The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-26

OL liiC u1llleo OI llAS PClSOiS LOuAAN " have an equal and greatest number of votes for said office"
 This matter came up from the last general assembly.
 LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE.
 Tn the senate to-day there was a long debate over the bill incorporating the Law and Order league of Connecti- cut, and appropriating $5,000 annually to the organization. The bill passed the house and came up to-day in the regular order of business. The first and second amendments attached by the house were passed in concurrence without debate, and then came the third amendment, which provides the annual appropriation of $5,000.
 Senator Chandler read long speech in opposition to this amendment and to the bill as a whole. He said he fla vored Christianity and morality, and all that can be done for the benefit of Christian and law-abiding people, but he did not see any right to appropriate money for this organization.
 Senator Birge of Bristol favored the bill. He said that the saloons were the breeding places of democracy, and he thought that a republican senate should do all in it's power to eliminate at least the most vicious of these places, therefore he favored the bill.
 Senator Coffee moved that under a rule of the senate, the bill should be referred to the committee on appropri- ations. This same rule exists in the house, but it was not followed.
 Senator Dayton supported Senator Coffee's motion to refer.
 Upon this a vote was taken on the motion to refer to the committee on appropriations. Ten senators voted to refer, and eight voted in opposition. It was a rising vote. Three senators did not vote, and three were absent.
 The bill will now go back to the house, which may concur or ask for a committee of conference. The latter course, is deemed the more probable one.
 PUNISHING POLICY PLAYING.
 In the house there was an unfavora- ble report made on the bill prohibiting policy playing and substitute was which provides: Every per- son who, being the owner. mortgagee in possession, lessee or occupant of any building, room, structure, or place, or part thereof, knowingly shall permit the same to be used or occupied for any of the purposes mentioned in sec tion 1 of this act, shall be fined not more than $100 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or be pun ished by such fine and imprisonment both.
 There are similar provisions for those carrying on the game or playing the same.
 THE POOL BILL.
 The senate listened to an unfavorable report from the judiciary committee on the amendment to the pool law, pro- tracks in Connecticut for a period not exceeding twenty days, between May and November.
 This is the amendment that was so opposed before the commit tee by Rev. Newman Smyth of New Haven and as strenuously advocated by friends of Charter Oak Park.
 SENATE.
 Bills passed: Incorporating the United States Wool company, the borough of Jewett City, abating taxes If the Southington and Plantsville com oany, authorizing the city of Bridge port to issue bonds, extending the time Or the organization of the Shelton Street Railway company, concerning he age limit for employment of child en, concerning stenographic notes of ,vidence, concerning the employment | if convicts, concerning judges of pro- 'ate. The committee on temperance sent 1 n unfavorable report on bills provid | ng for an increase in the fees of pros cutting agents and on the bill provid- | ng that all applications for licenses | o sell liquor shall bear the endorse nent of the owners of property ad- oining the saloon mentioned in the ap- lication, failure to obtain such en- absolutely prohibiting grant lg a license to the applicant. These i'll were unanimously rejected. The railroad committee reported Iln- avorably on the bill which provides hat no person or corporation shall re- love snow from the tracks of any treet railway within the corporate lin9- s of any city or borough whenever the now shall be of sufficient depth to al- w vehicles to pass over such streets n runners, except with the consent in riting of the mayor of the city or the arden of the borough and the person r corporation who shall make such emoval shall pay the entire expense lereof. Penalty for violations of this 3t to be $100 fine or three months im- risonment or both. The resolution extending the time for 'ganizing the Shelton Street Railway )mpany was passed. The senate postponed the special or l 1T on the Hartford bridge matter until IV week from next Tuesday. The committee on railroads yester- ty'reported adversely on two petitions r electric roads on the ground that ] ey parallel the New York, New Ha- n and Hartford railroad without a I lblic necessity for the same. They 5 e the petitions of the Connecticut action company, to build an electric ad from Milford to Bridgeport; and the New Haven and Derby Electric ad for an extension of time to build U Id equip it's tracks.