The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-10

| ing that these extensions shall not be made until consent of the selectmen of | Milford is obtained.
 PROSECUTING AGENTS.
 The order of the day in the house
 was the bill providing for the appoint
 ment of liquor prosecuting agents of
 Connecticut by the superior court in stead of by the county commissioners.
 The bill, reported unanimously by the
 judiciary committee, contains the fol- | lowing:
 "The judges of the superior court, at
 their annual meeting in the year 1895, and annually thereafter, shall appoint
 one or more persons residing in each county to be prosecuting agents. whose
 duty it shall be diligently to inquire into and prosecute all violations of the laws relating to the sale of spirituous
 and intoxicating liquors, who shall
 have and exercise in any town or city in said county the powers of grand jurors or prosecuting officers in all prosecutions for such violations, and may conduct such prosecutions person. ally Or by attorney. Said prosecuting agents shall render such aid in all pros- cautions for violation of the provisions of this chapter tried in the superior court, and shall give such information in reference thereto as the states att torney of said county may require. They shall render monthly reports of their doings to the county commission CTS. No person engaged in the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors
 shall be appointed as such prosecuting agent
 '0The judges may remove any of said
 prosecuting agents at their discretion and appoint others in their stead. '
 Representative Judson of Stratford led off in a long speech in favor of the bill.
 Representative Gum of Milford also favored the bill. He said:
 q am heartily in favor of this bill. I believe it will prevent many people from getting wrong ideas of prescott tions. hRder the liquor law. The liquor laws dfe violated from one end of the state to the other. Why do not these agents do their duty2 It is for the nasty picayune politics there is in it that prevents him from doing his duty. There is a law that a man who sells without a license is on the second and third offense imprisoned and fined. How many of the resorts along the shore had a license last year? When has a second prosecution been brought and Imprisonment imposed? They are brought up perhaps four times in the summer and fined, but it IS never all legged that it is the second or third of- fense. They just laugh at this enforce ment of the law. This practice would not exist.
 Mir. Newton of New Haven-New Haven has about one-fifth of the liquor saloons of the state. I dislike just as the republicans have come in to see this appointing power going over. I was al- ways in favor of dividing the court in New Haven and giving a part to the democrats, but I am not in favor of giving the democrats the biggest share. I believe this will provide for more regular enforcement of the law. The character of the prosecutions will stand higher. What the effect on politics will be I don't know. I shall vote for the bill
 Representative Hull Of Monroe-We have a board of county commissioners whose duties are fixed by law. If you give this power of appointment to the superior court you are dividing the responsibilities. If the judges of the superior court have the power of ap- pointing these agents they must take them from the same locality and these judges do not know these men so we'll as the county commissioners. It is the l duty of the commissioners to appoint good men and believe in most cases they make such appointments. But | may exist here and there l and yet these men must be taken from 1 the same place.
 "Who are some of these men who | have received these appointments? | They are such men as Hugh Daley and | William $. Fowler of New Haven. c. | R. c. Giddings of Bridgeport, Yelling l ton B. Smith, a member of this house; | W. S. Downs of Derby and Dwight 1 Futile of East Haven Are not these good and reputable citizens? Sustain the men you have selected for these | offices, unless you can give some good therefor.
 MT. Range of Guilford moved the previous question and the vote was taken by rising. Before those voting no were counted. the speaker declared the vote not carried, as it would have resulted in adjourning the house, the vote showing a lack of quorum
 The discussion lasted for two and lne-haIf hours and at last the previous question was ordered and the bill was passed by a vote of S9 to S1 Repre- Gum moved a reconsidera- ion of the vote, so that it could not be made next Tuesday and the house re- used; sd tho matter goes to the senate.
 GRADE CROSSING EXPENSES.
 The senate to-day passed an impor- ant bill which provides that sums of money assessed by any orders of the 'ailroad commissioners of the superior .ourt upon appeal from stich orders, against any town or city in this state, where the applications were brought Il " any railroad company, or the direc- ors thereof, since May l. 1884, for the emoval of grade crossings by the al- , erations of any highway, or highways, ( f otherwise, in the cases of such high ways as were in existence before the 1, of the railroad, shall be , eimbursed by the state to such towns , f cities entitled to reimbursement un- z CT the provisions of this act shall , resent their claims to the comptroller, I nd proofs and proper certificates, to z
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