The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-02
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
REPUBLICAN, SEN1TORS WILL eau
Gus THIS AFTERNOON.

To Decide Concerning Committee Re
ports on the AveriII-CaIIahan Contes
REPORTS VIII be Tabled Until Mex
More Than Thirty Trout in One Day
Bills, Resolutions, and Petitions Pre-.
scented Yesterday.
After the opening of the house fol
business yesterday q resolution was
presented providing that the judiciary
committee inquire into the legal ex
penses incurred by the office of the
state insurance commissioners in pros.
ecuting suits against insurance compa,
MES operating in this state during 1898
and also inquire into the history and
final settlement of the suit brought by
Insurance Commissioner Belts against
the Aetna Life Insurance company, and
to report it's findings to the assembly;
referred to the judiciary.
An act fixing the salary Of the treas
urer of the Connecticut School for Boys
at $500 per annum was referred t. the
committee on humane institutions
A petition for permission to erect a
monument to the First Connecticut
cavalry on the capitol grounds was re-
ferred to the committee on capitol fur
niture and grounds.
Mr.. Leete of East Lyme presented a
h far ,t bat
son who shall catch in one day more
than thirty brook trout, or who shall
have in his possession more than that
number, excepting regular fish dealers,
shall be fined $50 or imprisoned for thir-
ty days, or both; referred to the COM
mittee on fisheries and game.
Mr.. Coats of North Stonngton sent
up a bill to permit all women citizens
of the state to vote as municipal vot-
ers; referred to the committee on wo-
mans suffrage.
An act for the appropriation of $500
annually for the Connecticut Pomolog-
ical society for the advancement of po-
biological interests in the state was
referred to the committee on agricul-
ture.
An act for the repeal of sections 1886,
1886 and 1887 of the general statutes,
providing for the examination of insane
prisoners, their commitment by county
commissioners and their return upon re-
covery, was referred to the judiciary
The house passed, on recommendation
of the committee, the act authorizing
the court of common council OF New
Haven to appoint the military enrolling
officer and providing that the officer
appointed recently by the court of COM
mon council shall be empowered to act.
The original act drawn by Corporation
Counsel Ely was reported upon unfa-
vorably, but a substitute embodying the
same idea, but differently worded, was
recommended, and this was the one
passed.
A resolution providing that on and
after the first Monday in July the town
of Cheshire shall succeed to all rights
which any of the school districts had
in any real estate within such town at
the time when the town voted to con-
solidate it's school districts was referred
to the committee on education.
A bill for the exemption of the prop
erty of blind persons from taxation,
with the exception that such exemption
by Mr.. Warner and referred to the
finance committee
Other acts presented and referred to
appropriate committees were as fol-
lows: One providing a penalty for the
use of ferrets in hunting rabbits; an
act requiring that the clerk of the state
prison give a bond of $4,000; one pro-
viding that when town has voted to
consolidate the school districts within
its limits and take charge of the schools
therein any one of said districts may
keep possession and control of it's school
and other property by signi-
fying it's desire to do SO by a ballot vote
of a majority of the voters present at
the first annual meeting of the district
after the vote of consolidation; a bill to
exempt owners of twenty or fewer sheep |
to the value of $500, or less, from taxa
ton; an act amending an act concern I
ing exemption of property of pensioners
to the extent of $1,000, the amendment |
that the board of relief of |
each town shall make such exemption.
On recommendation of the judiciary |
committee the rules were suspended and |
the house voted favorably on the fol-
lowing appointments of judges: Albert /
G. Bill, judge of the city police court of
Hartford, and Arthur Perkins associate
Judge; George p Carroll, judge of the
city court of Bridgeport, and William
H. Comley deputy judge; Charles w.
Butler, judge of the police court of New
and G. Curtis Morgan assist
ant Judge; Lucien F. Burpee, judge of
The city court of Waterbury,; Herbert
D. Bowers, judge of the town court of
and Frederick W. Miller
deputy Judge; Lorenzo d. Fairbrother,
Judge of the town court of Stonington,
and M. D. Sherman deputy judge.
The house concurred with the senate
n electing Gideon Welch judge of the
court of common pleas of Litchtield
county and w. G. Moves judge of the
court of common pleas of New London
county.
The house adjourned until 1880 a. III.
% day
The senate opened at 1880. The reso-
ution appointing Franklin B. Noyes to
,e state auditor for term of four years
rom and after July 1,1S99, presented by
Pendleton, was referred to the
nance committee; Burton c. Patterson
f Torrington, trustee of Storrs Agricul-
ural college for a term of four years;
ieorge A. Hopson of Wallingford,