Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-10
THE LEGISLATURE ORGANIZED.

HARTFORD, Jan. g. Especial Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND CoUR- IER.7
 After an absence of two years the State ! legislature reconvened under the gilded dome of our prided Capitol to-day to organize for the labors of a session that leaders of the
 third house think will still continue when flowers bloom again on the Capitol hill. The work to-day was of 8 formal nature only and I elevated to organization of both branches of the General Assembly. There was little in terest therefore for prominent politicians Of
 the State, who will present themselves later when matters of public and private interest \ come up for action.
 l IN THE HOUSE.
 The representatives were called together
 promptly at 10 o'clock by ex-Speaker Hoyt, who administered the oath of office to all f the members except c. E. Hill of Stamford, l who affirmed instead of taking the oath. After prayer by Rev. J. W. Brodin the house
 at once proceeded to the election of speak CT, the informal ballot giving John H. Perry, of Fairfield, 147, while the S9 Democrats present voted for Frank Hyde, of Hartford. | Speaker Perry was escorted to the chair by Messrs. Glover of Fairfield and Frank Hyde, ! and accepted the office in the following terms:
 SPEAKERS FIRST SPEECH. Gentlemen of the House of Representatives You will be called upon during the present ses- sion appoint to positions of honor in the service of State many, with the discharge of whose du ties you have no private or personal concern. For
 doubtless receive their gratitude; but the gratitude of him whom you elect 10 preside over your own deliberations should be immeasurably greater than I theirs. To have one chosen among yourselves to 8 position upon the proper discharge of which so will depend, implies a regard and confidence for which ought to be and am most deeply grateful.
 Called to administer no coordinate branch of the
 tive with yonrseves have of course no message to deliver or legislation to recommend. Nature is lence which is ordinarily expected of her most graceful subject by according to the swan one sol
 of compensation as administered by men likewise provides for speaker he of the striking lucus a
 public talk with his fellow members of the house "a sort of househoud talk by one of the family
 our dead capital at the shore sees the General As sembly convened once more on the alternate year
 lation has gone the way of the other capital, and
 the statute book has had an nwanted rest. Wheth-
 to determinate It has it's prophets and it's oppo-
 nents, and at any rate it is question which I am feet. however, will doubtless be to add to and complete our labors, and of
 
 performed, it is my desire alone to briefly speak. We meet to-day as the chosen delegates of q free tor but theIr conscience and no master but their ! God. We represent more truly than We serve them. UncroWned SovereignS at home,
 less so here, when with power of attorney for thou which should protect their property and promote their happiness as well as our own.
 It becomes us therefore in the first place. to re- member that we accountable to those whose voice and whose vote we thus hold in trust. We
 may not honorably use the one to advocate an un txuor nr ct he n science and enlightened judgment dictate. The glazing my back is solely to light the cor riders and by no means to enable the audience which there does congregate to determine whether our actions merit reward or punishment. They, at Our ears should be inpenetrably stopped to other arguments than those of the committee rooms and by this floor. I believe that the legislator whose conclusions arrived at as jurors are can best
 iessiation to arrive when lawmakers will not be ar
 gued with except in open court, and that dark cor visitors as the place where in almost forgotten time some innocent poSSeSSor of valued vote was privately persuaded that a pending measure
 nine parts righteousness and one rart peace. Sturdy Abraham Davenport who believed that
 the light and legislation inseT Jrable friends
 even when the very heavens seemed to have other-
 wise decreed must be model to his kIhd Neither
 have I understood why the salaried friends of
 measures under discussion should have the liberty
 to floors when by the rules interested members
 cuustance of late to the capacity and even the
 integrity of our law making bodies discucsed and
 noted jurist has recently charged in an infuen-
 tal print that our legislators are overmatched by the managers of wealthy corporations, and either induced do that which they did not at all intend
 by superior craft and influence is made to come
 to naught. He charges that which is undoubted too
 true. am speaking now not to you, put with you
 Let it be ours then, to remember Der that we are put
 ward is attainable here below than to be found
 faithful, no man is so rich as he who owns himself
 that it is Ango-Saxou to be tenaeous or our rights
 that nc wall Is extravagantly high which only ade-
 quately protects the smallest of them and that 1t
 remains to be proven at least that cur intelligence
 is unequal to the task.
 If we shall go to our homes after an industrial session, having made that unutterable curse, 8 purchased ballot, materially less possible having
 contributed to the st9tute book the allowable check upon the evils of intemperence, having tenacious ly preserved and fully protected our own rights, prosperity is our pride, such reasonable privileges proven to be their due; having fostered eX- patient intelligent and impal tial hearing in his court, and all with no odor of mess Of pottage
 SHg hP0n h reward To this is my duty, as it will be my greatsst pleasure to la in conclusion, permit to express the hope that resolutions will not partake of the infrm- ities which prone to attend others Of about this date, and that our bills will never be presented against
 pardonable pride in the fact that able to call for order with a gavel which did similar service
 for your predecessors in the Connecticut House of Representatives just one generation ago. l am ready to take the oath of office.
 Samuel A. Eddy of New Canaan and An- drew F. Gates of Lebanon, Republican nom
  then elected by the party vote.
 Dwight w. Futile of East Haven, chair | man of the Republican caucus committee | last night which nominated doorkeepers and messengers, presented a resolution appoint \ ing as such attaches the following gentlemen 3 who were nominated late last night: Messen- gers-Howard P. Mansfield, of Bloomfield; \ B. H. Gillette, of Granby: J. W. Moody, of ! Seymour, David B. Mansfield, of Harwinton. Doorkeepers-C. T. Fitch, Groton; D. W. Robinson, Durham; William H. Taylor, Vernon; John Bollard, | Thompson; George F. Tyler, Prospect, and Andrew Wakeman, Fairfield. After appoint | ing it's portion of the joint committee to can vass the votes for State officers, which in con- | junction with Senators Corbid and Twitchell performed this duty and declared that there had been no election by the people, the House adjourned until 9:30 tomorrow morning. 4 number of ladies were interested specta- \ tors in the galleries.
 THE SENATE ORGANIZES.
 Hon. L. M Hubbard, secretary of State, | called the members of this body together at | 10:30 and administered the oath after reading the certificates of election of the 24 gentlemen who will form the august body. William J. McConville of Hartford received the unani- nous election for clerk, Democrats and Re- publicans both voting for him. The senators next balloted for a president to serve in the absence of General s. E. Merwin, the new lieutenant governor. Hon. John M. Hall was of Willimantic qhe Republic can candidate and Hon. E. s. Cleveland, who was defeated for Governor by Governor Lounsbury were the candidates
 MT. Hall received hIs full party vote of seven teen while Senator Cleveland had but five of
 the other six Democratic votes present. In taking the chair Senator Hall said:
 e., have conferred upon me, accept this office. not
 wholly unfamiliar with it's responsibilities but lying chiefly upoI that forbearance and courtesy the Senate of Connecticut always extends to it's precding officers. It will be my earnest endeavor
 to discharge the brief and occasional duties incl dent to this position with that scrupulous impar-
 tiality which can alone protect the rights and com mand the respect of al We assembled to execute the solemn trust constituents have re- posed with aud to consult for the general veal. No higher duty devolves upon citizenship Our acts not for the feetng time. for section
 party, but for State and all it's people, falls lot to be the pioneers of era in the Iegis lative history of our commonwealth and we are to test to some extent the wisdom of a recent amend
 ment to the constitution providing for biennial sions of the General Assembly. An unusual mum
 Der of public and private measures will doubtless be crowded upon our attention. Resolute hrmness in