The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-01
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
BILL CONCERNING RETIREMEN1
 OF MILITIA OFFICERS PASSED.

It Provides That They May be Retired
 After Three Years service-Other Mat
 ters Reported from Committees and
 Acted Upon-No One Favored the
 Trolley Commission Bill Before the
 Railroad Committee.
 According to the provisions of a reso- lution passed by the house and senate yesterday, the general assembly will not hereafter during the present session meet on Fridays, but those days will be given over to committee meetings. This action is in line with the sugges- tion favorably considered at the meet ing of committee chairmen on Wednes- day.
 The bill to provide that militia officers may be retired after three years ser- vice was passed by the house and sem ate yesterday under suspension of the rules The present law provides for such retirement after five years of ser vice and the bill to amend the present law was introduced by Representative
 
 committee reported favorably on the amending bill yesterday and was passed under suspension of the rules without a dissenting vote.
 In the senate the resolution to appro- priate $4,00O for the purchase of copies of Taylor's Souvenir of the Capital was rejected, as was also the resolution to appropriate $1,000 for a stenographer for the bank commission.
 The senate in executive session voted to confirm the following nominations reported by the governor:
 Bank commission-George F. Kendall of Suffied.
 Directors of the state prison-Frank C. Sumner and Willis o. Burr, of Hart ford, and Edward A. Fuller, of Suffield.
 State board of charities-Rebecca G. Bacon of New Haven, and Mary Hall and Edwin A. Down, of Hartford
 George B. Martin, of New Haven, to be harbor commissioner of New Haven.
 Joseph R. Townsend of New Haven, to the state board of health.
 Davis o. Maynard, to be commission CT of the Old Lyme ferry.
 On recommendation of the committee on appropriations the bill to increase from $S,OO0 to $12,0O0 the amount which may be annually appropriated for the State Firemen's association was reject ed. The chairman of that committee said that his committee would later re- port favorably on another bill provid ing for an increase of the appropria- tion. It is understood that this other bill will provide for increasing the ap- propriation to $10,000 per year.
 In the house the resolutions for the | appointment of Judge James Bishop to be judge of the New Haven city court and of Judge Edwin c. Dow to be asso- ciate judge of that court were tabled for the calendar.
 The house passed the resolution to provide for amendment of the charter | of the New York East conference of the Methodist church to strike out the pro- vision that the trustees shall report to the general assembly the financial con- dition of the conference.
 On favora ble report from the commit tee on interpretations the bill was pass ed which provides that fees for the in- crease of capital stock by interpretations mustmust be paid to the secretary of | state before petitions for such increase | shall be considered by the committee.
 A bill to authorize the town of South | ington to exempt from taxation certain l manufacturing industries was rejected | on unfavorable report from the finance 1 committee. MT. Tucker, chairman of | that committee, said that in previous years it had been the custom to reject such bills on the ground of public pol icy.
 ta nat sod To n | appropriate $1,00O for the erection of a monument for the Twenty-fourth c. V. regiment.
 The sessions of the house and senate were rather brief yesterday and both branches adjourned until 12:30 o'clock Tuesday.
 Before the railroad committee yester- day afternoon ex-Lieutenant Governor J. D. Dewell, of New Haven, president of the state board of trade, and T. R. Mckenzie, of Southington, appeared to speak in favor of a bill to give the state railroad commission supervision over the electric railways of the state a bill introduced at the request of the state board of trade Attorney E. B. Gager, of Derby, who is looking out for trolley interests before the committee, opposed the bill and called attention to the fact that the matter was before the committee only in the form of peti tion and that no bill incorporating the substance of the petition had yet been presented and suggested that such 8 bill should be presented to the commit tee before a hearing on the matter was given. The committee agreed with this suggestion by MT. Gager and the hear ing was postponed until March IS, at which time MT. Dewel said that a bill would be prepared and presented. No one appeared before the committee in favor of the bil! to provide for the creation of commission to have super vision of electric railways. At the re- quest of the author the bill to provide for the increase of the membership of the railroad commission to four mem- bers by the addition of a practical rail- ( road man or locomotive engineer was  Two bills of interest to New Haveners were up for hearing before the com mittee on public health and safety at the capitol yesterday afternoon. They were the bills to increase the salary of Dr. Lindsley of New Haven, secretary 70 |.