The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-04-28
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.


the resolution to incorporate the Dewell
Mercantile company to do business IN
Porto Rico. The incorporators are j..
D. Dewell and others. The senate con-
Cured with the house in referring to
the committee on appropriations the
bill to reduce the salary of the labor
commissioner from $1,000 to 81, 800. The
bill to appropriate money to make up a
deficiency in the appropriation for jury
debenture in New Haven county, was
taken from the table and passed under
suspension of the rules. Other bills
passed by the senate were as follows:
Bill appropriating $4,000 for the care
of deaf and dumb, the resolution ap-
proprating $4,000 annually to the Wa
terbury hospital, bill appropriating $25,-
900 for deficiencies in the appropriation
for conducting county homes, and $1,617
for the deficiency in the appropriation
for expenses in the office of the highway
commissioner; the bill providing penal
ty for willfully pulling or digging up
or destroying trailing arbutus on the
sale or having in possession roots of
the plant the bill prohibiting killing of
wild ducks, geese and brant not only
from vessel propelled by steam, but
also those propelled by electricity, gas
oline, naphtha or kerosene; the bill reg
ulating duck shooting in the town of
Orange, and bill to protect clans in
Milford. and bill repeating law of 1897
prohibiting trout fishing in Stamford,
Darien, Greenwich and New Canaan;
house bill providing for 81 bounty on
| foxes; bill making close season on all
fish in Twin Lakes, Salisbury, from De-
cember 1 to May /: bill making close
season for two years in Moose Hill res
ervoir in oxford; bill regulating fish
ing in Squabble Hole brook in North
Canaan was recommitted: bill exempt
ing ex-soldiers of the United States in
whatever war from state military duty;
house bill providing for testing the eye
sight of school children; bill providing
| that when the adjutant general thinks
| the military enrolment Of any town is
| incorrect he may apply to the superior
| court for an order for a new enroll
ment; resolution amending the charter
of the New Haven Electric company;
bill amending the law creating board Of
harbor commissioners of New Haven;
bill relating to order of notice in di-
vorce cases; bill that the county may
appropriate the $100 reward for a horse
thief among the several claimants;
providing for the preservation of land
marks of historic places: providing pen
atty of $500 for any candidate taking
part in any election; providing for To-
eating lost or uncertain bounds of high
way; bill regarding return days in COM
mon pleas courts; resolution paying
Representative Brown OF Colchester $25
for loss of his coat stolen from the court
room.
Committee reports were received as
follows:
Humane institutions-Fav on
bill regulating discharges from the In
dustrial school for girls.
Observation-Disclosures on bill allowing
sale of liquors on election day after
the polls close: rejected.
Banks-Favorab on bill relating
to mortgage investment companies and
building and loan associations.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY on appro-
priating $500 annually for the Nor
walk hospital.
udiciary-Favorable on bill regard
ing the use of common counts underS.
the practice act. Favorable on bill that
no Judge of court who has tried case
without jury and In which new trial
is granted or judgment reversed by the
supreme court shall again try said
case Judge in a jury trial, civil or
criminal is also barred from second |
trial thereof.
Finance-Unfavorabl on the resolu-
lions for appointment of George A.
Williams Of Killingly, Reuben H. Tuck
err of Ansonia, Frank r. Post of Heb
ron, and F. P. Noyes of Stonington, au- |
ditors of state accounts.
In the house, bill introduced by Mr. |
Pratt of Torrington, providing for the
reduction of the salary of the labor |
commissioner from $500 to $500 was /
referred, by unanimous consent, to the |
committee on appropriation, it being
understood that this would not estab-
lish a precedent for the Introduction Of |
other new business. The resolution for
the appropriation for a memorial to
DR. Eli Todd was rejected
Favorable report was made by the
committee on public health and safety
on the bill concerning plumbing, drain
age, lighting, and ventilation of bake
shops. The same committee reported
favorably on the pure ice and pure wa
ter bill A resolution appointing w. A.
Riley of Hartford state auditor was re-
ported favorably by the finance COM
mittee. A unanimous vote was taken
the governors veto of the
bill to make an appropriation for the
publication of the report of the worlds
fair commissioners. Unfavorable report
was made by the judiciary committee
on the bill to abolish courts Of common
pleas, this bill being one of those draft
ed by the state expense committee.
The bill providing that judges of the
court of common pleas and of the dis
trict court of Waterbury shall be NOM
mated by the governor was referred to
the committee on constitutional amend
ments.
The bill to give New Haven criminal
over st. Lawrence cemetery
was passed. The consideration of the
dill to admit women to municipal SUI
frage was made the special order of
he day for next Thursday at u o'clock.
The bill to change the name Of Storrs
grcultural college to the Connecticut