The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-08
OPENING OF LEGISLATURE
BIENNIA L SESSION OFLA VIVA * ERS
WILL COMMENCE IO-TORROW.
Session WIFI be Notable for Contest for
Supremacy Between steam Railroad
and Trolley acknowledgements ROT
the Opening Day and for Inauguration
of the state Officers
Of the state Officers.

Hartford Jan. THE bi-yearly dem
onstration attending the Inauguration
of the governor and new state officers
and the incoming of the general assem-
bly, is the important feature OIL thls
week in Connecticut. Wednesday morn
ing the three flags, which marx the
presence of the governor and the fact
that the house and senate are IN ses-
sion will be floating from the capitol
building, and there will be hum and
buzz Of excitement about Hartford
which Is only present every other year.
! For the next six months the people
of Connecticut will be watching the
solons whom they have sent to Hart
ford to look out for their interests and
for those Of the public at large. There
will be but two democrats In the senate,
and both are lawyers. They are Will
liam Kennedy of Naugatuck, and ]. p.
Bree of New Haven. The remaining
twenty-five members are republicans.
The house will comprise 2b4 members
this year-two more than in 1899. The
republicans are overwhelming in their
numbers there also. There are 205 re-
publicans, a gain Of "a over last year,
and 40 democrats.
The session will be a notable one
from the standpoint of railroad inter-
ests, and it is predicted that the great
est steam road and trolley fight ever
conducted anywhere will be seen in
Hartford during the coming few
months. Applications have been filed
from every section of the state and In
many instances the trolley men are
fighting among themselves to get the
charter rights to build. If one half Of
the charters asked for should be grant
ed Connecticut would form network
of tracks like a spider web.
Each body will assemble in its own
chamber at 10 O'Clock. Secretary of
State Huber Clarke will call the SEN
ate together. After oaths have been adj
ministered the senate chooses presi-
dent pro tenn. and clerk, a chaplain,
doorkeepers and messengers are chosen,
and committee on canvass of votes
appointed. Ex-Speaker Brandegee of
the house of 1899 will call the house to
order. The chief clerk and assistant
clerk, messengers and doorkeepers are
elected, and committee on canvass of
After these preliminaries the senate
joins the house in a joint convention,
the president pro tenn. of the senate pre-
siding. A committee will then wait on
the governor and state officers and an
nounce that the convention is ready to
receive them.
Governor-elect Mclean with his staff,
Lieutenant Governor-elect Keller, Sec
rotary Of State elect Vinal of Middle
town; Treasurer-elect Gallup, of Nor
witch, and Comptroller-elect Chamber
lain of Meriden, will mount the plat
form and there receive the oath Of Of
flee. Governor~elect Mclean will then
read his inaugural address, which he
has been at work upon for some weeks.
The house and senate will then trans
act some routine business and adjourn.
John II. Light, Of South Norwalls, will
be the speaker of the house. Prior to
all this there will be a military pageant
in which the Governors Foot Guard of
Hartford and New Haven, as well as
the Horse Guard will participate and
act as escort. In the evening there will
be the usual inaugural ball, which is
one of Connecticuts most brilliant so
cial affairs. Caucuses will be held Tues
day night to nominate for the various
positions in the gift of the senate and
house.