The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-04-28
LEGISLATIVE DoINGS.
HARTFORD,S PREDoMINAN NOE IN
STATE OFFICES


Work Of salary Investigation Conn
mittee--Danbury Hospital .Appropria-
tion-ParaIlei Raiiroads--Grace Hos
pitaI-Taylor's Legislature Histories
Assignment of Wages and Salaries
--Notaries' Power in New Haven
County--senatoriaI Caucus Set for .
p. M, May 4. l. ....snA
Hartford. April 27.--The number of
state offices held by Hartford county
men becomes amazing when looked at
from cold figures. The list includes
Morgan G. Buckley, United States SEN
ator for six years; Henry Roberts, gov
ernor until 1907; James P. Andrews, su-
preme court reporter, salary $4,000;
Theron Upson, insurance commissioner,
$500; Carnot o. Spencer, school fund
commissioner, $500; Andrew r. Gates,
new railroad commissioner, $1,000;
Frank e. Healey,. new tax commission
err, $4,000; George F. Kendall, bank COM
missioner, $4,000; Morris c. Webster,
building and loan commissioner, 80, 500;
John B. Noble, dairy commissioner, ST.
500; Thomas RI Egan, superintendent
of state police; Edward M. Day, execu-
tive secretary; Frank d. Rood, execu-
tive clerk; 7. H. Mckenzie, board of
civil engineers. This list does not in
clude the assistant superintendent of
the capitol and the swarm of clerks in
the state departments, stenographers
and capitol employees. These facts show
but might little fodder for the balance
| of the state.
| The committee on salary investigation
| in the capitol will complete its work in
| May and will be able to present a vol.
ume of statistics that will have start
| ling effect for most readers outside of
| Hartford. The graft in the state
treasurer's office, which was mentioned
by Senator Pattison in reporting the BIZ
ennial appropriations for the executive
departments Wednesday, was rooted
assistant in the treasury has no exist
ence, he said. But two of the clerks
have been drawing and dividing the
salary. That course ought to be suffi-
cient reason for their summary re-
moval.
| No bills have been placed in the pos
session of Governor Roberts this week
for signature. Up to the present time
he has signed twenty public acts and
ISL special laws.
! The action of the senate in appoint
n
committee relative to the Danbury hos
pital appropriation will not come up for
concurrence in the house until next
Tuesday. The difference between the
two houses is $4,000, the original sum
reported being $4,000 for the two fiscal
years. The house made the appropria-
| ton $4,000 by practically a unanimous
vote. Past Department Commander N.
Burton Rogers, of Danbury, who has
been working night and day for the in
creased appropriation, had an interview
with Senator Pattison this morning in
regard to the needs of the institution.
Senator William P. Bailey, of the Dan
bury district, has charge of the hospi-
| tails interest in the senate and is max
ing strong effort in its behalf.
| Senator Bradstreet has not yet re-
ported the bill repeating the sections OF
| the general railroad law allowing
steam railroad lines to be paralleled.
There is decided feeling that the bill
repeating the sections in question is one
of abstract justice, giving the railroads
legislation of the same nature that is
given to corporations in general in the