The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-03
MR. Romn,s CTRouLAR.

aginary Conversation Between an Oyster
 Grower and Farmer.
 Hartford, April 2,-On the desk oi each member of the senate and house
 to-day circular decorated with a pie
 ture of farmer and an oysterman shaking hands and containing the fol lowing dialogue was placed this morn ing:
 Oyster grower-Connecticu men raise oysters on their farms in Long Island sound from one to four miles from land, but on dark night pirates come from other states and steal and carry them away.
 Farmer-what are you doing about 1t?
 Oyster grower-We have a private po- lice that costs us $11,0O0 year, but the pirates are not much afraid of private police.
 Farmer-There is not any too much property in Connecticut, and we don't like to have any that there is carried away without being paid for. Oyster grower-If the state will give it's authority and create state police to help our it would scare off the pi- rates a good deal. We, need the au- thority of the state for our protection much more than the small appropria- ton (about $2,3OO) which we ask to use with our $11, 900.
 Farmer-But some say that would be "class legislation"
 Oyster grower-At first sight some think so, but if they look at 1t awhile thinking man can see that 1t is not so.
 Farmer-How's that?
 Oyster grower-We pay a town tax, and so do you; we both get that back in schools, roads, etc; but besides that we oyster farmers pay a 10 mill state tax that we get hardly any return for. We ask you to use one-t third of that to help our police keep these oysters in Connec- ticut.
 Farmer-Sure enough. did not know about your paying two taxes. If there is any "class legislation" it is making you pay two taxes and not giving you anything in return for but one of them
 Oyster grower-I thought you would do right when you knew how it was
 Farmer-Well, I guess so; am not going to be mean because there are more land farmers than oyster farmers. You have paid $6O,O0O to the state for barren land that'the state could not sell for 200 years, and over $S0, 900 for taxes on it. and it would be small potatoes for the state to be mean to you, and then cali 1t economy.
 Oysterinen = Thanks; legislation against thieves and in favor of honest men may be in one sense "class legls- lation," but it won't hurt the conscience of sensible men. guess we both mean fair; let's shake.
 The picture of the oysterman is a good likeness of Henry c. Rowe of New Haven, who is called the ''King of the Oyster Industry" The dialogue, as will be seen, refers to the recent discus sion in the general assembly over the bill providing for the appointment of oyster policemen for the protection of the oyster beds of the state The opin- ion is prevalent that the circular is and will prove to be a powerful and telling campaign document in behalf of the movement 1t represents.
 The bill is now on the house table, after having passed the house once and been recommitted to the committee of fisheries by the senate. The circular was gotten up by Mir. Rowe.
 Quite wide of the mark is the follow ing from one of New Haven's evening papers on the oyster police bill question, especially the second paragraph which Is exactly contrary to the facts in the case:
 Hartford, April 2.-The senate to-day recalled the oyster police bill, which 1t recommitted last week to the fisheries The house had passed It. but the senate wanted the committee to reconsider 1t, and the matter promis- ed to raise fight in the house on dis agreeing action.
 Anticipating this the opponents of the | measure this afternoon had placed on the desk of each member a cartoon of Henry c. Rowe of Fair Haven arguing with a farmer in support of the oyster police bill.
 The senate, however, recommended its | return and recalled the bill from the house. and 1t Is thought it will be pass