The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-18
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE,S YIC-
 TORY YESTERDAY.


 Various Eloquent speeches on the Subject
 Many Other Matters of Public Interest
 Hartford, April 17.-There was a hear ing this afternoon before the committee on woman suffrage, Representative Gunn of Milford, chairman. The hear / ing was in the hall of the house, and while the attendance was much smaller than at the first meeting, most of the seats were filled.
 On the part of the women the hearing was conducted by Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, who, despite her advanced years, appeared in very good health She sat with some of the other promi- nent women at a table In front of the speakers desk. Before the speaking she told Chairman Gum that she would have preferred that the legislature might be addressed collectively; that was a right that one-half of the people of the state could justly demand.
 The first speaker was Mrs Elizabeth Chapman of Kansas,a delegate to the national congress, who spoke in part as follows:
 Tn Wyoming woman suffrage has had test of twenty-seven years and now none of the men oppose the law It is one of the strongest arguments in favor of this right that can be adduced. There was time when the cattle wars that prevailed on the border were brought up against the state of Wyo- ming, but the men engaged in them came over the border from other statesa To-day the jails of Wyoming are well. nigh empty, and as for poverty the record is better than of any state west; of the Mississippi river. From the last census it was learned that there was only one idiot in the state, and he was man. Qaughter.)
 Insanity prevails more largely among married women than among any other class, and that is due to the fact that the housewife has one ceaseless. round of duties which are the same month after month. Once let this class of wo- men mingle in the caucus and at the elections, and there would be a variety and spice that would drive away all excuse for insanity.
 "In these days we are reminded that our government, as good as it is, is yet far from being an ideal government for in an ideal government there must be but small degree of illiteracy, pow erty, criminality, idiocy and insanity. The United States, in proportion to theI population, has the largest amount of idiocy of any nation in the world; and we are obliged to face the fact that poverty is increasing and the same can be said of criminality. The United States leads i-d insanity. But in that one state of Wyoming, where the wo- men vote, there is a great absence of the drawbacks and the blights upon civilization which have mentioned. In Wyoming compulsory education pre- vails, and in the sparsely settled dis tricts teachers are sent to the homes and teach the children, in some eases going to a home where there is only one child and teaching for weeks at a time. | Wyoming has the highest standard in | education of any state or country in | the world, and in the matter of crimi- l nality lit has the smallest record of any | state in the Union. Since the woman | suffrage law was passed twenty-seven years ago, the men have made no op- | position to the measure, and it is work | ing finely"
 Mrs. Catt urged that the generous suffrage of the state was the cause of its excellent record in civilization. In closing she urged the committee to re- port favorably on the bill giving the suffrage to women, claiming that if the women voted many of the ills of the present civilization would be eliminated. Mrs. Catt made an excellent speech and was listened to with attentive inter- est.
 Mrs. Hooker introduced several other speakers and in her introduction she gave some new argument in behalf of woman suffrage for Connecticut. Among those present was Judge Joseph Shell don of New Haven.
 LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE INCOR-
 PORATED.
 The bill incorporating the Connecti- cut law and order league came up in the house at il a. m. as the special order The incorporators are George Austin Bowen Francis Wayland, New man Smyth, Pierce N. Welch, John H. Perry, E. P. Bullard, Joseph H. James, l.. Norton, Rufus D. Holmes Luman c. Colt, Leonard w. Bacon, J. Y. McDermott, William D. Sessions, A. H. Conklin, Frank Cheney, jr, D. F. Arvine, Samuel P. Thrasher.
 Representative Warner of Putnam chairman of the committee on incorpo- rations, made a long and eloquent speech in favor of the bill, saying at the outset that all who favored law and order ought to favor this bill. No good reason could be given for opposing any of its provisions. He then pointed out the prominence of the incorporators and said that no one could read that list without feeling his sense of honor stir red.
 MT. Hicks of Holland moved to strike out section of the law which provides for the payment of one-half the fines to the league. Henry G. Newton of New Haven spoke in favor of the bill. In view of the amendment presented by MT Hicks he said he was in favor of the passage of the bill He thought it will have ex- ,ellent results. MT. Judson of Stratford made a. very strong speech in opposition to the pro oosal to pay the league agents from he treasury of the state. He said that oy rule of the house, any bill authoriz- : ng a special appropriation should be re- erred to the committee on appropria- 1A.1- uTNnrNN rA1