The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-18
TO PROTECT RAILROAD.
HOUSE PASSES RAILROAD RE-
 PEAL BILL BY 12e TO 5s.

| HOUSE PASSES RAILROAD RE- PEAL BILL BY 12e TO 5s.
 Representative southwick Declares Cen | tral's Survey is Only Menace to
 President MeIlen-Judiciary Commit- tee Report is Turned Down. Hartford, May 1.-The special order of business in the house to-day, the bill repeating certain sections of the general
 railroad law which includes the proyis- ion that twenty-five or more persons
 may form a corporation for the pur-
 pose of constructing and operating a
 railroad, was called up by Speaker HoI-
 comb at 12:3O.
 Judge Pearne, house chairman of the railroads committee, which favorably < reported the bill, explained it's purpose
 and made strong plea for the protec-
 tion of the New York, New Haven and
 Hartford Railroad company's interests
 in the state. Tn it's success the people and business men of the commonwealth x were vitally interested, he said, and
 they were bound to give the fairest
 kind of consideration to a proposition which was calculated to improve the character of the carrier and to result I in much benefit to the people. He ex- plained that the passage of the bill ! was necessary to carry out the New z Haven roads plarfst in connection with 2 the New York Ontario and Western { railroad purchase. He thought 1t wiser < to protect New England enterprise
 rather than to encourage foreign and
 hostile road, as he termed it, to build \ in the state. The New York Central l survey, he said, was only club to
 make the New York; New Haven and
 Hartford Railroad company relin- qufsh it's Ontario. and Western hold i i1ags.
 I Representative Southwick, of Corn wall, said he was in accord with the I bill with the exception of sections re- lating to the use of proxies and con-
 cerning consolidation agreements. The | New York Central, he averred, did not intend to build. Its survey was made \ simply as menace to President Mellen. l He thought the legislature should pass I the bill.
 l The bill was passed by rising vote of 122 to 5S.
 The contested judgeship of the Derby
 city court caused a rather extended de-
 bate. The resolution reappointing
 Judge George B. Clark to the court,
 adversely reported by the judiciary committee, was called from the table l supported by Representatives Clark
 and Hallock, of Derby, and Thompson, of Orange, who contended that the only l argument advanced by the opponents 2 of Judge Clark was that he was not an l attorney.
 Representative Kenealy, house chair
 man of the Judiciary committee, re- piled with forceful argument in be- half of the actions of his associates in
 the matter of contested judgeships.
 A rising vote resulted in the rejection Iof the committees report by s136 to A l and the tabling of the resolution for
 calendar and printing.
 Bills concerning the taking of fish in Bantam Lake and incorporating the Norwich, Jewett City and voluntown
 Street Railway company were reported lfavorably.
 l In concurrence with the house the senate this morning passed the Consol- lidated Street Railway bill as originally amended by that body. An amendment submitted by Senator Atwood, of New Britain, striking out double- racking privileges, which went to the table yes-
 terday with the bill, was rejected by a I vote of "A to 3. The matter was called
 from the table by Senator Atwood.
 There was no discussion.
 | Senator Donovan, of, Norwalk, ob- !, jected to the bill which increases the !, salary of the reporter of judicial de- cisions from $4,O00 to $6,000 annually.
 The bill received favorable action in ], the house some weeks ago and was ! tabled in the senate. It was called up l by Senator Paige, who moved it's pass
 age.
 ii Senator Donovon held that it was un- reasonable to give higher salady to a court reporter than the states sena-
 tors and representatives at Washing
 ton received. He further contended
 that the reporters duties could not be onerous when he drew in the neighbor.
 hood of $12,000 for a revision of the H statutes There seemed to be no limit : to the demands, he said, of the legal ; fraternity. The state was going too fast in inireasing the compensation ot ] educated classes at the expense of the } masses. .-s~. *s When the. vote was taken Senator l Donovan's was the only dissenting , voice.