Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-25
IN THE CAPITOL THIS WEEK.
A Number of Important Committee
 Hearings to Come Up.

Hartford, Feb 25.-The coming weeks session of the assembly will be the climax of the long and hard fight over the New Haven county judge ships. To-Iporrow the committee on the Judiciary nomination will hold q hearing on the appointments of JultuS C. Cable and Leverett M Hubbard judges of the common pleas court of that county: the arrested appoint ments of Judges Bishop and Dow of the New Haven city court will come up and the protest against the appoint ment Judge George II. Wheeler of the superior court will be heard. Ther- is thought 10 be little probability that any of the IIlteStS will avail, however. It is charged by supporters of the ap- pointeeS that an animps is behind the fight against them. In the petition against-the appointment of Judge Ca ble to the common pleas the expected support of%1he protest from New Ha- ven lawyers did not materialiZe at the bar meetin. held last Saturday. and the hearing may turn out to be rather q confession of the reasons for the protest than q vigorous attempt to oust the nominee. There has heen SD much criticism of the politics into %which the court cases have hern plunged at Hartford that there is some reason to think that the bill now before the assembly to revise the meth cd of election of these officers may meet with strong support
 This week both houses will probably get down to business in earnest. and the rush of reports and decisions by both senate and house will commence. The week should see q large number of the lesser bills either passed CT set aside and long step taken toward thn completion Of business.
 There will ba T number of inlno"talt coh:nit2e hearings this wpeI, besides those to come before the committee CT judicial nominations The railroad ;ninmtrca Will heg:n business in earn eSt and some of th,. nest important petitinns will be hanrl. On Wetine>- day the Connecticut Lighting ani Power Co will appear with t.le.c ,,nt;- jfoas for important and sweeping amensi,nentS to the c..2r.er of 1hn Erie@ep@rt Traction Co. for am@a1- Mant Q th- charter of the S,lrit n Street Railway for right to eNtant! its tracks to Seymour. Of tle Nii1or.. Street for cAange:; in its Charter. cf 1ha Nurwalk Tramway Co and West port lal Sausatuck for charter amend ments. The Stamford Street Raily'2z will also l.e heard for important char ter amendments, ?s will the Norwich Street Railway. The judiciary com mittce will this week take from the t1ble some interesting measures On Th,.i sday is scheduled the bill rcstor- ing whipping as punishment for cer- tain CffenSes and the hearing on tlis will be interesting as number of prominent jurists will appear iu favor of tue bill. The Sunday base ball bill is due on Tuesday Before tie con- mittee on roads. rivers and bridges VIII be heard the bill providn: for paths for bicycles on highways. and the bill proposing sidepa tn by board of commissioners for each county. The committee on humane institutions will on Wednesday hear report of the bill establishing T state reformatory for women. The committee on educa- ton will ou Wednesday hear the bill providing for tn z teaching of deport- ment in the public schools. All of the committees will have q busy week, get ting under way in the mass of bills that are to be reported upon later in the session.