The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-02-11
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/ ing the fight for the restoration If the
normal schools at Johnson and Castle
/ ton, caused To be ordered to lie the bill
| making the salary of the state commits
|sioner of education $1,000 instead Of
4 the $4,000 now paid by the state board
/ Of education. Mr. Stearus denied a
/ speculative newspaper story which said
! that in some quarters it was believed
/ this bill was a part of the normal school
/ fight strategy and declared that be was
! in no way connected with the bill.
But he said. after hearing the
present commissioner talk about the
schools of the state and bclittlc them by
comparing our normal schools with Mig
/ ger schools in the South | might want
/ to ask him some questions" Mr. S.eaus
said he might also want to ask the state
/ board why AIR Dempsey was offered
/ in Massachusetts. we might also" he
continued. want To ask who is paving
for this propaganda which bears all the
earmarks of coming from the commits
siouer of education"
The house reversed itself again this
morning when it reconsidered its action
| of yesterday afternoon in connection
| with the bill ~ ling eaSteEa St.4s49a I~J
! time the legal time in Vermont and pro-
vlding that railways must conform with
| il. The bill AZ drawn sought 10 prevent
Vermont railroads from changing their
schedules SO that their trains might con-
| meet with trains from other states which
might be- on the daylight saving plan.
Yesterday the house refused an amend
ment which would free the railroads
! from this restriction. but this morning
1t favored such an amendment and
| passed the bill. 1t was explained BIZ Mr..
| Luce, Who bad led the fight for the un-
amended Bill, that he had learned that
/ there was a law on the statute books
| permitting railroads to alter their schcd-
ules at viii and that the state could not
/ control Interstate commerce. Therefore
/ he was i'm favor of the amendment lie
| was compIimented by Mr. Barber of
/ Brattleb0rO for his fairness and Mr.. Bar
| Der took occasion to say that his inter
| est in favor of the bin was based upon
a desire to give the roads fair play. He
| stated that he was not retained hv any
| railroad 10 fight the bill.
| In the senate two bills were intro
| duced this morning, one by Senator
| Villas of Chittenden county relating to
| mortgages and another by Senator SIay-
| ton of Lamoille county providing that
| the vital statistics of the state shall be
| completed A communication from See
| rotary of State Black was read in the
/ house and senate this morning annoupe-
| ing that he had forwarded on Feb. 10
/ the ratification of the woman suffrage
amendment to the secretary of state of
| the United States a Washington
The house took action on the long cal
endar this morning with very little de-
| bate and voted that when adiournmnpr
is taken for the day it be until Monday
| evening ut 40 O'Clock The senate viii
also come into session Monday evening.
Il-38, the standard time measure
| afternoon. Mr.. Luce of Pomfref who
| has championed the measure throughout
and who has saved it from being Killed
once or twice, explained how to vote to
! secure the standard time.
+ The house went into a committee of
the whole to hear what some of the rem
resentatives of railroads had to saw
about the bill. Mr. Wishart of Barre
was called to the chair to preside in the
/ committee of the whole
Fred T. Grant of Boston. general mas
senger agent of the Boston & Maine
railroad, formerly general passenger
/ agent of the Rutland railroad, was the
first speaker before the committee of
the whole. He said he had not come to
oppose the bill but wanted to call nj
tention to how it would work out with
the railroads.
! If this bill passed, lie said. it might
mean that the railroads would not be
( able to give good service To the people
4 OF Nermoht. because n massachusetts
should continue its daylight saving law
and Canada should also continue under
i that provision it would mean that the
railroads would have to run under sew
eral different laws in going from Mon
treal TO Boston throughout Vermont,
/ New Hampshire and Massachusetts
Mr.. Grant explained at some length the
trouble that this would bring about
probably meaning poor connections. the
/ holding of trains at various points and
! in other ways. Other speakers repre-
lsentihg the railroads were John W Red
nlond of Newport, representing the Cen
| trail Vermont railway: John c. Sargent
| of Ludlow who appeared in the inter-
est of the Boston and Maine and Edwin
| W. Lawrence of Rutland for the Rut-
land road.
The committee of the whole voted to
recommend the elimination of section 3
which provides that the trains within
this state or between this. state and any
other state or territory must run on
standard time.
When second reading of the bin.
took place. on a risinr vote ii was voted
not to amend the bill by eliminating
section 3, the vote standing yes-99 no