Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-20
THE oLEomAnaAnINE ACT.

Governor Morris signs the HtlA-nAs |
Signs Are Requtftte-An Important
Fishing Bill to ONE Up-Crossine
Street at Grade-NO Free Transport
tatfon-Marriages to Cost more-
Streets Must Not be Littered-Shore
Line Bridge In Fair Haven Annex
HARTFORD, May 19.-Goyernor Norris
has signed the stringent e.eomargarine act
which il intended to drive the msnufao-
tured article out of the market. It pro-
hibits the coloring of any article not made
from the milk of COWS, to resemble butter.
Sellers of oleomargarine are required to
display over the entrance of their stores .
sign "Oleomargarine Sold Here" in F..
letters AKA on white ground. If sold
from a wagon or other vehicle 1t must be
SO labeled on both sides. There are other
similar restrictions. The penalty for .
violation of the act is 500, or 10 days in
jail; for subsequent offenses the penalty is
doubled.
In the house this morning the commit
tee on railroads reported unfavorsbly on
the bill requiring railroads to transport
members free of expense to the state, and
the bill was rejected.
An important bill on fishing was made
the special order for next Thursday at IL
O'Clock.
PROHIBITS FISHING
By net or other stationary contrivance in
1894 and for five years thereafter between
April and July l.; also that no person
shall use OF set any such contrivance in
any pond or the branches of the Connect
cut, Thames or Heusatonic rivers until
July l, $780,. -.s-.- =
The penalty prescribed for violstion of
the act is a fine of $500 to 1000 or i'm
prisonment for not exceeding five years or
both. Gill nets, eel pots and lobster pots
are exempt from the provision of the act.
A resolution was reported favorably pay
ing Court Andrew jackson, A. o. F., of
New Haven, $500, forfeited bonds by de-
faulting treasurer.
The committee on railroads reported
favorably on a bill prohibiting electric,
cable or horse railroads from crossing the
mission of the railroad commissioners The
bill applies in like manner to steam roads
crossing surface road tracks.
The Waterbury Land and Improvement
company and the Maria 3. Hotchkiss School
association of Lskeville was incorporated.
THE MARRIAGE LICENSE
fee was made 81, and the bank commits
sioners were Instructed to make separate
report on Investment companies. A bill
passed which compels railroads to immedi-
ately rebuild or repair stations destroyed
or damaged by FIRE. A bill that wagon
tires shall be four and half inches wide
was indefinitely postponed, recousidered,
| amended and finally tabled.
THE SENATE
was in session but fifteen minutes and
tabled the nomination of Judge Hamersley
for the supreme bench until Tuesday.
Governor Morris has made requisition on
Governor Russell of Massachusetts, fol-
the extradition of Andrew J. Moulton,
now held under arrest In Pittsfald Jail.
He is charged with burglary at Cornwall
in December, 1889. He was charged at
the time and escaped from custody.
THE NORMAL SCHOOLS.
The committee on appropriations report
ed favorably on the $500, 900 for thu
Bridgeport and New Haven normal schools
TO KEEP THE STREETS AND YARDS CLEAN.
Among the acts passed yesterday by tn.
house was one having for It's object the
prevention of the 1ittering up of the streets
and the DETACHMENT of natural scenery
The bill follows:
every person who shall deposit, throw
or sfh1 any paper or advertisement in any
public highway or on private premises o,
property without the consent of the owner
of said premises or property, or who shall
afix to any tree, rock or structure within
fha Hr,ot{ Nf S~h-
tices posted In pursuance of law, any paper
or advertisement, shall be fined not more
than 800 or imprisoned not more than six
| months or both.
TEMPERANCE TEXT BOOKS.
The senate passed the temperance text
book bill as 1t came from the house. II
provides that the text books for immediate
and primary pupils shall give at least one
| fifth of their space to the consideration Of
the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks
and narcotics, and the books used in the
highest grade of graded schools shall con-
tain at least twenty pages of matter relat-
ing to this subject, but when this subject
is massed wholly or in part In chapter OF
chapters at the end of book, such book
shall not be considered as meeting the re-
quirements of this law.
THE NORTH oUINN1PIAc BRIDGE.
The railroad committee reported favor
ably on this bill:
The railroad commissioners are hereby given
ton be 70 hs
the Town OF New Haven to determine whether
the width between the abutments Of a certain
company to be constructed at the point where
the Shore Line railway Is being constructed
across the Quinnipiac street bridge, shall be
forty feet as or cred by said commissioners
under an application brought before them and
dated October 49, 1892; or whether the clear
forty feet; and said commissioners may hear the
question raised under said application in the
question Of width Of said bridge had not been de-
1893. w
This resolution shall not be construed to au-
thorize the commissioners to take jurisdiction Of
any other question than that of the width be-
tween the abutments of said bridge.
All rights which the town of New Haven may
have or have had by law before the passage Of
this resolution are hereby expressly reserved to
the same extent as if this resolution had not been
passed.
The same committee reported favorably
another measure in relation to railroads, as
follows:
Chapter 1853 of the public acts of 1889 is hereby
amended to read as follows: "No electric, cable
or horse railroad shall hereafter be constructed
across the tracks of steam railroad at grade
except upon application to and approval by the
railroad commissioners, nor shall any steam rail-
road cross any such electric, cable or horse rail-
road at grade except upon like application and
approval.
To Close Saturday NooRs.
The local banks connected with tho Clearing
House association have voted to close at IL
O'Clock on Saturday from June to September
16, inclusive -!
Kicked by His Horse.
DR.. O. Purdy Lindsley was kicked by
his horse and severely bruised while alight-
ing from his carriage On Chapel street near
College yesterday morning about II
O'Clock.
Sunday Concert at Sprtngside.
The juvenile band from the Sherwood
orphan asylum will entertain the inmates
of Springside farm with sacred concert
tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock. The
band, which is composed of young oolored
boys ranging from five to fourteen years
of age, will be transported to the almshouse
in barges.