The Newtown bee., 1902-01-31
The Newtown Bee
CIRCULATION: Last Week, 4ooo JANUARY, 1, lSSa, 6oe
CIRCULATION:
The OUTLOOK.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

THE The Constitutional CONSTITUTIONAL Convention is merrily
 CONVENTION. going on its way and as yet has come to no vote or any question that affects any change in the Constitution. After the body had become organized by the choice of President Andrews of Litchfeld and Vice Presidents John H. Perry of Southport and Thomas M Waller of New London. it decided that the delegates should go into the commit tee of the whole and discuss the question of representation. Each day since that program went into effect the body has first opened with prayer by the Chaplain, and whatever bills the delegates have to present altering and amending. the constitution are presented to the convention, read by the clerk and laid upon tho table for future consideration. Then some one moves that we go into the com- mittee on the whole and the food-gates Of eloquence are opened and the delegates sit and listen until it Is time for the afternoon trains to leave. Some of the speeches which have aroused the largest interest in the con- vention have been those by Delegate Daven- port of Bridgeport, Delegate Osborne of New Haven and Delegate Clark of Hartford, who spoke in behalf of @ larger city representa- tion. and the addresses by Delegate Holcomb of southington, Delegate Perry of Southport and Delegate Brinsmade of Washington, who have spoken In behalf of the town representa- tion in the Legislature. A large humber Of bills have been presented which look to giving equal representation for the towns. Another plan is to base the whole legislature upon population and have one representative for every five thousand of the population.
 THE The Steel Trust is said to have
 STEEL earned $s5,O00.O00 in the first TRUST. nine months of it's history. The price of American steel rails in this coun- try is $2s ton and they sell the same in England at s22. 50 per ton. As the ocean freight alone is S5.11 per ton it has been pointed out that the steel trust is collecting at least s22. .0Oo, 900 a year from American customers in excess of what 1t would charge for the same grade of goods in England. It has been sug- gested that it would be a good idea to take of the Dingley duty of s7.s4 per ton on steel rails and let the Americans get their rails for $2t ton.
 INCREASED Those who have to buy al
 COST OF that they eat have noticed
 LIVING. that the price of food has risen very much in the last few years. Since l,c, Al per cent. Breadstufs have risen 90 per cent meats have gone up 30 per cent, while dairy and garden products have added 75 per cent tt their cost. Eggs have been unusually higf all over the country and the price of milk 1. far above what Is usually charged. There ha been, however, abundance of work so that th' eople who are the large consumers. have hat abundant opportunity to earn enough to liv on in spite of the increased cost of living.
 THE The World Almana 3,54e men and women of this country who ar millionaires, and also shows bya map of tn states where they are located New York ha 904 names, Connecticut T, California 11( Ohio 162. while the states in the South do no many of them have. according to these figure. more than six or eight each. The list is no at all complete but it shows so far as made uK New England has It's share of millionaire. May they make good use of their money.