Litchfield enquirer., 1879-02-20

judge of the Hartford police court; appoint ing Senators Hayward and Pagan Senate com mittee On contingent expenses; allowing the State to challenge as many jurors on criminal trials as the prisoners. following bills, &c., were rejected : for James Coff's release from prison; repeating part of the old law re
 lating to horse racing and providing heavier fine; relating to the measurement of land for
 taxation eXempting the property of women from taxation regulating fees paid to witnes-
 ses protecting minors; validating contracts
 made by married wou'en
 On Thursday, letters of Administration were granted on the estate of Esther Rockwell of
 Norfolk. vote rejecting the bill relating to horse racing was recOnsidered. d.-The follow ing bills, &c., were passed: ordering an inVes- tigation of parts of the railroad commissioners
 report authorizing grand jurors to make com plaint of any offences against town or borough
 regulations; allowing verdict by two-thirds 1 Of jury on the second trial of civil cause. Adjourned till Tuesday of this week.
 House.-On Tuesday of last week, a reso- | lution passed calling upon the controller for 1 an abstract of returns of judges of probate, clerks, &c.-A bill was rejected providing | that when child has been abandoned by it's | parents he shall not in after life be responsi- l ble for their support.
 | On Wednesday, resolutions were passed on
 motion of Mir. Catlin, requiring the commit | tee to ascertaing and report whether any rail-
 road companies have in their returns ever | stated the cost of their roads or surplus, and, | if so, what action the commissioners have talk | en; that trust companies be subject to the
 same law for closing up business as now ap-
 plies to banks.-A bill was rejected, provid-
 ing for examination of candidates for admis-
 ion to the bar by judges-In reference to the
 Alabama resolutions Mir. Graves ''breught
 down the house" by the following remarks 1 He said that he understood that the object
 was to prevent suits in the United States
 courts for the collection of bonds of munici-
 pal corporations which have repudiated Be-
 lieving so, he was opposed to anything of the
 kind, and hoped Connecticut would never en-
 dorse repudiation schemes.
 l On Thursday, memorial from the Sarato- l ga monument association asked an appropria-
 tion of $1 ,O00 from Conn. as one of the origi-
 nal thirteen states.-A resolution was passed | authorizing the committee on State Prison to investigate the alleged Irregularities in its
 management. bill passed incorporating the | medical department of Yale College.-The l following bills were rejected authorizing the
 killing of birds for scientific purposes; provid-
 Ing that no convict in the state prison for the
 crime of murder shall petition for release oft ener than once in four years and that no off
 cer of the prison shall gi i've aid ill such petition
 In relation to this bill Mir. Taylor, of New
 Milford, said that these prisoners had forfeited
 all rights except the right to breathe and live. l One man from New Milford had petitioned every year and it obliged people to come here
 to resist his petition. Mir. Graves said he had
 supposed that since John Quincy Adams had defended the right of petition on the floor of | Congress, no intelligent citizen would propose | to abregate that right; but it appears that the l effort is being made here in Connecticut for the | first time. As to the officers of the prison as 1 sisting petitioners, who are better qualified, | from their familiarity with every case to dc it Are they doing anything wrong in act | ing humanely? He was aware that in New | Milford the people had resolved in one particu- ] lar case not to practice the doctrince of for | giveness, but te display vengeance, rather than | leave'it to Him who has said Vengeance is
 ne."-Mr Taylor asked to be excused from | serving on the committee on female suffrage, l on the ground that his mind was already made l up on the subject.
 ] On Friday, a resolution passed extending ! the time five years for the completion of the l New York and Boston Air Line railroad the 1 proposed constitutional amendment, drawn by George Beckwith of New Haven, and raising l absurd qualifications for electors was rejected The following bills were rejected prohibit
 ing the employment of relatives by committees
 as school teachers; fixing the employment ol
 teachers by selectmen; providing that wher
 ten taxpayers believe that any real estate goes
 into the list at a less quantity than really ex
 ists, they may petition the selectmen for
 measurement to ascertain the fact increasing
 the fees of witnesses; and confining the as
 slgnment of future earnings to bone-fide debts
 Adjourned till Tuesday noon. 8,