Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-14
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 Senate and House.
 HARTFORD, April 13.-[Special. l-The committee's substitute for senate bill NO. 12. concerning street railways, which is in the form of general electric road bill, IS already causing considerable opposition, especially from those interested 1n the street railroads. When the members Of the committee on cities and boroughs ar- rived at the capitol to day they were met by attorneys for the roads from all parts of the state, among them being ex-GoV- ernor Waller and his assistant, Attorney s. Harrison Wagner, who were urgent In their requests to have the bill recom- mitted.
 The main objection to the bill on the part of street railways is regarding Sec tion 17, which provides that the board of railroad commissioners shall have power, in their discretion, whenever public con- venience and necessity require, upon ap- plication of any street railway company, to authorize such company to run its cars over the track or tracks of any other street railway company for such distance, upon such terms as to manner Of use, and upon the payment of such compensation therefor, as may be ordered and prescribed by said board of railroad commissioners. with power to change, modify and revoke such order upon the application of either company.
 A prominent man at the capitol said to- day: GAS I understand it, the passage. of this section was made more expressly, that the cars of other lines in New Haven might be able to run over the other systems to the Union station, and to this the various was, I understand, the intention of the committee at first to limit the distance, that the cars of one line might run over .Se tracks of another line. but they late. decided that 1t was perfectly safe to leave the limiting of distance in the case to the railroad commissioners discre- tion and not specify what it should be in the bill, as 1t would vary in different cases.
 As far as could be ascertained there is no objection to that clause of the bill which provides that no street railway company shall hereafter be built, constructed or ex- tended from any point within any town, to any part within the same town, so as to substantially parallel any steam railroad, nor shall any street railwsy hereafter be built or extended from any point in any one town to any point in any other town, if the location and construction of such street railway will substantially operate as 8 parallel to any steam railroad from such town to such other town, until the com pany desiring to build, construct or ex- tend such railway shall have applied to the railroad commissioners and shall have eb- tsined from them, in the manner herein after required and provided, @ finding that public necessity and convenience require the construction of such street railway The steam railroad and electric toad men having agreed to this passage some weeks ago. When the committee met this after noon Governor Waller appeared before them and requested that the committee | hold hearing on the bill next week Tues | day, that the electric road men might be heard on it.
 Senator Pierce of the committee said that he had received objections to the bill
 from property owners along the line of pro
 posed roads and it might be we'll to give then
 a hearing at the same time. Governor
 Waller in reply said: I think We come her,
 little bit stronger than these people, ani
 we have amounts of property which mus
 be protected. This bill seriously affect
 our interests, and I don't want any thre
 men, whether they be railroad commis
 sioners or others, to say that another roa.
 shall run it's cars over our tracks withou
 our consent, they to fix the compensation
 and from all this we have no right of ap
 peal. Why, under this clause smal
 railroad having perhaps a mile of track
 could run it's cars over our forty miles o
 system if the commissioners see fit t
 let them. l believe the bill in
 general way to bs good one, but it in
 wolves so many people and so muc
 money, that it should not have such grea
 blemishes in it as it now has. It Is mos
 outrageous and unfair. The committe l voted to consider the matter in executiv
 session.
 | Senators Fox and Cleveland were tn
 only members of the senate to day wh'
 stood up for Yale and her contract witt
 the state, advocating that she should hav
 all moneys from lsnd grants. The rest O.
 the senate stuck up for Storrs school, ani
 passed the bill giving to them the none, appropriated by congress. The vote stood
 Senator Coffee explained the bill, aftel
 which Senator Holcomb mads lone
 argument in favor of Storrs school.
 He alleged that the scientific school had
 graduated but thirteen agricultural stu
 dents since 1862 and none, really. in the
 mechanic arts. It had, therefore, vio-
 lated its agreement with the state by moi
 teaching mechanic arts. Civil engineering
 is not a mechanic art The United Statel
 appropriated the money for agriculture
 purposes mostly. The senator cited a long
 extract from Senator Morrilps speech tt
 support this point He also contended ths
 there WAS no perpetual contract betWeeI
 the scientific school and the state.
 Senator Pierce said he was going to vott
 for the bill. s1 want to say this before
 forget it." He then attacked the Storri
 school. In his opinion the money giver
 to Yale college had been much better ap
 piled than that given to Storrs. There ii
 no room to doubt this. But at New Have1
 the work of an agricultural college could
 not be accomplished. Storrs school should
 be properly managed and the money prop forms were needed. "Unless the money is used differently from the appropriations | of the past 1t will be wasted. I know this is strong language, but believe it to be 1 true."
 Senator Fox next took up the fight fo, l Yale and made one of the most able.ar- | guments during this session of the assem- ply:
 l "I am not here, influenced in my action by the Sheffield scientific school" said Senator Fox, "but to do my duty to my | cOusbltueutS WILD cou5bltuIo Guo largest tax paying constituency in the state" ! Are you going to vote to pass this bill and thus violate sacred contract between the state and Yale college, and as Senator
 Pierce says, throw the money into a rat
 holea Is 1t businessa Is it proper thing to do to "throw this money into a rat holeF The government intended to do good with the money. It was not in. tended that any of the money should go to the education of girls in stockbreedino l When $200, GOO had been squandered was it proper to give $200, 1000 more to be { squandereds If the state were run wholly in that way We would soon bankrupt the treasury.
 Senators Phelps and Crodall spoke in favor of Storrs, while Senator Cleveland closed the debate in favor of Yale, not for getting to mention parliamentary courtesy during his address.
 Senator Fox sent up an amendment to the bill making education at Storrs college applicable to "boys," not to "youth," so that girls cannot bs taught, which was lost by vote of IT to 3, Senators Fox, Holden and Hall voting for the amendment. The original bill was then passed by 8 vote of IS to 2, Senators Cleveland and Fox voting for Yale.
 Before the committee on appropriations this afternoon James L. Cowles of Farm ington and ex-Representative Walker of Hartford appeared and argued against paying the fees asked by the attorneys in the recent quo warrsnto cases. At the same hour the special state prison commit tee were in executive session, hearing the statements of the prison directors as re-