The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-11


 general assembly, the supreme court of errors or the superior court, the court of common pleas or district court, shall receive $5 for each day of such attend anee, and each deputy sheriff when att tending any of said courts shall re- ceive S3 for each day of such attend ance, and no sheriff or deputy sheriff shall receive more than one per diem for his attendance at court in any one day,
 Section 2-Thls act shall take effect from its passage.
 Senator Douglass said that he believ- ed the sheriff of New Haven county re- ceived from $S,OOO to $10,0OO per year, or more than the salary of the chief justice of Connecticut He moved that the per diem be $S Instead of $5.
 Senator Chandler said he didn't care if the sheriffs received $10OOOO year, if they earned 1t.
 Senator Warren said the eheriffs of the larger counties were receiving larg- CT fees, but it did not come from the state, but from the litigants.
 Senator Marigold thought that in wicked New Haven county the fees ran up higher than in good Fairfield county, where the sheriff received not over $3,50O per year. The bill was fair. paying sheriffs $5 a day.
 Senator Johnson state that in New Haven, owing to the large population, there was a good deal of business, but 1t was not owning to the wickedness of. the county. He did not believe the sheriff of New Haven county received any too much fees.
 Senator Douglass said that no sheriff could earn $1OO00O.
 Senator Chandler said that his state ment was merely comparative. He was in favor of economy and would go as far as any man in that line.
 The bill was then passed making the per diem $5 per day.
 HONIE OF THE FRIENDLEss.
 In the house a bill was passed amending the charter of the Home of the Frfendless of New Haven. The bill:
 That section three of the charter of the Home for the F'riendless, approved June 19, 1867, and printed on page 190 and 191 of volume VI of the special laws of Connecticut, be and it Is hereby amended to read as follows:
 Said corporation may sue and be sued, and prosecute and defend suits in all courts of this state and alter the same at pleasure, may receive, hold and possess any estate, real or personal, by subscription, gift, grant, devise, in trust or otherwise, and the same inn prove, lease, exchange or sell and con- vey; provided, that said corporation shall at no time hold real estate of greater value than fifty thousand dol lars ($50,000)
 THE SEANEN FRIEND SOCIETY.
 A bill was also passed changing the nanne of the seamens' Friend society of New Haven. Following is the bill:
 That the corporation heretofore char tired by resolution approved May 30, 1860, and printed in volume V, page BAT, private laws of the state of Con necticut, and therein named ",The La dies Seamen's Friend Society of thecity of New Haven" ayhenceforth by known by the name of "The Women's Seamen's Friend Society of Connecticut" and under said name may exist for its original purpose, and for the purpose of l aiding seamen who may come into any port of the state of Connecticut, and of | to benefit the temporal | and spiritual interests of such seamen, and for such purposes shall be capable | in law to purchase and receive all kinds | of property, real and personal, and to | sell and dispose of the same at pleasure; but all grants, gifts, legacies. bequests l and contracts heretofore and hereafter | to be made by, or with said corpora ton by the name of "The Ladies | Friend Society of the City of | New Haven" shall nevertheless be ef- fectual and valid; provided, that said | shall at no time hold real | pr personal estate the annual income of which shall exceed ten thousand dollars ($100OO.)
 NEW HAVEN CORPORATIONS WHIP
 ED OUT.
 Several days ago the Journal and Courier" gave an account of hearing before the committee on finance con ,erning the plan to wipe out the exist snoe of the Tomlinson Bridge company md the Un1on Wharf company. The property p6lOnBS to tue COnSOItQated | 'oad and 1t was thought best to wipe ut these corporations, which now had 10 use as separate organizations. The Jill was reported favorably, and after ,eing explained in the senate this ae ernoon it was passed.
 A FISHERY APPROPRIATION. In the house this afternoon MT. Wall if Torrington moved that the bill ap- 5000 for the fish and anne commission, rejected yesterday, ,e reconsideFed. He said the bill ap- ropriated $5,00O less than usual. It vas not new business, as had been tated. He said the opposition to the l ill was on account of politics. One of he commissioners, who was afraid of aving his official head chopped off, / ad been here lobbying against the i'll. It was voted to send the matter to he committee on appropriations. I
 SENATE.
 Senator Chapman, chairman of the z shertes' commission, stated that the T harges against Fish Commissioner ronson had not been sustained. Sem (