The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-08

A. W. Paige was the Senate clerk. Tn
 Hon. William E. Simonds, who wa
 afterwards member of Congress iron
 the First District and United State
 Patent Commissioner under Presiden
 Harrison, was Speaker of the House
 MT. Charles w. Comstock, the presen
 United States District Attorney, and
 Thomas A. Lake, who has resigned the
 internal revenue collectorship in this
 district within couple of months
 were members of the House, Colone
 Lake representing the town of Wood
 stock, Governor Harrison made the appointment of the commission, June 3O 1885, selecting Judge James A Hovey, Edward l.. Cundall, Colonel Augustus H. Fenn, Senator R. Jay Walsh and the Hon. George P. Me Lean Judge Walsh and ex-Senatol Mclean are the only ones now living Of the 1887 revisers MT. Cundall died at the outset of the work. The men lof the commission were eminently adapted to the task entrusted to them The work was the most thorough and complete that had been undertaken in the nature of revision since the be- ginning of the century. Radical changes were introduced. The private | laws of the State were exhaustively l examined in the attempt to eliminate from them all legislation of public nature. The revision was reported in 1887 to the General Assembly and re- ferred to the joint standing committee on the judiciary, consisting of Senator R. Jay Walsh Milton A. Shumway of Killingly, now judge of the Superior Court, the Hon. IT. s. Sheldon of Suf- field, one of the most influential mem bers of the House, Nathan M Bel den of Wilton, Frank D. Hyde of Hartford, grandson of that old- time reviser Judge Loren F. Waldo James s. Thompson of East Haven, Frederick Fosdck of I.ymo and liar vey E. Steele of Winchester. Ex-Lieu tenant Governor George G. Sumner, ex-Governor o. Vincent Coffin, Con- gressman II. Stevens Henry of the First District and Congressman F. j. Fill of the Fourth were all members Of the Sem ate. The revision was adopted and be- came operative January 1, 1888. Judge Hovey and Colonel Tenn, both of whom have died since the revision became the statute law of the State, were men of broad intelligence and legal train- ing. Judge Walsh became Secretary of State, and is now one of the judges of the Fairfield county courts MT. Me- Lean was made United States District Attorney by President Harrison, dis charging the duties of that office with ability. He has served in both branches of the General Assembly, and is the leading candidate in the State at the present time for the Republican nomi- nation for Governor this year.
 The position of reviser of the public statutes from the outset has been a stepping stone to Governorships and judgeships of the court. Aside from the original revisions, when the work naturally fell to the oversight of the Governors there have been six chief magistrates who have served as revisers or have been engaged in work of that character. The list contains the names of Roger Wolcott, Thomas Fitch, Jonathan Trumbull. John Treadwell, Henry Dutton and Henry B. Harrison, Chauncey Good rich was Lieutenant-G at the time of his death. John Allyn was Secretary of State for thirty years, and Thomas Day for twenty-five. John P. c. Mather and R. Jay Walsh were both secretaries four years. Judge Swift had an honorable career as chief justice of the State. and Henry Dutton and Loren P. Waldo were also distinguished members of the highest court in the State. The revision commissions have not proved to be political burying grounds.-Hartford Times
 
 WHITE AND BLACK IN CUBA.
 But in Cuba, as with us, the colored 1 man is the laborer, and the white man is the employer, and the fact that a great many white men are no better off . than the negroes does not alter this rela- ton in Cuba any more than it does in | America I have been told by those who ought | to know that most of the money in Havana to-day is owned by the Span ards. The cause of this, considering the state of the island for the last few years, is too evident to need much comment. People who owned large estates have | been reduced to the possession of land hat brings them nothing, for the in- ;urgent and Spanish troops alike burn ed everything on the plantations; on he other hand, those who had their money invested in Havana did not lose 10 much and some of them gained great profits during the war. Spaniards argey constituted this class, as they lid the shop-keeping class. It is true hat not only industrialy, but social y, the low-class Cuban or Spaniard as- ocates on terms of evident equality with the negro, thing which is never cen in our southern states; but as soon IS you get above the lowest stratum he white mans attitude toward the ,lack is precisely that of the individual outherner toward the individual ne- ,ro-the kindly feeling of an intelligent nan for simple, ignorant, good-natur- d human being.-T. Bentley Mott in ;crbner's
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