Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-26

The House came together at 2:3O o'clock, Speaker Hall in the chair.
 The bill relating to the establishment of limited liability to hotel keepers was indet- nitely postponed.
 The House adhered to it's former action on the bill relating to the transportation of small animals, thus killing the measure.
 The House also adhered to its former ac- tion on the bill ezempting soldiers and ma ines from taxation, defeating the meas ure.
 The bank deposit bill requiring savings banks to report deposits of twenty years stand was defeated in like manner.
 Bill establishing an office of clerk of bills at salary of $5UO; passed.
 The report of the committee to investigate the returns of the railroads to the State was adopted.
 The acceptance of the railroad report was laid upon the table.
 Resolution for the reimbursement of S450 to Benjamin Moves for services while iusur- ance commissioner, which had been indeti- nitely postponed by the House, was reconsid- cred and referred to the Comptroller, Treas urer and Secretary of State to adjust and pay.
 Resolution providing for the expressing of the laws after the rising of the General As sembly; passed.
 Visit to New Haven Jail.
 A representative of the Hartford Times visited the New Haven jail recently. He pays deserved praise to Sheriff Byxbee and Deputy Stevens for th manner in which the jail IS conducted. The report says:
 As we entered the prison attention was directed to young man walking up and down the corridor, dressed in dark pants and a blue woolen shirt with no coat or vest. with suspenders buttoned but slipped from his shoulders and Hopping at his side, face smooth, hair black, and a complexion that did not show the pallor which confinement for months usually produces This was "Chip" Smith, the young man condemned to be hanged on the 9th of May, week from next Friday, for the murder of Policeman Hayes, of Ansonia. To see him swinging up and down the hall with buoy ant and careless tread, would scarcely think that he realized the awful doom which awaits him. Stopping before cell No. ? Turnkey Isbell said, "rhis is Chips room" " We stepped inside and were at once i'm pressed with the comfort of the roomy cell, and Mir Isbell explained that the partition between cells and , had been removed for the purpose of making one large sized cell. Half the doorway of cell No had been util- d been bricked up. This idea of merging two cells into one made such a nice room that Jailer Stevens said 1t was their intention to make SC .eral changes for the benefit of the e bound over" prisoners. In Chips cell was table with handsome spread, chair or two, pot of flowers and a canary bird sweetly singing in a cage which hung at the window of his room. See ing a stranger in his cell, Chip halted in his l. talkative, though he answered our questions with apparent frankness, When asked If he entertained much hope for a stay of eXecu ton, he said he hoped for the best. He was satisfied to leave the whole matter III the hands of hIs lawyers, who had done all that anybody could do for him. He spoke of the kind treatment he received at the hands of the officers, and called our especial attention to the photographs of Sheriff Byx- bee Deputies Stevens and Isbell, and the sheriffs son, which adorned the table The canary bird, which he said was a source of great comfort to him, was presented to him by a sympathizing New Haven lady, and the pot of flowers was given to him by one of the Maleys lie prized the gifts highly and said they were of great comfort to him. While we were talking with him good look | ing IrishWoman was admitted to the corridor | and we could see by the young mans face that it was some one to see him.
 Blanche Douglass was also visited. She is not confined in the jail proper, but is kept ir one of rhe two rooms in upper story ot the jailer's private residence, which was ar ranged for prisoners committed on civil pro. | cess. These rooms are large, airy, light and we'll ventilated, yet are as secure as any part ! of the iail, the transom and windows being ! barred Blanche's room has an eastern ex posure and from it she can see the city and | far beyond into the country. Mrs. Steven; has the full care of Blanche, and says tha ! her charge makes her but little trouble
 Jailer Stevens accompanied us to hel room, but before entering knocked