The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-14
APOLOGIES FOLLOW INSULTS
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Continued from Sixth Page) vention passed into the committee O the whole with Mir. Perry in the chair. The question of the senate was ther taken up MT Loomis of Glastonbury
 offered a resolution which provided fol
 a senate of not less than 60 nor more
 than 72, It was defeated by vote ol
 yes 51. no 76.
 The delegation from Willington pre-. | sented a resolution for q senate of not
 less than 45 and not more than 60. MT
 Waller offered an amendment making
 8 senate of not less than 72 nor more | than S4, MT. Miner of Plainfield had
 still another amendment which provid- | ed for senate of not more than 36, l MT Warner of Salisbury spoke ir favor of an enlarged senate, favoring a
 body of from 60 to 72 members. At 1:O5 a recess was taken. The re- cess served to bring about a change of | things, and the afternoon session in stead of partaking of acrimonious de- 1 bate resolved itself into love feast. The smoothing process began with MT. Davenport of Bridgeport. Shortly after the opening of the afternoon ses- sion that gentleman opened the debate on the senatorial question with quite as much warmth as in the morning. He characterized the action of the majori- ty as an internal outrage" The chair man asked him to withdraw the lan- guage, and MT. Davenport magnani- mously and gracefully did so.
 This set the conciliatory ball rolling and MT. Smith of Plymouth apologized to Mir Davenport for his assertion that statements in MT. Davenports S resolution were falsehoods. MT, Dav- enport replied with a counter apology. Donald T. Warner of Salisbury then took his turn at apologies and directed one each to MT. Davenport and MT. Clark of Hartford.
 The convention was then thrown into a bale of laughter by Mr. Clark of Haddam who took the floor and said: ''Well, I don't have to apologize to any one. I haven't said half as much as I ought"
 The gentleman from Haddam then began an argument on the senatorial question.
 MT. Northrop of Newtown declared himself opposed to a senate larger than S6.
 MT. Merritt of Stamford declared the propositions for an enlarged senate and house composed of one from each town as reactionary and revolutionary.
 Mr. Webb of Handen spoke of the system proposed by the small town men as novel one, and that the enlarge ment of the senate would be merely a 4o tLn n enlarge the senate" he said, Tets have an ample one. Sixty would be too small. If we are going to gild the pill let us put the veneering on thick"
 MT Osborn of New Haven said he did not believe the people would accept the changes proposed in the relative make up of the senate and house. If the sen- ate must be enlarged he would prefer having it about 15O strong so that the will of the people might prevail on joint ballot.
 MT. Waller of New London argued that the people would see more safety in 76 than in 36, the present number, ac- cording to the last constitutional 
 Objection was made to the motioin of i MT. Miner that the committee arise at this point, but the count by tellers 1 showed that the motion prevailed 59 to ] ,S. At $50 the convention adjourned ! to next Tuesday at F o'clock.
 During the session a call was read for : ] meeting in the senate ante-room | next Tuesday morning of delegates fav- )ring an enlargement of representation | of the cities in the house.