Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-12
LEG BAIL FROM uARTFORD.


 is off the hands of the legislature a good many are hoping that the members will get right down to business and hurry up the day of final adjournment. Some persons. and among them is Clerk Eddy of the house, are looking for adjourn ment by the 1st of June, but If haste is not made more rapidly with the impor tant matters of railroad and secret ballot legislation we fear their hopes are vain. It is more likely that the legislators will celebrate Independence day beno ath the gilded dome on Bushnell park.
 The actual condition of business in the house as given by Clerk Eddy shows that something more than half the business before the assembly has been acted upon bs the committees. The total number was ,635. Of these 474 were petitions, most of which referred to resolutions on bills, and need not therefore be taken in to account. There were 61 senate reso- chiefly disposed of when introduc ,G. Of senate joint resolutions there were 15S, of which % have teen disposed of, 13 have been reported and await action and 50 are still before the committees. Of 150 senate bills, G6 have been dis posed of, 9 have been reported, and 59 are with the committees. Of 2S1 house joint resolutions, 202 have been dis posed of, 2S have been reported, and 57 | are awaiting committee action. Of 454 house bills, 225 have been disposed of, | 5S are reported and I'll are in the hands of the committees. In the aggregate 635 measures have been disposed of, 126 have been reported and are awaiting ac- tion, and 339 remain unreported by the various committees. On tie statement of the condition of business Clerk Eddy bases his hope of final adjournment about the 1st of June. It i' probable, however, that when the railroad battle is brought into the two houses and when | with the matter of secret ballot so much time will be consumed that Speak | CT Perry will find it impossible on that date to drop his gavel for the last time. But even should Clerk Eddy's expec- tation be realized and the legislators get | back to their hay-mows and law books by the 1st of June it will have marked a session altogether beyond any reason able or required length. Five contin- uous months of lawmaking ought not to | lx, ,{, is already so elaborate as ours and where the legislature meets every two years to tinker with the statute books. Of course, if every condemned murderer is to be allowed to take up as much of the legis- lators time as John H. Swift did, five months might not be sufficient time and once in two years might not be often enough for our assembly to sit. But perhaps the Swift matter may have the one good effect of leading the assembly to enlarge the powers of the board ot pardons or the governor and so save valuable time in future.
 It is high time, however, that the present extraordinary legislature should be thinking of adjourning. Perhaps the indications of spring at hand, which may set the hayseed members to think ing of their blowing and "hayin' out, may wake them up to the fact that ir farming season there's no place like home. And the quicker they realize this and put leg bail from Hartford tho better for all concerned.