Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-20

State Convention.
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Com nectfcut-GOod Progress in the Work EIoquent Addresses.

Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Com
 necttcut-Good Progress in the Work \
 Eloquent Addresses.
 The annual convention of the c. T. A. U. of Connecticut was held in this city yester- day The delegates attended mass at St. Mary's church in the morning at o'clock. They were finely addressed by Rev. MT. Labor on the good work the society had done and was doing and the divine blessing was in- voked upon their work and aims. A pleasant informal meeting of the delegates next took place at the hall of the St. Aloysius society on Chapel street, below the Second National bank. The hall was finely decorated After hand shaking and social greetings the con- vention was called to order by the president, John H. Griffin, of Middletown. Rev. Father Kennedy, of Birmingham, conducted short devotional exercises. Also upon the plat form were Rev. Fathers Skelly, of Portland and Lennihan, of New London and the secrs- tary of the convention, Walter Fitzmaurice. The secretary then called the roll of dele gates:
 New Haven-St. Patrck's-Thomas J. Kennedy, James Wilstn St. FrancisaWilliam Kelly Patrick St Mary's-John McQueeney St. Aloysus-Thomas O'Brien, James F. Brennan. I 1homas B. Cannon, Der
 s Murray
 Waterbury, % aterbury Roman Catholic-W. C. Keenan, John Maher, William Duncan
 Hartford-St Peter's-John F. Conroy, J. Turner; Father Matthew No. Patrick F. Lyons, Patrick
 New Britan-sr. Mary's-Patrick McGil.
 Bridgeport-st. Patrick's- James Noonan. Patrick Mccormick; Father Matthew-Patrick Kane, William
 5st gFdgsp a pdssn asar RArpari'a-Wil1iann Winsted St Francis-Patrick J. RSan Middletowu-St. Johns-John T. Walsh, James Donovan Father Matthew Cadets-D J: Leary St slavn James e Kelley I1nag nen. l dets-Thomss W. o'Keefe.
 Branford~st Marys-James Sullivan New London-Star of the Sea-John Oiea, VII liam Higgins; St. Thomas Cadeta-kev Father Elan Mestvile, Joseph, John Ellis. by; Young Mens-John J. Anderson, Patrick '. o. Donnell; St. Laurents-Oc Lanonette, Reuben Portland-st A1ary's-william B. Ahern; Young Eperalas Rey x P: aa.Sh's M shelly rr,o New Brltain-Young Mens-Thomas Kehoe, John ! Wallingford-Young Men's-James G. Reach Willimantic-St. Aeysius Cadets-Dennis McCar- thy.
 A committee on resolutions was appointed, | consisting of 6 delegate from each county, { the delegate from New Haven being Thomas Brennan of the St. Aloysius society. Follow | ing this came brief address by the president. He was pleased at the increase of member I ship and hoped that the coming year would ! be even more fruitful than the year gone by. l The secretary made his report. The delay | in not having president until March was referred to, and this had interfered with the | accession of members to some for the printing of the proceedings of the l eleventh annual convention, there was not 8 l dollar left in the treasury. During the past ! year the expenses have been greatly reduced
 and when the per capita tax for 1882 is re. l ceived the Union will be out of debt and on I good financial basis.
 ] During the year the St Joseph society, of Willimantic, and St. Patrick's, of Walingford, have been dropped from the roll where they 1 have been allowed to remain several years,
 although they had died lang ago. This loss ! is more than made good by adding to the ! roll of the Union five Young Mems societies and one cadet society as follows Young ! Mems of New Britain, sixty members Young Mems. of Wallingford, forty mem-
 bers; Young Mems. of Portland twentv-siz I members St. Laurent's. of Meriden. fifty. two members and the Father Mathew ca
 dets. of Middletowp, eighty members
 Last year the Union was composed of 46
 societies. with membership of 2.277. Al ! present there are 49 societies. with 8 mem
 bership of 2.673. gain during the year o1 8 societies and 396 members. The St. Alloy
 sius society. of New Haven. is the banne,
 society of the State organization. having
 made a gain in the last six months of 5i
 members making their total membership 163 ! The secretary alludes to the fact in tht
 closing of his report that the cause of tenn perance is on the increase and that somebody has been at work for the cauae during th' wear. He takes occasion also ill conclusion to call the delegates attention to the nobl' ' hxy nIrnHt0rS MInhQa ! Lubv, of Meriden, and Thomas c. Ross. O ! Middletown. to whom the seer tary say ! thanks are due for the faithful performance
 of the work allotted to them.
 Remarks were made by Dennis McCarth,
 as to Willimantic's society which dead he said. and therefore should be omitted 1 from the list.
 Father Kennedy, who was a delegate iron l this Union to the convention in St. Paul
 Minn held recently. stated briefly his worl { as a delegate to that convention. and calle ; this gathering one of the greatest C.. T. A conventions that was probably ever held Il this country.
 R~v Fathers Labor. McGiveny. Flanniga l and Skeflv then made short addresses on tn great need of temperance effort. They wer , warmly applanded. They received the thank , I of the convention.
 The county directors were called upon t . report. Michael Luhy, for New Haven cour ty. said that there were sixteen societies i
 this county. an increase of two during tn , past year The membership now is 1.O9 } against 97S last year. There had been a gai f of IA in Meriden alone.
 Tt was reported that Fairfield county ha gained one new society. It had 40 members
 Tn Middlesex county the gain 164 men bers. Financially. also. there was goo gain. They had also organized C. T. ! Life Insurance association of that county One death had occurred in eighteen months ! land and New London counties
 After dinner the convention reassembled (
 1 3 o'clock The report of the committee O
 l constitution and bylaws was read Th committee reported in favor of making th 5 officers well as the members take the plede l of total abstinence Before the adoption (
 tbis report, lengthy and warm debate wf ? had on the question of altering section 3 c 1 article 3 of the constitution. This sectio ? l reads: sA member of anv society belongin to this union. who shall change his residene
 l to parish where there is another such st \ | ciety. shall be at once admitted into the samt on presentation of his transfer card. properl
 1 signed to the president of the society c which he wishes to become a men v ber" The representatives of the Yonp l Mems societies of the State wishe
 to have this section changed that no Youn Mems society should be obliged to take l man older than the age allowed bv that SC \ \ ciety's constitution and by laws. More tha / a dozen spoke on the question. Mir. Thons
 l Kennedy, of New Haven. and Dennis M, Carthy. of Wilimantic, upholding the ol
 mems side with much force and spirit. Tn
 debate was stopped by the withdrawal of th
 motion to amend the obnoxious section. The committees report was then adopted
 The report of the committee on resolr | tions was next read and adopted. THE EVENING MEETING. The society of St. Aloysius held temper . ance meeting at Loomis' Temple of Musi .. | last evening. Tho members marched fro1 Collins building to the hall. Rosinus' ban
 accompanied them, discoursing fine music 0
 the route and also in the hall at differer stages of the meeting. The society present
 cd fine appearance. On the platform wer . Edward F. Clark, the vice president, wh 2 acted as chairman of the meeting MT. Dunr 7 ! of Meriden D. McCarthy, of Willimantic : Thomas O'Brien. the newly elected membe
 of the Board of Education and number c 1 other pentlemen.