Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-25

act dissolving number of joint stock corpo- rations and that full list of those corpora tions now doing bushes in the State, is to be published as an appendix to the popular edi- tion of the statute laws of the State.
 The Senate seems to be rather weak in nat ural history. On Tuesday of last week a bill came up protecting laupreys. Whereup- on the following debate is reported:
 Senator Coe said that it had been represent ed to the committee on tshertes that these cells were valuable product of the state, which should be protected during spawning time.
 Senator Sillman said if the committee had reported bill offering a resolution for the destruction of these pests he would have fa- vored it. He then told of the great damage by lamprey eels to the dams of manufacturers so that it had become the habit to hunt them as they would rattle-snakes. He moved the indefinite postponement of the blll.
 Senator Blackstone spoke to the same effect, and the bill was indefinitely postponed.
 Tine destructive capacity and propensities of the lamprey was naturally surprise to people who knew something of this most harmless of fishes. and the next day the matter came up again:
 Sc. ator Hoyt moved to reconsider the bill re- iating to lamprey eels He said that there was an evident mistake in relation to the ma. turc of the insect, and desired to have the Senate informed by the senator from the Twentieth (Patton). The bill was reconsid- cred under suspension of the rules the bill not being recalled from the House.
 Senator Patton explained that the lamprey eel is not the one that destroys the dams, but an innocent creature. that is delightful eating, and that needs protection from extermination. Mr. Patton made an interesting little state- ment Of the habits of the lainprey.
 The Honorable Upper House had evident ly mistaken the lamprey for the muskrat, a very different fish.
 One of the most curious yet most common legislative expedients is that which seeks to throw the burden of economy on some future General Assembly This year, the legislature votes gratulties to its reporters, but passes a statute forbidding future legislatures to do SO. No doubt the next session will see this prom fse for the future good behavior of other peo- pie as contemptucusly disregarded as such promises usually are.
 The proposition to lower the tax on life in- snrance companies was finally given up by the Senate, although they seemed inclined to insist on the measure. but it became evident that the House would not yield.
 The absurd proposition to spportion the cost of bridges between two towns in accord ance with their grand list passed the House, last week. The real division line between two towns separated by a river runs along the center of the stream; and, to compel either town to build more than half the bridge over that stream, is to compel it to build part of a bridge actually lying within another town.
 \ good bill passed the legislature, last week, reaffirmiBg the right of county commissioners to exercise discretion in the granting of lia- nor licenses. The best legal opinious so far as we ehayeheard. hold that they have that right under the former law; but doubts had arisen, or had been manufactured, and this statute settles the matter. An important bill has also passed both Houses, making it the duty of