Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-05
THE LEGEsLATURR.
It Will Assemble Next Wednesday-
 Plans and Gossip.

It Will Assemble Next Wednegday-
 Plans and Gossip.
 The General Assembly will meet next
 Wednesday. The party caucuses will be
 held on Tuesday evening, the Republican in
 the hall of representatives, the Democratic in
 the supreme court room and Senate chamber At the caucuses candidates will be nominated for various offices from speaKer down to mes- senger. John H. Perry of Fairfield, will probably be made speaker. The Democratic House caucus will probably compliment F. H. Hyde of Hartford, 6 young lawyer of ability, with the nomination for speaker, unless the members should iucline to pay such compliment to the Hon. Henry B. Graves of Waterbury, formerly of Ltchfsld, a veteran in the party service and 6 man of greater experience in the legislature than any member of either party.
 At 10 8. m. Thursday there will be joint convention, and the ceremony of electing the five state officers will consume the time until 1a, noon. A recess will then be taken to or 1:30 p. m., during which time the inaugural parade will take place. Then come the inauguration exercises, the new governors address, and the customary colla- tion.
 The inaugural parade will be as follows: 1Ao 1OVoIAOI-o1oCG WILL D0 COuOuCIcu HULL his residence on Washington street by the Governors guards, Horse and Foot, escorted by the First regiment, C.N.G., and the Put nam phalanx. The line of march will be through Washington and Park streets to Main, up Main to High, through High, Ford and Trinity to the capitol. Of the inaugural reception committee, honorary, veteran and ' actives, William H. Post has been elected chairman and Major John o. Parsons vice chairman.
 OFFICIAL JOURNALS or THE LEGISLATURE. MT. William J. McConville of Hartford, ! who, by the legislative plan of clerkship pro ! motion, steps into the Senate clerkship this ] session, has devised decided improvement in the plan of the official journal ot the pro- ' ceedings. Instead of treating each bill, etc., separately in the present cumbersome way, the bills will be classified in such way that the journal will be sinplided and will be more methodical in its arrangements. Under ! the new plan, for instance, Senate bills when first presented would appear with the intro ductory sentence:
 follows:
 ts tFsiet entitled :An article providing for; to Other bills would follow, and petitions, resolutions, etc., will receive the same concise and convenient classification. The same sys- | tenn runs through all the records and will re- { suit in large saving of time and trouble. MT. McConville has prepared g complete set of blanks based on this new plan, and it is probable that MT. Eddy, chief clerk of the Honse, will adopt the same for his journal. Mr. McConville also proposes to continue his innovation of two years ago, when, for the first time, the journal gave an abstract not only of each original bill, but also of any sub- stitute for which it might be reported from committee. This called for much extra work, but it is invaluable when referring to legisla-
 tive action on any matter, and has been app. preciated by everybody interested in legisla- tive work.