Litchfield enquirer., 1881-02-03
Legislative.

Joseph Sheldon, Esq, has been nominated
 in Republican caucus as Judge of the New Haven city court Mir. Sheldon is an able
 an honest, and an independent man, and will
 doubt Makes sn.exceiient judge -@.-- =' 's '.'-
 A bill has been introduced into the legisla'
 ture evidently at the instigation of the Con.
 necticut wholesalers which would in effect
 make drumming" for New York and other
 non-resident firms impracticable. It seems tf 1 us that such law would be of doubtful con- stitutionality and of mere than doubtful ex pediency :. ,s,,-,s; I,,;ai@1. ,ss ..s31 g
 l The new buildings of the Insane Asylum at Middletown are enclosed and roofed, and will be finished by May. SPA, 900 out of the $1So, 900 appropriated have already been ex- pended. isfs'. il. 5eH u t7.n -li A curious question comes up from Msnches- ter before the committee on Contested Elec tions That town, has never heretofore sent but cue representative; but, under 6 recent constitutional amendment, towns having over l 5000 population are entitled to two representa- l tives. At the last census Manchester enumer- ated (, 462 people. In November each party ! nominated but one representative as usual i; the Republican had the most votes,s and was declared elected ;, and now the Democrat comes before the legislature and claims to be the second representation of Manchester by virtue of the constitutional amendment. The only question will be whether, in the absence of any official announcement of the census be- fore the election, or the meeting of the legis-
 ature, Manchester's right to second repre- sentative had accrued 3 The following are some of the more impor- tant bills, &c., that have been introduced in the legislature :re allowing one fourth of the stockholders of corporation to petition for it's winding up; giving clerks of courts salaries in place of feee; forbiding the taxation of costs for attendance. in the District Court; in- cressing the number of senatorial districts to 24; increasing number of senators to 45; ap- pointing a board of pardons providing for statue to Gov. Buckingham providing that towns and cities shall not be liable for injuries 1 resulting from snow in streets and highways; i; providing for minority representation in cleo ton of constables and grand jurora; giving county commissioners power to revoke licenses at any time and to eend for persons and pa- pers in all investigations relative thereto vail dating votes of the town of Sharon allowing process by injunction against selling liquor altering tramp law; giving women right to vote at school meetings abating Conn Vest ern taxes forbidDiug the testimony of spies to be taken in courts changing dog tax.
 The resolution appointing D. J, Warner. Judge of the District Court passed the Senate in concurrence on Tuesday of last week.
 The bill for court of pardons introduced by Senator Seymour, last week, is one than justly meets with much favor. 4at .e.
 The Hon. Jeremiah Olney las been 3D. pointed School Fund Commissioner
 An amendment of tue tramp law passed the House on: Tuesday last after much opposition. It gives justices of the peace power to impris- on in the workhouse tramps, for the first off, fence not more than sixty days. and for the second offence not more than one hundred and twenty days. { Judge Deforest, of Bridgeport, thought it gave unprecedented power to justi. ces and several amendments were adopted al- Flowing the. isubetitution of lihe for imprison- + n, a,t dW ..tb9al09 tgl,4tltfaas i. Ei .%ss. aGHla ss,a :l-.4z-419LGst i. ' F A suFraAaE CotIootY. -- We publish else
 whele a.collpquy between, husband and wife on woman's suffrage, such us might naturally occur in any conservative family. The wife does not wish to vote unless she can do some gooahyIits sShei weuld9 iikeitt to vote "no Ii. 'cense'r because sle cant,ot but see that tenn petance needs her vote; She suspects that in all it's moral aspects, existing politics needs her vote, but is not yet convinced, and very natur
 ally hesitates to demand her, right of suffrage. L. The husband is typical sinner of the cow ardly conservative sort He knows that poli- tics is nasty, yet dabbles in it. In his heart he disi'riieves in popular government, and thinks the country is going to ruin. hut hopes 1t will last out his time. Like the bankrupt merchant who dare not let his wife know how desperate are his financial circumstances, this ! bankrupt in politics does not want his wife to vote for fear she may spy out his most disre. putable political condition Yet such men rank high in the state--espeeially high in the church-and are, iu short, the chief stumbling block in'the way of political reform. @' Pres. Porter of Yale, it seems, became ac. quainted with George Eliot" in Londou in
 fS5S He met her at boarding house there
 Kept by the editor of the Westminster Review I a periodical that would no doubt be classed as
 rinfdel' by the Peligious press. Pres. (theu
 Professo) Porter brought letters of introduc.
 tsn from Theodore Parker. which got him
 into his queer company. 8, He was very much
 interested ins Miss Evans, finding her delight
 full in conversation: He attributes her bes work as a novelist to her early Christian breed
 ing. and laments the lack of definite hope of the future life which he thinks saddened he1 | life and her writings. 'rIf Catholic were te
 claim all that was good in Martin Luther a.
 the effect of Catholic training. Protestantl
 would be apt crtlcise the position as un
 warranted by facts. Yet there cannot be an,
 doubt that Luther's Catholic training exertee
 a very large influence upon his life and creed I as Protestant. 'e.5 ",'">i
 4 As we stated in our last. we have little ex
 pectatian that the Employers Act will evel
 pass our State Senate, Should it fail to ds Iso, the State examination for color-blindness
 becomes of still greater importance As the ! law now stands, an employe injured by the earelessness ot q fellow employe cannot recov CT damages of the railroad company. Sup