Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-04

ay the state is allowed to pay the burial O kpenses to the amount of $35 for any resi- h ent sailor or soldier at his death. MT. :. lillard said that the quartermaster gene al has in all cases where the funeral ex enees have been over that amount refused 6 Q pay one cent, and the new act provides l hat this amount shall be paid under any whether the funeral ex- ,enses were more or less than this amount. | Representative Saxe went into the mat CT briefly and thought such an amend nent should pass.
 Quartermaster General Harbison said that this rule was not in force in the quar- termaster generals office, and the $35 had never been refused during his administra- ton.
 MT. Hillard said that he had evidence that General Rudd had refused this money | in several different cases.
 Senator Fox, chairman of the committee, said that if MT. Saxe would produce the | names before the committee of those who had been deprived of this money in the pact he thought he voiced the sentiment of the committee when he said that such persons would be duly compensated.
 THE POOL ROOMS.
 The next bill was the one regarding @ penalty for pool selling, which was aimed at the New Haven Center street pool room, and in which New Haven are much inter- ested.
 Attorney L. W. Cleaveland of New Ha- ven appeared and said: In the city of New Haven we have a pool room. Last year I endeavored to have law passed by our city government forbidding pool selling and betting. This passed the lower board, but met with dis nal failure in the board of aldermen. I have no comment to make regarding this action of the aldermen, but would say that many frequenters of these pool rooms were seen around our city hall about that time. I have read both of these bills, and State's Attorney Doolittle said that our laws laws on gambling did reach these matters. but some law should be passed which did away with these rooms.
 Antonio A. Rockwell of New Haven said: have known a young man who came here to college, the son of distinguished | westerner and old war governor. who | strolled into the pool room and became | fascinated with the game. After that he ! spent most of his time there, because I saw him. I asked him why he did not l stop it.; he said he could not. The student was dropped from college and was sent home, and to this day his folks don't know the reason. Two other Yale men were called home for similar reason. These pool rooms take $75, GOO year out of the pockets of the young men of New Haven, l to say nothing of their ruined regulations. Here NIT. Rockwell spoke of 8 young man ! who had lost everything in these pool rooms, and was finally forced to pawn hie dead mothers watch, which watch he, the speaker, had redeemed and now exposed to the view of the committee.
 Councilman Parsons of New Haven also
 spoke in favor of the bill and condemned
 the pool rooms. He quoted an instance
 where young married man had bought l some furniture of him and many weeks
 elapsed without his paying the bill. Wher
 we inquired we found that this man, who
 was in business in Congress avenue, had
 spent $2,O00 of his wife's money and also
 the money to pay our bill; he had lost il
 betting on the races in our pool rooms
 We cannot seem to pass law in our city
 and ara in crying need of such an enact | ment.
 Rev. Dr. Newman smyth elso spoke ir
 favor of the bill and said: come to favol
 tke proposed law after talks with oul | young men. Who are the men conductin|
 this business, and what are the interest
 against which this law is directeda Thes' men are not our residents, but foreigl
 corporation coming into our city to rol young men who should know better. Ther is only one of these rooms in New Haven
 but that is fourishing one. Our idea : to quarantine our state against such rob bers. Our second point is, what is the nat ure of this business and It's moral effect
 In New Haven you can zee in hall large l than this some 200 men ct one time. they simply belonged to what " call the sporting class, I would not know as it would be worth while to have tbi l evil abated But among those men yo , find business men with some credit, youn 8 men; clerks and others play the combins
 tions of 100 to i. They lose, and go bac
 to handle their employers business an l money. Nearly one-third of these youn ! men are President Dwight's pupils, and
 am sorry to see that no members of tn ] Yale faculty are here to be heard, and e ! am sure they would have been had the V students and others who are robbed an t cheated every day urge you to give thi s ] matter careful consideration.
 Again, where does this money goa 1 goes out of the state into NewYork. Yer little of the money is won in New Haver , and what is is immediately played owe
 again and lost. do not expect moral mil aoles, but do think we need legislation l this matter. It is business which fror . it's nature cannot easily be conducted in s' t cret, and if proper legislation were enscte 1t would soon be plotted out. You ma : say, why don't we pass local law concerr
 ing its We did try that, but suddenly pal lismentary rules became so strict fror
 some unknown reason that the matter wa hung up. It is not alone local evil, bu ' | one which concerns the whole state. It i l 8 deadly octopus of many arms and tents 3 cles and needs to be destroyed at once. , The chief of police of Hartford favere 3 1 such law.
 , Attorney J. L. Barbour of Hartford sait ? I do not appear in favor of piling up legii a penalty for betting on horse races by
 fine of $50. There is also a law givin F power to any common council to make an ordinance governing this matter whic , ] they may see fit.
 , Senator Fox said: If the cities should It fuse, has not the state the privilege to ste
 ins
 MT. Barbour-I don't think the stat should step in and keep the cit
 the faculty should expel then Every person betting on the hors !. races at fairs held in the state 0 ; those held by the Charter Oak Park assoc
 ation races would come under this law and it's effect would be to abolish hors
 racing in the state. The trouble is no with the law but with the communities o
 perhaps with prosecuting attorneys who ! for some unknown reason refuse to issu the warrants
 Senator Fox-Do you appear, Mr. Ba,
 bour, as attorney for sny of these poo ! rooms?
 MT. Barbour-I appear for one or two c
 the agricultural societies.
 Attorney Clesvelsnd said in reply, tha
 the statutes did not provide suitable
 remedies now, and asked for some lav
 that would.
 BEER BOTTLE LAW.
 Attorney Hart of Now York, attorne,
 for the National Bottlers' association, ap
 peared in favor of the proposed act mak
 ing 1t 8 crime to have or cell bottles witl
 the name of some dealer on them ant
 which did not legally belong to the part,
 in whose possession they are found. H,
 explained that the law only sapplied tt
 junk dealers and dealers in bottles, anc
 not to individuals.
 Attorney William A. Wright of New Ha
 ven also favored the act in behalf of the
 Connecticut dealers. Police Commissione1
 Gilhuly of New Haven and other dealers
 favored the matter.
 | ATTORNEY ARvINE's RESOLUTION.
 Resolution appointing Earliss P. Arvine
 judge of the criminal side of the court oi common nleaa