The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-05
WITH THE LEGISLATORS.
SENATE CONCURS WITH HOUSE
 INEAVOR OF NORMAL SCHOOL

For DanbuFy-Vote Stood 6 Tie but
 Lisutenant-Governor Voted for the
 schoOi-BrI Concerning Mining
 StOcks-House Held a Busy Session.
 Hartford, June 1.-The resolution ap- propriating $1OO,0OO for a. state normal school at Danbury was taken up in the senate yesterday as the order of the day. The bill was passed in the house after long debate.
 The vote, which was on the question of accepting the majority report and rejecting the resolution, resulted as follows;
 Yeas-senators Ney, Wilcox, Patti son, Cook, Tracy, Page, Graham, Woodruff, Brown, Gates, Fuessenicr- Ii.
 | Nays-senators Hamilton, Ayling, Walsh, Nash, McNeil, Bailey, Jacobs, Clark, Bradstreet, Noone, Chaffee-11.
 Absent-senators Shell and Davis.
 There being a tie vote, Lieutenant Governor Roberts voted no, thus de- ciding the issue in favor of the school. The minority report was then adopted and the bill passed in concurrence with the house.
 Senator Brown called from the table the bill concerning mining stocks and the house amendment providing that the provisions of the bill shall not ap- ply to companies whose mines are To- cated in the state was rejected. A similar amendment providing that the bill shall not apply to companies all of whose mines are located in the state was then adopted, as well as an amend ment providing that the secretary of state shall report once in three months to the proper prosecuting officer the names of companies that do not make returns according to the provisions of the bill. The bill as amended then passed.
 The following bill passed after an ex- planation by Senator Tracy:
 The state board of education may examine any Incorporated or endowed high school or academy in this state, and if it appears that said school or academy has satisfactory high school course of study and sufficient equip ment for high\ school instruction, said board shall approve said school or academy under the provisions of chap ter 13S of the genernal statutes; and any town in which high school or academy is not maintained shall pay the whole or a part of the tuition fee of scholars attending such school or academy, and such town shall be reimbursed therefor by the state under the terms and con- ditions of said chapter 13S.
 Senator Pattison offered an amend ment to the bill providing for com- mission to make repairs on the capitol and to procure g. site for new build ing for state officials, which increases the appropriation from $50, ,000 to $50, 0,000 1t was read and the bill then passed.
 The bill authorizing the comptroller to inspect the capitol and make repairs that are needed at once was passed af- ter it had been amended by striking out the section making an appropria- tion of $20,OOO for the work.
 The following were also passed: Res- olution appropriating 5000 for a monument to the First regiment, Con- necticut cavalry; incorporating the Riverside Trust company of Hart ford; concerning taxes on mutual life insurance companies; concerning re- turns of mutual insurance companies; concerning taxes on corporations; con- corning the Connecticut Agricultural college; concerning the Agricultural college fund.
 The senate concurred with the house in passing the senate redistricting bill with the house amendment This means a senate of thirty-flve with only one from Holland county.
 The senate also concurred with the house in rejecting the sewerage com mission bill.