Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-13

Joint Standing and Select Committees
 Appointed in the Senate-Bills Intro- duced-Petitions Referred in the House
 Other Matters. HARTFORD, Jan. 12. Senate. Short sessions were the order in both
 branches of the Legislature to-day There
 was a fair attendance, and the indications
 were that the business would be rapidly dis
 posed Of The Senate assembled at II o'clock, Lieutenant Governor Bulxley in the chair. Prayer was offered by the chaplain Rev. George l.. Thompson. The following chairmen of committees were announced by the chair: Judiciary-Senator Brewster, Eleventh district. Incorporations-SenatorB Buck, First district. Cities and Boroughs-senator Colt, Seventh dis trict
 School Fund-Senator Jones, Sixth district. Railroads-Senator Sillman, Nineteenth district. Insurance-Senator Bradstreet, Sixteenth district Finance-Senator Hammond, Fourteenth district. Banks-Senator Upson, Third district. State Prison-Senator Seymour, Tenth district Hun ane Institutions-Senator Hoyt, Twelfth dis trict
 Rducation-senator Collins, Twenty-hrst district. Military AFairs-Senator Cheney, Second district. Agriculture-senator Alson, Eighteenth @ district New Towns and Probate Districts-Senator White. Eighth district. Fisheries-senator Coe Fifteenth district Manufactures Lewis, Thirteenth district
 Roads and Bridges-Senator Mills, Fourth district. Engrossed Bills-Senator Colt, Seventh district Retrenchment Reform and Abuses Senator Lewis, Thirteenth district.
 Constitutional Amendments-senator Bradstreet,
 Sixteenth district.
 Sale of Lands-senator Brown, Fifth district
 JOINT SELECT coMsr1rrEEs
 Manual and Roll-Senator Mills. Fourth district.
 Federal Relations-Senator Buck. First district.
 FoHfeited Rights-senator Peet, Seventeenth dis.
 trict
 Revision of Joint Rues-senatorC Coe Fifteenth dis trict.
 Capitol Furniture, Building and Grounds-senator
 Colt, Seventh district.
 Unfinished Business-senator Dennis Twentieth
 district.
 Temperance = Senator Silliman, Nineteenth dis trict
 State Lbrary-senator Buck First district.
 Senatorial Districts-senator Hayward. Ninth dis trict.
 Contingent Expenses-Senators Hayward of Ninth and Seymour of Tenth district Petitions were received and referred as follows: Of Elijah W. Smith, for release from the State prison; petition in aid of the petition of Elijah W. Smith of the Hart- ford and Connecticut Valley railroad for leave to extend their line to the Massachusetts State line.
 Bills were introduced and referred to con- mittees as follows For an act concerning the sewerage of the town of Stamford, to Com mittee on Interpretations for an act con- corning appeals to the Waterbury City Court and the taxation of costs in same, to Judici- ary for an act de construction of statutes so that the repeal of existing laws may not af- feet suits pending under such laws; for an act to the effect that errors of fact and errors of law may be joined in writs of error !; for an act requiring that the proprietors of manufactories and workshops shall provide two stairways on the second floor of any building where five or more employees are
 employed, fire escapes, to Committee on Manufactures; for an act validating certain
 informalities, such clerical erFers in eel
 lecting taxes to Judiciary committee; for an
 act limiting the liabilities of municipal cor perations arising from damages caused by de. fective sidewalks, to Judiciary committee; an
 act in addition to act concerning savings banks, to the Committee on Banks. When the House joint resolution appoint ing Wednesday, January 18th, at 11:30 o'clock l a. m., as the time for electing United States Senator came up. Mir. Buck suggested that the resolution was unnecessary, as the date is fixed by an act of Congress, and the reso1u- | ton was tabled Senators Jones, Lewis and Alsop were elected 8 committee on contested elections resolution was passed fixing the hour of