Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-12
THE INoOuING LEeIsLAPrrnE.
some Of the Men Who Will Help Make
 and Unmake Our Laws.

Some of the Men Who Will Help Make
 and Unmake Our Laws.
 The Republican majority in the legislature
 is apparently ten in the Senate and thirty
 eight in the House. A joint ballot will be
 sufficient to place Morgan G. Bulkeley in the
 governors chair and to elect the rest of the
 State ticket This is consummation which
 has healing power when the result in the State
 is considered.
 Among the prominent men returned to the
 Senate among the Republicans are Philip
 Corbin of New Britain, who will lead in effec-
 tive committee work. Senator Jas. Graham
 of Orange comes again to fill the chair of the
 Seventh district and to preside over the com
 mittee on railroads Ex-Speaker John M.
 Hail will undoubtedly be selected chairman
 of the committee on judiciary and by the
 same token be leader of the Senate. George
 M. Clark of the Twenty first will show him. self progressive and as effeetuslly executive as usual. He will be an excellent working member and is also handy on the floor. Senator o. Vincent Coffin comes back from the Twenty second district AIiddletown) even against so lively contestant as Dr. Alsop. And there are other earnest Republicans Robbins of the Second, Hodge of the Third, Aver of the Tenth, Parish of the Eleventh, Mead of the Twelfth, ,Catlin of the Thirteenth, Crofut of the Fifteenth, Fuller of the Six teenth, Cowles of the Eighteenth, McNeill of the Twentieth, Sprague of the Twenty-third and Keeney of the Twenty-fourth. These are all good men and true, and fill out the glory of the senate of 19S9-91. Our Democratic friends can rejoice over Senator Cleveland of the First, always genial and efficient; Twitch- ell of the Fifth, Morse of the Sixth, State of the Eighth, Major Reed of the Fourteenth, and the experienced Bartram of the Nine teenth. Though they are but seven, they are 8 powerful minority and will do excellent work.
 In the house Colonel Hoyt is returned from Greenwich. If he had not been speaker he would probably like to fill the chair-as his party would undoubtedly like to have him. New Britain ought to have had the speakership, but she didn't go right. Taking the list down and beginning with Hartford county, Berlin sends Homer E. Damon as the ! first fruits of it's Republicanism. East Hart ford furnishes Dr. Markham and Davis E. Lane, new men, but strong ones. They will \ be excellent members. Hartland sends appa- ' rently the only clergyman in the house, MT. | Knight. West Hartford does herself proud \ iu Thomas O. Enders, 8 business man oi this city, and Wethers6eld's contingent has another Hartford business man-Wallace T. Fenn.- New Haven county does fairly well, sending a Republican from Branford and defeating ex-Executive Secretary Zachel ' of ''bouncer" fame, and giving us Dwight w. Futile, of East Haven, and Rollin O. Newton, of Woodbridge, while Mir. Baldwin \ of Milford, dem, will do effective work \ New London furnishes us & chip of the old block in Frank B. Brandegee-one of the k brightest of the representatives. Sprague honors herself by returning Senator Thomas Fl. Allen, who will make an excellent mem. ' Der of the committee on military affairs From Fairfield William B. Glover and John A H. Perry will appear-both experienced leg ! islators. Killingly will be represented by Anthony Ames (of the State board of eduea ! tiop) and Henry c. Atwood. The Democrats have strong man in Henry B. Graves, o1 \ Litchfield, but the same county adds to Re | publican strength by furnishing Henry Gay ! from Winchester. Altogether it will be z speaking and acting house of even greater A value than that of 1877.
 \ The Bridgeport Standard advocates the nomination of John H. Perry, of Fairfield, I for Speaker, 'tss lawyer of ability, an ex- perienced legislator, or able parliamentarian ! and man whose good judgment, sense ot \ justice, and manly firmly, may be relied on \ in every emergency. He was a member o1 b the House in 1877, 1878 and 1881, was chair man at various times of the committees on corporations, finance, elections, insurance and engrossed bills-the last two in 1881, when they were hardly second in importance to the judiciary committee. He was also meTAber of other committees during these years; was frequently called to the chair in 1877; very frequently in 1878, in fact, more frequently in that year than any other mem Der. He was A candidate for Speaker in 1881, but was beaten by W. O. Case on the locality issue. His father, Oliver H. Perry, was Speaker in 1859 and 1S60"