The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-01-23
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,.
B USINESS INTRODUCED IN THE
 TWO BRANCHES YESTERDAY.

ent Session Can Adjourn Six Week.
 Earlier Than the Sessions of Previous
 VIII Probably be Limit of Time fon
 Introduction of New Bustness.
 Immediately afteE the adjournment of the house and senate yesterday meet | ing of all the chairmen of committees
 was held in the supreme court room
 senator Kenealy urged that the chair
 men expedite business that the chair-
 sible and expressed belief that if they
 did so the session might adjourn this year at least six weeks earlier than ever
 before. It is probable that February 15
 will be decided upon as the limit of time
 for introduction of new business. The Senate and House of Represen- | tatives were called to order at 12: :3O 1 yesterday and although short sessions Were held large number of bills, reso-
 lut1ons and petitions were presented. In the Senate the chaplain in his prayer at the opening of the session referred to the death of Queen victoria. At previous sessions of the legislature l the messengers and doorkeepers of the Senate mad of the House have appeared in ordinary civilian dress, but at this session an innovation has been intro- duced. Yesterday the messengers and doorkeepers appeared in blue uniform coats. tha nnJ1orG pf which in scribed in white the word Senate" or House to designate by which branch they are employed.
 Senator Bree, of New Haven, intro- duced bill, by request, authorizing the issuance of $500,000 in bonds for per- manent pavements in New Haven. The bill also provides for the assessment of property holders, or abutting land own CTS not previously assessed, as follows: Seventy cents per front foot for granite block, SO cents for brick or block as- phalt, 50 cents for Trinidad Pitch Lake asphalt and 40 cents for macadam.
 According to the provisions of the bill property owners who have been previously assessed for any permanent pavement will be assessed just half the ee'1OfS AiAACuiitS, tbliNi lulllOdiS VIII Dt assessed for the nine feet wherein their tracks are laid, the same as they are at present
 Senator Bree also introduced by re- quest the bill concerning reassessment of real property in New Haven and a bill calling for the annual filing by cor porations with the town clerk, of the officers of said corporation and the con- dition of their business. The bill cites a technicality in the bill passed two years ago at the last general assem- bly,.
 Senator Whitlock presented a bill drawn by Attorney P. W. Chase, of New Haven, making kidnapping high crime The provision reads:
 Every person who shall kidnap, or decoy any person and who forcibly restraints from their lib- erty, and shall demand reward for their return, and shall threaten to in- jure or kill any person kidnapped, in case such reward is not forthcoming, shall be guilty of a high crime, and the 1 penalty shall be imprisonment for life.
 Senator Kennedy, of Naugatuck, in- troduced a bill to extend and regulate 1 the liability of employers to make com- pensation for personal injury suffered ! by employees in their service. Senator introduced the same bill in | the Senate In 1899, when it was re- iected.
 A number of petitions were intro 1uced by Senator Seeley, in behalf of 1 the Bridgeport Traction company, ask fn,, +1 and extension of time to con- struct it's tracks over any street, high ways and bridges, permission for which was already granted but not made use | of. These petitions embraced the West | port and Saugatuck Street railway, the Norwalk Tramway company, the Mil ord Street railway, the Shelton Street 'ailway and the Connecticut Lighting md Power company in the Norwalk livision.
 In the House Representative Dono- yan, of New Haven, introduced several petitions and resolutions by request:
 He introduced petition in the House or divorce by George Green, of New Haven, from his wife, who has been confined In an insane asylum since
 
 interest in estates, making such estate fable for the funeral expenses of the a bill providing that the ule of the road be introduced In the tatutes and that each driver must turn o the right and must slack up his horse lpon meeting another team, and that !, he sum of $15 shall be forfeited to the own when the offenSe against the law $ committed and the person injured nay sue for damages; a bill providing hat upon a conviction for arson the erson shall be sentenced to life inn risonment; a bill amending the act re- ating to the c. N. G. to provide that n officer of the state militia shall be ' ligible to be placed on the retired list fter three years of service instead of ( ve as now; bill to substitute life im- l risonment for capital punishment Representative Hinckley, of Stoning- ( )n, offered a bill, drawn up by P. w. hase, of New Haven raising the age ( t which a male can commit the crime ( rape to twenty-one years and pro- I lding that the punishment for the lime be imprisonment in the county g til for not less than one year. q Representative Barnes, of Southing- | ,n, presented a resolution asking that le treasurer of the state inform the I eneral assembly of the operations of le treasury since the close of the fiscal t ear, September 30, 1900. I