Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-03
e9ournal arb Gourier.
Friday Morning. March 3. 1882
The General Assembly.

In0 OCHeTal ASSGmDlys Another Busy Day-Plenty of Work i'm
 Senate and House and Before Com
 mittees-The Parallel Rond-More Tenn
 perance Dfscussion-The Chip Smith
 Case--Matters of General Interest to
 Taxpayers and Others-The Thames
 Bridge Question Settled.
 HARTFORD, March 2, 1882.
 This has been a very busy day at the Capi- tol There was 8 full attendance of mem- bers in both houses, and the Senators and members were rapidly disposed of It was stated this morning. on undoubted authority, that at meeting of ths Judiciary committee on Wednesday evening it was recommended that James alias Chip Smiths petition for communication of sentence from death by hanging to imprisonment for life should be recommended. It was understood that one Senator and one Representative voted in the negative. It is not understood, however, that they will make minority report. It is understood today that an entirely | satisfactory arrangement has been made for the adjustment of the Thames bridge matter
 
 l spondents. The compromise is that the 1 Legislature shall grant authority to the Providence and Stonington Railroad com pany to construct bridge across the Thames river; but the location of the bridge and it's | character shall depend wholly upon the ap- proval of @ commission to be appointed by the War and Navy departments at Washing | "a ico the counsel for New London and other inter- i ests in that section will make no opposition, and in this view of the case, the Legislature will of course grant the legislation asked for. The friends of Smith feel very confident now that his sentence will be commuted, al- 1 though there will be more or less opposition | in both houses.
 Hon. Nathaniel Wheeler, of Bridgeport, | Hugh Daley, Esq, of New Haven, and oth- CTS appeared Before the Temperance commit | tee this afternoon on the proposed revision l of the license laws.
 I The Committee on Railroads occupied the Representatives hall this afternoon, when ! the arguments were commenced on the Par l allel railroad scheme, which are reported l elsewhere.
 1 Following is summary of the business in
 both houses to-day.
 Senate. | The Senate was called to order at Il i o'clock by Lieutenant Governor Bulkeley. Prayer was offered by Chaplain Sage. I A favorable report was received from the Committee on Railroads on the resolution
 confirming certain purchases of the Housa | tonic railroad company.
 The Committee on Judiciary rendered 8 ] favorable report on the resolution authoriz- | ing administration on the estate of Phietus | Woodward, of Barkhamstead, and an unfa
 vorable report on bills of the session of 1881
 de public health and safety; unfavorable on acts de trials; unfavorable on bill de liens ;
 unfavorable on bill de county commissioners fees favorable on bill validating deed of 1 the Phoenix Rubber company. renonstrance of c. l.. Mason and fifty one other residents of Unionville against a repeal of the factorizing laws was referred to ! the Committee on Judiciary.
 The Committee on Judiciary submitted an
 adverse report on the bill providing that ! whenever the wages of any debtor or of his l children shall be attached in foreign attach I ment the justice of the peace before whom | the writ is returnable may, if the defendant ! or his family are in extreme want, dissolve | the attachment.
 The annual report of the New Haven and I Centerville horse railroad company was ac- cepted and ordered on file; also annual re- port of the board of trustees of the Connecti- l cut Hospital for the Insane also annual | report of the Hartford Hospital for the In- sane. The Committee on Forfeited Rights report ] ed favorably on the petition of Julius L. Bris- l to1, of Wallingford, for restoration of for | feited rights.
 ] Business on the calendar was disposed of I as follows:
 The Committee on Engrossed bills report | ed verbal amendments to the bill amending | the charter of the New Haven Water con- 1 pany, the resolution relating to the Niumps school district and bill de crimes and crimi- nal prosecutions, were adopted. Bill authorizing invalid soldiers sailors | and marines to be placed at Fitch's Home for | Soldiers, at Darien; passed. | Bill ordering State auditor of public ac- I institutions receiving aid from the State i; passed.
 | Bill authorizing Selectmen to order side ] walk curb and gutter in the town of New Haven outside of city limits, when asked by the residents of that section passed. Bill extending the time of the commission appointed to investigate the accounts of Web ster Park, late clerk of the Superior Court for New London county, to June 1, 1882 passed. Bill establishing the village of Shelton as a borough on motion of Senator Gum recom-
 nitted to the Committee on Cities and Bor- oughs and under a suspension of the rules 1 transmitted to the House.
 The bill giving more complete power to boards of health for the confinement of per- sons i'll with smallpox came from the House passed.
 1 Senator Bradstreet moved that it be put immediately upon it's passage. Senator Cheney said the demand for the 1 passage of the bill was immediate from the l fact that at present there are persons ill with smallpox who are quarantined in Manchester, 1 but who will, unless the bill is passed at l once, break quarantine, and there is no way of stopping them.
 The bill was passed in concurrence with I the House.
 Several unfavorable reports from commit I tees were rejected. ... At 1910 the Senate adjourned until Friday at 10:30 a.. m.