Waterbury Democrat., 1902-02-25
EXIT COMMITTEE OF o4..
After Nine Hours Session Reached
 No Conclusion and Adjourned


 No Conclusion and Adjourned.
 Hartford, Feb 25-The committee of 24 met last evening at the capitol and were in session from :: 80 to 12:30 The only vote on which q majority agreed was the final one to adjourn sine die.
 Eight votes by roll call were taken and the nearest to passing anything was q vote of II yes to 13 no.
 Delegate Etheridge of Thomaston presented q scheme for one-from-a- town and 5 members for New Haven, 2 each for Hartford and Bridgeport, and 1 for Waterbury in the house. senate of 60, leaving all other large towns standing at one representative ill the house. This was set aside for awhile to permit consideration of a plan proposed by Dele9ate Perry of Fairfield This was for one from each town in the house and for blank districts of equal population for the senate. but each county to have at least two, each district to send member of the house also. This, he explained. would give the large cen ters what they asked for and at the same time let all small towns share according to population in the addi- tional representation. 1t would make a house of 204 on senate of 36 and of 213 on q senate of 45. This was voted down by yes tn 16 no
 Then Delegate Clark of Hartford offered q revision of the Bennett plan as follows:
 134 towns under 5000. each I. .134 2S towns 5000 to 25.000. each 2 56
 2 towns 25,000 to 50.0OO, each B.. $
 ? towns 50,000 to 75.000. each 4. 8
 town 75,000 to 100000, 5... ,
 town 100000. G.. 6 1GS 215
 Add one member for each addition al 50000 of population
 This was defeated by II yes to 13 no.
 Mr Etheridge's nIan was defeated by 10 yes to 14 no.
 Delegate Sperry, offered q scheme for leaving all towns as now and add ing few members of the house in the large centers. naming them atbi- trarilv This went down by 4 yes and 10 no. one not voting.
 Delegate Hall of Wilmington offered another. making the house 191. and adding one member from each town over 10000, but not alluding to popu- lation, merely naming the town, add ing ? each for 5000O to 100000 and above that. This fell under 9 no, one yes and one not voting.
 Delegate Sears offered another naming all towns between 5000 and 50,000 for one extra member above the one each. and increasing 5O,0O0 to 75,000 and T5,000 to 100000, but not referring to numbers at all This was defeated by IT no. yes and not voting.
 Then Delegate Brown offered al. most he same thing but basing it on population, reducing the second scale to between 5000 and 25,00O, and this was beaten by 13 no 10 II yes.
 Governor Waller offered vote that the committee report that they were in favor of giving something to the large centers of population but would rot obtrude q plan on tie con vention This was defeated by ' yes, no. and not voting
 Then the meeting adjourned The entire evening was given to serious effort to bring about an actual agree ment of men who seemed so near to- gether but it did not come. All the talk was of the most peaceful and agreeable nature. There was not all unpleasant suggestion or any intima- tion of anything but 2 common pur- pose. But one side felt that arbi. trary designation of certain places was unfair and the other side ducked under at the word 'spopulation." A report will be handed in by the delegates from the large centers to- day on practically the line of the modified Bennett plan. They are agreed upon this and it has been as serted that they could not agree upon anything.