Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-13

shall be taxed in the school district where the business is carried on, passed. Hereto- fore mercantile business has been taxed in the district where the owner resided.
 Bill authorizing the city of New Haven to issue sewerage bonds to an amount not ex- ceeding $15O,000 at per cent interest, passed.
 Bill providing that any soldier or sailor who served in the late war and was honor able discharged, who shall die, shall be
 buried by the selectmen of the town where
 he dies, at an expense of not more that $35,
 and the State shall pay the properly vouohed
 bill; also that any soldier or sailor who has
 died since 1879 shall be furnished by the
 State with a head-stone, passed
 Bill authorizing the Centreville horse rail-.
 road company to extend it's track through
 Elm and Church streets, New Haven; passed.
 Mir. Law, ofNew Haven, offered m amend
 ment that any person Whe shall in4naHce CT attempt to influence by force, bribery, threat, false token or corrupt means any person te absent himself from primary meeting or caucus shall be liable to punishment The amendment was lost.
 On vote the committee bill was passed. The order of the day, the prohibitory Hq- ! uor amendment, was taken up, and debate | limited to twenty-five minutes. It will be ! found in another column. The motion to I submit it to the people was lost by vote of ! 129 to S1.
 Resolution amending the charter of the New England Telephone company, authoriz- | ing them to increase their capital stock to 8 valuation approved by three-fourths vote | of the stockholders. Resolution validating g | the last will of Philip Cooke. Bill providing | for the return of taxable property held in | trust. Resolution incorporating the Hart ford Equitable and Indemnity company 1; passed.
 At 12:3O recess WAS ordered for one hour. AFTERNOON SESSION. The House was called to order at 1:30 by \ Speaker Pine and the following business on | the calendar was disposed of:
 ! The resolution amending the charter of the ! New Haven Steam Heat Supply company \ giving them power to issue bonds to the
 amount of $50, 900 and to mortgage their property therefor, was discussed at consid- erable length by Messrs. Troup, Low and
 others. The resolution was passed ! Several bills Chine in alp being bills to re-
 strain the sale of spirituous and Intoxicating liquors, unfavorably reported on by the ! Committee on Temperance, were rejected. The chairman of the committee explained that the only bill reported favorably by the ! committee was not yet ready for action. Bill relating to county commissioners, pro- | viding that one hundred and fifty days be al- | lowed to the commissioners of New Haven, ! Hartford and Fairfield counties at four dol
 lars per day and one dollar per day for mile { age, was passed. There was an effort to have | the bill amended so as to give the commis- sioners such time as is needed for the year 1 1883, owing to the erection of court houses, | but it failed.
 Resolution directing hand rails on all the
 main stairways of the Capitol building at an ! expense not exceeding $1 GOO passed. At o'clock the House adjourned until Friday morning at 10 o'clock
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