Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-18
FIsH oammIrrEE REroKr.

FISH HEEVk&1s Rumor That It VIII Report For a
 Great Reduction of the Expenses OH
 Ihe Shell Fish Commission - The Homeopathic Hospital Quest1on-No
 Prohibition For the HOuse-HOW Ghe
 members Voted The ssHeR Bth's -
 New Havenss Biil to Issue Park Bonds.
 HARTFORD, April 16. TSpeciaI Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND CoURIER,l
 The committee on fisheries held an execu- tive session to-day to finally decide upon it's report on the bill to abolish the shell fish commission. The rumor prevailing in well informed sources, freighted with sufficient probability to indicate its truth, that the committee will report that the commission should not be entirely abolished, but that as a source of expense to the State a radical curtailing will be recommended. It is re- ported that the committee will report that the engineers salary, which is now $1, ,5OO year, should be reduced to $2OO, and that ot the shell fish commissioners from $500 to I $250 year. It is indicated that tine report will be in the line of compromise, the com mittee believing that an entire abolition oi
  the legislature this year.
 Representative Hunie, member of the commission, believing that his constituents regard the present commission as wasteful extravagance, took decided stand in the committee for radical change. The railroad committee hold out the de lusive hope that report may be forthcoming tomorrow.
 The iovial souls who want drop occasion o1I o4 o{ they might have to dive under ground for g drink ala Maine style hereafter. The house defeated the prohibitory amendment o-day by vote of 135 to "A, which was just five less than the two-thirds necessary to submit the amendment to the people for their vote according to the constitution. An analysis of the vote will be given later. The debate lasted several hours. The amendment was as follows:
 The Haanufacture or compoundipg of and sale or x eeeng f9r sag of and purposes. shall be and hereby are prohibit ed in this State; and it shall be the duty of the legislature to laws for the enforcement of this article.
 Those who favored the amendment for the most part did 50 on general temperance prin- cip1es.
 MT. Futile of East Haven said the proposed amendment was one of the most important the legislature had to deal with this session. He characterized intemperance as the lester ing cancer which has attacked the body poli- tic. It has been argued that prohibitory amendment could not be enforced that it would mean free rum. This is vile, scan- dalous untruth. The people of this State will enforce it to the letter.
 MessIs Dimock of Holland, Gamgus of Walcott, Beckwith of Winchester, Bryant of Orange and MT. Hill of Stamford favored the amendment. The principal speech in oppo. sition was made by MT. Brandagee of New London, who said the constitution should not be degraded by such an amendment. make it effective. Why not reach the whole matter by statutory lawsa The amendment would be an infringement on the rights and liberties of the people.
 MT. Holden of Derby said that the views of the constituents should be taken into con- sideration. Had he run on prohibitory platform he would now be sitting astride 8 plank good deal nearer Derby than Hart ferd, and he said this without any reflection on the town.
 A pecul1arity of the vote was that IS Dem- ocrats voted for the amendment, and IS Re- publicans, practically the same number, vot- ed against it. All the rest of the Republic cans voted for submitting the amendment to the people and the Democrats against. The vote of New Haven county was as follows:
 Yeas-Messrs. Hammer, Futile, Davis, Parmalse, Munger, Chapin, Decos, Boards ley, Durand, Gates, Eaton, Bryant, Morse, Healey and Gamgus.
 Nays-Messrs. Wolfe, Hunie, O'Neil, Ter rell, Doolittle, Baker, Andrews, Chaffey, Holden, Clark, Castelow, Darlington, Treat, O'Callaghsn.
 Republicans who voted against the amendment were: Messrs. Gottler, McCrone, Turner, Hollister, Dewey, Miller, Haling and Sheldon of Hartford county, Darlington of New Haven county, Brandagee, Mowry, Knowles and Allen of New London county, Speaker Perry and Todd of Fairfield county, Palmer and Barnes of Litchfeld county, and Atwood of Holland county.
 Democrats who voted for the amendment were: Msssrs. Beardsley and Durand of Mil ford, Wheeler, Ladd and Bell of New Lon don county, Purdy and Bulky of Fairfield county, Sanger and Birmingham of Windham county, Barlon and Horen of Litchfeld county, Clark, Barnard and Francis of Mid dlsssx county, Hyde and Pailer of Holland county. Every representative present but two in Holland county voted for the amend ment and all but three in Windham county, and all but four in Middlesex county.
 An effort will be made to reconsider to- Speaker Perry called MT. Fenn to the chair and took the floor to vote against the amendment.
 NEW HAVEN CITY COURT. Representative Wolfe succeeded in getting @o Iax kla1 1,;I