The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-12
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
BUSINESS OF1HE HOUSE AND SEN ATE AT YESTERDAY'S SESSION.

Payment BiIl-Eight-Hour BiiI Re jected-chamber of Commerce Assess ment Bill May be Referred to n Popula
 yote-Com miftec Reports.
 In the house yesterday the labor com
 mittee reported substitute bill con
 corning weekly payments of employees
 The bill as reported is as follows:
 Section 1. Section 1,749 of the gen
 eral statutes is hereby amended tt
 read as follows: Every person, part
 nership or corporation employing labo)
 shall pay to his or its employees suct
 compensation or wages as may bt
 agreed upon, once a week; and sucl
 payment shall include all wages earned
 and unearned up to the eighth day
 preceding the day of payment, and nc
 deduction from said wages shall be
 made on account of such weekly pay
 ment.
 Section 2. Section 1,750 of the gen.
 eral statutes Is hereby amended to read
 as follows: Every person, partnership
 or corporation that shall pay weekly to
 such of his or its employees as shall call
 at the usual place of payment for the
 same 30 per centun of their estimated
 wages, earned and unpaid before the
 eighth day preceding the day of pay
 ment, making no discount on account | of weekly payment, and shall pay in
 full once in each month and shall give
 notice of the same in printed rules and regulations shall be exempt from the l vii ci1 oF 4lxo
 Section 3. Section 1,751 of the general
 statutes Is hereby amended to read as
 follows Any person, partnership or cor
 poration violating the provisions of the l two preceding sections shall forfeit the
 sum of $50, half to him who shall sue | therefor and half to the state.
 | The committee on labor also reported | a substitute bill in relation to the es- 1 tablishment of free employment bu- reaus. It empowers the commissioner
 of labor statistics to establish bureaus in New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury, Norwich and Bridgeport. No fee shall be charged to persons applying for em- ployment through the bureau. The commissioner shall appoint superinten- dents of the bureaus. Each superinten- dent shall receive a salary of not more than $1,2OO a year No person shall keep an employment agency in New Haven, Hartford, Ndrwich, Waterbury and Bridgeport unless he shall first re- ceive license from the comptroller the fee for which shall be $100 for the first year and $50 for each of the suc- ceeding years. No saloon keeper shall conduct an employment agency, and no agency shall be located in building where liquor Is sold. The applicant for a license must furnish a bond of $1, ,000. In case the applicant does not procure employment through the agency within one month after registration the fee which he or she has paid shal, be re- paid by the agent No licensed person shall have sign similar to that of the State of Connecticut Free Employment Bureau. In no case shall the superin- tehdent of any free employment office cause to be furnished workmen or other employees to any applicant for help whose employees are at that time on strike or locked out; nor shall any list of names and addresses of applicants for employment be shown to any em- ployer whose employees are on strike or locked out; nor shall such list be expos ed where 1t can be copied or used by | any employer whose employees are on | strike or locked out.
 Reports were received from commit | tees as follows:
 Substitute resolution extending the time for organization of the Union cor poration; extending the time for organ izing the National Exchange corpora ton; favorable on resolution extending the time for the organization of the Bond and Mortgage Guaran- tee company; for the incorporation of the Union Electric Light and Power company; substitute resolution extend- ing the time for organizing the Wash ngton Industrial Development compa- ny; substitute resolution providing that all rights and privileges heretofore granted the Enfield and Longmeadow Electric Railroad company, which are now in force, are hereby extended and continued until the rising of the next general assembly, section provides hat nothing contained in the charter If the Enfield and Longmeadow Elec- ric Railway company or any amend nents thereto shall be construed to au- horize the construction hereafter of thy of it's track across the tracks of my steam railroad at grade; unfavor- ble on bill to increase the fees of jus ices of the peace from $150 to $250; on louse bill No. 200, concerning the prac- ice of medicine and midwifery-bills elected; favorable on bill establishing he town court of Milford and on the ill establishing the town court of New Afford; favorable on resolution incor- orating the Chickamauga Cement com any; substitute on resolution incor- orating the Colonial Commercial com any favorable on bill giving a reward or information against poultry thieves; nposing a fine of $100 or Imprisonment lr two years for stealing poultry in ne night; substitute on bill concerning le terms of the superior court for New .ondon county; favorable on the peti- on of Charles H. Day and others con- srning the estate of James Day, de- aased. [ The bill introduced by Representative ulfoile, of Waterbury, repeating chap 1T 15S Of the Public Acts of 1S9 in ,ference to telephone companies, and le bill introduced by MT Banks, of in reference to telephone 1anges, were tabled for printing and , llendar. MT. Freeman, of Hartford, and MT. = emenway, of Watertown, were ap- I