Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-20

marking on the envelopes. Any marks on an
 envelope to make the ballot void. Judge Harrison then attacked the features of the Hennev bill, and claimed that it's effect would be to disfranchise the workingman. Massachusetts passed such bill in the closing days of the session, and 1t was said that while it would disfranchise 10, 900 Demo- cratic voters in Boston it would disfranchise \ a great many more Republicans in the coun- | try towns. This Australian system has been l tried in Louisville and Nashville, and nowhere ! else in this country. He humorously de-
 1 in Charleston, s. O. There are eight ballot
 boxes. one for each State officer, and sepa-
 rate ballot for each. It works effectively,
 | for the colored voters, nine times out Of ten,
 | get their ballots in the wrong boxes. As to
 | intimidation in Connecticut, not one man 1u
 | 8 hundred is intimidated and very few are
 bribed. Why, then, the necessity for such g
 I bill as the Henney billa If anything, give
 us a simple system, envelope or official paper. ! the Knights of Labor, said the Knights de ! mand secret ballot, whether envelope or | other system. The Henney bill is too com | plicated.
 I Representative Wolfe said that he would | be satisfied with the Hennsy bill provided ' the candidates were grouped. Even poorly educated men could mark tickets so ar ! ranged.
 Representative McCrone of Enfield made a stirring speech. advocating folded ticket and secret place of voting it as the only es- sentials.
 Senator Clark claimed that the farmers would not be satisfied with any of the bills which have been discussed during the ses- sion. They would regard any one of them as unnecessary and oppressive. Speaker Perry said he favored the Henney bill. ,Renyaseaes.ss:; 7o MsGager, Sf Essex, said ne i! would stand by the Henney bill as long as he had breath.
 Representative Taylor said he had yet to \ find any person in New Milford in favor of the bill.
 Representative O'Callaghan, of Walling-- ! ford, claimed that the Henney bill was good one and sufficient for all purposes. The Hon. Henry 0. Harrison, of Hartford, favored the Hsnney bill as now amended.
 The Australian system has 1: worked well: vel \ called attention to the general admission \ that there were imperfection in the Henney | bill as passed. This is practical endorse- ment of Governor Bulkeleys views. The Democratic papers criticised the bill before | it's passage, and after it's rejection turned \ and favored it to make political capital. But ' the leading Democratic paper in the State, | the Hartford Times, had the courage and \ fairness to oppose it throughout-a paper without which the Democratic party in Con- necticut would never have seen the light. Continuing, Judge Harrison sharply criti- ! cised the Henney bill as "hencoop" mess- ure foreign to American ideas. All we want is fair bill. A friend has suggested as to the French that there is one good thing, they cannot be bribed. But from what 1 have heard of Paris they have all the other vices.
 Mir. Robinson-And my friend Harrison has T hy (Roars of lsughter.)
 Judge Harrison-And my friend Robinson said to me only today that he was sorry he couldn't go. (Renewed laughter) W. A. Countryman, of Hartford, advocat- ed the amended Henney bill. MT. Schlein, editor of the New Haven Re- publicaner, advocated having all the nomi- ness on single ticket, and rather favored Representative Kutscher's compartment and door system.
 Representative Kutcher of Bridgeport ex- hibited to the committee voting booth he has ivented. In the door is an opening fitted with small iron door. When the voter en- ters an envelope is placed at the lower edge of the opening and ia held by closing the iron door. Steel points in the iron door hold the envelope 80 1t cannot be removed. The voter places his ballot in the envelope, seals it and comes out, and taking the envelope places it in the ballot box.
 Governor Bulkelsy sent in the names of William M. Hudson of Hartford, Robert B. Chalker of Say brook and James A. Bill of Lyme to be fish commissioners. For com- missioners of shell fish the governor nomina ted William NJ. Hudson of Hartford, George
 0. Waldo of Bridgeport and B. A. Treat of Wallingford, and for clerk of shell fisheries, Frederick Botsford of New Haven. The nominations were referred to the com mittee on executive nominations. The Senate this morning passed @ resolution to adjourn sine die Friday, June 21 at 12 n. The committee at their meeting to day had three bills before them and decided to report without favoring any particular bill. From appearances, as regards the senate, the fate
 of the secret ballot bill question is e oontinu-
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