The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-06

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 on any tree, wall or structure along 8
 highway, excepted posted by law, shal
 be fined not more than $1O0 or imprison-
 ment of six months or both.
 THE HOUSE.
 Representative Warner of Putnam
 presided in the absence of Speaker
 Fessenden and rattled off bills expe-
 ditiously.
 These bills were passedi Extending the time for acceptance of charter of Y. M. c. A. of Danbury; amending
 charter of Hartford Street Railroad company; providing for appointment of commissioners for the national mill
 itary parks; concerning amendments
 to charters; providing that when the
 state has paid the expense of burial
 of a soldier or sailor, if it is found af-
 terward that deceased leaves property, l the comptroller may collect from the
 estate for such expense; concerning
 notices of town health officers; author
 izing the Greenwich Gas and Electric
 Lighting company to build sea walls;
 authorizing George H. Banks, William
 G. Smith, Alia J. Teed, George P. l w tbIVL btl ILllAcJDGLll II w Gbby LLClAA
 Webb, Jennie H. Knapp and Lizzie
 R. Cummings to build sea walls.
 The bill concerning criminal prose-
 cutions was rejected.
 The bill concerning the taking of
 land was explained by MT. Cowell of Waterbury and passed.
 The resolution incorporating the 1 Hartford Manufacturing company was | passed.
 The bill concerning the qualification of blind voters was discussed. Blind persons are not now allowed to vote because there are no copies of the statutes in raised letters, but this bill provides that if blind voter can write section of the statutes he shall be allowed to vote. The bill passed. The bill concerning school districts was discussed, It provides that mo school district shall employ a teacher for g. longer period than that for which they may have been elected without first obtaining a majority vote of said district. The penalty for violation of the law for each member of a commit tee is fine of not more than $50"
 A motion to strike out the penalty was adopted and the bill passed.
 Adjourned until Tuesday at 11:SO a. m.
 BILL FOR THE STAMPING OF SILL
 YER AND GOLD GOODS.
 A committee representing the Connec- ticut Jewellers and Opticians associa- ton appeared before the judiciary com mittee yesterday in advocacy of the bill for 'an act relating to the manufacture and safe of articles composed of wholly or in part of gold or silver,or any alley or imitation thereof and prescribing penalties and declaring an emergen- cy." The committee who appeared be- fore the Legislative committee was Gen eral George Fl. Ford and S. H. Kirby of New Haven, Major c. H. Case of Hart ford, c. R. Hansel of Hansel, Sloan & Go. of Hartford, also Mr. Deming of Hartford General Ford, president of the state association of Jewellers and Opticians, in his address to the commit tee saidi
 I presume that you are all aware that gold in its pure form is too soft for com mercial use, therefore it becomes neces- cary to introduce a certain amount of alloy in order to st!ffen it and make it useful for the purpose for which it is used. For convenience, in the early times it was divided into twenty-four parts carat, meaning Hath as applied to gold. In England the standard is IS and %, or IS parts of gold and parts alloy, or P parts gold and ? parts alloy, assuming that an article is made of gold In this country custom has es- tablished the standard as IA and IS carat but it left entirely to the dis cretion of the man who mixes the gold to make that proportion, The result is | that large proportion of the metal ] sold and called sgold and stamped IA | and IS carat to-day upon the market Is | made of 10 and carat gold, or parts | gold to IS parts alloy, or 10 parts gold | and IA parts alloy of brass or silver | In proof of what I have to say l will l present to you a watch case. That | case is stamped 14 carat and is made of brass and gilded over, and yet hundreds of people are buying those watches for IA carat gold and are being sold by | dishonest persons. Here is another in- stance of a ring that is stamped 18 | The ring is made of a hollow ware and filled with a circle of Waterbury brass. That article is sold for IS cara; It is not IS. There Is an outside shell of gold, and brass inside You can pick these up in Hartford or in any place in Connecticut.
 In regard to sterling, the origin of the word sterling, which we see fre- 1uently, came from some German trad srs in England, whose money was of ,he purest quality and implies silver )25-1 000 parts pure, and in the term applied to the quality of English coins, which is the purest in the world. The Jast few years innumerable articles in mall wares, such as spoons, buckles md articles of jewelry, have found their way into the market stamped with the word sterling, when in some instances, IS at present, in the spoon which I ffcred for your inspection stamped U. ]. sterling, is made entirely of brass metal covered with coating of silver r of this umbrella head, which is a ,iece of lead covered with thin coat ng of silver. These articles are sold 1 very day in the city of Hartford, in the { ity of New Haven, in fact all over , his state, as sterling, and the buyers [