Litchfield enquirer., 1870-07-28
Legislative.

Five thousand dollars have been voted towards the Wells monument.
 The murderer Wilson has been released from State Prison.
 The bill making railroad companies lia. ble for injuries to brakemen, was voted down in the House. The number of in- juries to that class of employ ees probably exceeds that to passengers in most years, and we greatly regret that companies should not be made responsible in those, as in other cases, for careless con duct.
 The Board of Agriculture has been abol- ished. How much or how little reas on there was for such action, we have no means of judging. The idea of farmers meetings for consultation and mutual in. struction, is 8 good one, but how it sue. ceeded practically, is another matter
 After another spicy debate, coDsolida- ton was again defeated in the House After considerable debate, it was resOlv- ed to inquire into the expense of repairing the State Prison, instead of building, new and committee was appointed to rept r. t. the next General Assembly. Inasmuch as General Pratt Is on the Committee, we d. not look for u repetition of the Middle. town experience.
 The State tax has been reduced to two centson the dollar.
 The militia law has been so changed as to abolish the system of encampments, and committee is to be appointed by the Gov ernor to draft @ militia law and report tO the next General Assembly.
 | The proposed woman's suffrage amend. ment came up in the House on Thursday. MT. Case of Simsbury spoke in it's favor, and Eaton of Hartford, against it, but @, it's advocates had no hope of majority in it's favor, and as other matters were press
 ing, a motion to postpone indefinitely prevailed, few voting either way. } The act for taxing colored citizens pro 5 perty was opposed by MT. Eaton and the ? Democrats, Olmsted of Stamford, except. ed, and did not pass.
 ) An appropriation of $2,OOO to the Sol diers' Orphans Home, passed the Senate, ) but failed in the House.
 A bill excepting cider and malt liquors
 from the effect of the Maine Law, was vo- ted down by nearly a party vote ill the House, s. M. Ensign of Morris, being the only Litchfield Go. Democrat who voted against such an exception. A bill repeating the law against adulte- rated liquors, was also voted down in the House.. G st S#nsEbL # Israel M. Bullock was appointed Judge Ol Cu0 DrluB0pOFb OlGy COurC.
 J. J. McCord, of Norwich, was elected
 Major General of the State militia, in place of Major General Russell, resigned. } An act has passed, requiringa continu- 1 ment of divorce cases one term, unless the , respondent has actual notice of the pen dency of the petition. ,r..... l A bill passed the House, and came with in 2 votes of passing the Senate, abolishing ) the State Board of Education: The chief
 mover of the proposition was Representa-
 tive John Cotton Smith of Sharon. On Friday, the question came up in the House again, and the bill was indefinitely post : poned by heavy majority on an Aye and No vote. The following is the record for this County on the vote to postpone:
 YEAs-E. W. Seymour, Sackett, J. P. Norton, Harrison, E. Norton, Catlin, Birge s. M. Ensign Chapin, Pettibone, J. N. COwlos, c. A. Beers, l Phelps, Bronson, Warren, Moore-16. NAYs-Frisbie, Stannard, Payne; W. H. Taylor,
 D. Keeler, Sturges, W. H. H. Hewitt, Edwards,
 Frost, Wells, Hardenburgh. J. c. Smith, B. Reed, Melton, s. H. Clark, Crane, Capewell-l7.
 At the request of General Harland, as it appears, the Senate receded from their
 vote electing him Judge of the New Lon don Court of Common Pleas, and concur red with the House ill electing Hiram Will ley of New London, to that position.
 Lucius l.. Holmes of Hartford, has been
 elected Bank Commissioner.
 On Friday, the Legislature passed the usual complimentary votes, gave the Lieu tenant Governor the usual cane, and the Speaker of the House the usual silver plate, voted all it's hangers-on extra pay, voted itself extra mileages (Gen. Pratt swearing his last and biggest oath, there at), and, after going through the time honored formalities, adjourned sine die. The customary closing, " God Save the Commonwealth" brings Q sigh of fnex- pressible relief from the wearied constitu- ent, if not from the legislator, and we heartily hope the next Legislature will do more and talk less, than that of 1870.