Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-17

Senate Tuesday of last week, bills.
 etc., passed authorizing the District court to tissue writs of mandamus and habeas corpus aboishing the second voting district in Wash. ington; appropriating $5, 900 for fish propoga- 1 tion Various bills were rejected on unfavor- able report among the rest, one for the aboli- tion of capital punishment. On Wednesday, committee reports were re. ceived unfavorable to lowering savings bank
 interest to per cent, and to change oi Sun. day laws. Bills, &c., passed incorporating the Hartford Guarantee Co. exempting property of the New Haven Young Mems Institute from taxation; for rearranging terms of su- perior and supreme courts and fixing term of prosecuting agents at two years. A bill about bulls and three bills about dogs were reject ed: also the bill for protection of employees, and the resolution incorporating the Bantam
 Vigilance Association.
 On Thursday the amendments of the bill regarding taxation of assets of life insurance companles added in the House were adopted. Bills passed incorporating the Torringsen Fish Association; amending the color-blipd law i; and changing the penalty for forgery. A number of bills were rejected on unfavorabIe report.
 On Friday, bills passed imposing fine of $7 for letting cattle go at large; taxing male dogs, $1.15, sluts, $G.15; forbidding sale of liquor in buildings owned by the state, coun ties or towns, and the granting of license to sheriffs or constables. Adjourned till Tues day.
 House. e.-On Tuesday of last week, commit tee reports were received favorable to billspro- viding for destruction of Canada missiles, &c. i; for shortning terms of imprisonment on good behavior giving prosecuting agents $2 fee on adjournment together with travelingFees at 10 cents mile. Bills passed providing for printing laws in German fixing venue In prosecutions for bigamy; apportioning costs of bridges between towns upon their grand lists. f
 On Wednesday bills were favorably report ed placing Litchfield county in Hartford Su- preme Court District; exempting soldiers property from taxation up to $1,OOO; fixing dog tax at $2. 15, females 15.-There was long debate on the question of reducing tax on life insurance company assets from to of cent. The bill was finally amended so as to make the tax of a cent for two coming years, and ] ] of cent thereafter.
 On Thursday committee reports were re- ceived continuing the Waterbury county pro- ject till next Assembly and adverse on var. ious bills. Bills passed increasing punishment for sales of liquor to minors and drunkards |: providing that on conviction, licensed dealer shall forfeit his license; and giving county commissioners power to reject licenses rec commended by selectmen. Judge Seymour and MT. Houston were appointed conferees on the Bantam Vigilance matter.
 On Friday various bills were rejected in concurrence. The House adhered to it's action passing the bill regarding bridges between large and smaller towns which kills the meas ure. Bills passed giving bounty on shade trees in highways Bills passed organizing the bendholders of the Connecticut Western into corporation and providing that no persons except tramps shall be sent to the State Prison for shorter terms than one year. After considerable fun the thistle and daisy bill was rejected. Adjourned till Tues day:
 On Sunday last, while driving from g re- view, the Emperor Alexander was killed by the explosion of a sort of hand-grenade filled with nitro-g lycerlne. Two of these missiles were thrown at him by different persons The first exploded near his carriage, and the. man who threw it was seized. The Czar had got out and was walking towards some of his escort who were hurt, when another shell, threwn by another assassin, burst beween his legs inficting terrible injuries of which he soon died. The Russian government has been defined as ia despotism tempered by assassin ation." In other words the aristocratic ele- ment, though having DO direct voice in the administration of affairs, makes itself felt in the. last resort through plots against the life of an unpopular emperor It is our firm belief that it is because the Czar has done so much for the people and against the arstocracy that his life was thus suddenly taken on Sunday last. It is the prevalence of Nihilism among the higher classes and high officials that has distinguished it from the communism of Germany and France.
 The INTERNATIONAL REVIEW for April, con- tains: The Iliad of India, II, by Edwin Arnold; Improvements in Prison Discipline by A. $. Meyrick; ''The First American Bishop" by Rev. George E. Ellis; Francis Lieber, by President D. Gilman; The Last Trlal of Russian Nihilists, l., by Mme. z. Ragczin; Statues Regulating The Practice of Medicine, by Ernest W. Cushing, M. D; Schurz's Administration of the Interior De- partment, by Henry L. Nelson.
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