Litchfield enquirer., 1867-08-01
CONNECTICUT LEe1sLATURE
MAY SESSION, 1867.
WEDNESDAY, JULY, 24.


 with fish, passed. The bill for licensing sale of liquor, was then discussed and continued to the next session by strict party vote: Yeas-Messrs Austin, Elliot, Clarke of the Eighth, Brockway, Brainard, Dorrance--11. Nays-Messrs. Beach, Phelps, Gallagher, Rogers, Williams, Clarke of the Tenth, Cornen, Granger, Johnson, Converse-10. The res. establishing the Fair Haven Water Com pany was discussed, amended, and passed Bills were passed, amending liquor law, and authorizing city of Hartford to issue bonds to amount of $500 0c0 to assist the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad.
 In the House the resolution unseating the dem ocratic members from Union and declaring Messrs. Paul and Corbin, republicans, elected, passed. In the Granby the report of the committee in ia vor of the sitting member, democrat, accepted. Res. for final adjournment on Saturday, passed Bill punishing parents and employers working ! children in factories more than ten hours 8 day, low as we'll as above was passed. A bill regula- ting replevin suits, passed A res providing for a Constitutional Convention to be elected and to sit in the fall of 1869, was passed. The Senate amendment to the res. establishing the Fair Ha- ven Water Company was concurred in, and res. passed. The bill for commission concerning ap- pointment of an Attorney General lost. Several ] unimportant bills were then passed.
 THURSDAY, JULY 25.
 In the Senate the following bills and resolutions were passed: authorizing reduction of capital of Winsted Bank; dividing Hartford into 6 voting districts declaring that spies who purchase liquor for the sake of prosecuting are not to be compe- tent witnesses ill cases under Maine Law providing for final adjournment on Saturday; appropriating 5000 to Soldiers Orphans Home; providing for winding up banks when capital impaired; dividing Barkhamsted into voting districts; prohibiting taking of fish in seines from Waramaug lake; Jay
 ing state tax of three mills the dollar providing for uniform poll tax of $1; prohibiting loungers about cars and depots; permitting the town of Winchester to subscribe to the capital stock of the New Haven and Northampton Company and to
 
 salary of School Fund commissioner to 5000; re- quiring ballots to be printed on plain white paper; punishing the bribing or influencing members of rior Court Judges at 300. The Parallel railroad reported against and petitioners given leave to withdraw The committee on Federal Relations reported some copperhead resolutions which were indefinitely postponed.
 In the House the following bills and resolutions passed: authorizing city of Hartford to assist the Boston Hartford and Erie railroad by issuing bonds to amount of $50 000 increasing salary of Prof. Northrop to s35O0; authorizing town of Win chester to loan $10O,0CO to railroad from Collins vile to Lee in concurrence with Senate; restoring forfeited rights to Charles J, Warner of Washing ton; dividing Barkhamsted into voting districts; authorizing reduction of capital of Winsted Bank; authorizing Salisbury to subscribe to Sheffield and Mllerton railroad; giving agricultural societies of London introduced res. declaring that the State Normal School has not fulfilled the expectations of it's friends and recommending that it should be abolished passed 81 to 70.
 FRIDAY, JULY 26.
 In the Senate militia bill limiting number of companies to 40 and abOlishing April parades was amended so as to abolish fall encampments and passed. The constitutional amendment providing for but one State House passed with single dis senting voice: Bill authorizing Salisbury to sub scribe to stock of railroad indefinitely postponed. resolution of thanks to the Lieut.. Gov. was pass ed. Resolutions were passed for commit ee to continue investigation into the accounts of Treas urer Colte; authorizing Hartford to expend $5OOO in improving navigation of Conn. river; of thanks to J. M Morris clerk of the Senate A. J. Gallup, pres. pro tenn and to messengers and doorkeepers. Militia bill reconsidered and further tinkered; res- ngton, George Gilbert of Iitchfeld, and oth- CTS; appropriating $4OOO to Reform school in con- currence with House; providing that evidence in contested elections shall be taken before commit tee appointed by the Superior Court at expense of parties; appointing commissioners of equalization militia law again tinkered in concurrence with House. The constitutional amendment concern ing State House was reconsdered and finally pass- ed 12 to 6. The House res. denouncing State Nor nal School was passed as also the following: Re- sored, That the Comptroller of the State be and he hereby is directed to draw further orders on the Treasurer of this State in behalf of the State Normal School than what is necessary to pay the debts incurred under contracts already existing.
 In the House the Parallel road was reported against and petitioners given leave to withdraw. The following bills and resolutions were then pas sed: authorizing Gov. to appoint commission to rivise joint stock laws; enquire into the expediency of having an Attorney General; taxing income of U. s. bonds; appointing new board of Equalization in concurrence with Senate; giving county com- mssoners 8 per day and 10 cents per mile travel for hearings also in concurrence; fixing salaries of Supreme and Superior Court Judges at $2,500; fix ing state tax at three mills the dollar; referring contested election cases to committee from courts; denying further appropriations to State Normal School; appropriating $4, ,0CO to State Reform School: amendments of militia act; prohibiting Savings banks from loan on security of real estate out of State; authorizing Gov. to appoint railroad policeman; reducing poll tax to $1; ceding proper tv on New London harbor to United States; au. thorizing foreclosing mortgage to eject tenant. The following important measures were rejected; l Constitutional Amendment providing for one cap- ital license law, 116 to 86; making informer an incompetent witness in liquor cases; punishing bribery &c. of members of Legislature; preventing an heir of ancestral estate giving more than one fourth to charitable purposes. Upon the bill against liquor informers the C0tTGnt reports the | following speech:--Mr Hotchkiss, Cdem.1 of Beth any, spoke with great earnestness in favor of this law. He was cut of on the other; now he would l have his say. He declared that the Maine law had been total failure; everybody knew it. he could l see he said evidences of it all around him. AS he stood in the midst of the Democratic members, the arqssraentsna Gd hornines was received with grim smile by the republicans.
 SATURDAY, JULY 27.
 The Senate after transaction of unimportant | business, speech of Lieut.. Gov. and presentation of the customary gold headed cane, adjourned sine 1jo