The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-08

for pay any vehicles to convey voters
to the polls. The bill also provides
that within fifteen days after each
election every treasurer shall file an
itemized statement with the secretary
of state including names of each can
didate and the full and specific amount
received from that candidate.
The bill also provides that the indi-
vidual candidates shall file their own
statements of personal expenditures,
also amount of contribution to the
treasurer of their campaign committee
and ehall also specify unfulfilled
promises for liabilities incurred by the
campaign There must also be exhib-
tied receipted bills for all such con-
tributions or expenditures unless the
amount contributed is less than So.
All such statements must be preserv-
ed for fifteen months after the cam
paign closes,
The statement forms to DO used will
be provided for the secretary of state
The town clerks and secretary Of state
shall receive a fee of 25 cents for each
statement filed under the act. Wrong
| fully falSifed statements shall be pun
ishable with a fine Of $1,000 or impris-
onment in jail ore year or both. 1T is
also provided that the superior court
and the court of common pleas shall
have equity powers under the act and
that the court shall entertain the petit
| lions from citizens for the investiga-
ton Of amounts of expenditures of any
candidate and that there hearings shall
, be given preference on the docket.
Any man elected to public office who
| is found In such hearing to have vio-
lated the law shall be declared incom-
petent to hold that office and his cleo
ton be made null and void.
| Senator Bree also introduced a bill
| for an act amending the charter of the
city of New Haven relating to the Off
| cial title of the head of the police de-
partment. The bill provides that where
the word superintendent is now used
the word chief shall be used.
Senator Roberts introduced bill
relating to investments of insurance
companies amending section of chap
ter SO of the public acts Of 1883, by
Auditing thereto the words mo portion
of the capital, assets or income OF any
life insurance company of this state
shall hereafter be invested in or loaned
upon it's own stock or the stock OF any
other insurance corporation carrying on
the same kind of insurance business;
Gill providing that all certificates or Ii
censes issued by the insurance COM
missioner of this state to companies or
associations exiting under the laws of
any other state or to any agent or brok-
~ cd 1y CT
of an executive officer or state, manag-
ing or general agent Of such company.
Also bill relating to taxation Of banks
and other stocks
Senator Kennedy of Naugatuck intro
duced a measure amending the secret
ballot law. The bill permits the placing
of ballots and pastors in the booths at
election stations and makes the present
law practically as it was in 50. The
original bill was amended in '97 prohib-
iting ballots and pastors being placed in
election booths.
Senator Bree introduced bill for an
act to repeal all provision of existing
laws Of the state which prescribe style
of printing for tickets on the blank Off
cial ballots, and all provisions which
ing marks thereon.
In the house Representative Lee of
introduced, at the request Of
the Business Mems association, offered |
a bill to amend the statutes concerning
foreign attachments, changing the ex-
emption from $50 to $40 so that the vital |
sentence of the statute shall read: but |
so much of any debt which has accrued |
by reason of the personal services of |
the defendant as shall not exceed $40, I
wages due for the personal |
services of any minor child, shall be ex-
empted and not liable to be taken by |
any foreign attachment or execution.
whenever wages due for personal
service are attached by virtue of this
act in any action within the Jurisdiction |
If a justice of the peace the taxable L
costs in any such action to be taxed Il
against the defendant shall be $3.50 as
he fee of the officer serving the writ,
ind 81 as fee of the court to which such
lotion is returnable, and no more.
Representative Housed Of New Haven
Introduced a bill to provide that eight
hours shall constitute a legal days
york. The bill is a follows:
Section Flight hours shall constitute
legal days work for all mechanics,
and laboTars, excepting
hose engaged in farm and domestic la
,or but overwork for an extra compen-
alton between employer and employee
8 hereby permitted.
Section 2--This act shall apply to all
Mechanics, working men and laborers
by the state of Connecticut {
II by any municipal corporation there
n, or in the employ Of persons con-
racting with the state or with such
corporation for the performance of pub {
c works and all such mechanics, work.
ng men and laborerS so employed shall
cceive not less than the prevailing rate
f wages in the respective trades cr I
allings in which such mechanics,
and laborers are employed {
Section 3-Any officer or officers of {
his state or municipal corporation who {
hall violate the provisions of this act
hall be deemed guilty of malfeasance
4 office and be liable to suspension or ,
cmoval by the governor or by the head {
f the municipal department to which
UGH officer is attached. (
Section Amy person or persons con- {
racting with the state or with any
UGH municipal corporation who shall
all to comply with, or who shall evade 6
he provisions Of this act by exacting
al,