The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-15

(COntlnued rom ElrSt HaSe) before the committees during the ses- sion of the legislature. The bill pro- vides that the attorney general shall be elected by the votes of the people of the state, and the term of the office four years.
 MT. Back of Union, who introduced
 the original bill said he did not intro-
 duce it at the dictation of any politi-
 cian
 MT Frisbie of Pennington favored
 the bill, and particularly commended the feature which required the attorney I general to represent the state treasury l before committees. He said that twen- | ty years ago, when he knew less about state affairs than he knows now, he voted against a bill to create the office ! of city attorney.
 MT. Hutchinson of Essex offered an amendment empowering the governor
 to appoint the attorney general. He said he desired to remove the office | from the dirty pool of politics The amendment of Mir. Hutchinson was opposed by MT. Roraback, MT Cal l kins of East Lyme, MT Back of Union, | MT. Averill of New Haven, MT. Web ster of New Britain, Mir Pattison of | Simsbury and by Mir Williams of Sims | bury, and was rejected by practically | unanimous vote.
 1 Mir Barnes of Norwich offered an | amendment appropriating $2,000 instead | of $1,000 for expenses. | MT. Barnes of New Haven opposed I the amendment of his namesake from | Norwich.
 The amendment of MT Barnes of | Norwich was rejected.
 | MT. Beckwith of New London offered
 an amendment limiting the amount to
 be expended for professional assistance
 to $2,000 a year.
 l MT. Averill of New Haven did not l favor the amendment. He thought that
 an emergency might arise when it would
 be necessary to expend more money for
 assistance.
 ! The amendment of MT. Beckwith was l rejected. The bill provides that the attorney
 general shall be an elector of this state and an attorney -at-law of at least ten
 years active practice at the bar of thie ! l Tuesday after the first Monday of No-
 vember, 1S9S and quadrennially the. e. l after, to hold his office for a term of four years from and after the Wednes-
 day following the first Monday of the next succeeding January, and until his
 successor is duly chosen and qualified l If a vacancy shall occur in this office l the governor shall appoint an attorney
 general to fill such vacancy for the bal
 ance of the unexpired term. He shall
 receive $4, 900 per annum and all reason
 able expenses incurred in the course of
 the transaction of the duties of his of
 fee, not exceeding $1.000, he having au- thority to secure such assistance as the duties of the office may require. l The resolutions making appropria- | tions for the Mystic Oral school and for the American School for the Deaf
 at Hartford, were made the order of the
 day for Wednesday next at Il o'clock. The bill making appropriations for two years for military purposes
 amounting to S29O,S3O was explained by
 MT Frisbie of Pennington and passed | Speaker Barbour announced that on | Tuesday next tabled matters on the | calendar would be taken up without
 regard to the fact that they were tabled.
 | A resolution was passed appointins
 Fred B. Hungerford assistant judge of
 the city court of New Britain. 1 At 1:25 the house adjourned to Tues
 day at 12:30.