Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-29
LEGIsLArons ArsAyIN ROCK.

The LAWMAKERS of sS9 Assemble In
Force, Eat a Big Dinner, Listen to
Good Speeches and Enjoy Social
Reunion.
Savin Rock was alive with members of
the legislature of 1889 yesterday afternoon,
it being the first annual reunion of this
body. The attendance was numerously
large. Every county in the state, except
Windam, was represented
short business meeting was held in |
Young's pavilion about noon at which it |
was reported that three members had died |
during the past year-Andrew Smith of
Hartford, George E. Markham of East
Hartford and DR.. Charles Taylor of New
Milford. A committee was appointed to
collect money to pay for the meeting and
$751; 25 was raised.
A bountiful dinner was enjoyed, and
some excellent speeches were listened to
afterwards Lieutenant Governor S. E.
Merwin presided. He made few intro
ductory remarks and presented Senator
| Fuller to the gathering The senator re-
viewed many of the incidents of the past
| year. and referred quite humorously to the
| bill passed regarding chickens.
| Mr. Hall of Stratford spoke of the pleas
ure of the occasion and of the large num-
Der present. When I was leaving home,
he said. little fellow asked me IF / was
going to funeral. I told him no, but
when thought of it believed he might
be right in one sense, for there are SO many
political candidates for the senatorial seat
in this district that was not sure but
would meet several corpses politically. He
continued to speak highly of the political
| situation and declared that there were so
many in the field that none but the best
man can possibly squeeze in.
Mr.. Treat Of Wallingford, a member Of
the committee on cities and boroughs de-
clared that he had always tried to vote for
the best interests of all concerned. He
4 was pleased with the idea of continuing
these reunions
John H. Russell of Haddam, the oldest
member of the general assembly, was called
upon for a speech and said a few pleasant
I words.
Isaac Wolfe of New Haven said that
, there had been some doubt whether the
! last legislature would finish it's session in
time for the morning session, but it did.
, While we have been criticised thoroughly
for some of our work, said he, think
when this work is fully known and under
stood, the general assembly of 1889 will be
more highly esteemed.
He spoke of several acts passed by the
body and said he, himself, had been op
posed to the cigarette bill. Even the gen
/ tlemen who had supported it most strong
ly, said he, was smoking one five minutes
after he had made his speech.
Mr.. Hyde of Orange said one of the bes
things the legislature had done was to re
move the tracks of the West Haven roai
:. | from Beach street in West Haven to tn,
y street in the rear running into Railroad
grove. Another good thing in which Rep
. resentative Wolfe assisted was the double
. tracking of Church street in this city
Mr.. Dimmock of Tolland said the pres
/. emit gathering was decidedly non-political
/ Even when sitting on the east side of tn
chamber, at the capitol, said he, 1 coult
not help but think, as glance over to tn
west side, that if those men were fai
# sample of democrats, it would be very cas-
to become a universalist in politics.
IA Mr.. Near of Bridgeport thought man
mistakes had been made at the last session
5. but declared them mistakes more of tn
II head than heart. He thought the statut
1T book credit to the men who voted for il
y, In speaking of the action in the John Swift
y =. case he said: eff the ghost of John Swit
y should we'll. up this hall now and point
E. me and say You did it!' I could Tturnru11
ss say 4 did not!' Nevertheless l believe a
t, who voted for or against communication c
IS the sentence voted honestly" He sal
re he had voted against the paralleling {
h, the Consolidated road, but would jul
IL as quickly have voted against the parable
If ing of the Housatonic or any other road
I'd Speaking of politicians in politics, he sale
ne I have heard much hue and cry again
politicians, but it is all wrong. If yo
want a boat sailed you get sailor. If yo
want picture painted you get an artist.
Iy see nothing against man who makes pc
a itics study. am in favor of the polit
| L., 4 30 al
an Among those present at the reunio
m were:
- Senators-Hodge of Rainbow, Twitc
he ell of Union City, Graham of Orang
he States of New Haven, Gardner of Ne
~ London, Gatlin of Harwinton, Read
W. Bridgeport, Fuller of Putnam, Bartram
IN Sharon, Coffin of Middletown, Sprague
ly Andover.
~ esentatives-Speaker Perry
q Greenwich, LIE Geyt of Avon, Damon
,ir Berlin, Pinney of Bloomfield, Brown
ck Forestville, Bidwell of Canton, Noble
lie East Windsor, Ripley of Pennington, HI
to lister of Glastonbury, Corscaden of Ne
tb Britain, Potter of Plainville, Whitehead
Simsbury, Walker of Southington, VOL
of New Haven, O'Neill of Waterbury, Fs
rell of Beacon Falls, Doolittle of Bethan
Andrews and Baker of Cheshire, Chat
be and Holden of Derby, Tuttle of East II
&c Dews of Middlebury, Beardsley of Milfor
ay Darlington of Naugatuck, Gates
he North Branford, Eaton of North Have
ID, Bryant of Orange, Osborn of Oxford Hes
nd of Seymour, Treat and OCallaghan
:or Wallingford, Newton of Woodbridge w
liams of New London, Lane and Mayry
Norwich, Hyde of Franklin, Spencer a
-, Nye of Lebanon, Wheeler of Ste
Ill ington, Lewis of Voluntown, Ne
of of Bridgeport, Purdy of Darie
ara Seeley of Easton, Williams of Gree
"a wich, Palmer of Huntington, Ferris
III Norwalk, Miller of Redding, Todd al
7as Hoyt of Ridgefeld, Haurahan and Hill
to Stamford, Hall of Stratford, Amber
he Trumbull, Bradley of Weston, Hickox
by Litchfield, Morris of Bridgewat,
by Palmer of Goschen, Dams of HI,
er, winton, Allen and Barnes of New Harw
ve ton, Mower of Roxbury, Reed of Share
The Cowles of Torrington, Swift of Ware
lch Terrill of Woodbury., Bacon and O'Ke'
zen of Middletown, Russell and Bailey
1y, Haddam, Clark and Brainaird
he Chatham, Buell. of Clinton, Hubba
ces of Cromwell, Tucker of Durham, Wrig
,ne and Francis of Killingworth, Coe of NJ
phi dlefeld, Shepard of Old Saybrook, Je
ZEE, nings of Saybrook, Chapman of We
ell brook, Dimock of Tolland, Brown of
the dover, Haven of Coventry, Hewitt
M Hebron, Hurlburt of Somers, Converse
mic Stafford, Thompson of Vernon.