Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-22
.LILLEY'SLAWYERS
None of Them Has Time To
 Attend to Lilley.
HE WOULD DIsBAR ATTORNEYS

By Corporations-He Also Has c
 Bill Concerning Assessors-Waiting
 For New Haven County Caucus to
 Distribute Judicial Plums.
 Representative George l.. Lilley is apparently on the high road to unpopu- larlty because of certain bills he in tends to introduce in the legislature. But Mr Lilley does not care about that, at least so he says; he was sent 10 the legislature to represent the people. he says, and he intends to do So as he sees proper.
 In the first place MT Lilley has found every lawyer in the legislature opposed to him because of bill he sought to have framed. The purpose o1 that bill was to disbar every lawyer k in both houses of the legislature who has been retained by any corporation from voting on any bill in which that corporation happens to be interested. Last week Mir Lilley decided to intyo-, duce bill regarding railroad traffic. He went to some of his lawyer friends in the lower house to have the bill drawn up. To his great surprise he found that all of them were retained by some railroad or another, steam and electricity and none of them could SoAS'iehtiouSlN Aelp l1u WILL LIS pro posed bill. This made the republican representative from this city so mad that he determined he would go ahead and draw up some kind of a bill on the plans he had in mind, himself but something interferred and his ideas are not yet on paper. Talking about ! this to q Democrat representative this morning MT Lilley said no lawyer could vote without fear or favor, or anyone else for that matter who had been retained on any matter pertain ing to that which he had been retained by parties interested and there should be a law enacted which would make it an offence against the law for any representative or senator elect to take Il retainer from any corporation after lie had received official notification of his election. He would have a law passed which would prohibit any mem Der of the legislature from voting ont any matter in which he was financial ly interested. and particularly if he were retained in the interest of that | matter.
 Another law which Mir Lilley has in 1 mind would make it criminal for any assessor to assess any property for l less than its fair market value, which the law says shall be the rate of assess | ing. On this point. Mir Lilley said
 
 | matter he procured actual evidence. He engaged a friend, he said, to offer S2. 300 for q piece of land in a certain | part of the city and the offer was re- fused, though the property was listed 1 far below that price.
 l Another instance: He offered $40, GOO | for another piece of land which waS l listed at exactly one-tenth of that sum and the offer was refused. On 1o 0th fha r,'s, hnr SxA l is listed for its full value and theret l fore he pays all the taxes that the law l demands. while the rich man does not pay one-half his share. Mir Lilley said | that man accosted him a short time ago and said the republicans would run him for mayor next year 'I told him. said Mir Lilley, 'that would rather be elected assessor than mayor. : Being asked if he favored the idea of municipal lighting. MT Lilley said it would be frst-class idea to have such bill passed for, even if the city did not eventually build such & plant it could hold over the head of the local lighting concern the bill em- l towering the city to build q plant of | it's own. when the question of arrang- ing terms for lighting the city would come up. Regarding railroads, on which committee MT Lilley Is a mem-
 
 axe to grind with either. The inter view was interrupted at this point and the train steamed into the depot where the interview took place and q gang l of politicians with Representatives | Guilfoile, Heminway and Lilley went | on board and in minute more were | borne away.
 Thursday the representatives of New Haven county will caucus for judges | of the local courts. Judge CoweIl of | the district court and Burpee of the city court are candidates to succeets themselves. This was arranged yeS terday in the conference mentioned ia | the Democrat. It is also arranged 1 that Judge Bradstreet shall be prose- cutor in the district court and that l Attorney F. NJ. PeaSeley shall be l deputy judge of district and city l courts. This arrangement provides for almost all of the republican laws yers.