The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-14
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.
NEW HAVEN AND WATERBURY
 JTDGESHIPS.

Yale Professor and the Sculpture Com
 nissiOn-The New Haven Tenement
 House BIII-RemoyaI of Remains of
 War Veterans-COnsOIIdatio of R. R.
 LineS-Free Text BOoks-Senate
 Passes Bonrd Of PardOns Bill Over
 Veto.
 Hartford, June 13.-A minute before the adjournment of the house to-day the committee on judiciary reported in ! favor of Lucien F. Burpee for judge of the city court at Waterbury and of l Richard H. Tyner as assistant judge of the city court at New Haven. MT. Ke- nealy said that the other method would ! be to ask for the passage of the resolu- i tions under suspension of the rules, but as there would be objection to this he
 moved the tabling of the report for calendar and printing, and this was done.
 The committee which has been inves- | tigating the salaries of state capitol em- ployes will report in a day or two, as soon as the draft of the report is ap- proved by all the committee members.
 Senator Whitney introduced a resolu- ton appointing Prof. Bernadotte Per- rim of Yale university and Arthur L. Shipman of Hartford members of the 1 commission of sculptors for six years T,,F, of Salisbury to fill the unexpired term of Jacob L. Greene, deceased, the ap- pointment being until July 1, 1909 The resolution was referred to the commit 1 tee on senate appointments.
 Upon a favorable report of the appro- priations' committee $25,000 was voted | to provide seven fire proof vaults in the basement of the capitol.
 Senator Whitney presented two or three amendments to the tenement house bill, the principal making the
 measure applicable to boroughs and cit | ies having less than 10000 inhabitants, | if that course is authorized by the local authorities. Senator Whitney said the ! bill was originated by New Haven phi I lanthropists and business men. The | bill is in the interest of decency and public health. It has the support of | prominent men in the state. The bill \ is not as rigid as the New York or New | Jersey laws of like nature. The amend
 ments were adopted and the bill pass | ed. ..r
 The bill authorizing the removal of
 the remains of soldiers from the ceme- 1 tery of the Connecticut hospital for the ! insane was explained by Senator Clark | and passed. The remains viii De | placed in Grand Army burial r~Hn1s~. Senator Bradstreet reported the reso- ! lution authorizing the New York, New
 Haven and Hartford Railroad company ] to consolidate the railroad lines which it owns. The bill was passed.
 l The act making manslaughter sen
 tences fifteen years was passed on re-
 port of Senator Paige. !. | Senator Baker made a fine argument
 in favor of free text books. Of the 16S i towns in the state he said only 50 towns I have free text books He thought all l the towns ought to act on the question, and this bill gives the opportunity. Con-
 necticut, he said, is behind other states in regard to free text books. The bill was passed.
 | At 12 o'clock the order of the day was ] taken, being on the board of pardons veto. Senator Paige. stated that the
 senator from the twenty fifth district I Senator Judson), who was absent, is
 in favor of sustaining the committee | report. He recalled the fact that in 1882, while he was house chairman of | the state prison committee, he drew the board of pardons law substantially
 in the same form that it is in at the present time. He made an elaborate | investigation of pardoning powers in the different states. a The Connecticut law has worked very satisfactorily. But
 he had come to the view that it might
 be more humane and justice more even ly reached by making the action of the
 board determined by five votes instead of requiring unanimity. He reviewed the laws of different states controlling jpardons. This review showed that the great majority of states are more len- 1 tent in the usage than Connecticut. No one appeared before the committee in deposition to the change in the law. The committee had acted on it's best judgment. But it had no desire to bias the opinion of any of the senators.
 Senator Judson. who had come in during the discussion, said the bill was
 reported on it's abstract merit. The
 board of pardons was designed to mete out mercy, not to ascertain guilt. It is
 absurd, he said, to take the view that the bars will be let down by the change in the law, authorizing five members of @ board of the character of the Con- necticut board of pardons, to grant pardon. There is only one state in the
 union-Minnesota-w unanimity is required in voting pardon. The board in that state is composed of three
 members, all state officers nominated
 in state conventions. Connecticut has l the most unbending law of all the
 states. The idea of sustaining the gov ernor simply because he is governor is the rankest nonsence, said Senator
 Judson. He knew of no argument in the veto message that was effective against the judgment of the senate in 1 having passed the bill originally. The
 senate had acted deliberately against
 it's action was the judgment of one man.
 On vote the bill was passed over the
 veto, IS to 12. Senators McGann and