Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-26

JooOIu in concurrence with the House. A leso!ution passed authorizing letters of auuiiniSsr1Iioh 1N.s S on estate of Geo. W. Cook ;"Sa oh ooieocook.- 70 bill taking Wash tnon oue oI the Lltchfield county Dis SiicI n:n court was amended and passed and trlct.was passed.-Bill raisino soJo,. 'e bank commissioners to 8, 300. passed On Thursday various matters were 0o, ed upon in concurrence.-~An amendmert of our election law regarding color of ballots WAS rejected.-A report in favor pf the bill calling constitutional con Ventlon was received and tabled. It was understood that there were three of the committee against the bill.-The election of Superior court judges was postponed week.-The state tax bill was again dIs- cussed and tabled.-The usury bill came up and was opposed by Mir. Stonghton because there was no vitality in it. Messrs. Elmer and StannarCl didn't believe in the principle of the bill but voted for it be- cause It was popular. MT. Smith oppos cd It, believing in free trade in, money. Mir. Hoyt spoke at length in favor. 1t passed by the following vote.
 YeGs-Messrs. Landers Mitchell, Stoddard stevens, Wilcox, Daboll, Comstock, Wheeler, Falrman, Hoyt, Fenner, Barton, Elmer, Stan
 
 Nays-Messrs. stoughton, Tenny, Day, Rob- erts and Smith-5 "
 Absent-Mr. Marcy.
 The Savings bank bill then came up. The sections requiring investment of 75 per cent Tn loans on real estate were struck out and the bill passed. ..
 On Friday petition for chartering n rail- road from Rockville to Broadbrook was referred. Various bills &c. were reflected in concurrence. The bill incorporatino town of Thomaston was reiected.-Char ter of Woodbury Insurance Co., granted --S2OO granted the Falls Village Agficul- triral Society.-The question of final ad- Journment was up and Saturday of this week selected as the day.-A divorce was refused Plainville man whose wife was B. N, Cummings of New Britain, George B. Hawley and Cur don w. Russell of Hartford, and Judges Loren P. Waldo and Charles H. Briscoe were appointed committee to report on the necessity and expediency of an inebri- ate asylnm.-A resolution was reported approprlating $10,0 to Girls Industrial School Adjourned till Monday after noon.
 House.-On Tuesday of last week the bills exempting a doctors horse to yalue
 
 making it the duty of selectnen to remove nulsances on highways, requiring supreme court judges to file synopsis of their de clslons, raising a commission to revise our tax laws. repeating the exemption of parsonages, regarding taxation of costs. repeating the law punishing frauds on ho- tel keepers, were rejected.-The commit tee report a tie in the Andover election case.-A bill forbidding free passes on railroads came up. Dr. Miner, of Morris, moved an amendment making 1t penal to grve Judges such passes. The bill was re- lected.-A bill was passed refusing costs to indifferent persons serving process be- fore justices.-The amendment of the Conn. Western charter allowing a branch to Suffield and State line was passed The blH setting off certain property-hold- CTS from the limits of the New Milford Fire Association, passed
 On Wednesday woman suffrage bill was rejected IA petition for repeal of fowage law, rejected. d.-Various bills were passed ln concurrence.- Bills regulating support of paupers by relatives, and grant ing of abatements, passed. ,~
 On Thursday a number of matters were rejected, among which were bills, &c, for non-partisan school-boards, and releasing certain State Prison convicts. Among the bills, &c., passed were those adding Rox- bury to the judicial district, appropriat- ing $20O to Falls Village .Ag'1 Society, granting administration on estate of Geo. w. Cook, modifying law regarding dis continuance of roads by selectmen, char tering Woodbury Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company.-Dr. Sims, of New York, was invited to lecture in their hall on anaesthesia. which was all the more generous as few of the members appeared to know what aneesthesia is.-The resolu- tions appointing Messrs. Phelps and Par dee judges of the Supreme Court, passed. A substitute resolution relieving She paug Valley R. R. Go. from taxation was reported favorably.-The amended bill setting Washington off from judicial dis trict passed in concurrence petition of Thomaston to be set off from Plymouth was refused, MT. Bugbee, chairman of the committee, making the following speech in support of his report MT. Bugbee said the committee acted with good deal of reluctance, because of the high character of the petitioners. The gre men who have built up rich and prosperous village, and they think they l are now strong enough to be set off by themselves. This year or next, or in the future, Connecticut will have to change its policy with regard to creating new towns. Since 179O, ninety-four towns have been created by the division and subdivision of old towns ; and it is apparent that this thing cannot go on dd inJfnitltn9. Some 1 where it must stop. And in the opinion of your committee that time has come 1 now. In Connecticut there are 16S towns. with an average of 29 square miles-not too large. Bringing in new towns adds to the representation and the expense of the State. It wounds the pride of an old town by reducing itsssignifcance and talk ing away it's inherited domain, and usual ly it's best portion, leaving it with roads and bridges to be kept in repair, needed as much by the new as the old town. It is not right to divorce the village from the country. It is not right for the village to say, We have grown richer than thou, and we will go by ourselves The village and country should remain one and help each other This particular application has more merit than many bills. Ply mouth was made town in 17S5, and has twenty-eight square miles, and popula- tion of 4, 149, and grand list of Sl, 2, 193,- 986. It has three vllages-Plymouth, Terryville and Thomaston. The latter has outgrown the rest in manufacturing and industrial pursuits, but they are with in one mile of the voting place in Ply mouth. To remove it will take away about nine square miles, or one-third of the town and some 2,3OO of its population. The reason given by the petitioners was that they had nothing to do with the rest of the town that they do not want to climb the high hill, and do not like the old fashioned ideas of the people living there. It was testified to that the whole village was continuous one, with no ap- parent dividing lines. But the objection to the hill is not we'll taken. Thank God for the hills of Connecticut As rule better men grow on the hills than in the valleys. The difficulty can be obviated by cutting the town into voting districts, or by granting borough charter to Thom- aston. !" a ~
 . On Friday the election of Supreme Court Judges having been found to be ln- formal ballot was ordered on Tuesday.
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