The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-26
FOR A SENATE OF SIXTY.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONTENTION
 TOTES IN FAVOR OZONE.
Amendments for Larger Body De- feated-- Committee of Twenty four Appointed to Reports Plan for Repre- sentation Dismissed After Reporting Their Fatiure-NIinority Succeeds in Getting Iss Report Read.

Getting Iss Report Read.
 l Hartford, Feb 25.-The constitutional | convention delegates sitting as com- l mittee of the whole to-day declared | themselves in favor of a senate of sixty
 members. By a vote of 69 to 5S the committee adopted an amendment pro-
 posed by MT Warner of Salisbury fix ing the senate number at sixty, after amendments providing for a larger sen ate had been defeated.
 The first of the defeated amendments
 was that offered by MT. Waller of New
 London, proposing a senate Of not less
 than seventy-tWo, and not more than
 eighty four. This was lost by vote of
 S7 to 35. An amendment by MT. Loom
 is of Glastonbury fixing 65 and 76 as
 the minimum and maximum for the
 senate was lost by a viva yoce vote.
 After the Warner amendment was car
 ried the original motion of MT. Hall of
 Willington as amended was put to
 vote and declared carried, fixing the
 senate at 60 members. The resolution as passed was as follows:
 Resolved, That we are in favor of senate of sixty based on the principle already established"
 After taking this action regarding the composition of the senate the commit tee arose and the convention adjourned to Wednesday forenoon.
 The chief incident of the early part of the proceedings of the convention prop CT centered about the report ,of the do- ings of the conference committee of twenty four, which finished it's delibera- tions last night.
 At the opening of the convention this committee through it's chairman, MT. Perry, announced non-success in arriv- ing at an agreement. The committee was dismissed. As soon as this was done, however, the minority of the of twenty four, representing the cities and larger towns, succeeded in getting before the convention a mi nority report This report clung to the idea of representation by population, and was described as Bennett plan, It was signed by eleven | members of the committee as follows: Clark of Hartford, Osborn of New Ha- ven, Davenport of Bridgeport, Brown Df Norwich Waller of New London, Sperry of South Windsor, Guilfoile of | Lines of Meriden, Perry of [ Fairfield, Buell. of Colchester. Smith of | Cheshire.
 In its preamble the report stated that he signers, being minority of the committee, had agreed on roll call in .eh committee in favor of the plan set 'orth by the report
 The report follows:
 Resolved, That the house of repre- shall consist of electors re- siding in the towns from which they Ire elected, and for the purpose of ap- ,ortioning representatives to the towns hey shall be graded or classified, that S to say, each town having popula- ion of less than 5000 shall be entitled O one representative; each town having
 population of 5000 and less than 25, 900 hall be entitled to two representatives; ach town having population of 25,000 nd less than 50,000 shall be entitled to hree representatives; each town having
 population of 50,000 and less than 75,- % shall be entitled to four representa- { ives; each town having population of ), 5,0O0 and less than 100000 shall be enti- led to five representatives, and each own having population of 100 900 shall i e entitled to six representatives, and ne additional representative for each ( LOGO in excess of 0,000. The population of each town shall be ( etermined by the census taken by the 2 authorities of the United States next C efore the election of representatives is t eld a Each town entitled to more than two | representatives shall be divided into 0 stricts; each district shall elect one Il representatives. A district shall be c imposed of contiguous territory, and V le population shall be as nearly equal W possible. n Districts when once established shall a ntinue the same until the session of l e general assembly next after the G mpetion of the next census, which a ,neral assembly shall have power to g ter the same if found necessary to eserve proper equality of population
 each district