Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-11
In His Attempt to Down Gov-
 ernor Chamberlain.
THE NoRwALK VETO QUESTION

Was the Issue Before tihe House The
 Speaker Claimed That che Cover
 nor's Veto Game Too Latte Friends
 of the Governor Fslocked to His
 Standard and His Veto Was Sustain
 ed Other Business Transached and
 Under Way.
 Hartford, April 11.-For the drSt time in the legislative history of Con- necticut the consult tionality Of a govt eanor's veto was questioned this week. hn the house of Representatives. uss was an interesting question of con structdon that Speaker Kenealy raised ill his speech from the floor of the house on Thursday as to the time limit set by the constitution on a veto That document states merely that a veto shah be returned to the house in which the measure originated within "three days, Sundays excepted" from the time when tihe bill or resolution was received by the governor It was
 Speaker Kenea1y's claim that tlsis was intended ito mean calendar days ana not session days. There being no sr1a- clncaflon as fo this point dn tue conSti-
 Iution itself, spd1ftes1 legal debate for. loWed m the house, in which I,ea41er
 banks and Mir Cooper ef New Bssf, sn led an atitack on the speak ITS consaffua6
 tlon m which they were sl1ppc.kf.s h.v Iile Vote of the house. Had fhn vssSr,~.
 been overruled and the Solrth Not.tpsIi incorporation resoIultion paasA5 ovs,, sne Veuo tihis podnE would unxIonhtnxll,k nave gone to the supreme cns,.t e,
 nnaf decision, as it has in ya,-i,,,,s .1
 CT saates A precedent has h.sen ; however, as to the cons,srt1ctien N # 1'oiipG Which may endure Tor Sx71na 44 10 come. With the South Norwl incorporation resolution defeated nov probable that fihe consoIiflm liDuea'ests 1n that town will try tol Ihro'lgh flhbs legislature a bill con uaulng as one tine two cities 0f
 NorWak and NorwHak. This. if Is SSS3sS oersbood, ds now likely to be the por. ceNdure. sssV Roz
 Tt IS expected that the judiciaav hss,,,
 Inltnee Will report to the senate n,s
 Wednesday, probably. their dfsnos,t3ns, ol the famous railroad repeal hIllS
 winch do away with the present res,.: eral railroad law. A meeting t3f flsn committee Is scheduled on this auestion TOT tuesday afternoon at the Canifn1 On Wednesday the house will lso called upon to take up the ifnnorfarf question of the redistricttar ef N eS=- Haven into new wards. While lncal ~. rts immediate interest tflas bffI lhFx ;, Wide significance, inas1nuch as mon #
 will depend the report of the senatorial redlstrleting committee as to the Iayonf Iof the senatorial districts. This i11 turn will be the basis for the rearranQeuaenf of representation should the Chatfield plan become constitutional amend ment.
 A Immediate progress on these finpors tant matters to the state at large IS to be expected in the near l future. Senator Wilcox Of the senatorial redistTfcting committees sa3s7 l on Thursday that his committees splan would be issued to the newspapers of
 the state at the end of next week for l public distribution. A hearing would then be held on the bill as reported. On the result of that hearing would then depend further amendment and l final report would then be sent to fha l senate On April % the house reprez
 sentation amendment, known as tf8 l Chatfield plan, will come up for action l in the house. and the legislature will then be in fair way toward an early l adjustment of these two important questions. The defeat of the comTnit- tee on public health and safety this week on their report rejecting the
 compulsory vaccination repeal billI came as a genuine surprise to fhe l house. A public hearing will be given
 nesday afternoon, an another report made to the house.