The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-16
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
4 FAYORABLE REPORT ON I'll F
 TYLER AMENDMENT.
Also n subititute Bill to Provide for Nomination of Common Pleas Judge by the Govcrnor-Plurniity and Rc- districting Amendments Passed by the House. th

l The House committee on constitution 1 al amendment held an executive session lyesterday afternoon and decided to sub init favorable report on the so-called
 Fyler amendment to secure a change in
 the system of representation in the gen.
 cral assembly. This plan is the one which provides that each town of 2,500 | population or less shall have one rep
 resentatlve and that all towns of more than 2,500 population shall have two representative, and that every town 1 of more than 500 inhabitants shall have one additional representative for each 10000 ovei, 2,50O. Under this plan New Haven would have seven repre- scntatives in the legislature, Hartford five, Bridgeport 5, Meriden three, New Britain three, Norwich three, and there would be 254 members of the House. The amendment will probably be reported to the House to-norrow The committee also considered the
 bill for constitutional amendment to
 provide for the election by the people
 of the judges of inferior courts, includ-
 ing judges of the courts of common
 please, the Waterbury district court.
 and judges of city, town and borough
 courts. When tho system of appoint
 ing judges Of the superior and supreme
 courts was changed it was done by
 constitutional amendment. It is now
 thought however. that the same end
 can be attained by public act and the
 committee decided to report favorably
 2 substitute bill for an act to provide
 that Judges of the courts of common
 pleas, and of the Waterbury district court shall be nominated by the gover
 nor instead of by caucuses of county members as, at present, and elected by
 the general assembly, leaving the judges of the city, borough and town courts to be nominated by county eau cuses as at present.
 In the House yesterday the two con- stitutional amendments which were passed by the last general assembly, were passed One Of the amendments provide for plurality elections of state officers and the other provides for a redistricting sof senatorial districts so that there shall be not more than thir- ty-six districts and that in the redist- ricting no county shall be divided. The | plurality amendment was adopted | The redistricting | was passed by vote of | 159 to 34 securing the necessary two thirds vote T'lie two amendments will ! now go to the people to be voted upon in October next.
 The amendment relating to the plu- rality election of state officers is as fol- lows: iisa
 Tn the election for governor, lieuten- E ant governor, secretary, treasurer, and attorney general, the person found, by the general assembly, In the manner provided in the fourth article of the constitution of this state, to have received the greatest number of votes for each of said offices respec- lively shall be declared by said assem- biy to be elected. But If two or more persons shall be found to have an equal and the greatest number of votes for any of said offices. then the general as- sembly, on the second day Of It's ses- sion, by joint ballot of both houses, shall proceed without debate to choose said officer from a list of the names of he persons found to have an equal and greatest number of votes for said of- ice"
 The amendment relating to in- ,reasing the number of senators and districts is as follows:
 Section 1--F'rom and after the We'd lfsday after the first Monday In Ian Iary, 1905. the senate shall be compos- 'd of not less than twenty-four and not nore than thirty-six members, who 'hall be elected at the electors meeting | leld biennially on the Tuesday after he first Monday in November.
 Section 2-The general assembly, which shall be held on the Wednesday liter the first Monday of January, 1903, hall divide the state into senatorial listiicts as hereinafter provided; the lumber of such districts shall not be ess than twenty -four nor more than hirty-six, and each district shall elect nly one senator The districts shall lways be composed of contiguous ter
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