The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-27

is not anywhere near what hundreds of business and professional men re- ceive individually from year to year for their services, requiring far less vigilance and training than judges Of
 the superior and supreme court must possess. The salary issue has not leg to stand on. The judiciary committee is thoroughly inauring into the neces- sity for increasing the judgeships norY,
 and it's opinion will have weight with
 both houses.
 Senator Paige is not man to go into a project blindfolded. He has the sup
 port of hosts of lawyers in the state for
 his bill. The question of filling the new
 judgeships in case they are ordered by the general assembly has only come up
 incidentally. The name of ex-Speaker
 KeneaIy of Stamford is on the tongue
 of everybody for one of the appoint ments. The names of James F. An
 drews, reporter of the supreme court,
 and Attorney General William A King are heard in different quarters for the remaining selection. Mir. Andrews is a Yale man, graduating in the same class with Governor Roberts. 1877. The clerks of the two houses have had a hard pull since the first week in February. Their work has been car ried out admirably, and the Journals have never been in better shape than during the present session. The anal ysis of bills both in the senate and house has reached the high water mark. The increase in the senatorial districts had added good deal to the requirements made of the senate clerk, Alfred c. Baldwin of Huntington. He is popular with the senate and deserves the success that has come to him from all sides, The house clerks John A. Spafford of Bridgeport and Harold R Durant of Waterbury, both lawyers, have handled an astonishing amount of business during the month. Clerk Spafford who began his career two years ago as assistant clerk, has par liamentary procedure at his tongues end, escaping all the entanglements | that the house clerk generally eneoun- ters. He is ably assisted by MT. Dur | ant, whose newspaper life In New Ha- ven and Waterbury has given him spe- cial adaptation for the house work.
 The house has In Speaker Holcomb and extremely capable presiding officer. | He has met with marked success in the dispatch of business. One thing ought | to be said of the Rev. Dr. E. F. Park CT. who is the senate chaplain. He is 1 ideal in that capacity, using the clear | est cut English in his prayers No time I is wasted and no establishment at | tempted. Years ago when the Rev. Graham Taylor was chaplain he was l now and then inclined toward oratory {. in Iris prayers, explaining that it was not easy to invoke the Divine blessing and interest the senators at the same l time. The oratory was for the purpose I of interesting the senate hearers. Dr. l Parker makes the thirtyrfive senators I interested by the simplicity and plain I ness of his prayers
 On Tuesday, February 2S, the com. l mittee on forfeited rights, Senator Phelan Of Waterbury chairman will 1 take up it's work. Restoration of rights l IS asked for by George is Barden of I Barkhamsted, Austin w. Morris of I New Haven Clifford A. Smith of Dan bury and Benjamin K. Brooks of Vol I colt. The restoration of forfeited l rights was authorized by q constitu- 8l tionai amendment, which provided that I rights might be restored by tWo-thirds of the members of both branches of the general assembly. This two-thirds 4 vote makes it impossible for injustice
 to be done to the public by restoring a man his forfeited rights. Senator Phe- l Ian. the chairman of the committee, is
 q man of chivalric. influences, but his l heart is made to obey his head in all \ legislation that is placed in his charge, I The petitions of these men can be safe- l ly left in his hanls.
 Major Tilson's bill exempting $1,o0O
 of savings bank deposits from attach
 ment in islander suits will be heard by
 the Judiciary committee March I. Sen
 ator Hogan's bill, abolisfling the city
 court of Hartford, will come up the same afternoon: This court has fol years been the asylum for republican | politicians. Its business can be trans ferred to the court of common pleas without a cents damage to any liti gant. The only reason why 1t has liv. ed so long is that it gives the title o1 judge and good living to some poll ! tician. There Is no public necessity fol i its continuance. The resolutions appointing trustees of the Connecticut Hospital for the Irr { sane will be taken up by the committee on senate appointments, Senator OIis A. Smith of Middlefield, chairman, vii be heard Thursday, March 3. The names of Elijah K. Hubbard of Mid dletown, Frank B. Weeks of Middle
 town, Freeman F. Patton of Stafford David A. Billings of Norwich, Wi1bel
 F. Foster of Vernon, Franklin W. Per
 " of Putnam and ex-Mayor William E Waldo Hyde of Hartford are on the
 list for the appointment, all being mem
 bers of the board of trustees at pres
 ent. x. ## ..s f. {
 The bill providing that no street
 railway shall charge more than five
 cents on it's lines within the limits ot
 6 town will come up before the railroad
 committee Thursday, March g. While
 there is something to be said in favor
 of the bill there is lots to be said
 against it. There is hardly an extend
 ed trolley road i'll Connecticut that
 would not be seriously crippled by its