Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-13
F1L1BUsrRRs DEFEATED.

FILIBUsTRRs DEFEATED.
 Atssmp.a of paralIel Road Men to
 XIII the Consolidated Stock Increase
 in the House-The Lieutenant Gov ernor,s Decision.
 HARTFORD, June 12.
 Especial Correspondence to the JOURNAL AND CouRIBR.1
 There was an exciting scene in the house this afternoon when the Consolidated rail roads stock increase resolution was called up for concurrence with the senate, which mas already passed it. Some of the most oDst1- nate parallel road men started e determined effort to flibuster the bill into defeat, think ing perhaps that the friends of the resolution were asleep or absent. In this they erred. House Chairman Brown offered several amendments tending to tangle up and nuihfy the bill, which were voted down by rising and viva voce votes. Then one amendment was offered that required the Consolidated road to double track the Shore line and four track the main line on an increase limited to SC, ,OOO, 900. This was also defeated.
 Several attempts at adjournment and other dlibustering efforts were made. Mir. Bran. dagee attempted to speak when House Chair man Brown attempted to offer an amend ment, but MT. Brandsgee spiritedly pro- claimed his right to the floor. MT. Wolfe of New Haven seemed to share the leadership with Cololonel Brown in the attempts to get the resolution indefinitely postponed. Just at this point prominent New Haven gentle- man suggested that the previous question be called for.
 At this Mir. Wolfe arose and said that the Consolidated road controlled the legislature and it's agents were then on the floor dictat- ing. He repudiated the legislature and was otherwise emphatic. After consider able more excited talk the resolution as passed by the Senate was adopted by an almost unani- nous vote, the "parallel scheme" men, real izing that they were thoroughly foored, not voting against it.
 THE NEW HAVEN TOWN INVESTIGATION. The New Haven selectmen and their con- mittee were to-day empowered. to summon witnesses in the investigation of She affairs of the town agents office.
 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MERwIN's DECISION.
 Again the hopes of an expectant people are disappointed, and it is given out that the General Assembly will not adjourn until the latter part of next week, instead of Friday. The fate of the secret ballot bill was settled in the senate to-day by the decision of Gen. eral Merwin that a vetoed bill m ust be passed or rejected, and was not amend
 
 Tuttles liquor bill, vetoed by Governo: Bulkeley, which the house passed in another form to escape the Governors objections, al though the sense of the bill was not altered General Merwin decided that vetoed bill could not be
 amended: The present house, among it's many other peculiarities, has been in the habit of amending vetoed bills contrary to all the best established rules of parliament tary practice, Speaker Perry having ruled that such amendment could be made. There are isolated preoedents in Connecti- cut for such ruling. General Merwins deci- sion is sustained by Cushing's Manual and the rule of the senate itself fixed on a similar case in 1883.
 Hon. Henry o. Robinson of Hartford is of the opinion that parliamentary practice ex- pressly prohibits the amendment of vetoed
 bills. The absurdities of the proposition are evident, for the bill as soon as amended be- comes 8 new matter and hence has not been vetoed.
 Applying this rule the Senate will not &C., cept the amendment to the secret ballet bill passed by the House yesterday, and the gov ernor's veto will probably be sustained. GRADE CROSSINGS.
 The report of the committee on conference on the grade crossing question as detailed in yesterdays edition of this paper was passed by the House. Speaker Perry caused 1t to NC oAiAOAScA ny p4Of4nAOA LAnb OhC SAa1i0 crossing year should be abolished by roads operating 60 miles of track in the State The Senate nullifed this amendment by making such order provisional upon the discretion of the railroad commissioners, in order that poor roads might not be bankrupt thereby. The bill was then passed.
 THE PKRNIx MUTUAL. A large part of the day in the Senate was spent on the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance bill, which has attracted so much interest in Hartford. The bill provides that the policy holders of the company shall be allowed to buy it from the stockholders as the rate of $250 for $50 shares, par value.
 Senator Cleveland denounced the scheme as nonstrous. He said that for many years but 16 per cent. of the stock had been paid in, while the directors voted to themselves 6 per cent. on $10O, ,000, or equivalent to about 36 per cent. year out of the money of the policy holders. A Philadelphian had been attracted by the situation and produced the present crisis by offer- ing to pay Mr. Goodman of Hartford $500, 900 for his holding of $50. 100 of stock, majority. There is a cat in the meal somewhere apparently, which has not yet made its appearance the senator thought. and regarded the bill as 6 scheme in a round- about way to perpetuate the present man agement. The insurance commissioner, he said, had ordered that no more dividends be paid until further orders.
 I Senator Coffin, chairman of the insurance \ committee, supported the bill as reported. New Haven's Aid For the Su uRerers.