Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-03
Legislative.

Legislative.
 The Committee on New Counties, etc., haa voted by bare. majority, .swe hear, to post |poae fhe proposed Waterbury matter to tsie next General Assembly.
 Fairfield ntynlembels have voted tax of oue-tenth of o6e spilfSuponshe grand list of thecounty. MT. Wright, the defaufting county commissioner (now in an insane asy- lump, was found indebted to the county in $1, 300 and over $5O00 to various towns. His bondsman is ready to settle up these amounts.
 bill proposing a. fine upon persons allow ing cattle to go at large in the public high ways, insteadI of slimpoandihg. has been fe, jected by the committee on agriculture. It will be urged in the House as preferable to fAhe preseut plan: ~It,is Feere severe unsouet- edly, and perhaps for that very reason. less likely to be enforced. s-s,s.l 4s s' The complicated Winsted case of supposed divorce came up before the Judiciary Com mittee, Wednesday. In 1871 Mr. Chauncey E. Bailey of that place employed lawyer s(namee charitaby withheld) to get him di- vorce. The lawyer represented. that he had done so, The former Mrs., Bailey went her ways and Mir. Bailey married again Very recently he discovered that no divorce had eysr been obtained. The former Mrs. Bailey lad also remarried, and thrown a child on the town of Bristol for support. Hearing of the divorce bunder, that town has tried to fasten the support. of this child,s born years after he had seen it's mother, upon MT. Bai- ley, on the claim. that it is his by conclusive presumption of law! Mr. Bailey asks, for a legislative divorce and dthe.legitimizing ofs.he children of his void marriage Subsequently the relief prayed for py Mr; Bailey was grant ed in the House.ra sf9atsf.nst Hs4 e{ s4
 The judiciary committee will report against the bill which makes employers liable for in- juries t6 t6employees in their service. 5ik
 The Committee on Federal Relations will report favorably the bill appropriating $25O towards the 'centenniaf celebration of the bat tie of fCowpens, next May. <., ..e.,
 The Railroad Committee favor reorgan- ization of the Connecticut Western in the in- terest of boDdholders only. ..es
 The Judiciary Committee have requested Drs. Chamberlain, of Hartford, Adams of Enfield, and Welsh, of Norfolk, to prepare a bill regulating the practice of Medicine
 a Members of the legislature visit the Reform School, on Thursday.
 The final hearing in !the9. .Middletswn Asy- lum investigation was held on Tuesday. r..s
 Senate On "Wednesday several petitions for release from State Prison were rejected. = The Committee on Agriculture reported against the. bill requiring the cutting of briars in highways. s.t.''sa.- f+--.t
 On>Thursday the Committee on Incurpora- tions reported favorably on the, Enfield Dam bill-The Committee on State Prison pro- pose a change in the law giving prisoners ben eft of good behavior and in favor of the bill providing that terms of commitment, shall not be less than one year.-Bills passed authoriz- ing the New York, Providence and Boston R. R. Co.,. to issue half a million of. bonds authorizing committee to report plans, &c., for the Buckingham statue; providing that an executor of an executor shall not administer on the estate of the first testator providing for standard railroad time restoring the forfeited rights of John Videon; charging support of insane criminals upon thelr re- spectiye towns. Al bill requiring the cutting of briars ia highways was rejected. ques. tion of life insurance taxation was made the special order for. Tuesday Adjourned till Tuesday. 7. If .3. s9r -.. ,a..s. Y.
 House.-On Wednesday last the Commit tee on Education reported favorably on the bill validating vote of Torringtons School Dis. trlcts.-Bills passed restricting change oi school text books: allowing New London tc ] issue $100,000 sewerage bonds; authorizing issue of bonds by New York, Prov and Bos. ton R. R. Go. and validating the vote unit ing two Torrington School Districts (record lost). .i 4raa ai ers., f..s '. -a
 On Thursday the Committee on Claims re- ported against the petition of Deputy Sheriff Champin for payment of expenses chasing burglars.--Bill were passed relating to fore. closure of tax, liens incorporating the Ban. tam Vigilance Society; appropriating $5, COG for propagation of fish; approving routes of | railroads now consolidated into the New York and New England; abolishing. the Second voting District of Washington; allowing the | District Court to grant wrts of habeas corpus and mandamds The bill making railroad companies liable for damage from fires setby locomotive sparks was recommitted. - The prohioitor9 bilf recommended by the temper. i rance committee was rejected 79 to 137. The vote of Litch6eld county members was as fol lows: .sEd f4otf 3''.9 1tt2-7 -. L5s fis#
 Yeas..-Messrs Porter, Clark, Hart, Juld- son, Hart, Wadhams Gum, Barker, Birse, Curtiss, Skilton, Dudley, Morris. ,.'-,s' | Nays. -,Messrs. Seymour, Plant, Northrop, Capron, Cartwright, .Yiping, Grifing, Bierce, Eamphier, Benedict, Monson. Douglas, Hill, Marsh, We1ch, Baldwin, Leavenworth, Gil lette, Whitney, Thomas, Melton, Bucking ham, Drakeley. ''@ ..'~ On Frdaya number of temperance peti- tions. were sffered.-There were adverse re. ports on bills reducing dog tax; on bills re. duclng tax on savings banks; and favorable reports on bills forbiddiag sales of liquor to minors and druukards and the keeping open saloons after midnight. A large number of bills were rejected on upfayorahle report oi the Judiciary; Uommittee.--A resolution pass ed appointing Rev s. O. Seymour member oi State Board of Education for, four years | Bills &c passed diyorcipp Mir Bailey nj Wiusted, from his former wife, validating lis second marriage and iegitimizinga atlie children of that marriage; making the owners of bulls suffered to go at large responsible for the damage they do deteriorating breeds; recog ! nizing theright,pf Bristol Putnam and Man, chester to additional representatives granting bounty of $5 on foxess ana wild cats and oi Sion skunks sund woodchucks ;,and appropri. tinu &2ff fo the ti;o,,,,, EI,,sea <