The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-20
SELECTMEN'S BUSY DAY
THE FIRST SESSION OF THE BoARD
 OF REGENERATION.

Students Not Allowed to Register-Cases
 Deferred Until Thursday-Democrats
 Objected-Rooms Ten and Eleven Were
 Crowded All Day-The Registration by
 Wards.
 The citizens oath was administered to 571 of the voters ito be made" yes- terday by Town Clerk Brethauer in the presence of the seven selectmen, who, with the town clerk, constitute the board of registration. It was con- sidered by the selectmen a good days work for starter, and it indicates the interest the men who are entitled to participate in the coming election are taking to provide themselves with proper credentials of citizenship.
 For almost one hour before the se- lectmen arrived yesterday morning and organized for business, the corridors of the building were crowded with men who were anxiously awaiting an oppor- tunity to take the oath of citizenship. The board was organized by electing Selectman Beecher president, Carl F. Stahl clerk, and Isaac M. Ullman and Arthur M. Beebe, sergeants- -at-arms.
 All the appointments were given to republican members. but they were not nhionta1 to lo
 General Registrars Frederick l.. Averill, republican, and John P. Car ney, democrat, were on hand to give what assistance they could to the board and incidentally to see how the voters to be made" compared as to politics. The ward inspectors were for the most part present also.
 As to parties the board is a tie, it having been made so by the. presence of the democratic town clerk, Frederick H. Brethauer.
 There was no difficulty yesterday un- til John M. Gaines. who said that he lived in Pierson hall, one of the Yale dormitories put in his appearance. He said th>t he was Yale grad uate and that his parents lived in Texas. John P. Carney, the demo- cratic registrar, was on his feet almost as soon as MT. Gaines had an- nounced his residence. He objected to Yale students being made without a special hearing of the board
 Selectman Bretzfelder upheld Reg istrar Carney. Gaines said that he sup ported himself He lived in New Ha- ven and did not expect to leave the city. Town Agent Baldwin did not think that it was right to discriminate between young men who came to this city to learn trade and those who came to get an education.
 A motion was made to admit Gaines, but the complexion of the board did not admit any such disposition of the case. The board stood four to four. It was then voted to defer all such cases until Thursday morning at o'clock. Hezekiah l.. Pile, who rooms In East Divinity hall, was the next applicant. He was compelled to wait until Thurs day.
 In this case the republicans took ex- l9ception to the question Bretzfelder ask ed Pyle-where he was going when he got through college.
 That isn't right said Baldwin. You might as we'll ask every man that , question:
 q believe it to be a fair question" :" wedged in Cunningham. These men do not intend to live If New Haven. When they get their education they shake our dust from their feet" oI1 ,,1z @l,a ,ola aa Stahl I've don't know but some of these young men will live with us all ways. What would a student do if he fell in love with one of our New Haven girls?"
 There were a good many Italians made" yesterday. Most of them ap- peared before the board wearing Mc- Kinley badges.
 President Beecher said last evening that no proof had been shown that the men who offered themselves were not residents. Tyrannical paritsanship Is at the bottom of it all.
 Messrs. Cunningham and Bretzfelder did not think the students held resi- dences here. They should go home to vote if they wished to exercise the priv ilege. We are not partisan, both these gentlemen said, "but we do want the law enforced"
 There are about one hundred students who will apply "to be made" and 1t is claimed, upon the authority of can- vass which has recently been complet- ed, that 80 per cent. of these are for sound money.
 After the student question was set tied there was no further trouble and every minute of the time was consumed in making voters and not arguing tech nicalities. At 8 o'clock last evening, the hour for closing, the room was filled with men who came "to be made" The board will resume its work this morn ing at o'clock.
 The registration by wards is as fol- lows: First ward, 63; Second, 39; Third, 70; Fourth, Il; Fifth, 39; Sixth, 39; Sev- enth, 30; Eighth, 37; Ninth, 7S; Tenth, 42; Eleventh, 24; Twelfth, 2S; Thir- teenth 5; Fourteenth, 8; Fifteenth, 8.