Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-03
The Legislature.

Numerous Bills Tabled for Calendar
 A Strong Petition Against a Charter
 for the Municipal Gas Company
 Hearing Before Committee on the
 Same Subject-Other Matters Of In-
 tereSts
 HARTFORD, March 2.
 Both branches of the Legislature assembled
 at the Capitol to-day at 12 o'clock. and re-
 sumed their labors for the week. The Senate
 was called to order by Lieutenant Governor
 Gallup, and Chaplain Sage offered prayer.
 The first business in order was the disposi-
 ton of numerous committee reports from the
 House, which the Senate tabled for calendar.
 The Senate concurred with the House in
 amending the bill providing that towns may
 accept Iegacies, so as to include ecclesiastical
 societies. The petition of the city of Bridge
 port for leave to issue bonds was rejected as new business. The House had received the
 petition. On disagreeing vote on the recep-
 tion of the petition for incorporation of the
 New Haven Electric Light Company, the Sen-
 ate adhered in refusing to receive it. The
 Committee on Agriculture reported to the
 House that the bill authorizing the State Board of Agriculture to kill diseased animals, which
 was recommended, ought to pass in its origi-
 nal form, and not as amended by the Senate, and so ordered. On this disagreeing vote Senator Bristol was appointed on the commit | tee of conference. The petition of the Plume | & Atwood Manufacturing Company was | called, and Senator Coe moved that it be | printed, as it was too important matter to pass without examination. He said that it was @ wealthy manufacturing company, and l they could well afford to pay for printing Senator Buck said the matter had been re- ported to the House, and he had supposed that it would be printed. The changes were important ones. The petition was ordered printed. The petition of the Elm City Court of Foresters was also tabled for printing l The Senate adjourned until tomorrow at 10 o'clock 8. m.
 The House.
 In the House Mr. Colyer offered resolutions adopted at town meeting in Darien offering free to the State one hundred acres of land of l a value not to exceed $1O, O,0O0, for the pur- pose of erecting additional accommodations for the insane poor of the State. The bill l was recommitted on motion of Mrs Porter. MT. Morris of New Haven presented in the House the remonstrances of the New Haven Water Company and of J. B. Robertson, s. E.. Merwin Jr., and others against the peti- | tion of the Municipal Gas Light Company. The remonstrance of the New Haven Water Company says that in the prosecution of their business they had laid down one hundred | miles of pipe in the streets of said city, and that any digging up of said streets is liable to
 damage said water pipes, and that said dig | ging up as proposed in the petition of the Municipal Gas Light Company cannot fail to occasion serious damage to the property of | their company. It is signed by Henry S. Dawson on behalf of the Water Company. The other remonstrance presented stated | that the streets of New Haven are now under | laid with thirty-thre miles of sewers, 100 of water pipes, sixty eight of gas pipes, that | thirteen miles of said streets thus underlaid are well and substantially paved and that to break up said streets is not required by public necessity or convenience, that no necessity exists at this time for new company; that the New Haven Gas Light Company now sup plies the city, and such of it's citizens as do | desire, with a good quality of gas at 8 | reasonable prlce that the establishment | of 8 second company cannot permanently l cheapen the cost, as the ultimate result would l be either the union of the two companies or | the division between them of the territory, 1 or some consolidation of interests as would in crease the amount of invested capital, and | ultimately increase instead of diminish the l cost of gas The remonstrance has 175 sigma l lures, among whom are John B. Robertson, | John 0. Holiister, s. B. Merwin, jr., Caleb B. | Bowers, Stephen G. Hubbard, Amos E. Barnes, | Austin & Gilbert, R. S. Fellowes, H. B. Ives, l Atwater Treat H. B. Harrison, E. H. Trow-
 bridge, jr., c. B. Wooster, Theodore D. Wool ! sey, Robert A. Brown, Paul O. Skiff, Morris l F. Tyler, A. l.. Kidston, Simeon E. Baldwin, Philo D. Chatfeld, Arthur D. Osborne, John | 0. Ritter, Noah Porter, William D. Whitney, Henry Farnam, Charles L. English, H. H. Bunnell, 0. R. Shelton, William H. Brewer, ! John P. Futile, Henry 0. Pardee, N. D. Sper- | ", E. A. Hale, John T. Kerrigan Charles A.
 M. snowden, H. 0. Kingsley, UP. Cleaveland, Frederick Botsford, Charles R. Spiegel, i Charles T. Morse, o. A. Lindsley, Hiram Camp, \ George l.. Ives James N. States, W. A. Wa | terbury, Robert T. Merwin and H. l. Kitten | dorf. The remonstrance was referred to the Committee Interpretations.
 The following bills were passed Prohib- l iting the killing of any kinglet, chickadee, 1 titmouss, nuthatch, creeper, wren, warbler,
 tarnager, thrush. fy-catcher, king fisher or l heron, excepting on his own land. Bill that no temporary injunction shall issue in any case except in favor of the State or State of l fcer in respect to public matter until the party applying gives bonds to answer all dam I ages in case the petitioner fails to prosecute | the petition to effect provided the court may, | for good cause, issue temporary injunction | without bond.
 The House adjourned until tomorrow at | 1O:30 8. m.
 | The hearing on the petition of the Munich | pal Gas Company to lay gas mains in the city l of New Haven was resumed before the Com | mittee on Interpretations this morning at ten l o'clock. The hearing was opened by Mir. | Case, counsel for the proposed new company, who read the articles of association of the Municipal Company and placed it in evidence. Oliver P. Edgerton was first called. He | said that he was treasurer of the Municipal \ Gas Light Company of New Haven, and lived
 in Brooklyn, New York. He then gave de- l tailed statement as to who the other lncorpor- ! | that he was president of the New York and l New Jersey Globe Gas Light Company Qimi- | ted), and said his company had contract to l light four hundred and odd street lamps in | New Haven with what they called naphtha gas.
 On the cross-examination by Governor Iu- gersoll the witness said: I am not connected | with the Standard Oil Company do not be- | lieve that Charles Pratt is the principal man | in the Standard Oil Company have heard
 that he was indirectly connected with the Standard Oil Company; do not know that the l Municipal Gas Light Company of New York | is a customer of the Standard Oil Company i; | all these gentlemen are from New York and Brooklyn, with the exception of MT. Connor ; I these articles of association were drawn up October 22d, 1879, in New Haven :; we had | the refusal of the patent to furnish this gas | from Mr. Sterne at that time; he was the owner of the patent, and he gave us the priv | ilege of buying it within three months. Ex- Governor Ingersoll asked for the terms,
 and MT. Case objected.
 | Ex-Governor IugersolI-Was that contract l in writing
 | MT. Edgerton-Yes, sir; it was in writing. l Ex Governor Ingersol-Produce that writ
 ing.
 1 MT. Case-We object to it as an improper | inquiry or to produce the writing.
 Ex-Governor Ingersoll-If we can get that writing we think we can show that this peti- l ton is not made in good faith
 | Mr. Case-The paper is not here and can- not be produced at this hearing.
 Ex-Governor Ingersoll-I will take your | statement of the contents or that of Mir. Ed gerton, but insist on that statement. Senator Buck-The petitioners have so far | laid no foundation as to question them in re- | gard to the pay for their patents. At this stage the committee claim that it is not ad- missible.
 MT. Edgerton continued On the strength of this refusal we organized this company l never heard of any one being authorized from I our company on the day the articles of asso-
 citation were printed October 23) to announce that unless the New Haven Gas Light Com