Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-30
WON.
Consolidation Bill Passed al
 Hartford To-Day.
AMENDMENTS VOTED DOWN.

Representative Guilfoile Fought the
 Bill to the Last Ditch-It Was an Up-Hill Fight, as the Republicans Voted Solidly for Consolidation Refused to Submit the Matter to the l People-Lilley Made a Whole Lot of Wildcat Statements.
 The Waterbury consolidation bill.
 combining the city and town of Wa
 terDury, was passed by the house to-
 oay after q bitter fight for an hour
 ana one-half. It was passed on
 strictly party vote, all the republican, voting in favor of it and all the demo
 crats voting against it. .3
 Representative Guilfoile. who led
 The opposition to the consolidation act.
 oHered four amendments and each l one was voted down. He made good light, as did all the others who voted with him, to have the bill sub
 mltted to the people and let them vote
 on the question, but in this as well as With all the other matters that in- terfered with the consolidation idea. he was defeated. There were a few. but very few, republicans, who voted with the democrats on the question of submitting the question to the people. MT Lilley, who was prominent i'm the passage of the bill and who seemed to have charge of the forces in favor of the bill, made some very re- | markable statements. He said that
 the selectmen of Waterbury had put six hundred men to work on the town
 roads before the last election and that the selecrmen expended $35,000 for to do for $3,5OO. He said further that the respectable people of Waterbury wanted consolidation.
 He was followed by Pearne of Mid- dletoWn, Tucker Of. Ansonia, ThOmp- son of Thompson and Whittlesey of Danbury each of whom appeared in
 behalf of consolidation. The remarks became so bitter on each side that hisses and cheers greeted the speak CTS. It was one of the most sensa- tional arguments that has yet como
 before the legislature.
 MT Whittlesey of the cities and boroughs committee, offered an amendment to the bill, striking out the provision that the state should par part of the expense of pupils from out of town, attending the High school This was passed.
 There was an organized lobby at work all day long in the interests of consolidation and every member had been Seen in regard to the matter. The last amendment offered Dy Representative Guilfoile was one that provided for the striking out or the clause from the bill, that gave the out-a side districts the right to vote Tor members of the board of education. This was one of the defeated amend- ments and was opposed by Repre- sentative Lilley and his other repupii- can friends. Tn fact the repuDllcah member from Waterbury was an out- and-o,1t consolidationist and opposed every attempt to change the Dill.
 Hartford. April 3O.--The two houses
 met at 12:3O to-day and held long ses7
 sions. a,.4sa ,,,, IS
 fayorably on the bill to rearrange the
 statutes as regards slot machines ana
 it was rejected.
 The bill providing for weekly pay
 ments for employees of partnerships,
 firms and corporations, was rejected on |
 nrinciples of the bill were considered inst. but they were claimed to pc un- constitutional.
 The house contested elections com- mittee found that RepresentatiyeB Brady
 CDem.) was entitled to the New Britain seat for which he was declared elected,
 and that o. F.. Curtis was not. The | I,o m day. May 6, on the expiration of the
 six months limitation. and Messrs
 Brady and Curtis have agreed upon recount each appointing three political
 friends to attend to it.
 Some disappointment has been ex-
 pressed by the Democrats in the gen.
 eral assembly, says the Hartford
 Times, that they have not been given
 a larger representation on the new joint special committee appointed to con- sider the increase of congressional and senatorial districts. The Democrats
 have no senate representation, the
 single senator on the committee being Il Republican, and of the eight house members only one is q Democrat, lteIDr
 rasentatiye Donovan of New Have'as
 The latter was appointed without coIl-
 sultation as to whether he would az
 cept. Tn explanation of his course,
 Speaker Light is reported as saying that he had some doubt whether He should put Democrat member on tlIs committee at all The Republican
 party would be held responsible for
 redistricting the state, and they were
 ready to assume all the authority in-
 volved in the work. The appointment
 of two or three Democrats on the com
 mittee he feared, might make trouble should there be disagreement be-
 tween Republicans.