The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-26
PASS VESTIBULE CAR BILL
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS TO PASS
 UPON THE NECESSITY,

AppOlutinentS Nlaue-N6w Ha-
 ven Norman School Appropriations Elec-
 tion Contests Bill.
 Lieutenant Governor Dewell called the senate to order at o'clock p. m. Prayer was offered by Chaplain Thompson.
 Senator Brown was appointed on committee to recall a resolution incor- porating the Maennerchor club. The committee on temperance report ed adversely on a bill allowing hotels to supply their guests with intoxicating liquors at all hours. Senator Futile explained that a bill would be reported in the house which prohibits any liquor being furnished on Sunday.
 Senate concurred in recalling bill amending the Stamford charter, which it is claimed, redistricts the city for po- litical ends.
 Resolution making an appropriation for the Mystic Oral school came from the house rejected.
 Senator Lee moved to table pend- ing receipt from the house of another resolution making specific appropria- ton for the Mystic school and the Hart ford school. N
 Senator Converse said that the other resolution amply provided for the sMys- tic school, and Senator Lee withdraw- ing his motion. the resolution was re- jected.
 The other resolution was received later and tabled for calendar. Senate concurred in rejecting resolu- tfon providing for erecting additional buildings at the Storrs college. Sena- tor Converse explained that the build- ings are not necessary at this time. Senator Converse objected to reso- lution appropriating sS50 for improve ments at the New Haven Normal school. Senator Mix explained that the matter was proper and the resolution l went on the calendar. Bill prohibiting free lunches in sa- looms, passed by the house, came from the house indefinitely postponed. On hered to it's action.
 Senate bill No. 3, an act concerning street railways, was taken from tha | table.
 Senator Herman moved that the mil | nority report be substituted for the ma.- | jority report.
 The original bill compels the street | railway companies to provide vestibules for their cars from the first day of Oc- tober to the first day of April. It also provides that the company neglecting | to carry out the provisions of the act would be subject to fine of $500. The substitute bill places the subject | where all street railway matters of a | similar nature have been referred. | There was but one motorman before | the committee in favor of the bill and as many as fourteen who opposed it. | There were also members of unions advocating the passage of | the bill. One of these was cigar maker and the other representative | of the Federation of Labor. He did not l think the motormen would suffer from the reference to the railroad commis- sioners.
 | Senator Goodrich said that there waa no doubt that the accident rate was | greater on vestibule cars. His com- pany in Hartford used vestibuled cars and would use more probably, but the Hartford company's lines extended far into the country. In narrow streets vestibule cars were dangerous. He did not think that a, mandatory mea sure should be passed.
 | Senators Futile, Woodruff and Brown defended the majority report. | Senator Marigold did not think that companies should be compelled to equip their cars immediately and if the refer- ence to the railroad commissioners would remedy this he thought this should be done He was in favor of the vestibuling of cars whenever necessary, and he thought the railroad commis- sioners, by giving hearings, could de- termine this.
 bill was passed.
 1 Senator Woodruff called from the table house joint resolution raising a committee of one senator and four rep- resentatives to investigate the subject of good roads and report to the next general assembly.
 The resolution passed and Senator Keeler was appointed a member of the committee on the part of the senate.
 House bill relating to the sale of liquors at agricultural fairs was passed as amended by Senator Woodruff. The amendment provides that the trustees of the fair grounds may take oath that to the best of their knowledge and be- lief there had been no liquor sold upon the grounds.
 No. 165, an act repeating an act to pro-
 Senator Herman called up senate bill No. 165, an act repeating an act to pro- hibit discrimination in life insurance contracts. This bill was tabled on Senator Tuttle's motion on May 12. Yesterday the senate made an extended argument in favor of the bill He was supported by Senator Hermann.
 Senator Plimpton replied in defence of the report of the committee. The act which was sought to be repealed was on the statute books of twenty-one states in the union, and If we referred to the election rolls of last fall it would not be hard to tell where these states are. MT. Plimpton thought the speech of the senator was but the echo of the words of the boy orator of the Platte who said the principal duty of insurance companies was to draw their salaries.