Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-23
THE DAvAr THE CAPITOL.

many Small Matters Acted Upon but No Measures of Importance Discuss ed-OnIy one Committee at Work.
 HARTFORD, March g. Especial Correspondence of the JOURNAL AND CoUR-
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 The Friday session of the legislature to- day was as tame and unproductive of any thing beyond passage of few unimportant matters ss usual. No matters of special in- terest to people in New Haven and vicinity were passed except the incorporation of the E. A. Chat6eld Co. and the R. E. Baldwin Go. The committee on railroads unfavor- able report on the bill to cause the abolition of the present railroad commission and elect eight members by the people was tabled on motion of MT. O'Neil, who said the present commission is too far removed from the people.
 Speaker Perry was still absent on account of illness and MT. Glover presided. MT. Gloyer's occupancy of the chair seems to have a tendency to facilitate business, and thirty matters on the calendar were acted on, more than at any other day this week.
 The committee on railroads reported ad- versely on the bill providing that companies owning or operating more than one line of road shall use the same classification for freights and shall charge the same rate per mile for the transportation of freight and passengers on all it's lines, and the bill was rejected.
 The House passed the bill which provides that any person who fails to make out his tax list shall have one made out for him by the assessors, and 10 per cent. be added thereto.
 The execution of John H. Swift, the Hart- ford murderer, is appointed for Friday of week after next, leaving seven legislative days interim. The report of the committee in favor of committing tine sentence is num- Der 35 on the calendar, and it will be several days before it is reached. It is stated one of the senators will offer 8 substitute resolution deferring execution of the death sentence, probably for thirty days, and referring the whole matter to the board of pardons with full power to commute the sentence if they f'fud it expedient so to do." It appears that there is yet some question whether that board has power to commute death sen tences, and the intent of the senator who will offer the substitute resolution Is to abso- lutely confer that power upon the board. This measure will relieve the legislators of voting upon human life, which nearly all are loath to do.
 The judiciary was the only committee in session to-day. They considered the bill concerning longer sessions of the New Haven selectmen to make voters.
 The committee on agriculture had quite a lively hearing on the game law bill yester- day.
 Lawyer David Callahan, Selectman T. A. Todd and MT. J. B. Robertson, jr., of New Haven, wanted the present laws to be un- changed until they had been more success fully tried. All spoke strongly against the snaring of ruffed grouse as a sure means of exterminating them.
 Ill J ferent parts of the State were on hand, and the universal verdict was to let the present game laws stand two years more.
 President Pierce of the Waterbury Field club said that snaring game and fish had ruined shooting and fishing in the State.
 Representative Bell of Lyme wanted to let small boys snare game.
 A. 0. Collins of the State Game Protective association advocated fine of $7 for every bird illegally killed.