Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-22
| Officer" at cost not to exceed so cents per

The bill amending the charter OF the Rus |
sell Manufacturing company of Middletown |
for the privilege of increasing it's capital stock
from $500, 900 to 100000 came back from
the House with the Senate amendment, that
the increase should be paid in in cash or its
equivalent, which was passed by the Senate,
stricken out.
Senator Alsop explained that the corpora
ton very strong one and that it's i'm
provements in buildings, etc., more than
equalled the proposed increase.
Senator Epson favored the amendment and
thought that as much time had been spent in
revising the joint laws they had better be ad-
hered to. After short discussion the amend
ment was rejected in concurrence.
Business on the calendar was disposed of as
follows:
Resolution amending the charter of the
New Haven Cooperative Fund and Loan as
ISOLATION; passed.
The following bills, unfavorably reported
upon by the Committee on Judiciary, were
rejected: Bill relating to proceedings on
application for appointment of conservator;
bill authorizing creditors in certain cases to
require disclosures from debtors bill relat-
ing to the salary of judges bill relating to
public health and safety; bill relating to
civil actions bill relating to the property of
married women; bill for the suppression of
fraud bill to repeal an act concerning
crimes and criminal prosecutions resolution
granting administration on estate of Elizur
Porter; bill relating to qui tam prosecu-
tons.
The following petition was introduced by
| Senator Seymour:
| To the Honorable General Assembly
Your petitioner is informed and believes:
| 1. That the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
company, doing business under the laws of
| the State of Connecticut, has recently settled
a claim upon it for one-haf the face value of
1 -, 41o,v . S %tSo.s
| informed and believes that to secure such
| settlement the company took improper means
to influence the persons having such claims
| against them, and does further believe that
| the entire claim was just and should have
been paid. 3. Your petitioner therefore re-
quests that this, his petition, be referred to
| the proper committee of this assembly with
instructions to report whether, in their opin-
ion, further legislation is necessaryto protect
the policy holders of the insurance companies
| of this State. B. w. NAPLES.
Senator Seymour said that he presented
| the petition by request, and moved its refer
ence to the Committee ON Insurance; SO re-
| ferred.
At o'clock the Senate adjourned until
| Wednesday at IL a. m.
At 1890 o'clock Speaker Hall called the
House to order, and prayer was offered by
Chaplain Sage.
Petitions were received and referred as
follows: OF manufacturers at Windsor
Locks, Kensington, Plainville and other
towns in support of the Sargent factorizing
bill, exempting forty days wages from for
eign attachment, the petitioners including
the Seymour Paper company and twenty
four others at Windsor Locks, the Peck,
Stow & Wilcox company and 100 others at
Kensington, and the Plainville Manufactur-
l ipo o,,1
ninety-six others, residents of Plainville; Ju-
dietary. Of J. B. Savage ct al, for the in
corporation of the Southington Water COM
pany; interpretations. Of citizens of New
| London, Colebrook Woodstock, for consti-
tutional amendment prohibiting the manufac
ture of Intoxicating liquors; of F. S. Hatch
| ct al, of West Hartford, against granting di-
vorces on insufficient grounds.
Committee reports were received as fol-
| lows, and tabled for calendar and printing:
Judiciary Substitute bill providing that
| no Judge or Justice of the peace shall act as
! such in any civil or criminal matter in which
he, or his son, father, mother, father-in-law,
brother.in-law, son-in-law, partner, clerk or
student shall act as attorney, or shall have
drawn, filled up or signed the writ, declara-
tiop, complaint or warrant The bill repeats
section 4, title 4, chapter 6, of the General
Statutes. Unfavorable on House bill No. 60,
introduced by Mr.. Owen of Manchester, for
the appointment of a commission to investi-
gate the pollution of streams; tabled for
calendar and printing; substitute bill provi-
ding five years instead of three as the limit
for instituting criminal prosecutions; adj
verse on amending registry laws, on motion
of Mr.. Cowles of Pennington ordered print
ed favorable on purchasing volume second
of the Connecticut Digest for deposit in
Town Clerks Offices substitute bill proyi-
ding for the licensing of pack peddlers, re-
G1 f1-
peddl1ng in any town, the license to be Sc
cured from the Selectmen; recommending
that the bill authorizing the comptroller to
furnish transportation to State officers be re-
ferred to the Railroad committee, or
dered; unfavorable on bill relating to minor
ity representation in the election of grand
jurors, rejected unfavorable on bill empow-
ering States attorneys to sign complaints and
| informations brought before justice of the
peace and police courts, rejected; favorable
on bill prohibiting the defacing or destroy
ing of advertiser ents on private bill boards
favorable on bill authorizing Probate Courts
to revoke DEGREES, when it has shown that
they were brought about through fraud or
misrepresentation unfavorable on House
bill No. &c, making will imperative unless
made within thirty days of the time of death
of the testator, rejected.
Cities and Boroughs-Favorab1e on an
I nexing portion of West school district OF
New Haven to Center school district of East
Haven tabled for calendar.
ducation-Favorable on bill relating to
the instruction of children in private schools,
requiring registration of attendance.
Roads and Bridges-Unfavorable on reso.
luton requiring Tomlinson bridge to be
maintained as free bridge; rejected
Fisheries bill regulating fish
ing in Lake Canosia in Danbury, tabled for
calendar; favorable on bill prohibiting fish
ing in Mill pond at Branford, calendar sub
stitute bill regulating fishing in Bashan Lake
at East Haddam substitute bill regulating
fishing in Curtis mill pond in the town Of
Monroe, calendar; substitute bill providing
that no person shall take any speckled
trout from the Pequonnock river, or any of
it's tributaries before April 1, 1885, the fine
for violation being 500 or imprisonment for
not more than thirty days, or both, tabled !;
substitute bill for the protection of smelt in
Mystic river; substitute bill prohibiting the
catching of lamprey cells in the Connecticut
river between May 20 and September 1 in
each year, the fne"for violation being SIS or
imprisonment for not more than thirty days,
| or BOTH
Business from the Senate was disposed of
| in concurrence.
By Mr. Bradley, of Orange-Annual report
of the New Haven and West Haven horse
| railroad company; referred to the Railroad
| committee The receipts of the company
for the year were $57, 573, and the expendi-
lures $53, S53.
| The calendar business was resumed being
on the bill making State election day legal
holiday.
| Mr.. Bingham, of Windham, introduced an
amendment, providing that when notes
should become due on State election day, they
| should be paid the day after.
Mr.. Northrop objected to the amendment,
claiming that it would disarrange the present
| system enforced by banks relative to the
payment of notes coming due on legal holi-
| days.
Mr.. Bingham stated that the amendment
| was adopted in the law making Memorialsday
| legal holiday, and was not an innovation.
After brief debate the matter was temporarily
\ tabled. ..-.
| Mr.. Mitchell, of Southbury, called the bill
| relating to cattle astray from the table and
/ moved it's rejection, passed.
Mr.. Pease, of Enfield, called from the table
the bill concerning the taxation of trust
property, and offered an amendment requir-
| ing the property to be set in the town where
the person resides for whose benefit the
property is used, in case the trustee resides
| out of the State
Mr.. Sill discussed the amendment, showing
that it leaves the law precisely what it has
been, and does not provide for cases where
there are more than one beneficiary.
On motion of Mr.. Owen, of Manchester,
| the bill and amendments were recommitted