Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-27
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Friday, April 27. 1883.
The General Assembly.

National Guard Matters and the Fifth Battalion The Townsend Savings Bank-Its Affairs to be Closed up-Sum- mary of Business.
 HRTFoRD, April 26.
 specai Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND COURIER. | The special attraction in the House this morning was the motion made by MT. Troup
 of New Haven, regarding the Fifth battalion.
 The motion was in regard to the acceptance
 of the report of the Committee on Military
 Affairs. MT. Troup stated that he intro duced the resolution at the request of mem-
 bers of CompanyIA, Fifth battalion, who were
 not equipped with overcoats and knapsacks
 as soon as other companies. This battalion claimed there was discrimination in regard I to them which they thought WAS on account l of their color.
 MT. Griswold, chairman of the committee on the part of the House, said that all the in formation he had upon the subject was con
 taineu in the report of the comMittee.
 Mr. Troup said that under the new code
 the colored troops were placed on an equality
 with the others, which was all that he desir-
 ed. He hoped that hereafter the colored troops would be treated the same as the other
 troops of the National Guard.
 The indications at present are that the final adjournment will take place sometime next week. say Thursday or Friday. The only trouble is with the House, as the Senate
 will dispose of the business before it as rap idly as it is printed by the House. The Townsend Savings bank matter occupied ! considerable of the attention of the Senate to-day Senator Plunkett favored the Wlnd- iuc up of the affairs of the bank, while Sena- tor Gum opposed it. The bill was passed in concurrence with the House, and the affairs of the bank will have to be wound up before January 1st next Whether the depositors | will be the gathers or losers remains to be seen. Thoughtful men, however, think the
 latter will be the case, and that if the receiv-
 CTS had been given their own way the divi- \ depd to depositors would have been much larger than under the act passed to day. I 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:30 \ o'clock by Lieutenant Governor Sumner. | Prayer was offered by Representative Towne, | of Plainville
 | Senator Northrop presented resolution | authorizing the borough of Newtown to I equip fire department; accepted and refer ! red to Committee on Cities and Boroughs. The bill authorizing the Comptroller to \ cause to be published annually 2, POO copies \ of the railroad commissioners reports was ! tabled at the request of Senator Clark; sub \ sequently taken up and passed. Other matters from the House were re- \ ceiyed and placed upon the calendar. Business on the calendar was disposed of as follows
 Only one or two of the calendar numbers | had been discussed when Senator Colt ad- | dressed the Senate and said that when the vote was taken yesterday on the bill reducing \ the tax upon railroads from one per cent. to seven-eighths of one per cent. it was declared \ to have been lost by the chair. As far as the ! ear could detect, said the speaker, this deci ! sion was correct. But by conference with \ other Senators since yesterday I have learned \ that the vote stood eleven for the measure, \ eight against, and three not voting. At any rate it is clear that the bill was passed and not lost and therefore as matter of fairness I would request some Senator who was in the declared vote on the bill to move a reconsid- eration. Senator DeForest-In a viva voce vote the \ volume of sound is what the presiding officer \ must judge by in order to arrive at decis- \ ion upon the vote, and no one has the right ! now to question the accuracy of the chair mans decision on this bill Yesterday, when \ the vote was declared, was the time to ques- | tion the decision. Furthermore I think the chairs ruling yesterday was correct. and that | @ roll call at that time would have shown the | bill to have been lost. It seems to me to be \ unparliamentary to go and find out how ! vote was cast after it had been decided. \ Senator Spencer moved a reconsideration \ of the vote of yesterday, and Senator Cooke | suggested that Senators Alsop and Dennis, \ who voted yesterday, were not present. The \ hill was reconsidered and tabled The bill requiring Hilton E. Doolittle and Jared E. Redield, receivers of the Townsend Savings bank of New Haven, to close up the affairs of the corporation before the next General Assembly shall convene, was op- posed by Senator Spencer, chairman of the committee on banks, who commended the labors of the receivers and urged that it k would be better for the depositors if they should continue to administer the affairs of the bank.
 Senator Plunkett favored the passage of the bill and urged that the money of the de- positors was being absorbed by the expense continually going forward. Senators Clark and Gilbert were in favor
 of winding up the banks affairs.
 On vote the resolution was passed. The sum of $5,OOO was appropriated to the Storrs agricultural school, The resolution fixing the State tax at one and one-quarter mills was passed The bill repeating chapter 55 of the public acts of 1879 (page 391) and chapter IA of | the public acts of 1881 (page 90), relating to paupers and the manner in which, and place wh ere, they shall be supported : passed. The bill was passed which provides that in l each county the judges of the Superior court shalt appoint coroner, who shall be prac- I ticing attorney. The bill also prescribes the duties of the coroner, medical examiners, etc.
 4 resolution raising committee of four Senator's and eiohk rarragAnfafivas fO raport nominations to ths General Assembly of members of the board of pardons was pass ed; transmitted to the House under suspen- sion of rules.
 The bill relating to the powers of railroad companies to take land for the layout of their road beds was amended by providing that the location of a road may be changed upon the approval of the railroad commits sioners, and passed.
 At 12:15 o'clock the Senate went into exc cutive session. Resolutions were passed ap- pointing the following officials: Visitors of Sheffield Scientific school-Sen. ators O. B. King of Watertown, Charles D. Yale of Wallingford and John R. Hills of Hartford.
 Turnpike Commissioners Frederick G. Perry of Huntington and J. B. Booth of Trumbull of Huntington turnpike, also of Wells Hollow turnpike; Charles W. Bradley and George Segur of New Haven and George
 Peek and Royal w. Bassett of Derby, of New Haven and Derby turnpike L. N. Mullett of Trumbull and W. J. Dick of Newtown, of Bridgeport and Newtown turn pike; John Candee and A. W. Lurn of OK ford and w. w. Peck of Woodbridge, of OK ford turnpike; George Freeborn of Easton and E. B. GoodseIl of Bridgeport, of the Weston turnpike
 Bridge Commissioners-Aaron Sanford of Newtown and Alvin Downs of Southbury, of Bennett's bridge; F. w. Wheeler of Monroe and Smith c. Wheeler of Oxford, of Zoar
 bridge; Jonathan IngersoI, Patrick McKen- na, W. J. Atwater, F. E. Craig, M. Steinert
 and H. B. Forbes of New Haven and A. W.
 Forbes and J. Andrews of East Haven, of
 Tomlinson bridge.
 Ferry Commissioners Clinton Inslee of
 East Windsor, of Windsor Locks and East Windsor ferry Seabury Braman and Thomas
 P. Geer, both of Groton, of Groton ferry;
 George A. Douglass of Sufield and A. H.
 Matthewson of Enfield, of the Enfield ferry
 Adjourned at 12:4O until Friday at 1o:3o
 a. m.
 The House.
 The House was called to order at 10:3O by
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