Litchfield enquirer., 1881-04-14
Legislative.

The Legislature was not able to close it's session, last week. but adjourned over till Tuesday of this week, intending to finish up certain specified matters on that day and hold their closing session on Wednesday.
 The release of Harvey Chamberlain was voted by the legislature, last week. The murder for which he was imprisoned was committed in Goshen and we do not hear whether his release is desired there, or not.
 The debate on the Life and Annuity Com pany in the Senate, Friday, was very spirited and Senator Bradstreets speech struck us as very sound and able. Life insurance that does not insure, is the most dangerous of all frauds. It is so dangerous because the insurer may be led along for years, to find at the very last that his entire investment is worthless The legislature ought, therefore. to hold all life insurance companies to the most rigid ac count.
 The Pharmacy bill which passed the House, ast week, requires all druggists to he examin. cd by State board of commissioners, and, on passing such examination, to take out an. nual licenses, paying $3 for each first license and Ss2 for each renewal. The bill is designed to prevent the meddling of inexperienced per- sons with the business of compromising drugs.
 The ruthless way in which Speaker Case smashed the proposed Board of Pardons on Friday, strikes us as a tri1e severe We do not believe that the State Prison Committee have devised any worse way of Investigating the merits of applications for pardons than the present. We might perhaps criticise the de- tails of the measure they propose, but the principle strikes us as right
 Senate On Tuesday of last week, resolu. tion passed providing for joint committee of Senators and Representatives to welcome the Army of the Potomac. The medical bill was debated and passed Bills passed authorizing Waterbury to issue sewer bonds; and provid. ing that service of writ on one of several part. ners shall be sufficient. The special order, the bill prohibiting steam dredging, then came up., Messrs. Coe and Colt argued strongly | that dredging by sailing vessels was just as harmful as that of steamers. Messrs. Hugh, Brewster. and Seymour favored the bill which finally passed by majority of two..
 On Wednesday. bills, &c., passed paying Judge Park $367 for services in the Hathaway case regulating sale for commercial fertlli gers: changing name of Woicottville Savlngs Bank to Torrington Savings Bank; appropri ating $50,O0O to Bridgeport Hospital; appro priating $1s, 900 for laundry, sc, at Middle. town Hospital; incorporating the Kent wate, company; requiring foreclosure of mechanics
 lien within two years; abating Shepaug taxes prohibiting superior court judges from serving committees. The cider bill was recalled or motion of Mr. Brewster and rejected. The Windham county bill was debated and passed Mir. Hammond strongly urged the submission of the project to the people, In executive session, the following appointments of the governor were approved:
 John B. Barstow of Norwich, to be mem. Der of the state board of agriculture for two | years.
 Albert Day of Brooklyn to be membet oi tue state board of agriculture for two years. James J. Webb of Hamden to be membe, of the board of control for Connecticut agri l cultural experiment station for two years. Samuel Q. Porter of Pennington to be bank commissioner for the unexpired term of Will l liam FaxOn resigned. James G. Gregory of Norwalk, to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Bennett as trustee ol | tl< tofn to1 fl,< c Fuller of Holland trustee of said asylum fol l Holland county.
 Charles Fabrique of New Haven and Johr 1 L.. houston of Enfield, trustees of the stat. reform school for four years from January | 1881.
 J. P. Barstow of Norwich. John NJ. Hall o 1 Windham, J. M. Hubbard of Middletown, T | ;. Gold of West Cornwall, Simeon O Vinror nf Mansfield, and J. B. Olcott of South Man chester. trustees of the Storrs Agricultura school
 On Thursday the pedlars bill was rejected The question of final adjournment was thel taken up. Bills passed allowing cost on wri of error; requiring license for druggists; al lowing the purchase of site for the Bronson library by the city of Waterbury appointing a temperance committee; releasing Harvey
 Chamberlain from State Prison.
 On Friday bill passed regulating fore closure ef liens. There was sharp discussion of the practices of the Hartford Life and An
 nuity Co.,, Mir. Bradstreet making sn able ex {position of thelr methods and advocat Ing at l investigation. This the Senate refused by
 vote of as to 2. Bills passed protecting gar
 nisheed corporations from disclosing wher