Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-20
ANDRE WS' CHOICE
Attorney F. P. Guilfoile Member
 of Conference Committee.
TWO EDITORS ALSO MEMBERS

Editor Vance, Representing One of the
 Largest Towns, Not Appointed-Con-
 vention Was in Session Only Fifteen
 Minutes To-day-Conferenc Conn
 mittee Held Secret Session, Ex-
 cluding Newspaper Men and Dele
 gates Not on the Committee
 Hartford, Feb 2O--The constitutional convention was in session fifteen min utes to-day, adjourning to meet next Tuesday. President Andrews anr nounced tho committee of confcrepces md meeting of that committee was held immediately. The equal repre- sentation' delegates also held a meet ing.
 The convention was called to order at 11:10 and after Chaplain Smith had offered prayer, President Andrews on- nounced the committee of conference as voted for yesterday as follows:
 Mir Perry of Fairfield was chairman, and the others were Clark of Hartford, i Osborne of New Haven, Davenport of Bridgeport, Guilfoile of Waterbury, Brown of Norwich, Waller of New I<OA0OA, bcpCILI Ol RSOhLL " ihQSCAf Lyons of Meriden, Maltbie of Granby, Bowen of Woostock, Hall of Willing ton. Smith of Winchester. Hotchkiss of Prospect, Sanford of Bedding. Smish of Cheshire, Buell. of Colchester. Somers of Killingly, Beach of New Milford, Coe of Cromwell, Porter of Hebron, Etheridge of Thomaston, Sears of Canton, Huntington of Old 1 Lyme. The convention adjourned after the naming of the committee.
 l Immediately after the adjournment there was meeting of all those in favor of equal representation in the house and a senate base on population. There was also a meeting of the new conference committee. This latter committee met at 11:30 in the senate ante chamber. The meeting was se- cret and newspaper men and delegates were excluded. At 130 no decision had been reached. The equal repre- sentation delegates did nothing of any account up to that time either.
 The organization Of the committee of twenty-four was completed by .he ! election of MT Huntington of old Lyme as clerk. The various plans of representation that were brought up in l the committee of the whole were dis- 'l cussed in order A member of the I committee who left the session tenn porarily said that every proposition was being considered carefully and openly. He thought that another ses- sion of the committee would be neces- sary.
 For the first time in its history the constitutional convention yesterday ,I took yea and nay vote. This was upon resolution, the outcome of Tues days conference, introduced by Dele- 1 gate Perry of Fairfield which provided for the appointment by President An drews of a committee of twenty-four to consider the question of representa- tion and 10 ascertain and report a plan which, while safeguarding the princi- pie of town representation, should. if possible, harmonize the different views presented in the convention and insure future satisfaction and stability On the yea and nay vote the resolution was adopted by S7 yeas and 40 nays. The passage of the resolution was fol- lowed by the adoption of a second. re- questlng the committee to make its re- port on Tuesday next. Before the de- bate on these resolutions the convenr tion discussed proposition offered by Delegate Waller of New London, which called for the submission of the pro- I posed constitution section by section. The proposition was not acted upon. but was laid on the table.