Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-13
LEG1sLAroRs BECOME RATIFIED.

X sharp Conflict In the Honse 1es- terday-The Senate,s Position In Re- lation to Vetoed Bills-Republicans Will Continue to Enjoy III Gotten offices.
 HARTFORD, June 13.-The senate yes- terday rendered a decision on the proper course of action on measures vetoed by the governor. decision which VIII | probably have an important influence on the fate of the secret ballot bill. The point was raised by Senator Hall on the vetoed bill prohibiting liquor dealers l from acting as registrars of voters. The house amended the bill so that county commissioners should be forbidden to grant liquor licenses to registrars Of voters. Mir Hall claimed that vetoed bill could not be amended, but must be put upon its passage ln Its orlglnal form. Lieutenant Governor Merwin held that the point was well taken. The amend ment was then rejected and the gover- nor's veto sustained.
 The secret ballot bill stands in po- sition similar to that of the registrars bill. It is claimed that the only way to provide for a secret ballot this session is to pass the bill in its original form over the veto or pass new bill
 The episode of the day occurred when the resolution increasingthe capital stock | was taken from the table. Several amendments had been handed to the clerk, bat were not formally before the house when Mir O'Neill moved the pre- vious question. A scene of ofindescrlbable l confusion followed. Member after mem- Der sprang to his feet with points of order and protests. Mir Hill of Stam- ford. who was in the chair, ruled every body out of order and refused to recog- | Il x1..~ ~xx, | O'Neill released the chair from an un- pleasant predicament by withdrawing his motion. X motion to adjourn was voted down as was an amendment pre- sented by Mir Chapin of Merlden, re- uuiring the Consolidated road to carry passengers at the rate of two cents a mile.
 Then NIT Wolfe made a fiery speech asserting that the Consolidated road was trying to run the state. "lf 1t owns the state and runs the legislature he said, 'l want to move out of the one ana glve up my seat in the other" He added that the lobby was dictating how members should vote and he demanded fair play.
 Mir Graves of Litchfield didn't like this talk and went for MT Wolfe in his reply, .In charging members with allowing themselves to be dictated to by the Con- solidated lobby" said he, "the gentle man from New Haven casts reflections on men who are his equals and supe- rlorS.
 Mir O'Neill suggested that members were not responsible for the over en- thusiasm of the lobby and said that the opposition should not throw mud because
 it was in the minority. If it realized
 that it was in the minority, why not
 yield to the inevitable with good grace. The amendment was then rejected and the bill passed as it came from the senate.
 X resolution was passed in the house , this morning appropriating Sl06 to : George w. Curtiss for preparing the leg islative bulletin. $500 to Chaplain Bra
 din, S600 to the clerks, $500 each to the
 messengers and doorkeepers. The clerks
 have formerly had S4O0 each. but on , account of the length of the present ses. sion the committee on contingent eX- penses increased the amount. On motion of Mir Hyde the resolution proposing an amendment to the consti- tuition concerning the election of the governor and state officers was taken from the table. He made a long argu. } ment in favor of election by plurality
 vote. All that he asked for was that the people might have the privilege of saying at the polls whether the man who gets
 the most votes should be elected.
 Mr Garigus. of Wolcott argued against the change on the ground that 1t would bring the state into the hands of the rum party.
 Mir Wolfe, of New Haven, replied to
 Mir Garigus. He wanted to ask him if Charles R. Ingersoll, James E. English Richard D, Hubbard and Thomas NJ, Waller represented the rum party any more than the republican governors who
 have been elected in Connecticut. His
 request was not answered.
 MT Graves, of Litchfield, called for the yeas and nays.
 When the speaker asked those to rise
 favoring the motion the democrats stood up in a body. but not q solitary republican got on his feet. The vote was III to 80 against the passage of the resolution and in favor of the acceptance of the report of the
 committee.
 The senate passed the resolution
 amending the charter of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance company, putting
 the company in the hands and under the
 control of the policy-holders.
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