The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-10

any person or persons from a PUBIC
conveyance operated upon one line Oh
route of a street surface railroad to q
public conveyance upon another line OF
from one car to another upon the same
line of street surface railroad, shall
be issued sold or given except to a pas
senger lawfully entitled thereto. Nc
person shall ISSUE sell or give away
such transfer ticket or instrument as
aforesaid to any person or persons not
lawfully entitled thereto, and no per-
son or persons not lawfully entitled
thereto shall receive or use or offer for
passage any such transfer ticket or sell
or give away such transfer ticket with
intent to have such transfer ticket used
for passage, a fine of not less than s.
nor more than 500 being provided for
violation of the act referred to railroad
committee.
Senator Vinal bill for an act provid-
ing that no vender shall give to any
vender any gift, present, prize, or take,
nor shall he give any ticket, coupon or
trading stamp, so-called, to be redeemed
with any valuable thing by the vender
or by some third party, and that no per-
son shall buy or sell any ticket, coupon
or trading stamp, part of the consld-
GRAFTON of which purchase or sale Is
that the vendor of said ticket, coupon
or trading stamp will redeem the same
with some valuable thing on presenta-
ton by any holder at some future date,
a fine of $500 being provided for viola
tion Of the act; to judiciary.
Bill for an act providing that banks,
| ~ ti11oo1 hanlyirp tihns or
insurance, investment, turnpike, bridge,
orplank road companies shall have a
lien upon the stock of each nonresident
stakeholder for the reimbursement Of
the sums required to be paid by said
corporation as taxes upon said stock;
referred to judiciary.
An act providing for striking out of
chapter 1873 of the public acts of 1897
all after the word signature after the
ninth line thereof; to interpretations.
Senator Barnes, an act providing that
the number of places licensed to sell
spirituous and intoxicating liquors at
retail to be drunk on the premises, shall
not exceed one for each 200 legally quail
fled electors, one additional license for
every 100 electors over 200; to commit
tee on temperance.
| Senator Vinal, an act providing fine
of $40 for every person who shall hunt,
kill, destroy, or attempt to destroy, any
rabbit except upon his own lands; to
fisheries and game.
An act for the repeal of section 3542
of general statute as amended by
chapter 100 of public acts of 1897 was
referred to railroad committee.
Senator Pendleton presented resolu-
ton providing that the quartermaster
general be authorized to drop from his
books the uniforms and equipment is
sued to the enlisted men of the naval
battalion at the time of their muster
into the United States navy; also to re-
lieve the commanding officers of the
battalion and the several divisions from
responsibility for property of the state
ordered to be turned into the quarter
master generals department at time
when the officers were absent from
home stations on duty connected with
muster into the government service; to
military affairs.
Another bill was introduced by Sena-
tor Pendleton amending the public acts
of 1895, section 16, chapter 1893, so as to
provide that the Connecticut national
guard shall consist in time of peace Of
not more than forty companies of in
fantry four divisions of naval militia,
one signal corps one battery of artillery,
one modern gun battery and to each
regiment one hospital corps and one
band. The only change contemplated is
the addition of the words and one bat
talon of naval nilitio in the section
concerning organization of the militia.
Senator Chittenden offered a rasolu-
ton authorizing the town of Branford
to construct a system of sewerage; re-
ferred to cities and boroughs.
Senator Keller offered a bill empow-
ering the railroad commissioners to
authorize the running by any railroad
of any train or trains carrying the Unit |
ed States mail or any other trains be-
tween 10 o'clock in the forenoon and
O'Clock in the afternoon on Sundays;
referred to railroad committee
Resolutions appointing Sylvester N. |
Pettibone and Newell l.. Webster coun
ty commissioners of Litchfiedl county |
were passed.
A resolution for an appropriation for |
Putnam park amount not stated; re-
ferred to committee on appropriations.
The senate referred to the Judiciary
resolution for the creation of a joint
committee on taxation to consist of one
senator and three representatives to
take into considerat ton the laws relat-
ing to taxation and report theron to the
general assembly with such recommen-
dations, changes and amendments as
may seem to the committee best, the
committee to report on or before the
third Wednesday in March, 1899. The
house passed the resolution under sus-
pension of the rules.
The caucus Of the republican members
of the general assembly from New Ha-
ven county, adjourned from Wednesday
afternoon, was called to order at 2
o'clock by the caucus chairman, Sena-
tor Burton of Ansonia. Balloting for
the nomination of second county COM
missioner was at once proceeded with.
Ballot after ballot was taken, with no
choice being arrived at until twelve bal
lots had been taken, or thirty-four in
all. including those taken on the pre-
vious day. On the thirty-fourth ballot,
an informal one, the vote stood as fol-
lows, twenty-three members being
present and voting: Brewer II, Gallag-
Ter 1, Tucker 5. Stevens 8. The only alb