The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-18
THE TELEPHONE CONTEST
BATTLE GROUND IN THE HOUSE
 TO-DAY.

Main Fight Over Proposed Change of
 Law to Permit Competition-Farmers
 fin the Legislature Arrayed in Behalf
 of the Change-Other Hearings of
 Note This week-PrOpOsed Enlarge
 ment of Scope of Savings Bank In-
 vesfments.
 Hartford, April 1.-The great tele- phone contest in the legislature will be resumed to-day, after ten days ar- mistice. The battle-ground will be changed from the supreme court room to the hall of representatives. The Southern New England Telephone com pany will have a splendid array of le- galists, including its president, Morris F, Tyler, of New Haven. Ex-Congress- man Lewis Sperry will represent "the Independents" who want four sections of the general statutes regulating the organization and powers of telephone and telegraph companies repealed. the repeal beginning with section 3s17. The hearing will be on the dozen bills in general before the committee, the main contest being on the order for repeal of the sections that practically keep com petitive telephone companies out of the state. The biggest effort has been made for the alignment of the farmers in the legislature against the Southern New England. In the Farmers associ- ation, of which Representative H. w. AverilI, of Branford, is the president, an attempt has been made for an ex- pression, committing the association bodily to a course that would benefit the independents. President Averill by intelligent and far sighted management prevented carrying out the design, and the association is now free from entan- gling alliances. The hearings will be continued daily after Tuesday until the end is reached in the committee. On Wednesday the committee on military affairs will resume the consideration of the state armory site, the afternoon to be devoted to the pros and cons of the round house grounds. A strong disposition has been shown in favor Of the site on Main street which was re- commended by the armory commission, of which Lieutenant Governor Wood ruff is a member. This commission threshed all the straw in sight original ly in Avor of the round house area and decided against it, taking the main street location instead. The ground was gone over in all it's bearings and the commission, which had on its roll of membership the names of General Ar thur l.. Goodrich, Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, Representative Edward Grdswold of Guilford, James P. Wood ruff of Litchfield and Senator McGov- ern of Hartford, considered the round house site inadequate for the military service of the state. The advantages of the round house location will be ex- plained in full at Wednesdays hearing. Whatever decision is reached by the committee 1t will be an occasion for public satisfaction that the round house grounds will become the proper ty of the state to be used as constitu- sent part of the capitol layout. The ad- dition to the capitol grounds will be worth all it may cost, even if the state arnory is placed elsewhere. The deci- sion in the East Hartford judgeship which occupied the attention of the ju- dieiary committee for weeks, has been ratified by the house, and will come up in the senate Tuesday for the confirma- tion of that body. Judge E. o. Good win, who has been elected by the house, was g. member of the general assembly in 1886 and was an active member of