The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-24

Cheshire Delegate Moves for Adjourn
 ment Not Earlier Than July 7-
 Speeches Again Occupied Nearly tho
 Whole Session Yesterday
 Rosolution Offered by Mr. Walsh of
 Ansonia.
 Hartford, Jan. 23.-The usual batch
 of resolutions followed the opening of
 to-days session of the constitutional
 convention after Mr. Brown, of Bloom
 field, had offered prayer. All the reso-
 lutions were tabled
 One presented by MT. Osborn, of New Haven, directed the state comptroller
 to have compiled and printed the con
 stitutional provisions of the various
 states concerning special legislation
 and the granting of special charters. MT. Davenport, of Bridgeport, offered
 resolution providing that the gover-
 nor shall have power to grant reprieVes and pardons for all offenses against the state, except in cases of impeachment
 Mr. Smith, of Cheshire, presented a resolution fixing a day not earlier than | The resolution also provided that the revised constitution shall be submitted l to the people on the first Monday of l October, 1902, which is town meeting | day.
 l It was voted that when the conven- | tion adjourned it be until next Tuesday l at 12:30.
 When the convention went into com mittee of the whole at 11:30 MT. San ford, of Reading was the first speaker He defended the small towns but said there were inequalities and injustices in the present organization of the gen eral assembly Although he was a rep resentative of a town having two mem bers in the house, he was in favor, he said, of house of representatives hay ing only 16S members and a senate of not over forty members
 Mir GrsWold of GuilfOrd, declared that the views of all reformers tended to system of representation accord
 ing to population, and that such sys- tenn was wholly undesirable.
 Mr. Walsh, of Ansonia, offered three resolutions as follows:
 1. That the judges of all courts of
  and justices courts, shall perform their duties upon circuit and shall not be as- signed for any one county for a longer consecutive period than three months.
 2 That the property of no person shall be taken for public use without | just compensation therefor, and when | property is sought to be taken the own CT thereof shall have the right to trial | by an impartial jury as to the value | thereof.
 g. That the right of trial by jury | shall include all actions at law as now administered and shall include all hear f ings: and judicial hearings in damages | upon default of demurrer overruled, It | shall also include the trial of all causes wherein equitable modes of procedure may hereinafter be instituted of the same matters as are now cognizavle by courts of law and, as above assigned, shall remain inviolate.
 MT. Hayes, of Bethlehem, was the third speaker for the small towns this He said the power of the state to wipe out any municipality in the state was undoubted The question be- fore the convention was not an histor cal one. It did not matter whether the towns had a divine right to representa- tion or not. The question for the con- vention to decide was what was best for the state to-day. He paid tribute to the government of the little town re- public. and favored one representative from each town and an enlarged popu lar senate.
 A dozen members of the Windham county delegation to the constitutional met in the retiring room of the senate chamber to-day at the call of Delegate Miner, of Piainfield. MeSsrs, Milner and Fitts, the Ashford delegate, declared themselves in favor of equal by either one or two members from each town. They were opposed to the enlargement of the sen ate to more than thirty-six members. MT. Chandler of Thompson, favored TWO representatives from each town and ] senate of sixty Nearly all the other delegates present seemed to endorse this view of MT Chandler of an enlarged senate of sixty, and all declared for ,qual town representation The matter of election of members at arge of the senate and house was brought up, but received scant favor Mr. Latham of Eastford, put quietus m the plan by remarking that it would q 'esult in two breeds of cats in the rouse and senate which would cause /, T.