Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-04

at Present-.A Number of Other Rek
 ports and Amendments Have Beer
 Reflected 1.-The Advocates Of the Re-
 5ected Measures are --1Dected to Ba
 Out in Force.
 nartIord, April 4.-Next weelS w1Tf pc one of the most important 6f the sesslon thus far, according to indica. tons at the close of this weeks seS- slon. On Tuesday 1t is expected that the committee on constitutional amend ments will send in their complete re- port on the question of reform of tho representation in the lower house. ad- vlsng the rejection of all but one of tne amendments that were before the committee. The measure to be report ed favorably will be the so calIed Cnatneld plan, which is in effect fhaf eahc town is to continue to have or,a representative regardless Of popuIa. ton, and that each senatorial district to be decided upon later by the com mittee on senate redistricting. lis to nave one representative. This will give the house an organization of 204 members, which Is f1fty-one less fl1nN at present. Those small towns that now have one representative will not De changed under the new arrange. ment, except that they will share in q community representative chosen from their senatorial district Several of fhsx towns now having two representatives will lose one of them, while the larger cities will gain. New Haven gaininr three representatives, Hartford two. etc It is the plan that was favored
 most by those who appeared before the committee, though large number of speakers at the hearings showed 1 their desire to keep the membership down to the present basis.
 Coincident with the favorable reuom oI the committee on this measure will come in the unfavorabIe reports on fhe other plans submitted, among fliain 1 that of Governor Chamberlain. which I eaned for a sliding scale system q when fhe arguments begin on thesa
 measures 1t is expected that tho house VIII enter on one of the most interest. I ing phases of it's session.
 1 lt IS possible that the much Sss4 1 cussed railroad repeal bill will be rsz ported tahe end of this weeks ses.s sion. In that case another irht wsll l De prec1pftated upon the house. as there are two we'll organized camps in favor and in opposition to this bill.
 The attack made on Che disposition
 or the present assembly to pass broad I charters for special business corp0za
 tdons this week in the house was the talk of the legislature at the hloso s,f
 the session Thursday. Several saf- | tempts have been made to hold m some of these broad charters this week.
 MT Woodruff of Litchfeld holding up
 actlon on the granting to Holland county insurance company unlinItn7 powers early in the week. This was
 followed by the motion of MT Wellpa
 of Newington on Thursday for q rxz consideration of the speciaa cl1a1.fer
 granted to the Automobile Livery com pany, which precipitated the hottest debate of the session, Speaker Kenea3- Ley taking the floor In defense Of bl1a committees report and vigorously de Tending the policy of the legislah1ra
 to grant special charters. It Is ex.
 pected on a number of other corpora tons with similarly broad charters win
 be given as thorough overhauling later on.
 l It is expected that this week will se&1 | the beginning of Friday sessions in orl | der to rush the early adjournniailr of the session which now seemg possihle. l At meeting of all the conlrnitbee
 chairmen and clerks on Tuesday re- ports were made from all the cornrnit;- tees. and it was stated that the lasEl
 measures to be reported to the house
 and senate would not come later tfaanl April 24. This. Speaker Kenealey stat ed, meant that the session could easily
 close by the middle of May Very | few of the committees are now hoitIlr,us hearings, those having the more fmzI
 portant measures having closed theirI public work.