Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-30
TO he REFERRED. J

TO BE REFERRED.
The Report of the House Committee
to be Referred to the Senate ON
Tuesday Anothsr Attempt to
Amend the House JournaI-The
Members OF the House More Fully
Discuss the Report of Their Com.
mfttee.
HARTFORD, Jan. 29.-The storm of to-
day or the general sameness of the discus
sion by the different members of the house
on the committees report caused a lack of |
interest in the proceedings, very few spec
tators being present.
Is The senate.
The senate come to order at 11:30 q. m.
and after prayer by the chaplain immedi-
ately took recess until 2 o'clock.
APTER RECESS.
At 2 p M the senate came to order and
Senator Davis, rep, of the Eighteenth in
troduced resolution asking that the cor
rect proceedings of the, senate be Published
in the journal from this time forth. The
matter was discussed pro and con by SEN
tors Pierce, DEM; Dams, rep; Fox, dem;
Shumway, rep; Holden, DEM; Garvan,
rep, and after further debate by Senators
Pierce, Thayer and Mead the resolution
was indefinitely postponed, after an aye
and nay vote with the following result:
Yeas 10, nays 6.
Senators Shumway and Twitchel had
paired and did not vote.
Senator Shumway, rep.-I move the vote
to indefinitely postpone be spread in full
upon the journal.
After Senator Pierce, dem. of the Fourth
had assured Senator Shumway that he
thought the matter should go on the ree@-
| ords without motion the motion was with
| drawn.
| Senator Caravan. rep, of the Second
| moved that house resolution No. 10, ap-
pointing joint standing committee, be
| taken from the table. s-~.-.~
| Senator Pierce, dem.-I don't think we
| should take this matter up at present, and
I hope the senator from the Second will
| withdraw his motion.
| Senator Garvan-I see no reason why
we should not go on with our business, as
should like to do the business I am sent
here to do.
Senator Pierce-I move an adjournment
| until next Tuesday at O'Clock, which mo
ton was carried.
As soon as this body of the general as
semb1y was called to order this morning
the discussion on the canvass committees
report was taken up and Mr.. Callahan,
dem, af New Haven was the first to adj
dress the house, during which he said:
| "Mr. Greene went beyond the creator in
| that he decreed day should be longer
than the original twenty-four hours. Pro-
ceeding to discussion of the committees
| report, Mr. Callahan denied that it was an
! investigation. He said the committee
| wanted to disfranehise every man who
| voted the democratic ticket He con-
| tinued that it was clearly the intention of
| the trainers of the constitution that an
election be declared from the face of the
returns. That was why it was to be done
\ on the first day Mr. Galatians remarks
upon the Bridgeport ballot "head" of the
| question aroused slight enthusiasm among
his colleagues. He said that he had spent
ten years of his early life at the printers
case and knew that the marks could not
| have been made by the press. No piece of
| cloth or roller, he affirmed, would stick
| to plate long enough to max so many i'm
! pressions. He said with emphasis that he
knew the ballots were marked and more
''who marked them" He then introduced
tho signers believed the ballots were
counters and other bridgeport officials.
| John A. Porter, rep, Of Hartford fol-
lowed, and in rather lengthy argument
spoke of the action of the senate and the
| house in this question, which he ably de-
Tended and said among other things: The
towns of Connecticut are supreme in their
own affairs, even, only SO far as they are
1 m -. 1-a:.
the raising of their taxes, to certain ex
tent the education of their children-these
| and many other local matters are and
should be left wholly within their own
| hands; but this fact does not contract the
other and equally important one, that in
matters which pertain to the welfare of
the whole state, or commonwealth, the
towns Individually are not supreme-they
must do whatever the people of the state,
bly,, require them to do-they must still,
when required, pay their taxes to the
state; they must still obey the general laws
which are passed by the Legislatures; they
must still, if need be, in cases of emer
gency, obey the proclamations of its
governor, and in cases of insurrec-
ton or war supply troops for
its defense. In all these and many other
respects, then, the towns Individually are
in them al1-powerful, in the sense of being
able, either knowingly or unknowingly,
and without appeal, by his single act, to
change the whole course of public events
| in the commonwealth.
Mr.. Wood of Manchester argued that &C.
cording to the claims set up by the demo-
Gratis the secret ballot law Of the state is
unconstitutional, inasmuch that the cleo
tors are not permitted to vote in the pres
ence Of one another, but must be subjected
| to the supervision of a moderator. He
made voluminous quotations of court de-
| cisions, justifying the action of the repub-
icans in going behind the returns. The
speaker concluded by saying that he would
vote to seat Mr.. Staub when the proper
time comes. The democrats applauded
| this statement.
At the conclusion Of Mr. Woods speech,
on Mr.. Healy's motion, the house took a
recess until 2:15. The debate will then
| be resumed. It is expected it will last
through portion of to-morrow's session.
| AFTER RECESS.
At 2:15 p. NJ, after the house once more
came to order, Mr.. Hotchkiss of New Ha-
ven set forth in an able, but rather per-
sonal argument, the democratic side of the
question, claiming that the returns showed
| also that the moderators' returns were
| final, and that the committee had failed to
make suitable report or one that was
fair and honest, as far as evidence went
Several times during his argument Mr..
Hotchkiss was reminded that he must COM
ply with the rules governing debates.
Mr.. Hotchkiss was followed by Judge
| Griswold, rep of Windsor Locks, who
| spoke for two hours, unfolding the action
of the house and committee in the present
situation. The house then adjourned until
1890 a. m. tomorrow
NOTES OF THE CORRIDOR.
It is understood the house will refer the
committees report to the senate on next
Tuesday.
Several of the attaches of the senate have
presented ex-senator Bartram of Sharon
with new silk hat, which he will probably
wear the next pleasant day.
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