The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-02-13
In The LEGISLATURE.
REFORM WORK OF NEW HAVEN
DELEGATION.

Many Bills VIII Not Run Gauntlet OF
Committee InspectIOn-BuIS OF Work
to be Done in Committee Rooms
Good Roads Policy. to be Continued
Insurance LegIsIation-Bn for In
VestigatIng Telephone Rates and
Charges In This state-RaIIroad Com
mittee VIII Have Hearing Thursday.
Hartford, Feb. 11.-when President
Dwight Of Yale university once twisted
the Lords prayer in Boston praying
that the Divine will might ''be done in
heaven as upon earth" some of the
wiseaeres of the Hub called the atten-
ton of President Eliot of Harvard to
the seeming infelicity. Never mind"
replied that noted educator" that's the
way they say it in New Haven" The
reform work( which New Haven has
set before the general assembly is like
ly to excite wide interest if not great
deal of agitation before the final adj
journment. Senator McGann has the
Pardee measure for the abolition of
political corruption under his wings,
so to speak, and Senator Whitney,
smart as a steel trap, has bill prohib-
iting discrimination against colored
residents in hotels, restaurants and
public conveyances. Judge Harrison,
who; has fought good fight in the
past, is behind a bill put in by Senator
Chatfield eliminating corrupt practices
in the primaries and at the polls. Slip
ping aside for a moment, Senator Paige
Of Bridgeport wants ballot reform and
has a bill looking toward the Austral-
ian article. His neighbor, Senator judi
son Of Stratford, stands for bill abol-
ishing caucus evils, while Senator Fes-
sender, who stood for the best legisla-
ton in 1895, taking the state out of the
calanlitous environments of 1891, is for
the enactment of laws that will give
politics higher standing in the old
commonwealth of Connecticut. 1t
would be good thing if Senators Nc
Gam, Whitney, and Chattfield, Paige,
Judson and Fessenden would organize
a get together club, and devise a bill
embodying the high ideals of each. It
would be measure fit for the govern
ment of angels. 1t is highly for the
credit OF Connecticut that the present
general assembly will take up the work
that was started in 1895 for the purifi-
cation Of political methods and prac-
tees.
In the great body of bills that has
come to the surface during the past
week not many will run the gauntlet
of committee, inspection. The bulk of
the work in dealing with the hundreds
Of measures will be done in the COM
nittee rooms. Some of the prominent
bills, apart from the corrupt practice
acts that will require long and exhaus-y
time investigation, will be Senator
Chatfield's amendment to the charter
of New Haven providing for single
head pole commission, the new state
reformatory, the new state arsenal,
and among other projects in Hartford,
the purchase of the so-called round
house site for use in connection with
the capitol grounds as recommended
by Governor Roberts and the organ
ization Of new state commissions which
the governor deprecated in his annual
message. Representative Samuel j.
Marsh of Waterbury has bill in the
house for a jail commission consisting
of three to be appointed by the COVER
nor, who shall Investigate the present
management of the county jails in the
state. The commission will be required
to make a report to the general assem-
bly, of 1907. This commission will COM
plete its work in two years No doubt
it has been suggested by the references
of the governors message to the sys-
TENS now in vogue in county jails
throughout the state.
The good roads policy which the
state has kept up, for a number Of
years will be continued. There is a
bill in the house appropriating $500 900
for the Improvement Of public roads
for the two fiscal years, ending Sep
TENDER 30, 1907. The outlook for farm
ing legislation can not be given at
present. 1t has been the policy of Rep
resentativeS Averill of Branford house
chairman Of the committee on agricul-
ture and president of the Farmers as
ISOLATION in the legislature not to have
lie AFTER
the date limiting the reception of new
business. In carrying out that policy
the benefit of which is easily recognize
able, the agricultural committee has not
yet taken up any Of it's work. 1t will
have all the farming bills in hand on
Tuesday. February IA The Farmers
association will caucus on the more i'm
portant bills and will act unitedly in \
disposing of them. This will be the
the case in regard to the bills regulate
ing the speed of automobiles on coun-
try roads The principal measure with
regard to the agricultural college will
be the appropriation for new dormi-
tory. The state board of agriculture is
expecting some criticisms in regard to
Its management Of fairs In the state.
which receive funds from the state
treasury. Already criticisms of this
kind have cropped out The Danbury
fair, which is an event of state wide
interest is furnishing the bulk of am
munition for the attacks, the charge
being that all sorts of corrupt shows,
races and betting are INDUCED in dur
ing the fair week and that the state \
help pay for it,
The insurance legislation that was
thought of includes a couple of bills re-
sducing the tax on mutual life conpan