Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-29

Large Attendance of Third House Mem- bers-More Railroad Hearings-Other Business of Interest
 HARTFORD. March 2S, 1882. Special correspondence of the JOURNAL AND COURIER.
 When the House was called to order this morning there was bare quorum present, and business proceeded rather slowly. The reference of few petitions and reception of bills and ordering them tabled for calendar and printing made up the sum of business until ? o'clock. The noon trains brought a large addition of members from the more distant parts of the State, and then business | proceeded in earnest the temperance" bill, so called, being the order of the day. i The Senate did not convene until 12:3O, and at this hour number of Senators were present. The small amount of business be- fore them was quickly disposed of the only bill of importance considered being the di- vorce bill. The 'third" was we'll represent ed and great deal of talking and buttonhol- | ing was indulged in. This was probably ow. 1 ing to the fact that the Parallel" matter is | set down for hearing to tomorrow, and both sides were doing their best work to day, | knowing that their Summer will soon be past and harvest ended
 This afternoon there was brief hearing before the Railroad committee on the peti tion of the Connecticut Valley railroad fo1 permission to cross the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford and the New York and New l England railroads in their extension tc Springfield by bridging the tracks over these roads. Instead of urging this bill, the Val ley road came in with a new bill which gives thsm permission to cross at grade. This plan as announced by the attorney of tn. other roads would be strenuously opposed b. them. After considerable discussion th hearing was postponed until Wednesday April 5th.
 The Committee on Cities and Borough were engaged in hearing petitions for gen eral law making horse car fares uniforml five cents within certain distances Anothe bill considered was one asking for the repea of the law which gives the Fair Haven ant 1 Westviile Horse Railroad company the righ to charge six cents fare between certail points. The prayer of the petitioners wa engineered by Hobart l.. Hotchkiss, of Ne1 Haven, who gave what he considered goo and sufficient reasons why the compan ! should not be permitted to charge more thai five cents, Representatives Fox and Robert son, of New Haven J. D. Plunkett, Hug Daley and Judge Blydenburgh also advocated the five cent fare system in the interest o the citizens, as stated by them.
 Hon. Lynde Harrison appeared in opposi tion to the repeal of the law. He explained the different amendments to the charter o the Fair Haven road and said that while tn tracks had been increased In length the fare had not been changed. He said that ticket could now be bought at various places in tn city In packages of from five to twenty at fv ! ceuts each and therefore the fare was nov practically five cents. This road employ conductors, which, while great convenience to the travelling public, was an additional ex pense to the company and they could not af ford to carry passengers as cheap as coulc those roans that run "bob-tailed" cars. ! Hon. George H. Watrous gave history O the Fair Heven road. He said he never ex pected to see the time when railroad woult \ If Mir. Hotchkiss would guarantee that tn road would make even as much money at fiv | cents as they do now at six cents he would guarantee that the road would reduce thei fares at once. We would like to make thu rates low enough to please every man, woman and child in New Haven. If you fix the rat at five cents, economize as we may, it would ' "A ID1nOgSihIa tn Ell profit. They were willing to agree, however to place packages of tickets in the hands o all their conductors so that if person de sired package of five tickets they could bu. them, return one to the conductor and retail the balance. Beyond this he thought the. ought not to be compelled to ge.
 Col. Dexter R. Wright also spoke in behal of the road and urged that the fares were a present as low as they ought to be with an. certainty of paying expenses and making small dividend to stockholders on their in | vestment.
 After a further hearing compromise wa l,agreed to that provides in substance as fol lows: Tickets shall be sold by the conduc tors on the cars in as small quantity as fiv for twenty five cents. Also, that passenger shall be carried between Westville and Eas street at certain hours in the morning an evening for one fare This was satisfactor to both parties.
 l Following is a summary of the bushes transacted in the Senate and House to- day. l Senate.
 The Senate convened at 12:30, Lieutenan Governor Bulkeley in the chair. Praye was offered by Chaplain Sage.
 ! Sundry reports of committees were -e ceived from the House and tabled for calen dar and printing.
 Senator Dennis was appointed g member on the part of the Senate, of the committe to recall from the office of the Secretary o State the resolution passed at previous sef sion making an appropriation in favor of th town of Orange for expenses incurred by tn I 'Jennie Cramer case"
 Business on the calendar was taken up an | disposed of as follows:
 The divorce law being in order, Senate Hammond moved that the minority repor be substituted for that of the majority re port. The bill reported favorably upon b the minority provides that the States atto1 ney in each county shall examine all uncor tested petitions for divorce and shall oppos such as they may consider ought not to b granted.
 Senator Hammond supported the bill, an said that it would prevent the granting of di vorces by mutual agreement, which is no, so common.
 | Senator Bradstreet thought that instead o applying a remedy the bill makes the presen difficulty tenfold worse. If the States at torney lives thirty or forty miles from tn place where the divorce is brought, as often the case, he cannot ascertain withou great expense, the true facts of the case A the present time the judges act as co unse for the defendant and act cross examiners
 Senator Hammond said that he was no prepared to argue the matter with skilled at torneys, but thought that lawyers were desir ous of more laxity in the granting of di vorces. The States attorneys are paid salary for doing the business of the State ant also an additional fee for doing this diyorc business.
 Senator Cook moved to amend by makin, the fees for State attorneys not more thai BIO instead of $5 the amendment was lost
 Senator Seymour said that one serious ob jectinn to the bill is that it will not accom- plish the object of it's advocates He denied that the bar of the State is opposed to tn. granting of divorces. There are wolves i, sheep's clothing who bring divorces on in sufficient grounds. As the bill stands it il proper for any unprincipled lawyer to ge some other unprinciplecl lawyer to appear fo the defendant in the suit. The word ''un