Connecticut western news., 1883-02-14

LAST Friday was the last day for the introduction of new business into the General Assembly, this session, and both houses were overwhelmed with flood of bills and resolutions over 1SO being introduced.
 MT Nickerson of Cornwall has intro duced bill for establishing a Court of Common Pleas for Litchfeld County and 400 extra copies of it were ordered to be printed. We have not seen the bill, but understand it does away with the District Court and provides for two terms in each of the following places, towit, Litchfeld, Winsted, Falls Village and New Milford.'
 Senator Alsop proposes to aid the towns which are still burdened with war and railroad debts. His bill provides that the state pay to those towns the difference between 1-2 per cent. and the rates of interest paid by the towns on the debts mentioned. The money paid to each town shall be taken from the amount collected by the railroad tax and must be used by the towns as a sinking fund to pay off the debts. When the bonds are due, if the sinking fund will not pay the debt, and the town votes to issue new bonds, they shall be guarenteed by the state. The railroad debts in Litchfeld county amount to s404, ,OOO, and war debts to S57, TOO. The greater part of these sums bear per cent. interest. Just one half the towns of the county are interested in this indebtedness.
 A bill has been introduced to abolish the office of Coroner, and providing fol Q medical Examiner. This, we pre- sume, is the Massachusetts plan, which, it is said, has worked well and is de. cided improvement on the old system
 Judge Hitchcock expressed his opin ion the other day, on telephone charges He said that he did not think the peo pie of the state were being fairly treated by the telephone companies in the ex orbitant prices charged for the use O the instruments. The people of tho state would not for one moment submi to such extrsyagant charges from rail roads The stock of the telephon. company referred to in this resolution is quoted at 289. He trusted that tn, committee to whom the resolution wa referred would look into the matte, thoroughly, and see if these chargei could not be curtailed and regulated by law.
 There are great many people in thu country who will fully concur with tn, Judge in his remarks.
 New Haven has reform association and, like good many reformers, the, propose to reform backwards. The, would give the Governor power to ap point or nominate all judges in tn state, including probate judges an' judges of the police courts. It wa finally concluded, however, that would not be policy to ask too much g once, and so amendments to the const tuition have been introduced providin that all judges, except probate judges shall be nominated by the Governor an that the Common Pleas Judges sha hold office for eight years, A resolutio was at the same time introduced pro viding for commission, to serve witt out pay, to see whether the probate syl tenn can not be improved and report t the next General Assembly.
 A rather peculiar case came before tn Legislature under the law in regard imprisonment in civil action. Minot Banks and his sister, two aged and il firm people were imprisoned in the ja at Bridgeport for $17.01 costs in sun mary proceedings. They could nc take the poor debtors oath because
 would estop them from claiming a equity in some property that the plair tif, one Ogden, was trying to gobbl up. So they have been lying in jail fe long rerm for this small bill of cost An application was made to the Legi lature to release them and resolutio was promptly passed and the result wi probably be modification if not II peal of the law authorizing imprisol in civil action.