The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-15
SCHOLARSHIP BILL
IS ADVANCED BY
COMMITTEE REPORT
This Measure Provides for
Medical Scholarship
i'm u. V. NJ.
BEAR BOUNTY PASSES
House Passes Bill Creating District
Health Officer After Long
| Debate Ii Il
BEAR BOUNTY PASSES

AT the conclusion of the leglSIa-
tive session Thursday the appropria-
tions committee of the House held
hearing on the bill to appropriate
5000 annually for scholarships at
the University of Vermont. Dean
H. C. Tinkham of the school of me-
dicine and Comptroller Guy w. Bail
ey were present also John e. Weeks
OF Middlebury. The later offered no
objection on the part of Middlebury
College.
At the conclusion of the meeting
the committee voted to report the
bill favorably to the House. The
measure has already passed the Sen
ate.
The greater part of the interest in
the House was on III. 260, the act
creating district health officers in
place of town health officers. After
a talk-fest in which the merits of
the bill were praised by Mr.. Webster
of Swanton, Mr.. Bond of Searsburg
and MI. Mcfarland of Hyde Park
the measure was passed by an almost
unanimous vote, with amendments by
Mr. Webster and Mr.. Carpenter OF
/ Richford.
MI. Carpenters amendment pro-
vides penalty of not more than
$100, nor less than $40 for failure
of physician to comply with the
provisions of that part of the bill
requiring that attending physicians
shall look after the quarantining OF
cases of communicable diseases, and
report same to district health officer
The amendments offered by Mr.
Webster leave the appointment of a
city health officer if one is desired
in the hands of the State board OF
! health. The amendments make no
radical changes.
The House suspended the rules, re-
considered and passed in concurrence
S. 4, permitting a town, city or in
corporated village to maintain a
wood, coal and fuel yard, which
would strike out section 8 of the
measure.
H. 256, providing for the prpeara-
ton and publication of suitable
history and memorial to Vernont's
part in the war, was advanced to a
third reading, after an extended eX-
planation of the present bill, which
is a substitute for the original bill
by Mr.. Buttles of Brandon, chair
man of the committee on military af-
fairs. The original bill provided that
an editor should be secured to write
the history, while the present meas
ure contemplates having the. compil-
alton, editing and writing done by
the secretary of civil and military
,, affairs.
On motion of Mr.. Alexander of ST.
Albans city, H. 251, relating to for
mer acquittal, the bill which was or
dered to third reading yesterday
| by a very close vote, and which has
to do with the Anna Felch case, was
| ordered to lie and made a special or
der for next Wednesday at 2.3t
o'clock.
Mr.. Clark of Brookfeld offered ar
amendment to the "black bear meas
ure, which was adopted by the House
without debate, providing that the
| bounty on black bears shall apply on,
| ly between May 1 and November l
The vote was 1872 to 43. The bill
was then passed, the vote being al
| most unanimous. This reverses an
other decision of the House, the bill
having been killed at the Monda.
evening session and reconsideree
| Tuesday.
| Continuing where it left off las
night, the Senate spent the entire
morning session in debate on S. 35
the Amey workmen's compensation
measure, which the senator from Es
sex has been trying to amend in or
der to save its existence. The eft
| fort was futile, however, for after al
arguments had been suspended. al
amendments were rejected and the bill
itself stripped of its borrowed plum
| age, was cast forth into oblivion. Th'
lfnal vote on the measure was "a tt
/ When the measure first came VI
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