The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-01
THE HOUSE.

THE HOUSE.
 Representative Hicks called up the resolution amending the charter of the WoodDnont Improvement associa- tion. He said he wished to amend the resolution because many of the details were unconstitutional and illegal. Any good lawyer could drive a coach and -four horses right through that hill, he said.
 According to the bill, a gentleman who had case of wine in his cellar could be arrested for violating the law. It was voted to have the amendment print ed and the bill was made the order for Wednesday at Il o'clock.
 The principal feature of MT. Hicks amendments is that any male citizen of voting age residing in Woodmont, whether a member of the association or not, may vote on the question of l- cense. MT. Hicks said that without this provision the bill would not be worth the paper it was written on.
 A favorable report was made on the resolution appointing Charles Cameron judge and Jeremiah Tierney deputy judge of the town court of Greenwich.
 The bill providing that an examina- tion of school teachers by town should be necessary without the state examina- tion was discussed at length, but the house adjourned pending it's considera- ton.
 The committee on Humane institu- tions will report favorably on a state reformatory, which will probably kill the movement for New Haven jail ex- tension.
 Adjourned until Wednesday at 1O:SO a. m.
 THE IIARBOR OF WESTBROOK.
 In the house last week Representa- tive Lewis of Westbrook made an earn est speech in favor of a resolution ap- propriatin $500 for deepening the ap- breaches to the wharves at Westbrook. Although the bill was defeated, MT. Lewis made big fight for his measure. His speech is as follows:
 More than one hundred years ago General Washington, the first president of the United States, advocated the pol icy of not only the nation but the states appropriating money to improve water ways of the country. And since his time able and wise statesmen have ad- vocated the same policy and many of the states have improved their wa ter ways; and where they did not have natural waterways some of the states have built wholly artificial waterways at enormous expenditures of money For more than fifty years the states to the west of us have been developing and improving their waterways. New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illi- nois, Michigan and other states have money and improved their waterways. Because the prosperity of these states depends largely upon the means of exchanging products at the lowest cost and because transportation facilities must precede the actual needs of trade transportation, facilities must be there first before you can do any business.
 Traffic must grow to transportation facilities. This is true in other states and it is true in this state. This truism built railways to the Pacific and else whene before they could have any divi- 1ends. This truism has improved the and developed the great in
  made this country great. The experience of other states teaches IS that the best pioneers of prosperity | Ire facilities for cheap transportation, | And whoever may eavil at this and say | Us special or class legislation for the l state to appropriate money to improve l ts natural waterways, the benefits re- ulting from such legislation outweighs | III that can be said against the princi- | ,le of a state improving it's own natural waters.
 This legislature can have no higher jim or purpose than to seek to help to promote and secure the prosperity and yell being of all of its towns
 Suppose this state had adopted this ,olicy of improving our natural water ways fifty or even twenty-five years go, this town of Westbrook and other hore towns would now be in a flourish ng condition.
 Why is the United States the richest nd most prosperous nation on the globe o-day?
 Senator Voorhees, in his speech on the ariff in the United States senate last ear-and it was said to be the greatest fort of his life-said all the commerce. I f England, France Germany, Italy and |, pain combined was nothing to com are with the vast and magnificent in- arnal interstate commerce of this coun- ry
 Why is it? Is it because the United tates has iron and coal, and silver and l {