Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-01-27
THE LEGISLATURES.

THE LEGISLATURE.
Reassembling OF the General Assem-
bly, To-day-The Canvass Commit
tees Report To-day-The Proposed
Constitutional Convention Press
Comments.
HARTFORD, Jan. 26.-The committee on
the canvass of votes in the house of repre-
sentatives met here this afternoon to
frame report. This will be presented to
the house tomorrow Cuesday) afternoon,
SO that it may be spread on the records in
due form. 1t is understood that the only
officer who will be named as elected is
Comptroller Staub. He will not be de-
clared until the matters relating to the |
whole ticket are settled. Both houses |
meet at p. m. tomorrow.
Mr.. Staub, accompanied among others
held secret conference in the ante room
of the senate this morning. Judge Stod-
dard of New Haven, counsel for the demo-
cratic leaders, was closeted with them.
The meeting was arranged in order to de-
eide upon a course of action when the
legislature comes in tomorrow. 1t is I'M
compromise the present muddle 30 that
they can secure the state offices while let
ting the governorship 60. The rumor Is
printed for what it is worth.
Representative Walker of Hartford will
introduce bill in the legislature to-day
calling for a constitutional convention.
The bill provides for one delegate from
each town in the state and thirty delegates
at large; the former to be elected by plur-
o1itv of votaa tho 1atfar IN tho r,riDci-
pie of minority representation, SO that not
more than twenty can be from the same
political party. The constitution to be
decided upon would be submitted to the
PEG le for ratification at the presidential
election in 1892. Senator Holden of An
sonia also has resolution calling for q
constitutional convention, which he pro-
poses to introduce in the senate to-mor-
row. 1t is whispered, too, that other
Nutmeg legislators have shifted a golden
opportunity and that there will be large
| selection of propositions to pick from.
R. ]. Vance says, apropros of the pres
| emit gubernatorial trouble: ''The only COM
| plete and thorough remedy is the calling of
| a constitutional convention to revise and
bring the present organic law into accord
| with the times. The members of the con-
| vention can be chosen at the town meet
ings next October. They can meet in
January, 1892, and their work can be vot-
ed on by the people at the October cleo
tons of that year. The next state election
would then be held under the new consti-
tuition, which would presumably be
drawn to meet the conditions that now
| obtain"
To-day's Hartford Post says: "It is pain
full to witness an embarrassing lack of
harmony and mutual good feeling among
our democratic friends at this critical
juncture. 1t is an open secret, says the
esteemed Litchfeld Enquirer, that promi-
nent democrats are heaping anathemas
upon the head of ex-senator Staub because
it is considered that in his vehement de-
sire to secure big vote for the comptrol-
lership he went into the trading business
so extensively as to run Mr.. Morris very
much behind. Little matters of this kind
should not be allowed to poison the dem.
ocratic body at time when it is very
much out of condition by reason of GER
tain injudicial excuses.
The same paper loosely remarks: "It
may interest the democratic sensationalists
to know that the Governors Foot Guard
will go through guard mounting at the
regular weekly drill this evening. By
drawing upon their Imagination they car
see in this announcement prospect Of
military interference in politics at an early
date"
The legislature will begin it's fourth
week tomorrow with nothing yet done
; | The joint committees have not yet beer
> appointed, although they are usually an
nounced on the second day of the session
This is not Speaker Paige's fault, for HI
| could not announce the appointments o.
joint committees until the senate had vot
ed to appoint such committees. If tn
senate concurs tomorrow in the joint res
olution adopted by the house Wednesda.
! appointing joint committees, then Speake
Paige will announce his appointments O
, | committeeman. This is what every mem
, Der of the house is interested in. Tn
r most honorary and desirable appointmen
| is chairman of the judiciary committee
This will go to Stiles Judson, jr., of STRAIT
| ford. The committee on cities and Dor
| oughs will be very important one thi
| year on account of the numerous horse ca
| charters and other things that will com
up if the legislature ever gets ready to d.
any business.
A Coming Concert.
Miss Justine Ingerson and W. a. Riege1
the well known tenor soloist of New Yorl
l city, will assist the choir of Calvary Bar
t fist church in its concert on Monday night
/ | also Miss Lizzie Gaffney, Mrs. Blinn
: Eugene Heinig and Thomas Adams fron
tho Calvary Baptist quartette. A delight
full evenings entertainment is assured.
? College Notes.
. The Yale Kent club lecture course wi
q open this evening by Rev. J. M. Buckle
in Osborn hall. The subject for the even
. ing will be 1.-The Peculiarities of Grea
I | Orators" Some of the lecturers who wi
, follow DR.. Buckley are: Colonel Higginson
+ Theodore Roosevelt, Professor Edward j
. Phelps and Professor Woodrow Wilson O
Princeton.
Professor Arthur Hadley gave the frs
! of series of lectures yesterday Afternoon
> in Osborn hall before a large audienc
l | made up of students and outsiders. TIL
) | subject was Chow History is Written.
) The balance of the series will be on tn
= following subjects and delivered as follows
r February 2, ''Statistics, Their Use an
) Abuse" February 8, ''The Methods o
Physics Applied to Politics." February 1e
> "The Methods of Biology Applied to Poll
{ tics"
3 College students in Iowa receive NOR
l attention, perhaps, from the civil authori
ties than their eastern brethren. lively
Cornell college at Mount Vernon have bee
in regard to gambling which was engages
! | in at the last term, and great excitemen
r exists in the college and town. The gram
[ jury has returned no indictments as yet
t and no one has been expelled from tn
A college.
Entertainments.