Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-21

cOuTSo OppoSo tHo mettSuIe- 4uo S1dAu event of the week was the nomination ot of U. s. Senator in the Democratic caucus of Wednesday might. The result was as follows;
 Whole number of votes, l57 Necessary to cholce, 79 William w. Eaton, 91 William H. Barnum, 4e Charles R. Ingersoll, 20 On Tuesday Mir. W. W. Eaton was elected U. s. Senator. In the Senate the vote stood, Eaton 16; Buckingham, f. In
 the House the vote was as follows
 William W. Eaton, 132 William A. Buckingham, 7G
 Joseph R. Hawley, II Charles R. Ingersoll, Henry B. Harrison, David A. Wells, ] Absent, Il Senate.-On Tuesday of last week var. ious bills and petitions were presented among others for forming new town
 of Thomaston, exempting women's pro perty from taxation, giving women the right to vote at town elections.-A resolu. tion was passed in concurrence raising : committees on Constitutional Convention On Wednesday various reports, petitions and bills were presented and referred among others petition of the wife mur- derer Green for release from State Prison bills regarding the taxation of church pro. perty, appropr1ating 8 week for sup port of each girl 1n the Industrial School. On Thursday there was further presenta. tion of bills, &c.; among others remon- strances by Geo. Langdon and James Terry and 258 others against the incor. poration of Thomaston, bill for the bet ter protection of life on railroads. A re. solution passed for printing 5000 copies of the Insurance report. Voted to ad journ till Tuesday.
 H01se.-0u Tuesday of last week peti ff,,tt;e1s. &c-- were referred. 500 copies oi the report of the Inebriate asylum com. mittee were authorizad ta -ha- -fsrintad- MT. Goodwin objected to a reference o1 the railroad committee report on account of inaccuracies but his motion to table was lost-Mr. Harrison offered resolu.
 tions commenting the presidents veto oi the Financial bill and wished to put them
 on their passage. Messrs. Eaton, Judd and
 Clark (of Winsted) objected, and they
 were referred to the committee on Federa
 Relatfons.-Mr. Goodwin's resolution or
 dering clerks to have each days journal
 printed and distributed before next days session was indefinitely postponed. On Wednesday among other business
 referred were bills &c., for bounty on foxes, for amending the charter of the
 Meriden '. M. c. Association, for charter ing Saving Bank in Plymouth. A re
 solution passed requiring bills to lie or tthe table one day after they are printed
 before they are acted on. On Thursday, Gillette of Prospect was appointed to fill place of Arnold of Meri den on railroad committee. repor
 of the committee revising the statutes
 was referred. resolution of Mir. Good
 win inquiring of the railroad committed if they had compelled railroads to repor
 according to law, passed.-A resolution
 passed for printing copies of importan parts of the revision of the statutes Petitions were presented for release of J l ". Bostwick of Salisbury from State Pris on and from Abby H. Smith and her sis ter for hearing before the legislature or l the subject of their taxation without rep
 resentation.-Adjourned till Tuesday. COMMITTEES
 Inaccurate Legislation Nathaniel Wheele and Messrs. Woodruff of Litch6eld, and Goodwin o East Hartford.
 Constitutional Amendments Senator Wheeler of tn
 7th and Messrs. Eaton of Hartford Hayward. of Col l chester; Cox, of Huntington; Burieson, Windham
 Richardson, of Salisbury Bacon, of Middletown; Nc | Kinney, of Vernon.
 Federal Relations Stark of New London Robinson of New Haven; Fessenden, of Stamford; Mills, o Woodstock; Sage of Colebrook; Arnold, of Haddam Clark, of WfEngton-