The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-05
ADDRESS OF IT. GOVERNOR
DELIVERED BEFORE STATE
 SENATE YESTERDAY.

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 The text of Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff's inaugural address to the senate yesterday follows:
 Senators:
 congratulate you upon the distin- guished honor conferred upon you by the people of the state of Connecticut in choosing you as an important part of the general assembly, to participate in making their laws, in promoting their interests. and in maintaining the dig nifty, the integrity and the high charac- ter of our state which was among the first to establish, and which has been among the most zealous to maintain, a constitutional, representative govern ment.
 You are met as senate for the first time with an enlarged membership, 1 broadened powers and greater Iespon- abilities. By virtue of a recent amend ment to our constitution your members have been increased from twenty-four to thirty,five. Upon the joint commit- tees to be constituted by members of the senate and house, your body will be I represented by two members, instead of one, as heretofore. Your power, there fore, in shaping and controlling legis- lation in committee will be double what it has been in former sessions of the general assembly. Your responsibility for good and wise legislative action will 4 thus be greater than that of any pre- x vious senate of this state.
 The enlargement of the senate came in response to the demand from the cit izens Of the larger municipalities for representation in the general assembly more equitable and more nearly ade- Equate to the needs, and to the rights, of the large property interests and heavy tax-paying communities. If this increased representation Is not in the form, nor to the. degree asked for by many of our fellow citizens, 1t Is, at least, partial assent to the justness of the demand, and it is none the less your duty to strive to the utmost of your limited power to fairly, honorably and faithfully accomplish the purpose contemplated by the people in so vest
 
 and more serious responsibilities.
 I need scarcely remind you that the x performance of syyoas ofiisciat dnttsE will be scrtatinfzrd By those who have en- < trusted you with power, with perhaps more searching criticism than that to which any previous senate has ever been subjected. In these days, when notorious abuses of legislative trusts have in other states dishonored and humbled men standing high in public esteem, when the term graft" has been toe frequently used in reference to individuals vested with important off cial honor and responsibility, which they have shamefully abused. it be- comes you to exercise your legislative powers with such degree of circum- spection, prudence, wisdom and regard for the highest interests of the people and if the state, that every appearance of evil may be avoided, and that no breath of suspicion can for an instant tarnish the purity of your high reputa- tion, nor detract from the solid merit of your legislation.
 It would not be singular should you encounter efforts on the part of private and corporate interests to induce you to yield your just sense of public obliga- tion to the state to the persuasive rep resentations of those who would make public interests subservient to private or corporate enterprises. While all pro Eper encouragement, under the provi- Esions of our constitution and laws, should be extended to purposes legiti- mately designed to foster those worthy undertakings which give employment to both labor and capital, and to ad- vance the public welfare, yet it is the natural suggestion of experience that lall propositions which contemplate the countenance and favor of the state, should be considered with jealous care, that only those deserving your endorse ment be permitted to secure your ap- lproval.
 At the conclusion of your labors let lit be said that no unworthy effort to se- cure legislative favors escape your con demnation, and that none, the aim of which was to advance the interests of 1.-the state and the people, failed to se- cure your approval. The consciousness of having fully, faithfully, impartially and courageously performed your duty : to all, without fear, favor or undue in- f1uence, will be an honor beyond riches, and will yield to you pleasure and satisfaction greater and more enduring than any other form of reward, or hu- man praise.
 The administrations which have pre- ceded you have been so well ordered with the best results that the condition of our. people has never been happier than at the present time. The state debt has been well nigh extinguished, without imposing any burden upon the Ipeople. The educational interests of the state at large have been constantly promoted. Our manufacturing indus tries were never in a more flourishing condition, our laboring people, mechan- ics and artisans never were earning