Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-19
COMMISSIONERS WILL MEET.
Statement to Be Given By Men Who
 Revised Statutes.

Statement to Be Given By Men Who
 Revised Statutes.
 Hartford, July 19.-In a few days there will be meeting of the statute revision commission, when q state ment regarding the changes made in the statute law of the state will be prepared and given to the press. At the same time the commission will make statement regarding it's opinion of the powers conferred upon it by the legislature The revelations made by an examination of the revised stat utes regarding the radical changes made in the laws regulating the liquor traffic in the state as published in the press during the last few days, have caused so much criticism of the com mission that the members have de- l termined to do something to explain or | justify their actions. If the date of the meeting has been agreed upon the members off the, commission do not l make it public, but say it will be ''in | a few days" Senator Michael Keneal- l ey of Stamford, member of the con- mission, said yesterday that he did not feel at liberty to talk about the revis- ion until the commission meets and is- sues it's statement.
 The temperance people of the state, with the possible exception of those who believe in actual prohibition of the sale of liquor, do not all approve of the laws regulating the sale of liGuor which have been put in the revised statutes by the commission on revision and which were subsequently approv- ed by the legislature of 1901. Members of that bodW Say AheE ali6rovcd the revision under the belief that no changes had bee1rmade e-f1ft thesiaws but that the commission had confined it's work to q revision of the statutes, as the legislature of 1899 directed
 One clergyman of this state, who is not prohibitionist but whose reputa- tion as temperance worker and an advocate of stringent laws to regulate the sale of liquor extends far beyond the limits of Connecticut, is known to be opposed to many of the statutes re- garding the liquor traffic as they ap- pear in the revision. This clergyman is afraid that the stringent laws are like ly to provoke reaction in the cause of temperance and restrain the enact ment of healthy legislation towards the restriction of the liquor traffic. He has no doubt that the liquor dealers will Joe before the next session of the legis- lature to have the laws changed and he fears that many of the old temper ance laws, which temperance people have for years advocated, will be up- set In other words, he believes that the commission went too far.
 |. 1t is doubtful if anyone who is famil- jar with courts and court practice will Iquestion the statement that the states attorneys of Connecticut refer to the statutes as often as anybody. The state's attorneys are officers of the state. They receive their appointment from the state and when they appear in court in their official capacity they represent the state. All criminal com- plaints are drawn in the name of the state.
 It was said at the comptroller's office In the capitol yesterday that the comp troller has no authority to furnish to states attorneys free copies of the re- vised statutes, and if states attorney wanted a copy of the statutes to use i'll his official capacity, as the states pros. ecutor. he would have to use the one furnished to the judge or to the clerk,
  in doing the business of the state. The state will not furnish it to him. The prosecuting attorneys of all town and city police courts, also representa- tatives of the state. will have to buy | copies of the statutes, as the comptrol- Ter has no authority to give free copies to them.
 The members of the general assem- bly,, many of whom have no public duty to perform for the state, will re- ceive copies of the revised statutes, free of charge. under a special act passed by the legislature in 1901, md the clerks of the general assembly are included for free copies under tho act The comptroller's office said that there was q resolution providing who should receive free copies, and Il list of those who are entitled to free copies under the act.
 The comptrollers office said that | there was resolution providing who | should receive free copies and list If those who are entitled to free copies was furnished. Tn this list are in- cluded the clerks of town and bor- ough courts, whose chief business | when acting in the capacity of clerk l is to record the official doings of the courts, the judges of probate in the state, and in large courts that have considerable territory in the probate district, the clerks will receive free copies; each of the county law librar- | ies will receive a copy, each town clerk will receive one the judges and clerks. of the superior court and the 1 judges and clerks of the court of com mon pleas will receive free copies, but other state officials must buy or depend upon their neighbors.
 It will take about 600 copies to SUD- l ply the free list.