New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
CONNECTICUT INTERESTS.
LITTLE INTEREST IN BRYAN-A QUEER
POLITICAL LAW FIRM-NO
HOPE FOR CROSS.

HOPE FOR CROSS.
Hartford. Conn, July Il (speciaD.-The Connect
delegation to Kansas City has not yet all ar
rived from the Democratic National Convention
many Of them being members Of the Elks and having
stopped to go to Atlantic City for the Ma
tional meeting of that order. The Bryan-Steven-
son combination does not seem attract much
attention in the State and the Democratic news
pa pers of influence. The Hartford Times
and THE New Haven Register" openly declare
against it and the platform. but will probably not
make common cause with the Republicans in the
support of Mckinley and Roosevelt. Ex-Governor
Waller has declared himself a bolter now, in
1886. and expressed the hope that after election
and the defeat of Bryan the party viii reorSaniZe
on the old lines and begin of selfrespect.
There is, however. hope among the Democratic
leaders that there may be an opportunity to or
ganize all members of the party upon State issues
and bring forward a candidate, perhaps Homer
S. Cummings. of Stamford, who will unite the
elements and make an impression upon the Re
publican vote which, 1t is argued by them, will
be badly broken up StatewIse by the Mclean and
Warner contest for the nomination for Governor.
That contest goes on in comfortable way on the
part of the Mclean forces, not much noise being
made about il. and the part of the Warner
forces Samuel Fessenden is making most of the
talk and holding more seaside meetings.
The dissolution of the law firm Of Fessenden.
Carter & Cummings, of Stamford. announced this
week closes one of the queerest political COM
Mr Fessenden, an oldtime Republican, prominent
for years in the management of party affairs. both
State and National Mr.. Carter. Gold Democrat,
earnestly supporting the Palmer ticket in 1886 and
Mr.. Cummings, the newly discovered Democratic
leader. Bryan admirer and silver enthusiast. It Is
seldom that so great a variety of politics enters
into the business relations of three men. The con-
dition came to be so we'll known and freely COM
mented upon that it injured the political aspira-
tions of least two of the members of the firm,
nd Mr is
solved by mutual consent.
The expenses of the State for the last year show
a decrease over those of two years ago. both years
being non-legisIattve and fairly TO be compared.
The decrease shown by the Controllers figures IS
not large. but the fact that $4,000 has been
pended in special appropriations makes the show
ing good. OF this amount $4,000 has been used in
the new wing of the State Prison. $4,000 in the
congregate dining room at the Middletown Insane
Hospital and $1,000 is for salaries of clerks Of
courts, the fee system, by which they were for
merly paid. having been abolished. The ordinary
expenditures of the State have thus been about
$4,000 less than the expenditures of 1885, throwing
out the clerks salaries, which must be reckoned
as an ordinary expenditure after this
Charles r. Cross will be hanged at the State
Prison July 20 for the crime of brutally assault
ing and numbering his employer a woman in
Greenwich. Governor LounstUry has been ap-
pealed TO by the Rev. Thomas X. Noble and other
prominent men of Fairfield County and of other
sections of the state to grant reprieVe but he
has attracted much attention because of his
1reme yoqthfulness and by reason of circumstances
connected with his career. He Is nineteen years
old. and Investigation proves that he is a de
druukards ana ignorant people of depraved charac-
and it is these facts that nave brought about
ing spared the fate Of the gailows. The Rev.
Clarence II. Barber. of Manchester, appeared un-
solicited in his behalf before the State Board of
Fardons. and the move to enlist the sympathy OF
Lounsbury says in his reply TO the petition for
CTosss reprieve that the youth of the condemned
convicted him; that the Supreme Court has found
no error in the trial, and that the Board Of Par
ana that the Governor has only the power of re-
has been found. Such evidence has not appeared
and the Governor declines 70 reDrleTe. The press
of the State has generally sustaiaed the courts and
The Board Of P2rdons in their view Of Cross case
was but fair justice to have the law enforced, in
that the irTesponsibie young crininaIs Of the State
and there are good many Of thcm-may he de-
take place Immediately after midnight in presence
will be the first in The new execution chamber Of
the prison; The automatic sallows used on several
gallows will DO the work.
It is now -probable that, the Railroad Commis-
sioners having oyerrnled the demurrer IN the case
of the layout Of the Central New England railroad
layout will issue next week Measures have been
taken by the counsel for Wagner, +. d Robbins,
an injunction Immediately thereafter and bring the
beng Ge a 3G 6 ns as one @ R h courts @
the matter Will have so through to the Supreme
Court and il will he several months before de-
ciston be obtained from that tribunal In case
the Railroad Commissioners grant the layout ap-
praisers will be appointed by the Superior Court
10 fix the damages for the land crossed.
The Executive Committee of the Connecticut
Bankers Association will formulate some plan to
be brought before the meeting of ths National
Association of Bankers TO NEE the action of The
New York Clearing House in charging on checks
from out of town deposited in NewYork banks.
Since the charge was established by the New-Torll
banks every effort has been made overcome II or
to secure its modification. but without avail It is
no. Sed q before a
tional Association with a view TO securing a
modicati tion Of the system.