St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-02-07
THURSDAYS SESSION.
House Votes to Maintain Two Agri-
.curtural Schools.

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ton, the time to be designated by the
| Governor, for the purpose of filling
vacancy in the office OF United States
Senator is provided for by House bill
number 2G, which passed the lower
branch of the legislature this morn
ing. The act removes the power now
held by the Governor to appoint in
case of an existing vacancy. The
measure was introduced into the
House by Mr.. Cudworthy of London
| derry.
There is little likelihood of the gen
eral assembly passing any act or re-
solve abolishing either of the two ag
ricultural schools, for the House this
forenoon adopted unanimously The
resolution presented yesterday, plac-
ing the present legislature on record
as favoring the maintenance of the
schools at Randolph and Lyndon and
increasing the equipment and eff1cien-
cy of the institutions.
Adoption of the resolution follow
ed after 80 minutes of oratory, every
speaker being emphatically in IA
vor of continuing the support of the
/ two schools, and several of the speak
ers, including Mr.. Metzger of Ran
dolph and Mr.. Fenton Of Rutland,
suggested that it would be a better
move to establish more agricultural
schools.
The Senate passed in concurrence
the joint resolution empowering SEN
ate and House Committees to visit the
school for feeble-minded. The Sen
ate killed Senate bill number IL,
which is an act designed to abolish
capitol punishment.
Bills introduced in the Senate this
morning were as follows:
S. so, by Senator Adams of Orleans.
An act to amend Section 338 of the
Public Statutes relating to the an
nual meeting of the Vermont Dairy
mans Association and premiums
awarded for exhibits. association
shall hold annual public meetings of
at least two days duration and pre-
miums to an amount of not less than
| two hundred dollars shall be awarded
for the best exhibits of dairy prod
ucts.)
S. 81, by Senator Adams of Orleans
county (by request An act to amend
Section I of No. 1862 of the acts OF
1912 relating to demurrage charges;
providing for the fixing of free time
by the Public Service Commission
(Gives commission power to fix time
limit before railroad can begin to
collect demurrage charges.
House Morning Session
The House had a very busy ani
highly interesting morning session
Eight new bills came up for intro
duction.
At eleven o'clock, special order or
the joint resolution of the House, No
II, came up and proved to be the fea
ture of the session.
This act is a joint resolution to ap
prove the continuance of the Vernon
State School of Agriculture at Ran
dolph and the Theodore N. Vail Agri
culturay School at Lyndon.
Mr.. Condor Of Pittsford, chairman
Of the committee on agriculture sait
that the resolution involved a bill
problem; he referred to the appro
priations asked for, quoting from tn
report of the trustees of the stat
school of agriculture and the lette
from T. N. Vail to the Governor re
garding the schools. He said h
quoted the extracts of reports an
letter, not in any spirit of criticism
but simply to bring the subject mat
ter FULLY before the House.
Mr.. Barrett of Cabot, the introdu
Ger of the resolution said that MI
Wallis letter expressed his views. MI
Porter of Sharon, spoke in favor O
the resolution and hoped that j
would be adopted.
Mr.. MetZger of Randolph, told Q
the starting and development of tn
school at Randolph; he believed bot
the Randolph and Lyndon school
needed to be maintained, and eve
favored the establishment of anothe
agricultural school to be located i
another section of the state. The nee
need of maintaining the interests c
the home, which was sadly neglecte
by some of the states, was one of tn
things Vermont needed to do, and h
believed that the keeping UP of til
little red school house and the deve
opment and splendid work of agricu
tural schools should be encourage
and enlarged. He strongly urged IL
adoption of the resolution.
Mr.. Matot of Poultney, was for I'll
resolution and hoped that two yea
hence, we would have at least tn
more such schools. Mr.. Moore
Ludlow. favored the resolution as d.
Mr.. Cox of Walden.
Mr.. Fenton of Rutland, drew al
: plause by his spirited speech on Il