The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-02
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probate judges and reducing the nuln- Der of probate districts was rejected.
 House.
 In the house yesterday morning the committee on forfeited rights reported favorably on the bill restoring the rights of Joseph Boucher. The report was accepted under suspension of the rules.
 The house insisted on it's action on the vestibule car bill and asked for committee of conference. Mir. Grif1ing of Hartford and MT. Gregory of Darien were appointed.
 When the Montville horse railway bill, postponed indefinitely by the sen ate on Friday, was reported, Mr. Barnes of Norwich moved to lay the matter on the table. This was done in order that the friends of the road could make an attempt to have the action of the senate reconsidered
 The house adhered to it's action on the bill concerning the obstruction of highways.
 Several amendments to the act relat- ing to the state board of agriculture were offered, one striking out the words requiring that the secretary and treas urer shall be members of the board" Another by MT. Hough of Windsor, providing that 5000 copies of the boards report shall be printed and that the reports of the storrs Agricultural college be eliminated. MT. Webster, chairman of the committee on agricul- ture, assented to the amendments of fered by MT. Hough and the whole mat ter was tabled pending the absence of members of the committee, who have not yet signed the report.
 The reports of the judiciary commit tee concerning the re-enactment of the law of 1889, prohibiting the granting of compensation to reporters, which were tabled for calendar on Tuesday, came up yesterday morning in the house and a motion to concur with the senate ac- cepting the report of the majority of | the committee occasioned a lengthy de- | bate.
 | MT. Clark of Windham favored con- currence. He said the majority of the judiciary committee were not in favor | of legislating for future legislatures
 
 | reporters should not be granted any i pay from the state.
 l MT. Kennedy of Derby was in sympa- l thy with newspaper men. He knew | that the people were informed by means of the newspapers of what was | going on in the legislature.
 i MT Frisbie of Pennington said the l future legislatures could repeal the law | if they wished to. He did not think re- porters should be paid extra compensa- | tion by the state. He admitted the service that they rendered He was op- posed to paying reporters as he was ! paying extra doorkeepers and messen- gers He thought the legislature should meet the matter squarely and place it. self on record.
 MT. Hutchinson thought the gentle man from Pennington had changed his position as to legisating for future general assemblies, and referred to the gentleman's attitude toward the legis- | lative procedure act.
 MT. Frisbie denied that the gentleman from Essex had quoted him correctly. Messrs. Frost of Norwalk, Kenealy of Stamford, Calkins of East Lyme, l DdIlltS Ol 4Nol WiCi dlltl IlDIdbdth tl i North Canaan were in favor of accept ing the majority report.
 On motion of MT. Frisbie the whole matter went on the table to await the action of the house on paying the re- 1 porters of the present house.
 The house passed in concurrence the bill repeating the peach yellows law; also the amendment to the act concern ing the state militia, requiring all staff officers above the rank of captain to have had three years experience in the National Guard of the state.
 The majority of the committee on finance reported the following substi- tute bill:
 Every mutual fire insurance company having no capital stock, and which is- sues policies on the mutual plan only, shall annually, on or before February 25, pay to the state as a tax upon it's corporate franchise a sum equal to | four-tenths of 1 per cent. on the total amount of it's premium notes and on the market value of all it's other assets. deducting, however the amount of its ascertained and unpaid losses, the mar ket value of it's real estate liable to tax ation in this state, the market value of
 any bonds owned by it which have | been issued by this state, or by any town or city in this state, in aid of the construction of any railroad and which by the law of this state are exempt from taxation; and every life insur- ance company which does business in part upon the mutual plan. and which has capital stock by law otherwise lia-
 ble to taxation, shall annually, on or
 before said date, pay to the state as a tax upon its corporate franchise a sum equal to one-fourth of 1 per cent on total amount of it's premium notes, and on the market value of all it's other as- sets, deducting, however, the amount of it's ascertained and unpaid losses, the market value of its real estate lia-
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