of South
i SALISBURY H $50, relating to polls ant
rs rateable estate in unorganized town
and cores with proposals of amend
ment changing the day for liking list
from June 90 to June IS; Fl $780, relat
n ing to the burial of transient persons.
n Senator Dunklee Of Windham intro
r. duced a bill for the committee on edu
er cation appropriating $50 to pay Mr.
ip Piccioli for work done for the educa
"A tional committee.
~ ~ Signed by the Governor.
e The following bills have been signet
IS by the governor: