The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-07
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.
SENATE REJECTS SUBSTITUTE
 HIGHWAY GRADING BILL.

Defeated I1 to 12-EaFOraD4e heuoEE on Incorporating waterbury-sIilldale TroIiey-Bm to Appropriate s15,0OO to Rebuild Troop A ArmOry.
 Hartford, Juy 6.-The senate was called to order at 11:3o by Leutsnant
 Governor Woodruff, and prayer was of-
 fered by Chaplain Parker. Senator
 William E. Atwood of New Britain
 was in his seat for the first time since last week, having been absent on Q yachting trip to Newport with hds
 yacht the REgina. He showed the tan l of a rear admiral, but reported one or the best of outings. Senator W. H. H. 1 Wooster of Seymour was appointed on the conference committee concerning
 the Groton ferry.
 A communication was received from l Governor Roberts appointing Erliss r.
 Arvine of New Haven, Talcott il. Rus sell of New Haven and Walter E. Coe of Stamford commissioners for the pro- | motion of uniformity of legislation in the | United States; referred to the commit ! tse on executive appointments, Senator | Bradstreet, chairman.
 Senator Baker of Stafford Springs, | when the resolution appropriating $2O
 for transportation of the educational
 committee to the Connecticut Agricul- l tural college came up, offered an
 amendment making the amount $50 on the ground that one of the legislative
 committes which had visited the college had not been included. The amend
 ment was adopted.
 Senator Bradstreet opposed the | amendment to the bill incorporating the Willimantic and Stafford. Springs Street Railway company, which had been adopted in the house. He consid- cred the amendment vicious and detri-
 mental The senate cOncurred with 1 these views. The road is to be built so l as to take in the agricultural college. 1 Senator Parker is in favor of the con- struotion of the road, and fsels that | the house erred in the adoption of the amendments.
 Senator Judson, who was in the sen- ate for the last time, as he stated, for 1 th9 current session, offered a substitute l oil relating to the change in grades ! o' %ighW avs used by trolley 60 npanies' His Eill requires the trolley companies to bear a part of the expense in chat.S- | in such grades. The towns, he said,
 should not be charged with the whole
 of these expenditures. He cited the case
 of Westport, where the trolley company had brought suit for expenses in chang I ing grades. He gelt that the trolley blines should bear two-tairds of the cost Fin grade changes. The Westport case | is in. the courts and will not be affect l ed by the substitute bill. Senator Paige, after complimenting the senator on the eloquence of his presumption Of 1 the bill, called attention to the general statutes which Senator Judson desired I to have repealed. The law was passed 1 iii 1893. 1t does not apply, he said, to cities and boroughs, but to outlying | towns. The law had given satisfaction. 1 In towns where trolleys have been built | the roadway are better now than under the old regime. In regard to the Vest 1 port case Senator Paige said that town could have taken a course in the con- | struction os~ it's state road that would | have prevented the difficulties that 1 have arisen. The action of the select l men of Westport seemed to be design l ed against the interests of the trolley road. The WestDort litigation is the l only one of the kind, he said, that has 1 come to the courts.
 The policy of the Connecticut Rail | T ;cE,+ | In favor of an equitable adjustment of l the costs involved in making changes | in highway grades.
 Senator Judson offered an amend ! ment compelling the trolley roads to pay one-half of the cost of changes. Senator Paige again took the floor, supporting the continuance of the pres ent law. He stated that if the Con- necticut Railway and Lighting com pany asked for change of grade it paid the cost. That had been its policy from the start.
 Senator Bradstreet said 1t is yet to be learned where a town has been injured
 by the change of highway grades for the purpose of trolley construction. He considered 1t only fair to all interests that the Judson substitute should he
 rejected, Senator Barney of Farming
 ton was opposed to the substitute. He said its adoption would be $10,000 10 the disadvantage of the Pennington Street Railway company. On yea and nay vote the Judson substitute was rejected F to 19. The senators voting in favor including Messrs. Fessenden, Lake, Chatf1eld. Pattison and Attwood of New Britain. Senators McGanil and
 Shanley of New Haven, Blcknel of Meriden, Barney of Pennington, Woos- ter of Seymour Bartlett of Norwich, John W. Atwood of Plainfield and Coe 1 of Torrington were in the negative Evote.
 The committee on railroads has fa- vorably reported the bill incorporating
 the Waterbury and Milldale Tramway
 company. The incorporators are Otis s. Northrup, Charles s. Rodman, Frederick B. Rice, John B. Mullings
 and George F. Hughes of Waterbury,
 Charles H. Clark, Edwin $. Todd, Mar cellus B. Wilcox and Clifford I. Stone of Southington. The incorporation of this company will make the connec- ton of Meriden, Southington and Wa terbury by electric lines practicable. The bill has been worked out with