The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-04
But Clerk COn.ey Has Lots Of Unfn-
ished Business on Docket.
THE ADJOURNMENT RESOLUTION
Sent to The House by the senate Is on
The File of Unfinished Business
Plenty of Work for the soions OF the
Lower Legislative Branch.

Clerk Conley of the house OF representa-
tives hasn't received any instructions
about the size Of payroll to submit
to the state auditor. But he has prepared
his docket OF unfinished business for the
January session, on the supposition
that the house will sit on the fourth
Tuesday in January and enter upon the
duties OF the session.
Resolution Of Adjournment.
On the files OF the desk are ten bills and
resolutions, the most significant OF which
is the Senate resolution of adjourn
ment at Newport which Speaker
Owen committed to the table in
disgust. The judiciary committee have q
matters on their files, prominent among
which are petitions of the Rhode Island
Episcopal convention, for the passage
OF acts relative TO divorce; to Gre
ate board OF state assessors !;
to enable cities and towns to elect park
commissioners; amendments to the build
ing law of Providence; to extend and re-
gulate the liability OF employers to make
compensation for personal injuries suf-
fered by employees in their
service; to regulate the employment and
provide for the safety of women and chill
dren in mercantile industries and manu-
featuring establishments; the historic act
relative to medicines and poisons and
sundry bills calculated to increase the
revenue of the state.
Commits, on Corporations.
The committee on corporations have
failed to report upon ten measures Of
greater or less Importance. Among them
H.. Die srt
Warren and Darlington street Railway
Co., East Greenwich Water Supply Co.,
River Point Fire district and Westerly
Street Railway Co.
iinance tommittee.
The finance committee may wrestle
with fifteen bills and resolutions in their
possession. The military companies
ask for appropriations for i'm
provement OF their quarters. Appro-
priations are asked for the construction
of cabinets i'm the state house to contain
the battle flags OF organizations serving
in the late war, for shelter for the
Gettysburg gun in the state
house yard and for the construction of
building for women at the state institu
t.ons and other contemplated improve
ments in the several departments.
On Special Legislation.
The committee on special legislation
have a bill in amendment of the act es-
tablishing the Soldiers home in Bristol.
The committee on education will
find seven acts and resolu-
tions on their files. The only
measure of public interest is the petition
OF the Women's Christian union for an
act providing for instruction in physiol-
ogy and hygiene in the public schools.
militia Committee.
The committee on militia will have be-
fore them a resolution appointing joint
special committee to confer with the city
council of Providence with the view OF
obtaining from the city suitable loca-
tion for the erection of state armory.
The quart rmaster general wants $500
ambulance for the brigade of
state militia. The committee on
agriculture have matter relative to COM
mercial fertilization which they may pass
upon. There are "a matters in all, and
the chances are that the majority OF them
will not be taken up unless the session
is prolonged into the bonny month of
May.
seuate Docket Not FILED.
The senate docket has not been COM
pleted as yet. As that honorable
body does not meet until the
Democratic house has been
in solitary session for week,
the clerk and secretary of state have ample
time to prepare il. And there may not be
any necessity OF dockets after all the labor
of compilation.