The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-04-23
A FR0WN AT EL0QUENCE


tlOnS reported IdVOraDly on Ils IOlloW-
ing nominations for judgeships of town
courts: East Hartford, John A. Slough
ton, judge, and George x. Wilcox, dep
uty judge; Manchester, Herbert o.
Bowers, Judge, and Fred w. Mills, dep
uty Judge; Enfield, Jabez P. Davis,
judge.
Calendar and printing.
Mr.. Williams of Salisbury submitted
a return of taxes paid by steam rail-
roads for the year ending September so,
1896, prepared by the state treasurer as
requested by members of the house.
The taxes for the year paid by the rail-
roads are as follows: Boston and New
York Air Line, $15,774.27; Colchester
railway, $3.50; Danbury and Norwalk,
$7,97216; Hartford and Connecticut
Western, 6,5S4.94; Housatonlc railroad,
$23, S3706; Meriden and Waterbury,
$S72.92; Naugatuck, S2S,757,69; New
England, s97,2S2.S1; New Haven and
Derby, $13,331.59; New Haven and
Northampton, $15,131.04; New London
Northern, $1S,3e9.34; New York, New
Haven and Hartford, s4S6,as173; Nor
witch and Worcester, s4o,S25.75; Rock
Vile, $575.SS; Shepaug and Litchfield,
$5SS; Shore Line railway, &,709;
South Manchester, $291.95; total, $685.
06613.
The action of the senate in indefinite
ly postponing the insurance bill entitled
concerning crimes" was reported to
the house.
Mr.. Calkins of East Lyme moved that
the matter be tabled. Lost by vote of
45 to "a.
Mr. Frisbie of Pennington moved
that the bill be indefinitely postponed.
The motion to indefinitely postpone was
lost.
The motion of Mr.. Barnes Of Norwich
to adhere to former action and ask for
a committee of conference was carried.
Mr.. Merwin of Windsor and Mr.. Barnes
of Norwich were appointed on the COM
mittee on conference.
The committee on agriculture report
ed unfavorably on the bill making an
appropriation of $4,000 for the scientific
investigation of tuberculosis. The re-
port was accepted and the bill was re-
jected.
The bill reported by the temperance
committee regulating concert saloons
was rejected. 1t provided that any
person licensed to sell spirltuous and in
toxicating liquors, who shall allow or
permit the playing Of any musical in
strument on the premises where he is
so licensed, shall be fined not less than
$40 nor more than 5000.
A bill amending section 1869 of the
general statutes was passed. 1t pro-
vides that licenses for the sale of Id
uors shall specify the town and the par
ticular building or place in which the
liquors are to be sold, and shall author
lie no sale in any other place or build
ing. The license shall also be made re-
vocable in terms for any violation of
the provisions of the laws relating to
the sale of liquors. The county COM
missioners may indorse upon the IL
cense permission to the person so IL
cenSed to remove from one building to
another, but the applicant shall specify
the building to which he wishes to re-
move. The commissioners shall not
permit removal or transfer except upon
due notice and hearing and now provid-
ed by law for original applications, and
the law concerning appeals from coun-
ty commissioners shall apply to such
cases.
The following bill concerning the sale
of intoxicating liquors on election day
was on the calendar starred, 1t having
been favorably reported by the COM
mittee on temperance:
THE provisions of section 3093 of the
general statutes, as amended by chap
| ter CXCVII of the public acts of 1889,
and by chapter CCLxI of the public
acts Of 1893, shall not apply, in cases of
| special elections in cities, to wards in
which no election is held"
| Mr.. Averill of New Haven said that
| the present law had not the moral sup
| port of the best people in the communi-
| ty. You cannot enforce a law if it has
not the support of the sentiment of the
community.
The bill was Indefinitely postponed.
The following bill to present lettering
in saloons was passed:
Every person licensed to sell spiritu-
Gus and Intoxicating liquors, who, by
| himself, his servant or agent, shall per-
| nit any person to whom the sale gift
or exchange Of such spirituous and in
toxicating liquor has been forbidden
according to statute, by the selectmen
either because Of the complaint of some
relative of such person, or because such
person or some member of his legal
| family had received town aid for sup
port within the time specified by law
to loiter on his premises where such LID
uors are kept for sale, shall be fined not
less than IS nor more than $50"
| Mr.. Barnes of Norwich moved tc
amend the bill relating to Sunday OBJ
| servance, making the hours from Il
midnight Saturday to ~ o'clock mid.
night Sunday. The amendment passed
and afterward the bill as amended The
maximum penalty is $50 for each viola
| ton. The word recreation does moi
appear In the statute as amended by
the passage Of the bill.
The bill concerning the registration
of dogs, which was favorably reported
by the committee on agriculture, was
taken up, 1t being on the calendar star.
red for action. The bill was amended
so as to make it read that dogs shall
be registered on or before May 1, at the
age of six months" The bill was ther
passed.
| The bill concerning savings banks or
which the committee on banks had re-
ported unfavorably was discussed al
length.
| A motion of Mr.. Clark of Windhan
requiring bonds of treasurers of banks
tO he recorded in the town clerks, offices