Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-07
5cnrnai ars Oourisr.
Saturday, April 2. 1883.
The General Assembly.


 Small Attendance i'm the House-The sen-
 ate Waiting For the House-Aft%rnOOn
 Sessions Next Week-Other Matters of Interest.
 HARTFORD, April 6. specia1 correspondence of the JOURNAL COURIER.
 There was an unusually small attendance of members of the House to-day. and had the roll been called at any time it would have revealed this fact. AS it was, however, no one calling attention to the fact, business proceeded as usual and, as will be seen by the summary which follows, considerable business was transacted. The committee re- ports being substantially all in, 1t may safely be assumed that next week there will be both morning and afternoon sessions and the business will be disposed of in a comparatively rapid manner. The Sem ate came to standstill today, owing to the fact that the House did not furnish business sufficient to keep the wheels in motion, and an adjournment was taken until next We'd nesday, when it is thought the House will have caught up with the Senate.
 Following is a summary of the business transacted in the Senate and House to-day.
 The Senate.
 The Senate was called to order at 1o:3O o'clock by Lieutenant Governor Sumner. Prayer was offered by Chaplain Parker.
 Committee reports were received as fol- lows:
 Railroads on bill authorizing the railroad commissioners, if in their opin- ion public safety demands it, to order gates or electric signals to be erected or fagman stationed at railroad crossings, when re- uuested by Selectmen of any town, Mayor or common council of any city, or warden and burgesses of any borough; calendar ana printing favorable on bill forbldd1ng any railroad hereafter constructed crossing any other railroad at grade; calendar and print ing favorable on bill providing that no cer- tificate of stock in any railroad company, for shares that are not full paid, shall be issued, without specifying the par value of such shares and the amount paid In upon them: also forbidding any railroad company, organized under the general law, to issue or receive subscriptions for it's stock for an amount exceeding the estimate of the proba- ble cost of constructing the road calendar and printing.
 Judiciary-Unfavorab on bill relating to electors and elections; favorable on bill re- quiring owners of vessels over twenty-five feet in length, engaged in shell fishing, to procure license from the shell fish commls- sioners; calendar and printing.
 Claims-Favorable on resolution granting George Keller of Hartford $1, GOO as compen- sation for services rendered as supervising architect of the insane hospital building at Middletown; calendar and printing. EFinance-Favorable on bill authorizing the publication of the session laws in two Ger man newspapers. provided the cost of the same shall not exceed $100; calendar and printing.
 Military Affairs-Favorabie on resolution authorizing the payment of $55 to the town of Hartford for expenses incurred in burial of John E. Bunnell, late member of Con- pany 0, Sixteenth Connecticut volunteers, who died at Middletown February 19 last; calendar and printing favorable on bill placing the independent battalion" upon the same footing as other organizations of the National Guard calendar and printing.
 Business from the House was acted upon in concurrence.
 Business upon the calendar was disposed of as follows:
 The bill authorizing the use of steam ex- cavators, or mud diggers." under authority of the shell fish commissioners. in places where natural oyster beds do not exist, was passed.
 The Shepaug railroad company thorized to issue stock to the amount of $7OO,OOO.
 Adjourned at 11:15 until Wednesday next at 12:30p. ID.