The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-24
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
ARG UMENTS ON LHE DERBY TROL-
 LET LINE PETITION.
Made Before the Railroad Committee in Hartford Yesterday Afternoon-Bill to Permit Using Live Pigeons for Targets Rejected-Bills to Incorporate Inde- pendent Telephone Companies Re- jected-Other Business Before House and Senate Yesterday.

At the meeting of the railroad conl-
 mittee of the general assembly held yesterday afternoon at the capitol m
 Hartford arguments on the petition for
 permission to extend the tracks of ihe
 Fair Haven and Westville Railroad
 company from New Haven to Derby
 were heard. A number of New Haven gentlemen, including members of the committee appointed at the mass meet ing to present to the committee the resolutions adopted at that meeting and the petition in aid of the petition for the extensions of the tracks, were present, among them being General E. E. Bradley, president of the chamber of commerce; Alexander Troup, Clarence F. Thompson, of West Haven, ex-May- or Farnsworth, Elbridge L. Howe Sig. Hirsh, Attorney Isaac Wolfe and At torney J. B. Ullman.
 Arguments in favor of the petition were made by Attorney w. H. Ely, representing the Fair Haven and West vile Railroad company, and by Attor- ney Wolfe, representing the citizens committee. MT. Wolfe also laid before the committee the resolutions adopted here Monday night at the citizens meeting. City Clerk Norris presented to the committee q copy of the resolu tions adopted by the aldermen and councilmen.
 Attorney Wolfe asked that the rail- road committed permit Colonel N. G. Osborn, of this city, to speak. Colonel Osborn was chairman of the citizens committee. Attorney Robbins, of Hart ford, who represents the Consolidated road, objected to allowing Colonel Os- born to speak, and the committee sus- tained the objection Mir Robbins ar gument against the granting of the pe- tition was considered by those who heard it a. very weak one, as it was re- marked that it necessarily must be from the merits of his side of the question. The arguments were finished late yes- terday afternoon and the matter now rests with the railroad committee. which will probably not report for sev- eral days yet.
 In the house yesterday a bill for the incorporation of the Connecticut Gun club was rejected. The Connecticut Gun club, the incorporation of which was asked for by gentlemen of Berlin, Meriden, Bristol, Bridgeport, Middle town and Hartford, proposed to locate a club range at Berlin and to use imam innate objects and pigeons as targets. MT. Pearne, of the Incorporation com mittee, said that the pigeon clause killed the bill. He said: "The extent to which public sentiment has been ex- cited in New York as a result of the shoots on Long Island pointed to the probability that similar feeling would be aroused here. The general law pre- vents the shooting of live objects sim ply for sport, and we did not think that we should allow these private parties right that the general public did not enjoy. The committee was not unani- nous, but we were pretty thoroughly that our course would be SUD- ported.'
 The resolution incorporating the Or ange Telephone company was rejected, MT. Pearne, of the incorporation con- mittee stating that no one appeared for the measure.
 < The same fate met the resolution in the Naugatuck Valley Tel ephone company, no one appearing in its favor.
 The resolution incorporating the New Milford and Lake Waurenaug Auto
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