Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-22
REFORM DELEGATES AT SEA.
Committee of 24 Has Work Ahead
 Delegate Vance Disgusted.


 Delegate Vance Disguised.
 The convention committee of 2f, which was appointed on Thursday to consider whether a compromise on the representation problem can be reached, remained in session at the capitol until o'clock Thursday af lernoon. There was further dis .is- sipn of the propositions Of Delegates sHelly (Dem) Of South Windsor ami Haul Qsep) of Willingron Nvhi,c both pro'. de for an increase of the Iepye- scnfation of the larger places, botn Iavor q senate membership or only 3s', as provided far by the cpnstitl tlonal amendment approved last fall. iI IS LII derstood that no conclusions were reached by the committee duf- ing the afternoon. The session was continued until about , o'clock. The propositions for hn evening session, and also that the committee meet again to-day, were abandoned as some of the members of the commit tee had engagements which prevented them from remaining in Hartford. An adjournment was taken to next Monday evening at T:30, in the senate ante-room. The committee is to report on Tuesday, unless its time is extend ed by tn convention.
 Of the 24 members of the compro- mise committee, IS voted for and 6 against the resolution creating the committee. It is said that 15 members of the committee have favored the one to-a-town plan in the vote ill committee of the whole and ill their speeches, but one or more of these gentlemen are understood to have modified their views and are willing to make conces- sions i'll the interest of the larger places. One of them, in fact, offered a proposition of that character ill the committee meeting on Tuesday after noon.
 Ex-Governor Waller is put down in l the committee of 24 as being of "un- certain politics. 1t hits the mark pretty nearly in the center, surely. There is q little uncertainty about some of the other reform delegates also. 1 They do not seem to know just what | they want. The one-to-a-town fellows have the best of them i'll that respect, l for they know just what they want, and have not been backward about asking for it.f
 Delegate Vance of New Britain is disgusted with the whole business and 1 has no patience with his colleagues, who are willing to take half loaf when they cannot get the whole. His l district scheme of representation did not meet with favor, even among the radical reformers, and therefore he talks from the shoulder to them. ln last evenings edition the following hot shot was flung at the committee of 4 and others:
 It strikes us that the convention com mittee ofa24 should hesitate before it goes too far There is such thing as giving away altogether too much to get a settlement that has no stability and will be mercilessly riddled before it l gets to the people at the polls. The people of the cities will not acquiesce in a cheap agreement that sells their birthright for a mess of pottage. They would prefer to remain as they are un' | til real justice can be secured.
 l The papers who solemnly assured the people from the small towns that then 1 interests could not and would not De maddled with at the constitutional con yention are now wishing that they were not so profuse in their promises l The little towns are taking tnell a' l their word and have adopted q schelne l of representation to which these papers promptly object We do not see where l the consistency comes Ill, altnousn I there is but little room for consistency I when compromise-at-any- once gets l fairly circulating ill the blood.