The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-09
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efal Assembly last evening nominated chaplains for the senate and house, and they will be formally elected by ballot when the two houses organize this forenoon.
 It is a curious fact that there is no statute providing either for the ap- pointment or pay of chaplains. Up to 1870, or somewhat later, 1t was the practice to have prayer offered by @ member, or to call one clergyman or another of the city where the General Assembly was in session, Hartford or New Haven. At the close of the ses- sion an appropriation of seventy-five or one hundred dollars was voted by each house for this service. Although chap lains are now regularly appointed for the session, this method of payment continues, the usual amount appropri- ated to each chaplain being the same as the pay of a senator or representa- tive, three hundred dollars In the event of an extended session, extra ap- propriations of fifty to one hundred dollars have occasionally been given in recognition of the additional services.
 Goodwin's Legislative Statistics men, tion chaplains for the first time in the session of 1873. At that time, and in succeeding sessions up to 1883, two chaplains were appointed, who served alternately in the two houses, exchang- ing from one to the other at intervals, and one officiating in both houses when the other was absent. The first chap lains named in Goodwin's Statistics, in 1873, when the legislature met in Hart ford, were the late Rev. Dr. E. P. Par ker (Cong.) and the late Rev. Charles R. Fisher of St. Paups Episcopal church. The following year the last session in New Haven was held, and the chaplains were the Rev. John D. Todd (Cong) and the Rev. Henry Fitch (Epis) In 1875, when the General As sembly came to Hartford to remain, Dr. Parker and the Rev. MT. Fisher were again chosen, and were reelected in 1876 In 1877 the Rev. A. Douglass Mill Ter of St. Johns Episcopal church took MT. Fishers place, and Dr. Parker was called as his associate. The Revs. Par ker and Miller continued in the ses- sions of 1878 and 1879. In 1880 the cler- gymen were the Rev MT. Sage of the First Baptist church and the Rev. Cal win B. Ford of the First Methodist the first recorded recognition of these de- nominations. Tn 1881 MT. Sage was re- appointed and the Rev. George L. Thompson of the First Methodist took MT Ford's place. Messrs. Sage and Thompson served again in 1882
 Beginning in 1883, the senate and house each elected a chaplain separate ly and the incumbents have been.
 1SSS-Senate, E. P. Parker (Cong); House, c. M. Stone (Bap).
 18S4-Senate, Graham Taylor (Cong); House, G. M. Stone Bap).
 1SS5-Senate, Graham Taylor (Cong0; House, R. s. Pardington (Meth.)
 1S86-Senate, E. P. Parker (Cong); House, D. G. Downey (Meth.).
 1SS7-senate, D. G. Downey, Meth); House, H. P. Smith (Bap).
 18S9-Senate, Storrs O. Seymour (Epis); House, J. E. Holmes CMeth).
 1891-Senate, Storrs o. Seymour (Epis); House, J F. Holmes (Meth9.
 1S93-senate, w. H. Stone Gpis); House, J, K. Wneeler (bdpJ.
 Tn the eighteen sessions held in the past twenty years, from 1873 to 1893 in- elusive, the denominations have been in the chaplaincies as fol- lows:
 Congregational ................11
 Epscopalian ..................'lO
 Methodist ....................,.
 Ta mist ..,,..,...,.,....
 The Congregationalists and Episco- ] palians divided the chaplaincies be- tween them up to 1880. In that year | and the two succeeding years the Meth9 odists and Baptists had them. In 1885 and since then the division has been: Methodists 5, Congregationalists 4, Baptists 3, Episcopalians 3.
 If precedents are observed in the sen- ate. the chaplain of that body for the session will be named by the Hartford senator, MT. Hall, who, 1t is favors the Rev. C. c. Bris- tol of the Church of the Good Shepherd, In which the senator is the senior dea- con. Whether the senate will accord the privilege of naming the chaplain to the single democratic senator remains to be seen. There is some rivalry for the chaplaincy of the house between the friends of the Rev. Joseph Irons of the North Methodist church, and those of the Rev. w. A. Richard, pastor Of the South Park Methodist. The latter will make the point that, while other Methodist churches in Hartford have been recognized in past years, in the appointments of Messrs. Downey, Par lington, Thompson, Ford and Holmes, the South Park Methodist has never had its pastor called to pray under the yilded dome While this friendly ri- yalry between the Methodist brethren s going on, they should see to 1t that he Congregationalists CT Baptists lon't ship a man into the place.-Hart- 'ord Times.
 THE HURRICANE WARNING.