Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-12
House..

The House was called to order at Il 8. m., Speaker Hall in the chair. Prayer was offered by the chaplain, Rev. A. J. Sage.
 The Federal Relations committee reported favorably on resolution de Sergeant Mason, requesting the President to mitigate the sen. tence imposed by the court martial; tabled.
 Mr. Sill said the judge advocate general had set aside the decision of the court, and he could not see what object there could be in the Legislature passing resolutions, and thought the matter ought to be indefinitely postponed.
 The chair stated that the resolution and report had been ordered on the table.
 Business from the Senate was disposed of in concurrence, including amendments to the bill authorizing the Hartford and Connecti- cut Railroad company to purchase the Rhine beck and Connecticut road The amend ment authorizes the company to lease the road in perpetuity. -.
 MT. Sill, of Hartford, and Johnson, of Enfield, were appointed 8 committee of con ference on disagreeing. action between the two houses relative to admitting the bill con corning writs of error; being new business; The bill provides. that writs of error on mat ters of fact, in which matters of fact and matters of law shall be joined in the same writ, may be brought to the Superior Court from the judgments. or decrees of inferior courts, and writs of error on matters of law may be brought to the Supreme Court of Errors from the judgments or decrees of in- ferior courts.
 The House adhered in passing the bill re- lating to fraudulent divorces, killing the bill
 On motion of Mir. Bingham, of Windham, the House concurred- in recommitting the bill relating to special taxes on corporations.
 The bill providing that decrees of probate courts, which have been procured through fraud or misrepresentation may be reversed when such fraud has been disclosed, came back from the Senate with amendments adopted on recommendation of conference committee. After discussion the bill was in- definitely postponed.
 At 1915 Mr. Thurber, of Putnam, called for the order of the day, being on the resolu- tion proposing an amendment to the Consti- tuition prohibiting the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquor as a beverage. The amendment is as follows
 The manufacture or compromising of, and sale or keeping for sale, of Intoxicating liquors, excepting for sacramental, medicinal, scientific, mechanical and art purposes, shall be, and hereby are, prohibited in this State; and it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass laws for the enforcement of this article.
 Resolved, That the foregoing proposed amendment to the constitution be continued to the next General Assembly, and be pub lished with the laws passed at the present session.
 MT. Ripley, chairman of the committee recommending the measure, spoke in favor of sending the whole problem of controlling the liquor traffic to the people for their solu- tion. Five thousand citizens had petitioned for the proposed amendment, and the con- mittee had unanimously reported in it's favor. The question of controlling intemperance was social in it's character, and 1t has become one of the most important and vital ones of the day.
 ihe bill was supported by MT. Mitchell, of Southbury, who addressed the House at length on the temp rance question
 Mir. Downes, of Derby, said he was unable to agree with the report of the committee, which was in the interest of prohibition. The prohibitory law had been tried, and the re- suit of the trial had been disappointing. The local option law had been adopted and isnow in force, and the House during the current session had passed by a large majority a measure perfecting and enforcing the local