The Press., 1895-05-16


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 THE house recently voted to give the appointing of the prosecuting agents, now made by county commissioners, to the superior court judges, but the senate voted adversely.
 SUNDAYS rain was welcome and timely, refreshing the fast drying earth. Indica- tions are, however, that a heavy grass crop can hardly be looked for this season, after so dry an early spring,
 PEACE is made between China and Jap an. In defe1ence to outside opinion, backed by guns, Japan takes money in lieu of territory. China borrows money of John Bull to meet the indemnity de- mands and pays per cent. for it. The full amount of indemnity as increased by Japan's relinquishing claims to conquered territory is not yet announced. Japan the indemnity is paid.
 
 SUNDAYS rain ended with break in the unreasonable torridity of May, and nothing but clouded sky kept off Sun- day ynight frost. Monday night brought the frost, however. Ice was formed in places, and tender plants were badly nipped. Bad results are feared to fruit blossoms, which are so excessive in quantity how ever, that a considerable thinning out could do no harm if judiciously scattered. The danger is that some orchards may be made barren and that others will be so overloaded as to reduce the average Qual- ity of the fruit. In the grape bearing belt of New York state the crop is said to be ruined. Twelve inches of snow fell in some places in Michigan.
 WHEN legislative body of Connecticut assumed for the state of Connecticut the building of bridge over the Connecticut at Hartford, it established a dangerous precedent, and the act was questionable in all ways, more so from the certainty that lobbying methods were employed. But the act was done, and parties author ized went on and contracted for the build ng of the bridge. Now, two years later, another legislature changes all this, and puts back the burden of the bridge upon the territory where it rested before. No great harm would be done, except for the fact that the act is one of repudatiOn. An honorable firm of bridge builders, of national reputation, had been contracted with and taken steps to fill it's contract, undergoing great expense. Under the circumstances the state should have hon. Ored it's contract.
 TIE Delaware legislature adjourned last Thursday, and it is a matter of dispute whether it elected a U. s. senator before adjourning. Henry A. Dupont, repubIi- can, had on last ballot 15 out of 29 votes, ,whereupOn Governor Watson claim ed the right to vote and cast his vote | against Dupont, making it a tie. Gov | Watson, as speaker of the house had suc- | ceeded to the gOvernorship upon the death | of the elected governor, and had acted as governor. The constitution provides that | no person can hold the office of governor, | and also that of legislator. Gov. Watson l had resigned from the speakership and | from the house. Gov. Watson decla1ed | the legislature adjourned, and that no | election of senator had been made, where | upon the speaker of the house arose and | declared that Henry A. Dupont had been elected to serve six years as U. s. senator. The question will go to the U. s. senate for decision whether or not MT. Dupont is elected. The failure to elect, if it be | failure, is due to the persistent efforts of Addfcks, a candidate, to prevent the elec- l tiOn of any one but himself
 The following act has been passed by both branches:
 That every town clerk in this state shall | examine carefully the town records of his | town, and make true copy of all that re- | lates to the revolutionary war in such | records, Ebetween 1 ,774 and 1 ,784, incIu- | Sive, preserving the original spelling and | capitals and the original form of the rec | ords as far as may be, giving the page and | volume of the record and shall certify | that it is true copy of the record and | mail the same to the state librarian at | Hartford, on or before January l. 1896; | and shall be paid therefor, by the state, l at the Tate of twenty five cents per legal | page. Where there is no such record the | town clerk shall so certify.
 The joint committee on constitutional | amendments reported a resolution crea- ting commission to revise the state con- stitutiOn. It is to meet in Hartford and | report to a special session of the general | assembly in January, 1896. The con- mission is named in the resolution. Those i from Holland county are E. c. Pinney of l Stafford, E. $. Henry, Chas. Phelps and w. B. Foster of Rockville. Among oth- CT leading members are Ex-Gov. Bulke ley, Ernest Cady, John R. Buck, Lewis Sperry, Henry B. Harrison, Chas R. h. gersOll, Stephen w. Kellogg, Jeremiah HalSey, Augustus Brandegee, Thomas M. Waller, Charles B. Andrews, Charles E. Searles, John M. Hall, E. A. Buck, J. Addison Porter.
 Springfield Union: There are unmis- takable and gratifying indications that in the near future the laws providing for the punishment of train robbers are to be made more severe. The west and south have been the worst sufferers from this species of crime and the Illinois senate recently passed bill under which train robbing could be made a capital offense and which provided a minimum penalty of imprisonment for ten years. It is true that the measure was defeated in the house, but the negative vote was inquest ionably promoted by the somewhat exag- gerated claim that under the law as it passed the senate a striking employe of a railroad could be hanged for assaulting a trainman while using force to promote the success of the strike. The merits of the question of capital punishment aside, it seems reasonable that the penalty for