The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-10
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 BUSINESS TRANsA CITED BY HOUSE
 AND SENATE YESTERDAY.
 Bill to Increase the Highway commis'
 siomer's Salary Rejected by the House
 Senate Passed the Bi1 Concerning
 Regulation of Lodging Houses -Reso-
 lutton for Adjournment om May 3I -
 Reports of Com mittecs.
 Tn the house yesterday the committee on appropriations reported favorably on the bill to increase the salary ot the highway commissioner from $2,50O to $3.O00 After the reading of the com 1nittee report MT. Brown of Will1ngton offered an amendment to fix the salary at $3,500 A lengthy discussion of the matter followed In the course of the discussion MT Hall of Stratford took occasion to reply to an intin1ation that the governor would veto bill to ln- crease the salary to either $3,5o0 or S3, - OOO Mr Hall suggested that the gov ernor attend to his own duties and the house would do the same. He resented any attempt by the governor to influ- ence any member of the house to do otherwise than what ha thought was his duty. The amendment to fix the salary at $3,500 was then rejected.
 -~C {1,nta sy,T1y,, in regard to the matter saying that he did not think that any officer of the state wanted to intimidate any member of the house, and thought that no mem Der wanted to improperly criticise any state official. He said that he resented the idea that any one should attempt to dictate to members of the house, or that any member should attempt to dictate to the governor. He said that if the highway commissioner ought to receive salary of $3,000 per year, the state should pay it. The report of the committee recommending that the sal ary be fixed at $3,000 was then re- jected.
 Favorable report was made by the committee on fisheries and game on llC MI liiIiitlASo tllC lluiilbCl pL loii birds which might be killed by one per son in one day at seventy-five. Fav ora ble report was also made on the bill to permit the killing of English spar- rows, pigeons and crows for sport. The temperance committee reported unfav orably on the bill to prevent the giv- ing of free lunch in saloons. The com mittee on humane institutions report ed unfavorably on the bill to create a board of eight trustees of the Connec- ticut school for boys the members of the board to be appointed by the gover- nor and the bill was rejected.
 In the senate house bill No. 241, con- cerning lodging houses, was passed. The bill was one favored by the police department of New Haven. It has been found that many of the lodging houses are nests for criminals, and the police desire that the houses shall be placed under certain regulations. The bill as passed was as follows:
 The selectman of any town. the chief of police of any city, and the warden of any borough may grant licenses to suitable persons to be lodginghouse keepers and to carry on the business of renting rooms and beds for lodging in such town, city or borough respective 1y, and may revoke such license for cause. The person So licensed, except charitable organizations shall pay to the authority granting such license the sum of $10 therefor for the use of such municipality. Every license granted under this section shall designate the place where such business is to be car ried on, and shall continue for one year unless sooner revoked.
 Section 2-Every such lodging house keeper and every charitable organiza- tion shall keep a register in which shall be written in the English language the of all persons lodging from time to time in said house. which book and lodging house shall at all times be sub- ject to the inspection of the seectmen of the town or chief of police of the city. and any person or persons desig- mated by them or him, and of the war den of the borough or any person or persons designated by him, and failure to keep such book or refusal to allow | such book or such lodging house to be inspected shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of any license granted | under the provision of this act. Section 3-The word lodging house" | as herein contained, shall mean and be i applied only to such houses as are pat | rouized f1y royyipo or +pope;o,+ ,,o,.o....