Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-14
House..

The House was called to order at 10 a | m, Speaker Case in the chair. Prayer was offered by Chaplain Thompson Business from the Senate was disposed O l in concurrence. The resolution imposing State tax wal called from the table by MT. Perry. An amendment was offered making the tax ] instead of F mills, MT. Perry speaking in support of it.
 The vote was adopted and the resolution as amended was passed. Mir. Hall, of Windham, reported that the conference committee on the bill relating to divorce was unable to agree ,and recommend ed that the House adhere; so ordered.
 The report of the committee on investigat- ing the missing calendar of March 24 was called from the table. MT. Harrison gave the history of the investigation, and MT Northrop of Middletown, also spoke in the same line.
 Speaker Case took the floor and denounced an article that appeared in the New York Tunes of March 25, charging him witht,,being a railroad lawyer.
 Mir. Porter, of Pennington, took the floor and spoke in defense of Speaker Cases course in the matter.
 MT. Mitchell of New Britain, Mr. Harrison of Guilford and MT. Spencer of Hartford, spoke in favor of the Speakers position in the matter.
 On motion of Mir. Hill, of New Milford, the report was accepted and the committee dis charged.
 The bill providing for jury trials before justices of the peace in cases of violation of liquor laws was discussed by MT. Booth, of Danbury, who considered it impracticable.
 On vote it was rejected
 The bill amending the charter of New Ha- ven was called from the table at 12:1O.
 On account of the absence of Mir. Morris, of New Haven, Mir. Driscoll moved that the con- sideration of the bill be postponed until Thursday at 10 a. m.
 The yeas and nays were ordered, resulting as follows: Whole number of votes POI; yeas 95, nays 116.
 The House then concurred with the Senate amendments.
 MT. Harrison then moved that the bill be made the special order for D. m. and the motion was carried.
 The House at 1:4O took recess until ? p. m.
 On the reassembling of the House MT. Chapman, of Naugatuck explained the changes in the revision which he said did away with partisan boards, both parties be- ing equally represented. He said that the committee in reporting the bill acted in favor of justice and right.
 Mr. Driscol, of New Haven, offered an amendment permitting the Mayor to vote in all cases of tie. He said if the House would consent to this he would make no further objection to the bill.
 Mr. Harrison, of Guilford, in a brief and lucid speech claimed that the bill only re- stored the rights taken away by the Demo- cratic party in 1874 when the same rule re- garding commissions prevailed.
 Mir. Webster, of Waterbury, said he had no objection to the bill making mixed commis- sions, provided the Mayor had the casting vote in case of tie.
 On vote being taken there were GA votes
 n. against it.
 MT. Driscon then moved that the charter be submitted to vote of the citizens of New Haven, and if one-third voted in favor then it should become law. This was rejected by a vote of 63 yeas to IF nays.
 Then came the final vote on the passage of the bill as amended, which was ordered by yeas and nays. Soon as the clerk com menced to call the roll the Democrats began to vacate their seats and retire to the lobby. in the hope that when the vote came to be counted it would be found that there was no quorum This continued until the Demo cratic side of the House was conspicuous by it's vacant seats The roll call proceeded, and when the clerk summed up it was found that 123 had voted in favor and against the bill This showed more than quorum pres ent, and when the Speaker announced the bill as passed there was general clapping of hands on the part of the Republicans
 Then MT. Harrison of Guilford, raised the point of order that members had left the House while motion was being put by the Speaker, which was entirely out of order, and the offending members were liable to cen sure. The Speaker ruled that the point was welIisaken, and declared that the members in leavii g the House at the time they did were grossly out of order
 The House then adjourned to 7:30 D. m. At that hour they again reassembled, and after disposing of some minor matters went into saAockn session, and after an hour of merrihent adjourned until Thursday morn. ing at 10 o'clock.