Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-17


 Litchield county, rejected.
 Sale of Lands-Adverse on sale of No | Mans Land at East Haven, rejected; ad- i verse on bill de sale of lands owned by the | Pequot Indians, rejected.
 Agriculture-Adverse on bill relating to the killing of woedchucks, rejected favora ble on bill relating to bees calendar. '
 udiciary-Favorable on bill relating to property owned by religious denominations, calendar; adverse on bill concerning public health and safety, rejected; adverse on bill de appeals, rejected adverse on bill relating to paupers, rejected; adverse on bill relating to public health and safety, rejected
 Manufactures-Adverse on bill concerning fire escapes in hotels, rejected; adverse on bill concerning fire escapes, rejected.
 Interpretations Favorable on incorporat- ing the New England southern telephone company, calendar; adverse on incorporating the Connecticut gas and fuel company, re- jected; adverse on incorporating the Green wich cemetery association, rejected.
 Business from the Senate was disposed of in concurrence. The adverse report of the Committee on Cities and Boroughs on the bill for the consolidation of the town and city governments ef New Haven tabled on motion of MT. Robertson. The bill relating to the collection of the communication tax, passed in the House Monday, was returned from the Senate rejected. Mir. Cowles, of T dA hIIASOo13 1AOf6u bAeaU cAAO AAouSO AOCSttS l and concur with the Senate in the rejection of the bill.
 MT. Bishop, of Guilford, moved to amend by the House insietino and asking for confer ence committee
 MT. Cowles insisted on his motion, explain ing his objection to the bill. MT. Northrop. of Middletown, was in favor of the principle of the bill, but thought 1t might have been inaccurately drafted. fo1,o fln 1J1 Ta1QIYl Jfcr fl,at was for the relief of the towns, which now lose 20 per cent. of the communication tax.
 Mir. Cowles said he was willing to withdraw his motion in order that the bill might be re- committed.
 MT. Robertson could not see how the rolling officer collect the tax, if the tax collector is unable to do so. Mir. Fox of New Haven, was in favor of concurring with the Senate in rejecting the bill
 On vote the motion to reconsider was car ried and the bill was then recommltted to the Military committee on motion of Mr. Northrop, the vote for recommittal being 12O to 32.
 Mir. Cowles, of Norwalk, called from the table the resolution authorizing the payment of $500 to George Nichols for services in the school fund ofice and moved that the House concur in verbal amendments adopted by the Senate. Mir. Nichols was ward in the fam fly of Commissioner Miles and was employed by him in the school fund office while Mir. Miles was in office. The payment was for services which had been actually performed but without proper compensation. It was a fair adjustment, MT. Cowles held, and the amount ought to be paid. Mr.. Wood, of East Windsor, moved an amendment, providing that the amount should be paid from the public treasury in stead of being charged to the school fund. Messrs. Taylor, of Danbury, and Cowles, of Pennington, approved of the amend ment
 On vote it was adopted and the resolution as amended was adopted. MT. Bingham, of Windham, called from the table the resolution incorporating the Phoenix bank of Hartford MT. Stanton, chairman of the Committee on Banks explained that when the Phoenix bank, which was one of the oldest and most reliable of the old State banks, became national bank, it surrendered it's State charter instead of allowing it to remain in suspense. The present act was simply to revive the origi nal State charter.
 The calendar numbers were resumed and reports from the Committee on Engrossed Bills were acted on favorably.
 The House concurred with the Senate in adopting amendments to the bill concerning the settlement of estates.
 Resolution amending the act incor porating the Connecticut Humane society, providing that in taxing costs in cases brought by the prosecuting officers of the society the fees allowed to grand jurors in similar cases shall be allowed to such prosecuting officers and taxed in such costs, and shall be paid into the treasury of this society, was explained by MT. Johnson and passed.
 Resolution validating the appointment of tax collectors at Greenwich was explained by Mir. Scofeld of Stamford and passed
 Resolution incorporating the Westbrook Agricultural society was passed.
 House bill Mo- 233, authorizing proceedings supplementary to execution in civil actions was rejected
 Resolution incorporating the Connecticut River Steamboat company was explained by MT. Cleveland and passed. The incorpo- rators Charles Benton, Marshall Jewell, and Elisha T. Smith of Hartford, Richard Peck of New Haven, Charles F. Browning and John M. Douglass of Middletown, and Henry Gildersleeve of Portland. The capital stock is S2OO 900, with power to increase the sum to an amount not exceeding $6O0,000.
 Resolution incorporating the Pomeroy Trust association of New Haven was passed Resolutions incorporating the Stamford Soldiers Monument association, and authoriz- ing an appropriation of $3, 900 by the town of Stamford for the erectioE of a monument, were explained and advocated by Mr. Gill lespie of Stamford and passed. The bill providing for the use of automat- ic car couplers on freight cars was explained by MT. Gillette, of Waterbury, and passed. On motion of Mr. Bishop, of Guilford the substitute bill authorizing all chartered in- surance companies in the State to engage in accident insurance was tabled. Mr. Northrop called from the table the bill revising and amending the charter of the city of Middletown and introduced number of amendments.
 After the adoption of several of them MT. Congdon moved that the bill with amend rnents be recommitted in order that the mittee might consider.
 Mr. Northrop opposed recommlttal hold ing that the House could pass on the amend ments with greater facility than could be done in committee.
 Mr Johnson thought that the request of the chairman should be granted. On vote the motion for recommittal was lost. An amendment involving the rights of voters at Middetown was submitted and put on it's passage
 Mr Stanton, of Stonington, stated at this point that through a mlsapprehenslon he had voted against recomm1ttal. It was evident that grave questions were being acted upon in adopting the amendments, and he desired to vote on them intelligently. The bill and the amendments in his opinion should be reeom- mitted. He moved that the House reconsider it's action and that recommittal be ordered On vote the motion prevailed.
 On motion of Mir. Owen, of Manchester, the House reconsidered it's action on bills Nos. 1O4 and 1O5, relating to pubic health and safety, rejected on the adverse report of the Judiciary committee, and ordered them printed for calendar.
 On motion of MT. Coogan, of Windsor Locks, the bill defining the duties of officers and agents of the Humane society was taken from the table and amended as to prevent female members of the society from execut- ing the duties of sheriff, and passed.
 The resolution authorizing the payment of $6OO to the town of Orange, for defraying expenses incurred in the Jennie Cramer in- vestigation, came up for discussion.
 MT. Robertson, of New Haven, offered an amendment substituting the sum of $1,798- 33 for the amount recommended by the Claims committee.
 Mr. Robertson supported his amendment, claiming that it was just and right that Orange should be reimbursed for what it had expended in Investigating the Cramer trage- dy. The State was in duty bound to settle the claim.
 MT. Bradley of Orange, at the request of MT. Merrow, of Mansfield, read the items of the account explaining them separately. About one-half of the amount was for the jury of inquest and the remainder, with the exception of $125, was for the justice's trial The bill for $125 was for counsel in behalf of Blanche Douglass, who had been held as a sl,.1 c.. of