Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-13
tSpurn4I xrtO GOurieg.
Friday, April 13. 1888.
The General Assembly.

Final Adjournment Rapidly Approach
 ing-Business Being RaPfdIy Disposed
 OE-The Prohibition Amendment De-
 feated-Other Matters of IntereAt.
 HARTFORD, April 12. Special correspondence of the JOURNAL AND COURIER
 The time for final adjournment would ap- pear, from today proceedings, to be rapid Iy approaching. The House fixed the time for this desirable result for Friday of next week and there is no doubt but that the Sen ate will conclude it's work at that time if the House furnishes them with business. The business on the calendar of the popular branch has been rapidly disposed of to- day, and the fact that bills passed upon are not required to remain two days in charge of the clerk of the House before being sent to the Senate has necessitated session of the latter body tomorrow so that they will be able to keep up with the House. This with the ten minutes rule in the House lnsures an adjournment at the time appointed The session of both houses to morrow will undoubtedly be short and an adjournment at noon until next Tuesday at the same hour IS probable.
 The constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of liquors in the State was defeated in the House to-day, the necessary two thirds vote to submit the ques- ton to the people not being obtained. This settles the question for this year, but in all probability it will again be presented to the Legislature of 1884. Nearly all of the pro posed amendments to the license law were voted down this afternoon in accordance with the report of the Committee on Temperance. In the Senate H. l.. Good win, of East Hart ford, tried to get his memorial on the book keeping of the Consolidated railroad pub ished, but it was very summarily set down upon and he meekly withdrew. Following is summary of the business transacted in the Senate and House today The Senate. The Senate was called to order at 1o3O by Lieutenant Governor Sumner. Prayer was offered by Chaplain Parker.
 Committee reports were received as fol- lows:
 Interpretations, Chairman Coit-Substitute bill incorporating tho Sabin l.. Sayles com pany; calendar.
 Railroads, Chairman Elton-Resolution giving the Connecticut Western railroad power to issue bonds to an amount not ex- ceeding $7o0,o00, secured by mortgage on the road; calendar.
 Mir. Colt explained the act concerning cor porations. It limits the time, said the Sena- tor, that corporations may organize. It was we'll known that a lot of charters with no final organization back of them had been floating for the past twenty-five years. The bill provides that corporations which shall hereafter be Incorporated, which shall not be accepted by the corporators and of which ! acceptance 8 certificate has not been filed ! within three years from approval by the Gov ! ernor, shall be void. The charters of all cor porations heretofore incorporated and not accepted within three years fromEMay 1, 1883, \ shall also be void.
 Mr. Clark asked if similar bill was not passed few years ago.
 | MT. Colt said the Senator referred to sim | liar act of 1880, but it applied only to joint \ stock companies. The bill passed. Business on the calendar was disposed of as follows:
 Resolutions incorporating the National ' Pipe Bending company, the Conference of Baptist Ministers, the Warehouse Point and Windsor Locks Bridge company (to build a bridge between the two villages), the Norfolk t Hall association the Belvoir Land and I'm provement company (to build up seaside re- < sort in Milford and Orange) the Swiss soci- z ety of New Haven, the Winsted Silk compa \ ny of Winchester, and resolution paying the committee for grading the Capitol grounds N ,oOO-oAA pt@c50SA OA AofOAoNAO AOPOAVo AAOAA < committees.
 Bill amending section 5 of chapter 24, pub \ lie acts of 1878, entitled 'An act relating to \ oyster lots and fisheries"
 Mir. Gilbert explained the bill, which pro- \ vides that in actions for damages for injury to shell fish no person may plead that the offense was committed on a natural oyster bed unless so declared by the commissioners of shell fisheries passed.
 The railroad consolidation bill providing that any railroad company in this State may
 consolidate with any railroad company lay ing wholly without the State, whenever such \ railroads shall form one continuous line of \ railroad, provided no consolidation shall N take place if there are bonds of either com pany outstanding exceeding one-half of what has been actually expended upon the rail r roads of both companies, came from the House amended. The Senate agreed to all Y the House amendments except the one strik- ! ing out the word ''or' and substituting the \ word ''and'' in the line reading rum on par
 allel or competing lines," and then passed the bill
 2fA large number of bills reported unfavora-
 ply upon were rejected.
 The Senate adjourned to Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock.