The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-13
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
 BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE.

An Attempt to Reconsider Late in tn l Afternoon Failed Because of Lack of Quorum-New Haven Contae tons Dis
 case Hospital Bill Amende ed and Passed | Other Bnsiness in House and Senate 1 The bill providing for the calling of a constitutional convention, favorably re- ported by the special joint committee contrary to all expectations, passed the house at Hartford yesterday by the vote
 of 117 to 101. Late in the afternoon
 session an attempt was made to secure
 reconsideration, but dozens of mem
 bers jumped up and ran out into the corridor leaving the house without a quorum. The attempt at reconsidera-
 tion failed end the hopse adjourned
 without quorum at about 4:45.
 The constitutional convention bill
 came up in the house as the special or
 der of the day at il o'clock. The house
 was we'll filled with visitors when the
 debate commenced, many of the politi-
 cal leaders of the state being present,
 among them Melville B. Cary, the lead-
 CT of the convention forces of the state,
 and ex-Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley,
 who has opposed the bill.
 MT. Freeman, of Hartford, chairman
 of the joint committee, offered an
 amendment at once changing the elec-
 tion of delegates to the convention to
 the first Tuesday after the first Mon day of November, 1901, month later than the question itself would be de- cided, this amendment being favored by the committee unanimously. The amendment was lost.
 The bill as reported provided that one delegate to the convention should be elected from each town and that twen- ty-four delegates at-large should be elected.
 Mir. Banks, of Fairfield, offered an amendment to provide that there should be one delegate from each town and no delegates Large. This amendment was adopted.
 There was a long debate on the bill. Messrs. Freeman, of Hartford, Tyler, of Haddam, Scovile, of Salisbury, Don- ovan, of New Haven. Pearne, of Mid dletown, King, of Windham, Calklns,s 
 Chandler, of Thompson, and Reed, of Suffield, spoke against the bill
 Late yesterday afternoon the New Haven contagious disease hospital bill was taken from the calendar for action. The bill provides that the board of health shall have sole authority to es tablish the hospital. An amendment to provide that the bill shall not take ef- feet unless within a year the common council shall have failed to establish the hospital was supported by the members from New Haven and was finally adopted The bill as amended was then passed.
 The house was in session yesterday about five and e-half hours, a recess of half an hour being taken at 80 D. n. After recess the house voted to re- cede and concur with the senate in passing the state fire marshal bill with put amendment and in passing the | Farmington trolley resolution as amended in the house. The house on Monday tackled on several amendments | md then rejected the entire resolution. | The senate adopted it with the amend I nents
 The house confirmed the nominations if the governor of the newly appointed . judges. The vote were all unanimous lnd were as follows: For chief justice If the supreme court, David Torrance 60; associate justice of the supreme ourt, Samuel O. Prentice 16S; judges if the superior court, Edwin B. Gager 71 and William Scoville Case ITS.
 The house in the afternoon unani- adopted the resolution appoint ng ex-Chief Justice Andrews state ref rec
 The osteopathy bill was reported fa- orably in the house The bill provides hat osteopaths shall take examinations or certificates to practice, The bill ap- oints state board of osteopathic reg stration and examination.
 MT. Tillinghast, of Plainfield intro uced the following resolutions: That
 committee consisting of one senator nd two representatives Is hereby ap- ointed to recall from the office of the ngrossing clerk the substitute for sen te bill No. 51, an act concerning itin- rant vendors"
 MT. Tilinghast said the itinerant ven ors' bill was passed hurredly and was oted for under misapprehension he bill has been pronounced by an ex- Idge unconstitutional It is similar to
 law that has been declared unconsti- Itional by the supreme court. The bill
 class legislation in it's worst form. Tho will say that young man cannot pen store and offer goods for sale? e knew young man who had started usiness in Plainfeld with capital of 5. He could not have started if the III was law, because he did not have le sum of $500, which the bill required m to pay He moved the suspension the rules.
 MT Freeman, of Hartford, opposed le resolution. If the gentleman from lainfield wanted to kill the bill he was o late The gentleman from Plainfield lould state his amendment before the )use voted on his motion to recall the H. He opposed the suspension of the | lies. When the vote was taken Mir Filling lst was the only member who voted | r the suspension Of the rules. The ! was tabled. The senate passed a vote conveying | e land owned by the state of Con- I cticut on the battlefield of Antietam d
 Maryland to the United States gov The house later concurred. V Senator Gordon explained the resolu- )n saying that the state owned act of land at Aantietam locating the