Litchfield enquirer., 1881-03-31
Legislative.

Legislative.
 The Senate has reconsdered It's vote pas sing the School Suffrage bill ana rejected the measure. What surprised as was that it should ever have passed it.
 A curious proceeding occurred, last week. showing the power of the great railroad com- pauies oyer legislation which they consider opposed to their interests. The bill allowing an extension of the Connecticut Valley rail- road had passed the Senate by the casting vote of the Lieut.. Governor on Wednesday. It was measure to which there ought not to have been any objection, but the New York and New England railroad company opposed it. After it's passage the bill had been sent to the House, where it would no doubt have been secure of adoption. Evidently pressure was brought to bear on Senators, that night {; for, on Thursday morning. motion for it's reconsideration was made and declared pass ed We give the rest of the affair as reported in the New Haven Palladium:
 The original vote on the notion to recon
 
 ordered. and while it was in progress, ex- Clerk Warner, who it is claimed is interested in the death of the measure, slipped out of the senate chamber into the house, and in a whisper informed the assistant clerk of the probable action of the Senate and advised him to have the paper ready. The assistant clerk selected the paper from bundle of bills and before this was fully accomplished, Sen ator Colt as the committee had reached the speakers desk and made known hls errand. The speaker said that in accordance with the imuemorial custom of the house, the recall would be granted unless objections were made. This remark had hardly left the speak CTS lips when the bill was in the senator's hands and he was out of the chamber. Il ob- ject, object" called Mr. ,Sprague of Hart ford, but then II object" was longer in reach ing the speakers ears than MT. Colt was in reaching the door and the document was moment later in the hands of the senate. So quick was the whole transaction that even those who were watching closely could not tell just how it was done. Mitchell of New Britain, in the discussion which followed, said it seemed to be case of rapid transit. The matter was discussed at some length and fin- ally dropped and the order of the day taken up.
 Of course it was proper for the Senate to receive back the bill, but it is humiiating to notice the super-serviceable haste of legisa tive officials in the work not of the legisa- ture but in that of the great corporations. To the counsel and the lobby employed to work against the bill, Gov. Hubbard paid his re- spects in his argument of the case to the com mittee. After showing that by the last report of the Central there was but $42 13 cash on hand, he said:
 And this is the railroad that is afraid of competition! Why,. competition is thing that exists between the living. There IS no competition in the graveyard-no competition between the quick and the dead. There is nothing here to compete with it is pauper that has entered into a covenant of suicide and sold it's corpse before death to the undertaken. The New York and New England holds the covenant. Who is it that furnishes the sin ews of war to my friends upon the other side ? and not to them only. but to the multitudinous scouts, and van guard and rear guard of the lobby ? Are my learned friends on the other side really dependent on that $42. l3 found in the pockets of the Central? Poor brethren of mine, rich in learning, rich in eloquence, yoI are poorer than Lazarus if your real client is the Central! Richer than Dives if the New York and New Finland he your client; for then you may not only rejoice inyour own strength and in the strength of the lobby, but in the fatness of your client and in the fatuess of your fees.
 Who is it, ask again whose providence is it, that not only feeds all these ravens of the lobby, but summons here to the capitol against us the lieutenant general of the leois- lature from Granby, and from the fastnesses 0f kI,x .-I. i counsel of Litchield county, with the musk and myrrh of office still fresh upon his robes, and with the influence which the recent pos session of most honorable office most honor- ably filled adds to conspicuous ability and reputation :? If these gentlemen are to be paid by the Central out of that $42 13, and not by the New York and New England, let us pray that the miracle of the loaves and fishes may be re- enacted for their benefit"
 After sharp debate, the House passed the bill prohibiting steam dredging for oysters on the public oyster grounds in the state,
 The House has continued the School Suf frage law to the next General Assembly, The House has passed the bill making two shire towns in Windham county-Putnam and Windham (Wilimantic)-a matter that has been long agitated.
 The bribery bill, after being loaded with ridiculous amendments, was finally defeated. It occasioned much ill-timed merriment
 The International Construction Go. incor- porated by the resolution which passed the Senate, Tuesday, is designed to incorporate a company for the purpose of building rail- road through Mexico and the corporators are men of great wealth and experience, having already built large lines of road.
 The peddlers bill which in effect prohibits peddling in this state by citizens of other states comes pretty close at least to con. f1ict with the provision of the constitution of the United States which entities the citizens of each state to all the privileges and immu- mites of citizents of the several states. We are glad to see cider declared an intox icating liquor. No longer ago than last term of court there was proof offered that man got beastly drunk on what the law has here- tofore termed a non intoxicating beverage. Senate. Tuesday of last week bills, etc., passed incorporating the International Construction Company; regulating sale of l commercial fertilizers; providing for record l of proceedings taking land under fowage act. On Wednesday the bills passed authorizing l county commissioners to hold hearings for ] revocation of liquor licenses; creating board of pardons and providing that pardons can be | obtained only on unanimous vote; amending game law; regarding Canada thistles; appro- priating $9,35 for Hathawaysclaim appro- priating $10,0O0 for capitol grading; regard ing appeals to board of relief; and allowing extension of Connecticut Valley railroad On Thursday the resolution authorizing the extension of the Connecticut Valley railroad was reconsidered and rejected, 12 to 8. The bill extending power of savings banks and al lowing them to loan to manufacturing con- pauies was rejected. The School Suffrage hill WAS reconSidered and defeated in Q