Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-08

J. B. SARGENT.
To the Honorable Senate and House of Repye-
seastatiUes Of the State Of Connecticut in Gen
e1a1 assembly c0a,Ueaaed:: .--.-a
The petition of the undersigned citizen
of New Haven in said State, respectfully
represents
That under the laws of this State all those
classes of the inhabitants of this State who
by their position as to wealth or station in
life, or who by the nature of their business
or calling have considerable property in their
control and become unable to pay or refuse
| to pay their debts have a reasonable amount
| of the necessaries of life exempted from at
tachment for debt, to wit: Wearing apparel
and household furniture of quality befit-
ting their high station a library not exceed
ing five hundred dollars in value; nipple
ments of trade which in case of physician
| includes horse and carriage; COW; ten
sheep; two tons of hay two hogs; poultry
OF the value of twenty-five dollars; two
| hundred pounds of pork; two hundred
pounds of beef; two hundred pounds of
fish barrel of flour five bushels of pota-
toes five bushels of turnips; ten bushels of
corn ten bushels of rye and the meal there
from twenty-five bushels of charcoal; two
cords of wood; two tons of hard coal; a
sewing machine; which exemption from at
tachment leaves the possessor of said neces-
saries of life in a comfortable position in that
respect.
But there is a large class of the inhabitants
of the State the workers for wages, most of
whom are not SO situated in life as to be the
possessors of much If any of these articles
of subsistence, but who depend upon their
carrent wages for the maintenance of them
selves and their families, and for whom the
exemption from attachment of these articles
has almost no application whatever, and so
far as they are concerned the law exempting
said articles from attachment might as well
h. fIac fa fr1fo nJr rf &La Sko&a
Your petitioner believes that there is no
even handed Justice, as between the different
classes of debtors, under the law as it now
stands but that it is liberal to the class usu-
ally able to take care of themselves and need
little of the protection of law in such cases,
and is harsh to that class of debtors who, by
their position in life, need the protection of
law.
Your petitioner humbly prays your honor
able body to take into consideration the
needs of this more humble class of debtors,
and provide that something approaching JUS
tice and equal rights may be extended these
workers for wages by the enactment of law
which shall, by its operation exempt SO
much of the wages of the debtor that have
accrued by reason of his personal services to
the time of service of a factorizing process
Gf there be SO much), as, together with the
value of the debtors wearing apparel, house
hold furniture and provisions on hand, shall
be equal to half the value OF the afGlcles now
exempted by law in the cases of those debt
ors who are SO fortunate as to have them.
And, as ia duty bound, your petitioner will
ever pray. d. b. SARGENT.
Dr. Edward A. Freeman, the English his
torian who is lecturing in this country, has
been interviewed as to whether he approved
of Oscar Wilde" Mr. Freeman was blissful-
ly ignorant of OSCARS existence until he
heard of him in this country.