Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-04
5ourual ar1a Gourier.
Saturday Merning. March 4. 1882.
The General Assembly.

Both Houses Promptly in their Places
 More Parallel Road-A Visit to the In-
 dustrial School for rGirls-ThinninS Out
 of the Third House-Matters of General
 Interest.
 HARTFORD, March 3, 1882. Special correspondence of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 Both Senators and Representatives were promptly in their places at the hour of open- ing this morning, aud business proceeded in regular order. There appeared to be con- siderable thinning out of sthird" house the bottom has fallen out of the Thames bridge question, in which the lobbyists had hoped they had struck a bonanza There is still little business for some of them, how ever, as the Parallel road question remains unsettled. When this is fully decided there will be larger thinning out of these 'im- portant' factors in the General Assembly.
 The only committee in session today was that on railroads, the proceedings before which are published elsewhere.
 The Legislature to-day visited the Indus trial School for Girls at Middletown, leaving the Asylum street depot at 12:3O p. m. They were entertained with lunch and taken through the several buildings, the superin- tendent explaining to the visitors the manner of conducting the institution.
 Following is a summary of the business transacted to-day in the Senate and House
 Senate.
 The Senate was called to order at 1O3C o'clock. with Lieutenant Governor Bulkeley in the chair. Prayer was offered by Chap. lain Sage.
 The Committee on Judiciary reported ia. vorably on bill de investment of school funds; adversely on the petition of Hartford pastors against change in Sunday law, the petitioners were given leave to withdraw favorable on petition of Aaron Thomas and 119 others for removal of remains in old cem etery in Thomaston.
 The bill authorizing grocers to keep open their shops on Sunday from to 9 a. m. was rejected under suspension of the rules. Various matters from the House were act ed upon in concurrence or tabled for calen dar. Senator Upson presented resolution in l cooperating the Soldiers Memorial Library and Building association of New Britain | which was accepted under suspension of ths rules and referred to the Committee on In corporations. On motion of Senator Hammond commit tee was appointed to recall from the office ot the Secretary of State the resolution appoint ing Richard M. Bullock, of Putnam, a trus tee of the Connecticut Hospital for the In sane. Senator Hammond appointed. Business on the calendar was disposed ot as follows:
 Bill requiring any probate court, on rela tion of any person, to revoke any order ol decree made by it, when it shall be clearly shown that such order or decree was ob tained by fraud or imposition upon the court passed. Bill providing that every person who shal willfully destroy or deface any advertisement handbill, poster Or notice uEon any private bill board shall be fined not moro than $7, ol imprisoned not more than thirty days or both passed Bill extending time under which persor may be prosecuted for treason or any crime or misdemeanor for which the punishment i: imprisonment in the State prison, from three to five years ;, passed. Resolution incorporating the Standard Time company of New Haven ; capital $2O, 900; incorporators, Marshall Jewell of Hart ford, Charles l.. Mitchell, Morris F. Tyler H. F. Frost, Leonard Waldo and Robert Will son, of New Haven passed.
 Bill authorizing Comptroller to furnish copies of second volume of Baldwin's Con necticut digest to town clerks passed Bill amending the charter of the city o1 New Haven, by extending time for making appeals from assessments for land improve ments; passed.
 Resolution incorporating the ladies' library | and reading room association of Walling ford passed. Resolution changing the name of tht Rapid Construction company" to HTht American Rapid Telegraph company | passed
 Resolution approIoriating g., 1000 to be ex pended by the fish commissioners in the arti | ficial propagation of fish; passed. Resolution incorporating the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoa company of Nauga tuck passed.
 Resolution granting the E. N. Welch man ufacturlng company of Bristol special char | ter ; passed.
 Resolutions granting special charters tt the Bristol brass and clock company and thu
 Jerome company of New Haven, and the New
 Haven clock company, were passed. Bill prohibiting the taking of fish in Lak' Kenostar, in Danbury, between November l! l and April 15, for three years passed. 1 The House amendments to the bill relating
 to the taxation of trust property were reject
 ed and the bill passed.
 The following matters unfavorably report | ed by committees were reJected: l Bill for the protection of game birds, un
 favorable report of Committee on Agricul
 ture; bill regulating the introduction ant l sale of school books throughout the State l unfavorable report of Committee on Educa tion; bill relating to fishery, unfavorabl I'report of Committee on Fisheries; resolution
 authorizing the payment of bounty to per sons killing foxes, unfavorable report o Committee on Agriculture resolution grant ing one hundred dollars to the Southingtol I agricultural and manufacturing company, un 1 favorable report of Committee on Agricul | ture three bills in relation to public healtl
 and safety, unfavorsble report of Committe
 on the Judiciary bill to promote the com
 fort and safety of railway passengers, unfa
 vorable report of Committee on Railroads ! bill de county commissioners fees, unfavor | able report of Committee on the Judiciary bill relating to the preservation of game il | the town of Windsor. unfayorable report o Committee on Agriculture bill relating t. foreign attachment, unfavorable report o
 Committee on the Judiciary; bill concerninI I paupers, unfavorable report of Committee ol l Humane Institutions; bill offering bount
 for killing foxes, untavorable report of Com
 mittee on Agriculture resolution aiding tn
 Union agricultural society, uffavorable re
 port of Committee on Agriculture.
 At 12 o'clock the Senate adjourned unti Tuesday at 12:3O p. m.