Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-16
A WEEK III THE CAPITOL.
Sixty Measures Were Rejected By ne
 House and Senate.

:. i Sixty Measures Were Rejected By nle House and Senate. Hartford, March 16.-The week at the capitol has been an interesting one | in many particulars In the house two sharp fights developed, one in which
 the democratic side split on the cleo ton of James P. Bree as state auditor
 and the other when several representa- tives from the smaller towns tried
 to have passed a measure that was in
 tended to provide for the taxation Of
 water works of large cities when sit
 mated in smaller towns. The Bree mat
 ter is likely to result in a serious dis
 ruption before it is finally settled. Senator .Bree was nominated by the senate for the position through the efforts of Senator Kenealey, the leader of that body, and says that he will stick to his place and fight it out to
 the end. The senate will unQuestion- ably support MT Bree as long as he
 asks such support and when the
 measure is referred again to that body
 for action will take precisely the same
 position as before. The appointment
 seems likely to produce a deadlock between the two houses, unless the republicans in the house are willing to concur with the senate and uphold Bree over the democratic caucus nomi- nation. There is at present no out
 look for any change in the situation The first signs of trouble in the | house came on Thursday when, at the end of q long session, there resulted
 a serious altercation between represen- tatives of small towns and the cities on the bill outlined above. Serious division was warded off only through Mr Kings laboring with both parties for peace and with the small towns for q charitable use of their strength in the house.
 There was h. surprise this week when the bill providing that all rail- roads should furnish to the public S1O mileage books was called up for re- consideration in the house. Most un-
 expected opposition to the railroad committees report in favor of the rail
 road developed all over the house. | The bill was finally sent back to the railroad committee. Souvenir TayiorS s bill for a S4.OOO appropriation for his legislative history was turned down by the house after it came up for recon sideration this week. Mir Taylor with
 drew his bill. The blll to limit the number of people to be carried on street cars to the seating capacity of the car was defeated, as was the reso- lution appropriating S25,OO0 for a mechanical department for the Agri- cultural college and change the name to include the new department. This bill was stated by MT Tucker of the finance committee to be 2 most re- | markable measure, inasmuch as no | one appeared for 1t and there seemed | to be no information as to it's origin or purport.
 Some sixty measures were rejected | by the house and senate this week and | about eighty favorably acted upon. Committee hearings were Of more than ordinary interest this week. The | railroad committee on Tuesday saw | the Connecticut Lighting and Railway Co recede absolutely from the position | it had taken in regard to Bridgeport | street railway amendments, thus SlV- 1 ing the steam road what is considered | to be the first great victory of the 1 session. All of the committees sat each day this week and went through
 a great mass of business. Several of the committees are now nearly
 through with their hearings and the
 heaviest loaded of the committees ex-
 nect now to be through by the middle
 of May.
 Walter r. Prince, of the Law and l .'
 committee Thursday afternoon in sup
 port of his bill to prohibit prize fight ing in this state. Mir. Prince read a
 newspaper description of the Ryan
 West fight in Louisville, Ky, to show that prize fighting is brutal and de- | passing. The extract from the news paper gave a detailed account of the
 injuries inflicted on the combatants The reading of it caused some amuSe ment, and a member of the committee
 raised a laugh by asking: ''Who won:
 Nlr Prince referred to the condition of fighters described as "groggy.' He
 said that a man died from injuries re
 ceived in a prize fight in Bridgeport
 His bill would not prevent sparl.ng
 John F. Gunshannon opposed the bill
 and said there was no public senti
 ment which called for it's enactment
 He said the foot ball game which he
 attended in New Haven last fall an
 swered the description read by Nil
 Prince more than a prize fight.