Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04
DERBY TO RE DIVIDED

DERBY TO HE DIVIDED
 1f the House Concurs With she Senate
 In It's Vote TO-Day-Great Excite
 mene Among the Interested People
 The Dressed Beef BilI Meets With
 Great OppOsltIon-Suspens i'm Mur-
 derer Swift's Case-General LegIsla-
 tive Notes.
 HARTFORD, April 3. Especial Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND
 CoURIER.l
 Cannon and bells will awake Ansonia to- night. The Senate spent the day on the re- port of the committee in fovar of the bill to grant Ansonia municipal independence. Sen~ ator Clark, chairman of the committee, opened the discussion. He said: Your committee gave the parties interested in the division a long and patient hearing, and after due deliberation almost unanimously came to the conclusion that the prayer of the peti- tioners should be granted. This State for two centuries has never denied municipal in- dependence when desired. Since 1900 sixty new towns have been created; eighteen of them had less than l, 1000 inhabitants. Only one of the sixty towns was as large as this. Ten thousand people with $3, COG, 900 of tax able property ask for that which has been granted to sixty other rowns-none of them half as large as this.
 live in the towns of Andover, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Scotland, Salem, Morris, Middle bury, Newtown, Union, East Granby, Grsnby and Marlborough, and each of these towns have the same rights Ansonia asks for. One square mile in Apsonia is worth more I than fourteen such towns. Ansonia has grand list one-third as large as the whole of Holland county. The location of the two boroughs of Birmingham and Ansonia is such that they can never grow together. There is now and has been for many years excessive discord, between them, so much so that in many instances it has inter- fered with their material welfare. Strife, jealousy and prejudice have been the promi- nent feature of their town meeting for years. Here is Ansonia with her $3,OOU,OOO all in sight on the grand list while the people of Birmingham have much larger wealth with less than $2, ,00G ,0o0 on the grand list. By this means Birmingham is continually bleed ing Ansonia. do not blame Birmingham for opposing division. Ansonla has been kind to her. She has paid her bills for a generation until forbearance has longer ceased to be virtue. A similar state of facts cannot be found in this State. Each would be better off if divided. Ansonia with 1,4O0 out of possible 1000 votes is here asking for division.
 An amendment was offered to refer the question to the people, which was favored by Senator Cleveland and other Democratic senators.
 Senator Graham said that if any body wanted to dodge this question it was he who represented the district in question. He should oppose the amendment because he believed that the legislature was the place to settle the matter where such questions had always been settled heretofore according to the constitution. The sooner this matter was decided, the better it would be for the people of Derby, who would never rest until the matter was decided. He should vote for the resolution, because he had observed the character and standing of the people of Derby who favored the resolution and those who opposed it.
 Senator Reed of Bridgeport was the only Democratic senator who favored the division. He believed that the legislature was the place to settle this question and end the quarrel. The amendment was Read and Bartram voted with the Republi- cans. and Senator Catlin with the Democrats. The vote on the resolution was IT to 3 in fa- vor, Senator Catlin voting for the resolution, the only senators voting "no" being Sena- tors Cleveland, Twitchell and States. Sena- tors Reed and Bartram, Democratic, voting in favor.
 There is great excitement among the op- ponents of the division in Birmingham, and \ all kinds of threats of political vengeance are | heard.
 THE DRESSED BEEF BILL.
 The principal hearing at the Capitol to- | day was before the judiciary committee on | the bill which provides that all beef sold I here must be inspected in this State while | alive. The bill emenates from some farmers I about Waterbury, who want to raise the I price of beef, and is offered as a sanitary regulation. Strong, Barnes, Hart & Co.,, of New Haven, were | represented by Attorney J. H. Webb, and ! Attorney Gross appeared for Hartford whole | sale meat dealers. No one appeared in favor | of the bill except Roderick Atwood, Wood | bury farmer who wanted to get more money I for his cattle. He keeps about fifty head. l He knew nothing about the sanitary condi- | tiop of the beef except what he had read in | some paper. It is said that the favorers of | the bill will make their fight in the lobby | instead of before the committee. One of the | strongest arguments against the bill was | made by Mir. Darlington, the representative | from Naugatuck, butcher and meat dealer. ! Darlington odposed the bill l on the ground that it would increase the 1 price of meat two cents pound to all poor workmen and other consumers while the lo- cal farmers would gain but little. He State cannot furnish one-twentieth of the beef consumed here. He was speaking against his own pocket and &C., cording to his conscience. If he was not a he would not oppose the bill, 1 for he could make more money under the l monopoly it would create.
 Dr. c. A. Lindsey, secretary of the State l board of health, testified that he had visited | the establishment Of Strong, Barnes, Hart 6 Go. ond found the meat in excellent condi- | tion. He visited the place yesterday and 1 saw carload of beef opened and it was in the same sanitary condition as that of several years ago. The seal of the car was broken in his presence every time. Dr. slaughtered in Chicago were inspected by many off ,ials who condemned them to the tank. Dr. Lindsley thought that Connecticut was most negligent in the matter of food inspection. He said that there was not people in all parts of the State competent to inspect beef which required scientific and expert knowledge, which could not be found in men who would take these positions. Slaughter houses and boards of health were atwar for these places and if stated again here would breed ten times the disease that comes from dressed beef He had never known of a case of disease from the import sd dressed beef, but had known many cases from beef killedthere.
 Professor W. H. Brown followed Dr. l Lndsley. He has examined many carloads of Chicago beef and has found that the meat is better than that of cattle brought here examined on foot in this State. It has been the experience that elsughtering on 8 small scale is more offensive and unsanitary than l when on large scale, and the establish ment of slaughter houses here would be very ]