Litchfield enquirer., 1863-07-09
THE LEGISLATURE.
WEDNESDAY, July

THE LEGISLATURE.
 WEDNESDAY, July 1.
 MSsSATE.-Called M to order at 8 o'clock.
 The Vallandigham Resolutions were taken up; ana the yeas and nays ord cred.
 feas-Messrs. Bradley, Mitchell. Wabb. Wheeler, Phelps, Bennett, ,Sherw ood, Kirbv-s. I. NGJs..-Messrs. Hall, Dart, Adams, Dol. beare, Morgans, Bromley, Phillips, Dudley. Warren, Hotchkiss, Allen, Fuller, Prentice- ll3.
 Resolution incorporating the Union Emi- grant Aid Company, taken up. The object of the company is "the organizing, promoting and providing tho means of emigration to any of the territories of the United States" After good deal of discussion the bill passed.
 Voted that the morning hour of assembling be o'clock hereafter, and the afternoon hour. 3 o'clock.
 Adjourned to Thursday. HoUsE.-Caled to order at 9 o'clock.
 Report of committee on military affairs, on the examination of military expenditures by Gov.. Buckingham, and other State officers, was brought up.. Report accepted. 1 The militia bill, the special order was taken up by sections, and discussed at length, the copperheads trying to pass vote to adjourn to September, so as to stave off the bill.
 
 stitut;on, giving soldiers in the field power to vote; tabled for printing. ] Bill allowing towns to pay bounties not sx- ceeding $500 for the procuraton of substitutes for drafted men tabled for printing.
 Adjourned to Thursday. THURSDAY, July q
 SENArE.-Convened at 8 o'clock. | Various matters from the House concurred ir.
 Res. appropgiating S2,50O to the State Ar ricultural Society; passed. Act providing that two-thirds of the stock. holders of any bank may become an incorpo- ration under the United States banking law. The bill passed, 12 to 8.
 Bill requiring banks to stamp counterfeit or altered bills, also signing the name of the bank stamping the same passed.
 Resolution appointing Origen 8. Seymour, Orville H. Platt, and David B. Booth, com. mittee to revise the statutes of the State passed.
 Resolution authorizing the messenger to restore the portraits of ex-Govs. Seymour and Toucey; lost.
 Bill giving wives of soldiers the right to. prosecute for bounty money and afixing pen. altles upon town officers who shall withhold money due to her; passed.
 Executive Session appointed for Friday morning at g A. M.
 Adjourned to Friday.
 HoUsE.-Convened at o'clock.
 The militia bill was taken up, it being the order of the day. It was discussed pro and con at great length.
 Representative Benton. of Morris, said he came here 10 favor Democratic principles, and he still held to them. if 3 man owns cotton, (that is to say if he is rich,) he would say to him: "Take musket and defend your cotton, and not try to get exempted"
 Speaker Cleaveland appealed to members to cast aside all feeling of party. This hour the guns of the enemy are pointed toward us, and powerful armies are moving in the direction of our homes. Do we realize it? Let us consid- CT our responsibilities and act as becomes log islators of Connecticut.
 Adjourned to Friday.
 sENArE-Senate met at 8. Prayer by Rev. Mir. Hermann.
 Res continuing to next Assembly de vote of stockholding contractors in railroad compa- nies passed.
 Res furnishing ammunition for the defensA of Stonington; passed
 Senate went into Executive Session. After which, resolution from the House, raising a committee to visit Washington and 1 ask for some protection to tho seaboard towns of the State, passed, aud Lieut. Gov. Averill was appointed The resolution was after: [: wards recalled by the House.
 Report of the Finance Committee, with rcs- o!ution recommending State tax of two mills on the dollar on ths Grand List, read. The matter was tabled after discussion.
 Adjourned 10 Tuesday next. nt P. M. HousE-Convaned at 8 o'clock Rev Mir. Hermann offered prayer. The Coast Defence was taken up. and after a long debate on resolution appointing . Committee to proceed to Washington to urge upon the Government to take some measurea for the protection of the coast, which was once passed, the resolution was finally recalled from the Senate and tabled by the House.
 Adjourned to Tuesday, at P. M.
 Mrs. Ann Curtiss, of nerby. while riding ont with her daughter in-law, Mrs. Wheeler,on Thursday afternoon, was seriously injured by being thrown from the buggy. The horse be- came frightened by passing train of cars"nd ran among some stones by the roadside. throw, ing Mrs. Curtiss distance of twenty-seven r II T. I..- IL N--.