Connecticut western news., 1897-05-20
THURSDAY. MAY 20, 1897.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

The Senate concurred in the passage of the resolution authorizing the state secretary to order portrait painted of Governor Cooke. This will be hung in the State library at the capitol, where are portraits of all the governors of the state, including the Colonial governors.
 The House resolution raising com mittee of two senators and four repre- sentatives to consider the subject of 'good roads" and report to the next General Assembly, was received. passed in the House. Senator Keeler said that he did not object to it, but it was tabled upon the motion of Senator Woodruff
 The Senate rejected Senator Wright's bill, which provides that % per cent of the money paid for liquor licenses shall be turned over to the state.
 Two reports on the bill requiring street cars to be vestibuled at both ends for the protection of conductors and motor men, when ordered by the rail AOnu COLu uA5bAOuoI5, W0HO bnuAou III buo Senate for calendar and printing.
 The Senate passed the medical prac- tice bill which reads as follows:
 ''No person, after the passage of this act. shall obtain or receive 8 certificate of registration as required by the pro. visions of chapter CLVIII, of the pub lic acts of 1893, until he has passed a satisfactory examination before one of the examining committees appointed for the purpose under the provisions of said act, nor until he has complied with the other requirements of said act. :" When the bill came before the House the next day Judge Roraback moved for concurrence with the Senate. saying that the bill was satisfactory to all the doctors of the state. Dr Powell, of Stamford, however, proposed an amend ment, practically new bill. and finally the motion to table and print the amendment, which Dr Powell will in- tro1uce when the matter comes up again. was carried by 8 close vote.
 The attorney general bill. which pro- vides for the creation of the office of state attorney general to be filled by election by ballot, term four years with . salary of $4. 900 per annum, was intro duced by Judge Roraback and passed. Judge Roraback showed that the legal expenses of the state in 1896 for coun- eel fees were over $15. 900, and argued from that the creation of this office would promote economy and besides it would be the means of preventing bad bills from becoming laws The legal rights of the state, also. would be better cared for than at present.
 The bill carrying the appropriation for the military department for two years-$29O 830-was explained by Chairman Frisbie and passed in tue House.
 The Senate passed the bill defining the powers and Jurisdiction and regula ting the procedure of the Supreme court. It is compilation of the pro visions of the General Statutes on the subject.
 The bill providing for the examina- tion and condemnation, at the expense of the owner, of horses infected with glanders or farcy was passed by the Senate.
 The House rejected the bill requiring that shirts made in the state prison shall be stamped "convict made."
 The House passed the bill which reads: ''Every employer who shal blacklist an employee with intent te prevent such employee from procuring other employment shall, upon convic tion, be fined not moro than $200."