The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-26
THE ENER1L 1SSEMBLY.
Business Transacted by House and Sem
 ate Yesterday.

Business Transacted ny House anu seh- | ate Yesterday.
 Governor Lounsbury yesterday sent
 to the senate the following nominations:
 Board of pardons-Morris w. Sey-
 mour of Bridgeport and Edward liar
 land of Norwich reappointments).
 Inspector of factories-George l.. Nc
 Lean of Elington( appointmenD.
 Shell Fish commissioner-Georg c. | Waldo of Bridgeport (reappointed) and
 Seth Sanford of Bedding.
 The nomina tions were referred to the
 committee on executive nominations.
 The following bills were rejected by
 the senate:
 Bill providing for milk inspection in all towns.
 Resolution for the payment of two
 drafts on East Hartford.
 l A petition for the appropriation of l S5 ,0OO for the memorial to c. S. Bush- nell | On bill making it misdemeanor to discharge drainage into a highway. 1 Favorable report was made by the
 committee on appropriations on the bill | to appropriate S20000 to pay the eX-
 penses of removing the capitol restau- rant to the top floor of the capitol and of putting in an additional elevator. The senate concurred with the house ' in rejecting the following bills and res olutions: Bill requiring gate or f1agman at any grade crossing unless view for 300 feet is unobstructed; bill that only $10 of wages shall be exempt from at tachment; bill that wages shall not be exempt from attachment for debts for rent; that no sheriff or member of the general assembly shall be county com-
 missioner; petition for adverse action on bill requiring lanterns on bicycles; bill allowing saloons to open after polls close on election day; bill that 50 per cent. of debtors wages may be at tached; bill establishing state police de- partment; bill allowing pool selling; resolution reimbursing state law and order league or expenses in the Cheshire hotel liquor case; appropriating $2,500 for fence at the New Haven Normal school; bill that two months guarantee shall be given with every bicycle sold; bill concerning employment of incom- petent persons in care of steam boilers; authorizing discontinuance of one of the state normal schools; bill reducing state payment from S2.25 to $2 for each child in public schools: bill for military training in public schools: bill provid- ing penalties for going on lands of another for hunting, fishing, etc.. two bills relating to registration of street railroad bonds; bill regulating suits against savings banks by heirs of de- positors.
 The senate concurred with the house in passing the following: bill exempt irg from poll tax all voters who have had military service under the United States; bill providing that in bastardy cases, when the justice discharges the accused and a second complaint is brought, the discharge on the first con- plaint shall be a bar; bill regulating sale of second hand bicycles, junk etc, providing for police inspection.
 The house on unfavorable report from the committee on labor rejected the bill to abolish the bureau of labor statistics. A communication was received from Governor Lounsbury announcing his veto of the bill to increase the salary of the school fund commissioner from $2,- 900 to $3,000. The bill to appropriate $2, 900 for a monument for the 22d, and 25th regiments of Connecticut volun- teers was passed.
 The bill concerning factories and fac tory inspectors was also passed. The | finance committee reported unfavorably on the bill to repeal the law concerning inv 1nyof Tny, nj nY, Q the tax returns of railroad | and on an act concerning the | board of equalization.
 On unfavorable committee report the | petitioners for a bill to consolidate the offices of labor commissioner and fac tory inspector were given leave to with | draw.
 The committee on contested elections l reported on the expense incurred in the | contest for seats in the house, among l the bils reported being the following: l Julius c. Cable of New Haven, $26714; | James P. Bree of New Haven, S325; c. l B. Matthewman of New Haven, coun- | sel for Judge Cable, S6714.
 A resolution was passed for the ap- pointment of joint committee to draft | resolutions on the death of ex-Congress- man Wait. A resolution to appropriate s24 900 to Storrs Agricultural college for the next two years was tabled for the calendar after favorable report by the committee on appropriations.
 The judiciary committee will this afterhon hold an adjourned hearing on he resolution concerning investigation If the state insurance conmssion@ office.