Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-08
0IIR CONSOLIDATION BILL
It Will be Given a nearing in
 Hartford This Week.

Attorney T. r. Carmody Will Look
 After The Town Interests-Attorney
 Joe Barbour of Hartford Has Been
 Engaged to Attend The Hearings
 Waterbury Parties Will Be on
 Hand in Full Force Wednesday,
 Work Mapped Out For the Legisla-
 ture This Week.
 The first public hearing on the pro- position to consolidate the city and town governments will be held be- fore the proper comittee in the legis- lature tomorrow at , o'clock. The town, represented by the selectmen, and their attorney, Terrence F. Car- mody, will be there ready to oppose the measure from all points of view and on every principle They will be reinforced by those who will be brought into the city by the bill If 1t passes and this contingent will be headed by Attorney j oe Barbour, the funny man of the state republican party. The bill will be represented by City Attorney Kellogg. per vote of the aldermen passed some time ago. It was said Judge Cowell would also be on hand to say q good word for the bill but the judge informed the writer that he would be afrafd> the ghosts of Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jeffer- son would haunt him for the rest of his life if he took part in any pro- ject to deprive the American citizens the inalienable right to hold public meetings where he could work off his supertiuouS oratory
 Those who are directly interested in opposing the bill on general principles have worked up considerable opposi- ton and a host of orators of various abilities will be heard or there will be dull thud in the gathering. Apart from these. Independent negatives will be on hand and in this element of op- position many of the most promipent citizens will be found. These see no real necessity for consolidating the city and town governments, at least from a view of economy, for consolidation will mean the saving of as much as would pay the city attorney his years salary.
 The witnesses for the town who are opposed to consolidation will not be wanted at Hartford before Wednes- day. The first days hearing will be taken up by the city folks.
 Hartford. April S.-The railroad com mittee will hold the most important hearings this week down on the pro- gram at the legislature. Tomorrow afternoon this committee will go into the proposed extensions in and about New Haven, Cheshire, Aleriden, Water bury, Mt Carmel and Hamden. and q pretty stiff fight is expected. The 1.-two petitioners for this territory are the Fair Haven and Westville road of New Haven and the Meriden, Southington and Compounce, and both roads will make hard fight for privileges over this territory. Cheshire and New Ha- ven will be the centers of dispute. There are four petitions covering Cheshire, put in by the Fair Haven road, the Meriden. Southington and Compounce, Francis Atwataer and C. k. Alger and residents of the district are fairly aroused over the question. The Meriden company'S anxiety to en- ter New Haven via Mt Carmel and Hamden has stirred up much oppo- sition from the trolley companies al- ready in that city and also from yari- ous residents along whose streets the proposed extension would run. There are, on the contrary, hundreds of oth- CTS who will favor such an extension. The hearing will be an interesting one.
 On Wednesday the proposed Meriden and Middletown Street Railway com pany will be heard, as we'll as the Farmington Valley road and the Tar iffville and East Granby road. Thurs day will be an important day with the Hartford street amendments, the fight over the Naugatuck and Seymour road and the amendment to the charter of the Connecticut Lighting anad Power company, which will create much op- position.
 The judiciary committee is now nearly through with it's schedule of hearings, but will hold special sessions at later dates, probably. on the pro- posed whipping post bill. and the in determinate sentence bill. The ln- portant proposed new military revision l bill will come up for hearing before the military committee on Wednesday. 1 Tomorrow and Thursday there will be interesting hearings before the fisheries and game committee on inn portant new game laws and to-mor- row the constitutional convention com mittee will hear further arguments for 1 the proposed method of revising the 1 laws.
 The eight-hour labor bill will prob- | ably be called from the table this week | and will cause long drawn out fight. 1 Mir Housel has the yea and nay vote ordered and will probably push it i'll | spite of protests from the majority | side of the house. The proposed bank | tax bill is likely to come before the | krx,~ H.. fivpaaa 1.