The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-06
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTERESTING CH.tNGES IN THE
sEVERAL POOL BILLS.

INTERESTING CH.tNGEs IN The
sEVERAL POoL BILLS.
discussion Confined Mainly to the BAH
for Giving Towns Power to Vote to
allow Pool seIling-severai New Ha-
ven Gentlemen Appeared In Oppo-
sition-A Protest Signed by Ex-Gov-
ernors-Other Matters Before the
Legislature Yesterday.
One of the most largely attended COM
mittee hearings of the present session
of the legislature was that held yester-
day afternoon by the committee on ag-
riculture on the bills for amendment Oh
the present law regarding pool selilng.
The bills on which the hearing was held
were: Senate bill No rs, giving towns
the power to authorize pool selling; SEN
ate bill No. 81, amending the law OF 1898
regarding pool selling, so that the pen
atty shall apply to any special purse OF
prize offered ON the winning OF any
contest: and house bill No. AS, proVid-
ing that municipal authorities may eX-
empt any driving or agricultural asso-
citation possessing an enclosed park
from the provisions Of the pool law.
The hearing opened in the regular
meeting room of the committee but so
large a number of citizens We're in at
tendance that the room would not ac-
commodate them and an adjournment
was taken to the hall of the house.
About two hundred persons interested
in the proposed amendment and bills
were in attendance.
The hearing was mainly on the
amendment to permit towns to vote to
authorize pool selling, although the
other two bills also came in for discus
sion.
The committee first heard those in ia
vor Of the bills, and among those VINO
spoke in favor Of them were Mayor
Harrison, of Hartford, Representative
Lilley, Of Waterbury, Senator Kennedy,
of Naugatuck, Representative Donovan,
of New Haven, Mr.. Fisk, proprietor of
the Branford Driving park; Judge Bly,
denburgh, Of New Haven, John
Hutchinson, Of Essex, and representa-
tives of large number Of agricultural
societies about the state
Judge l.. w. Cleaveland of New Ha-
ven, Rev Joseph H. Twichell of Hart
ford, Rev. DR.. Watson L. Phillips, of
New Haven, Past Master B. c. Batter
son, Of the State grange, T. S. Gold,
secretary of the state board of agricul-
ture; John T. Manson, of New Haven,
w. F. Prince, assistant secretary of the
Law and Order league; S. B. Thrasher,
secretary Of the Lad and Order league;
DR.. Elias Pratt, representative from
Torrington; Attorney Harrison Hewitt,
of New Haven, Representative Wills, OF
Vernon, W. H. Hall, of Simsbury, Mr..
Wilcox, of Berlin, and other men we'll
known in the state spoke against the
proposed measures. The opposition was
led by Judge Cleaveland, of this city,
who opened the argument of the oppo-
sition. He presented the following pro-
test, signed by living ex-governors of
the state:
To the Committee on Agriculture of the
General Assembly of Connecticut
Understanding that several bills de-
signed to authorize pool selling at race
tracks, introduced into the present leg
islature, have been referred to your
committee, we take this method of re-
cording our protest against any action
of the general assembly legalizing pool
selling either at race tracks or any 9TH
err place within the limits of the state
of Connecticut.
We do not believe that any such &C
ton is called for by the agricultural in
terests of the state of Connecticut, or
is necessary to protect them.
Dated February, 1901.
PHINEAS C. LOUNSBURY,
O. VINCENT COFFIN,
LORRIN A. COOKE,
GEORGE f. LOUNSBURY,
THOMAS M. WALLER
Judge Cleaveland also presented the
following communication from Past
Master Bowen, Of the State grange:
Pasadena, Cal, Feb, 20, 1901.
To the Members of the Agricultural
Committee of the Connecticut Gen
eral Assembly:
Gentlemen--I am informed that there
are several bills authorizing pool selling