The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-31
Important Matters Remain
to Be Settled by the
Legislature
NORMAL SCHOOL
QUESTION COMES UP
Through Measure Which Would Make
Two Schools Necessary for 20 Years
Sunday Permit Bill Up as Special
Order Tomorrow Afternoon.
Especial to The Reformer.
MONTPELIER, March


Tonight the Vermont legislature of
1919 starts upon what is expected by
many viii be the last week of the ses-
sion. The work of the session is well
cleaned up. there being but 10 bills in
house committees and 22 in senate com
mittees. There are Is bills on the house
calendar for tonight. The senate calen-
dar is short one.
On the other-hand, there is some talk
that new bills which will be introduced
in the senate this week, together with
the itenlized consideration of the budget
by the senate, win postpone final ad-s
Journment until sometime next week
There are also the governors appoint
ments for the offices of insurance com
missioner, tax commissioner. commits
sioner of industries. etc, which are ex-
pected to be made this week and which
may cause considerable debate and DELAY.
1t is understood that a couple of i'm
portant measures. one of them relating
TO worSmen's compensation, viii appear
In the senate within a day or two The
budget bill is up for third reading in
the house tonight and will probably 90
to the senate tomorrow morning If
everything runs smoothly the senate
may be able to get through with the
budget by Wednesday night and pass it
Thursday, which would leave the way
clear for final adjournment Saturday.
but if any difficulty arises over the meas
ure it is likely to take up the grea--
part of the week in the senate.
/ There are four measures on the house
al Il l. I. n.
lone with an adverse report, three for
concurrence in senate proposals of amend
ment, and nine up for passage. Those
coming in under favorable report are S.
81, the workmen's compensation meas
ure; S. 90, providing for mutual associa-
tions for employers under the work
mans compensation law; s. 1O2. provid-
ing for cooperation with the federal gov
eminent for rural sanitation; and S. 1903,
providing for custodian for the eollee-
tion and work of the Vermont Historical
society.
S. &C. relating to the conservation, de-
lvelopment, and utilization of the water
resources of the state comes in under
adverse report.
One of the bills up for passage tonight
lis S. l0l, allowing towns and cities to
further exempt hotels from taxation.
This measure caused quite furry in the
house Friday afternoon, and it may have
considerable opposition this evening. 1t
is of vital Importance TO the Barre city
hotel, about which the measure centers.
Interest III the house this week centers
on H. 3l2, the Sunday permit bill. which
comes up as a special order tomorrow
afternoon at $3.50. 1t is possible that the
house may 90 into a committee of the
whole and hear what some interested
citizens have to say on the subject, any
how there is sure to be some hot debate
before the vote is taken on this measure,
for the state is now pretty thoroughly
aroused concerning il and the opposition
promises to be one of the stiffest of the
session.
The new normal school bill, III. $50, in
ltroduced Friday by Mr.. Tracy OF John
lson, and providing for the continuance OF
normal schools at Castleton and John
T son until August, 1871, is also due fol
some lively opposition, according TO re-
ports. The movement for consolidation
of such state institutions as can be con