Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-12

FeIeEfeQ, House bill No. AS, relating to nuisances, was re- verseiy. ---'e T House bill No 244, which was continued from last year, pertaining to the Board of Heath rejected House bill No. S23, concerning specific appropria- tions rejected also House bill No. 16 act concerning education, the committees reporting against their passage.
 INDEFINITELY POSTPONED.
 House bill Mo- 23 was reported upon favorably by the Committee Forfeited Rights It provides that no ate torney in any case now or hsreaftsr pending in the cd actual .eryces and that the attorneys before be renars in cases bsfore the courts and on the approval by Superior O1urts shall be entered upon the records and be posted up in the various court Mr. Patton offered to amend by introducing sched- ue of prices to govern the sale of farmers produce & buriesqueJ but as it was not gerane to the case in hand the President ruled 1t out of order. spoke against the act, and MT. Lewis for it. MT. Buck moved to indefinitely postpone action on At 12:sO o'clock the Senate adjourned to Thursday at 1O:3O , that hour being fixed as the hour here after.
 HOUSE.
 Petitions referred: Of John W. Robbins and Julia Orawley for lettsrs of administrations of Charlotte M Livingston, Bridgeport, for letters of admnstra The report Of the westport and saugatuck railroad was received and referred to the Committee Rail-
 REPORTS COMMITTEES.
 Finance-substitute bill relation to taxation was
 
 RafroIds-Ordering the report of the Bridgeport Horse Railroad and Fair Haven and Westyille Horse Extending the time of the Providence, Ponegansett and Springfield Railroad Company for building their Judiciary-substftute bill sxempting minors wages from attachment and execution: adverse report property adverse on the bill concerning Capital pun ishment in private adverse the bill extending bate districts adverse on the bill abolishing capital punishment.
 Agriculture the State Board of Agriculture power to kill diseased animals was recommtted to the Committee on Agriculture. SENATE BUSINESS. Senate business passed in concurrence, among which was ordered on file by the Senate The report temporarily tabled on motion of Mr. DeForest of Middlebury. =s The bill authorizing the Probate Court of Old Say o I Was paen The substitute resolution validating the election of The resolution authorizing the Court of Probate for District of Hartford to grant letters Of adminisra The petition of the warden and burgesses of the borough of Birmingham, amending the charter of the I borough, giving them power to remove any clerk, The resolution authorizing the Probate Court for the of Haven to grant letters of adminisra- | tion on the estate of Mary Barnard was passed: The resolution incorporating the Clinton Agricul- Resolution restoring the capital stock of the Connec ticut River Banking Company Of Hartford to $20oooO was passed.
 The bill providing for the destruction of wild rots and fixing penalty of five dollars for not mow- The bill providing that every who shall steal l any horse mule shall be imprisoned in the State prison not less than two more than ten years was passed.
 l ORDER OF THE DAY.
 At o'clock the of the day, being the Haddanl contested election case, called for by Mr. Burd1ck, On motion of Mir. Gardner of Derby, the reading of The petitioners for the seat in the House occupied I by A wer H. BraiQerd 1 Mr. Parker, of East Haddam chairman of the Com mittee on Contested Elections, maintained that there was regular electors box at the election, and de- and held that they did not funn their duty But the law in innumerabe decisions WAS clear that the eectol fiction of the election ocsrs and pari passu, ths didate whom the voter supported cannot be deprived of his rights The vote cast for him must be counted
 MT. Robertson, of New Haven also of the Commit tee Contested Elections, who submitted the minor ity report, read the House portion of the test | nony taken by the committee in the case He be- eved, he said, that the box-tenders did their duty faithfully, and he could not how the majority oi the committee in their report could say that by mis put the Senatorial end of the compound ballot
 pro1e e9pessy it s.m no D. eoune it appeared in the wrong box He did not believe the the face of this law would decide to have the | vote counted for MT. Henry H. Brainerd.
 MT. Robertson maintained that James Dickensor support of this view. All that Dickenson had was Haddam. But his poverty did not disfranchise him
 
 It made difference whether Dickenson had dolla, ora million His domicile was at Haddam and he had out till it shown armstively that he had resi- dence elsewhere. By what sense of justice or right fairly.
 bury, MT. Clarke of Chester, Mir. Pember of Vernon MT. Mitchell of New Britain, MT. Holister of Litch
 MT. Gardner, of Derby, offered an amendment te the resolution submitted by the majority of the hrin Ina
 He said he was sorry the committee had not reported inst there election in the town of Haddam No venber It would show every town in the Stats the danger of slip-shod mansgement @ M M in elections The for such purposes But as was used, ths two ends they were in opposite corners of the room Now one ticket for Representative was found in the Senatorial oes could this ballot be counted The House, ire. specve of party should pace itself on record in sup | would come up after the proposed amendment had | been voted upon.
 MT. Morris, of New Haven, wanted the words in MT Gardner's amendment stating that MT. Brainerd had received plurality of the votes Nov. stricken out Agreed to by Mir. Gardner. 1 The amendment was then adopted bya practically unanimous vote
 | The question of James Dickenson's residence now came up, and Mr. Stanton took the floor, e1poundine the law in the case.
 of the House for the fairness with which the had been treated He then proceeded to argue that the isrars had the right having Jurisdiction to deter 1 mine James Dickensons residence. | MT. DeForest moved the previous question: but gave way to allow MT. Parker to further state ment on the case. The previous question: after Mir. Parker's remarks was put and carried.
 The resolution declaring H. H. Brainerd entitled tc the seat occupied by Francis A. House, from Haddam l was lost, III to s3.
 | FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
 The Chair appointed Messrs. Holister of Litchheld | Northrop of Seymour. Colyer of Darien Walker of Andover, Fuller of Smsbury, Bailey of Danbury, Stanard of Westbrook and Hunting of East Hartford members of the joint select committee female suf 1 frage.
 l At 15O inc House adjourned till 10:so a. m. Thurs 1 day.