Litchfield enquirer., 1873-04-03

journals of the house and senate, thereby
 showing that they were made at the time
 they purport to have been mado. 2
 The committee would state further that the evils aims at in the several resOlu tions of Mr. Goodwin concerning the ac ton of the railroad commissioners, and
 alluded to in the report of the committee thereon, were duly considered by tho
 committee, and a repetition of them in the
 future effectually guarded against by $
 stringen. law upon the subject. which, by the unanimous vote of the committee, Was l reported to the general assembly, was there explained and it's passage advocat- ed by both chairmen of the committed, and
 having passed both houses became law and can be founed on page 91 of the Pub
 lie Acts of 1872, to which the attention ol
 the public is respectfully directed.
 3d. That the right of petition was vir-
 tually denied by the committee to certain citizens of some twenty towns in the state l by the neglect of the committee to report
 upon certain petitions of said citizens ask
 ing 'for law to regulate railroad fares. ? l All these petitions referred to had the
 same printed heading and, it was under
 stood by the committee, had been distrib-
 uted for signatures to the towns aforesaid l by MT. Goodwin, and were in aid of his
 bill known as House Bill No. %, entitled | "An act to regulate the fares of railroad
 companies" and in fact some of the peti-
 tions were indorsed 'Petition in aid of a l bill to regulate railroad fares"
 1 The first of these petitions No SD was
 introduced into the house by Mir. Good
 win, May 18th, and two days later, May l l7th, MT. Goodwin, introduced his bill
 House Bill No. %, above referred to. The other petitions upon this subject l followed from time to time, all of which
 were referred to the railroad committee.
 On the 9th day of June, by the agreement of Mir. Goodwin and all parties in inter
 est appearing, the committee assigned the
 hearing upon these petitions and house
 bill for the 18th day of June at 2 o'clock
 p. m. No assignment of any other matter
 was made by the committe for that after
 noon. Oh the 18th day of June, at the
 time assigned for hearing, parties ill op- positition appeared, but MT. Goodwin
 did not appear. He was sent for, and ap-
 peared with counsel. What action was
 taken by the committee at that time will
 sufficiently appear from the following re-
 port:
 GRNERAL ASSEMBLY, May Session, A. D., 1872. The joint standing committee on railroads to whom was referred house bill No. %, being (
 the fares of railroad companies" beg leave to re- port that on June5 1872, on appiiction of parties interested the committee made special assign 1 ment for June F. 1872, at 2 o'clock P. M., and
 appeared in opposition to said bill representatives of the following railroads:-Naugatuck, Housa- tonic, Now York and New Haven, Connecticut Valley, Hartford and New Haven, and Connecti- cnt Western. Two persons: one an attorney. ap- peared in favor of the bill, but asked that the hearing be postponed until some future time, and at the same time stating that they desired te introduce no evidence, but merely desired to ad- dress an argument to the committee. The com mittee declined to postpone the matter and those clined to proceed therefore. the committee re- port theses facts without any recommendation. AL of which is respectfully submitted.
 HENRY SToDDARD, ( hartman, This report, with the bill and petitions,
 was reported to the senate aud acted up- on by that body, as will appear by the following indosssment-sGenate, June IS, 1872. Indefinitely postponed. B. A. Hough, clerk" From the senate the re- port, with the bill and petitions, went to the house and was reached in that body July 17th, and on that day was s'tabled:" At subsequent date it was made the 'tor-
 der of the day" for July 24th. at II o'clock Q. m. On that day it was called up and ''tabled by vote, and afterwards on the same day it was again taken up and final
 action was had upon it, as appears by the following indorsement on the report of R., July 24th, A. D. 1872 Indefinitely postponed. W. R. Foster, assistant
 clerk ;" and on bill, ''H. of R., July 24th,
 1872. Taken up and indefinitely post poned. W. R. Foster, assistant clerk.
 The bill to which the petitions related
 having been virtually rejected, as con-
 sequence of such action, the petitioners
 were granted: leave to withdraw, as appears from the following indorsement on the bundle of petitions of R., July 24th,
 1872, All this bundle. Leave to with
 draw. w. R. Foster, assistant clerk" Thus it will be seen that the petitions
 referred to were considered by the commit
 tea, reported to tho assembly and acted up
 on by that body. The committee supposed
 it was understood by all parties interested
 that the bill and petitions were to be con-
 sidered together, they are confirmed in
 their opinion by the fact that neither Mr.
 Goodwin nor any other person, so far as they remember, ever asked for 8 hearing upon said petitions, or made any otherin- quiry of them regarding the same, after June 18th to the end of the session. We believe the above is full history of the action of the committee and assembly
 upon the above resolutions, bill and peti- hons referred to by MT. Goodwin. The committee endeavored to treat all matters referred to them with fairness and impar- tiality, and to decide them upon the evi- dence presented and with a view to the
 best interests of the people of the State. And we believe that the numerous mat ters of MT: Goodwin referred to the com 1 mittee received the same respectful and
 impartial consideration by them that they
 intendent to give to all.
 HENRY SToDDARD, Chairman, New Haven. of the house, Windham.
 Glastonbury.
 A. F. SMITH, Norwich.
 JOSEPH E. SULLIVAN, Chester, H. WALES LINES Meriden, H. P. HARRIS Salisbury, THos. A. MEAD, Greenwich, JOHN F. STEELE, Bolton. OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, HARTFORD, March 22d, 1873. hereby certify that have compared
 the copies and endorsements contained in the foregoing statement, with the originals
 now on file in this office, and find the
 same to be correct, D. W. EDaEooMB, Assistant Secretary of State Of the above signers, Messrs. Stoddard,
 Plunkett, Harris, and Steele are demo. 1 crats.
 
 The Brooklyn and Klllingiy Railroad. LETTER FRNM JOHN N. HALL. EditSr Hartford EOcaing Post Since the statement of the committee relating
 to other matters was signed, I notice that the Hartford Times in its issue of last
 Friday calls attention to, and invites an
 explanation of. certain charges of the
 Danielsonville Herald, in reference to my
 action in the matter of the charter of the
 Brooklyn and Killingly railroad company.