The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-02-15
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
BIG BATCH or NEW BUSINESS
 INTRODUCED YESTERD4Y.

INTRODUCED YESTERDAY.
 Many New Eaveners Appeared Befor Committees tn Relation to Matters C
 Local Interest Some of the More I'm
 pOrtant of the Bills Introduced-To
 day is Last Day for Introduction O
 New Business.
 To-day is the last day for the intro auction of new business and a bis batch of new bills will probably be in itroduced. Yesterdays session of tn, House lasted about an hour and hal and the greatest number of new bills resolutions and petitions yet introduced in any one day since the session opened was put in.
 A large delegation of New Havener. was about the capital yesterday, the oc casion being hearings before the com mittee on cities and boroughs on severa bills for amendment of the New Ha. ven city charter. The most importan of these bills was one to amend the
 
 ing of policemen after they shall have served twenty-five years in the police department and been incapacitated fol duty. Superintendent Wrinn and Po- lice Commissioners Lee, Clark Corey Shannahan and Landers and Represen- tativeS Donovan and Housel appeared before the committee and spoke in fa- / vor of favorable action on this bill while ,ex-Mayor Farnsworth opposed it.
 Another matter IT., was the bill for an act to provide for increasing the salary of the superintendent of charities and correction from $2,00O to $3,000 F. l.. Perry, clerk in the department of chari- ties and correction, appeared before the committee and spoke in favor of the passage of the bill, saying that the du- ties of the superintendent were arduous and deserved more compensation than is now received and thought that the citizens of New Haven would agree to this if they understood the duties the superintendent is required to perform. In reply to questions Mr. Perry said that he drew up the. proposed bill, but not at the request of the superintend- ent primarily. The bill was opposed by ex-Mayor Farnsworth, Mayor Driscoll, Assistant City Clerk Martin and by Representative Hounsel.
 There was no opposition to the bill to provide for paying the members of the board of relief for extra services rendered in receiving appeals on the re- assessment.
 Ex-Mayor Farnsworth George B. iy, Dy.Of To nam spoke in favor of the bill for an act to amend the charter so as to pro- vide that the secretary of the civil ser vice commission shall not be mem- Der of the commission.
 Superintendent Wrinn, of the police department, who is a member of the civil service commission, spoke against the proposed bill
 In the Senate Sepator Kennedy, of Naugatuck, presented petition signed by J. B. Taylor, Samuel Welch, T. Henry Dixon and George B. Martin, asking for the incorporation of the Truck Automobile company, of New Haven, with a capital stock of $1, ,000, 900. The corporation is to transact busi- ness of trucking, mechanical engineer
 
 and carry on any business in the appli- cation of compressed air or electricity.
 Senator Kennedy presented resolu- tion instructing the judiciary commit tee to report a bill providing for five congressional districts. Senator Bree presented several resolutions. one amending the charter of the Lake Superior Power company increasing the capital stock to $2,OOO,OOO, another amending the charter of the Security Insurance company, of New Haven in- creasing it's capital stock from $500, ,O0O to $1,000,000, and bill providing that 1 public must be citizens of the United States, and advancing the fee from $1 to $2.
 A bill was presented by Senator Wright, of the Seventeenth district, l that manufacturers and mer- | chants employing children under sixteen years of age, shall obtain a certificate to the effect that the child is over four teen years of age, such certificate to be signed by registrar of vital statistics 1r a town clerk. Senator Kenealy also presented a bill to provide for changing he salaries of some of the states at ,orneys and including a provision to he effect that the salary of States At .orney Williams, of New Haven county, oe advanced from $4,000 to $4,250, and hat the assistant state attorney at Wa erbury receive salary of $1,200, and that the assistant states attorney at New Haven receive salary of $1,OOO Senator Bree' presented bill amend ng the charter of the Y M C. A., of New Haven, permitting them to hold that shall be exempt from tax ltion
 Senator Whitlock, of the Fifteenth listrict introduced bill which pro- rides that every person who shall fom- nit the crime of rape, and any male person more than eighteen years old, vho shall carnally know and abuse any emale under sixteen years, shall be
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