Keene Evening Sentinel
Saturday, April 15, 1911
Page 3
NORMAL SCHOOL BILL VETOED
Governor Bass Strikes Hard Blow
at School in Keene
Also Vetoes Bills for Armory at Portsmouth,
for Engineering Building at Durham and State House
Renovations in Concord
The New Hampshire legislature encountered the unexpected shortly before its adjournment today, when Governor Bass sent in vetoes of four bills, among them the bill appropriating $44,500 for a main building for the normal school in Keene. Later the house sustained the veto of the Keene bill by a vote of 235 to 57.
The other bills vetoed were the bill to build an armory in Portsmouth, the bill to erect an engineering building at the state college in Durham and a bill for certain renovations and improvements upon the state house in Concord. The vetoes were all sustained by the house.
The governor, in his message to the legislature stated his reasons for vetoing the bill for the normal school in Keene as follows:
“A new normal school was established two years ago in the city of Keene. That institution is not as yet receiving as many pupils as it can accommodate. There does not seem to be an immediate necessity for an enlargement of its capacity.”