Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-09
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

a Recess Until January 20 - The
 Senate Adjourns Until Tuesday.
 HARTFORD, Jan. 8.-[Special. ]-To-day the usual crowd of lawyers, would-be officeholders and curiosity seekers gave their undivided attention to the house, in which body it was expected all the important business relative to the gover norship would be transacted. Early this morning the fair count returns of cleo tions and the canvass of votes forming a big lot of papers and books were given to the house when the latter body was called to order by Speaker Paige at 10:15 o'clock.
 Representative Walker of Hartford was on the floor the first thing with the reso- lution to grant Jacob F. Graham of Nau- gatuck seat in the house on the ground that the town has over 5000 inhabitants. This resolution was referred to the com mittee on contested elections with the documents from the census bureau setting forth the official count of the population of Naugatuck.
 The chair then announced the commit tee on house rules, consisting of Messrs. Comstock of Norwalk, Green of Norwich and Healy of Windsor.
 Before the speaker had time to utter 8 few words to Judge Harrison MT. Walker once more had the floor on question of privilege, asking that the chair enforce the house rule prohibiting strangers taking the seats of members on the floor This rule was blow aimed at the gentlement occu- pying seats with the members for the pur pose of coaching them, and caused con- siderable discussion, in which Representa- tives Green of Norwich, ,Saxe of Waterbury and Healy of Windsor Locks took part. The speaker finally declared that it was an unwritten law of the house to allow the friend of member to occupy seat at his side, and here the question was dropped. A resolution offered by Mir. Judson of Stratford was passed authorizing the com mittee on contested elections to sit during recesses and summon papers and persons. The resolutions from the senate declar- 1 ing all the democratic state officers elected l to their various positions was next read. Mr. Green of Norwich arose and offered l a resolution which set forth the action of | the house regarding returns and canvass | of votes, and likewise the action of the sen | ate, and provided for the appointment of a select house committee of eight, to be ap- l pointed by the chair. This committee is to have power to examine into the returns l of the la5e election, to summon persons
 
 | explanatory examination, and to sit dur l ing recesses for the prosecution of the l work.
 l MT. Root of Waterbury made strong l argument against the adoption of the reso- lution and amended it so that the scope of l the latter should not extend to the election or office of comptroller.
 l MrsJudsen of Hartford opposed this amendment as did Mir. Hotchkiss of New | -c D..
 1 On motion of Mir. Greene the original l resolution was put and carried by an aye and nay vote, with the following result: l Whole number cast, 249; necessary for choice, 125; aye, 132; nay, 117. This was after the amendment was voted on and lost.
 MT. Healy of Windsor Locks submitted l second amendment which set forth that whereas John J. Phelan was elected secretary a of state, as ~ appeared ,se ton should not be included in the former resolution. MT. Markley of New Britain held that the house committee had no power to issue summons with con- currence on the part of the senate. MT.
 Markley was followed by Representatives
 Saxe of Waterbury and Callahan of New
 Haven, who fully set forth the law on the
 subject as they unerstood it, and held that
 no committee could go behind the returns
 made by the moderators, both gentlemen
 favoring the amendment. After further
 discussion by Messrs. Judson of Stratford
 and Judd of Litchfeld, the amendment
 was lost by an aye and nay vote, resulting
 in the casting of 24O votes, 132 yeas and 1Oe
 nays.
 MT. Futile then introduced number o1
 petitions and afidavits relating to tht
 November elections which were referred
 to the house committee on the canvass O
 votes. He also moved recess unti
 January 20 at 10 o'clock and this was car
 ried. The house committee to examine
 returns had been appointed, consisting O
 Greene, republican, Norwich; Hotchkiss
 democrat, New Haven; Judson, republi
 can, Stratford; Futile, republican, Eas
 Haven; Markley, democrat, New Britain
 Card, democrat, Sharon; Porter, republi
 can, Promfret; and Bissell, republican Clinton,