The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-02
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.
LEGISLATORS PICNIC AT LAKE
 COMPOCNCE.

Senator Paige Has Them as His Guests
 -Rcport on BIn for Bonding New Haven's Floating Indebtedness to be | FavOrabie-senatOr JudsOn Presides 1 Over That HOuse-COmmission on i Interstate Boundaries to he Created. l Hartford, June 1.-The finance com mittee. Senator George E. Bicknell of Meriden chairman, has decided to re- port in favor of the bill authorizing l the city of New Haven to bond it's float ! ing indebtedness. The amount involv- ed is upwards of $15O,OOO. In future it will be the aim of the department of ! finance in the city to keep the floating indebtedness down. When the amount may happen to be increased in any 1 year the tax of the city will be raised 1 ing the following year sufficiently to wipe out the amount. General E. S. Greeley had been promised an addition 1 al hearing on the bill but owing to the i limit for committee reports it was de- eided to report the bill favorably with out the hearing.
 An analysis of the vote Wednesday in the senate by which the sections in the general railroad law authorizing the parallelng of existing railroad lines in the state, were repealed. shows that l the leading business men in that body favored the repeal of the law, which has been on the statute books since 1871. Senators Lake, Barney, Whitney, Hammer, Paige, John W. Atwood, Coe, Bradstreet and Davis all represent large business and industrial interests in Connecticut. Senator Peck of Wa terbury, who was in favor of the re- l peal, but was paired with Senator Phe- Ian of that city, is one of the prominent
 business men and financial managers in 1 his section of the state. The oppon- ents of the repeal includes Senators 1 William F. Atwood of New Britain, president of the Mechanics National bank in that city; Chairman Pattison of the appropriations committee; Chat field of New Haven, Bicknell of Mer- iden, Wooster of Seymour, Judson of Stratford, Clark of Winsted, Smith of Middlefeld, and Baker of Stafford, The motion for reconsideration which was rejected after a good deal of parlia- mentary sparring led by Senator Don ovan of South Norwalk, settled the is- sues involved so far as debate is con- cerned, and the bill will now go to the governor for his signature. Victory for the Consolidated railroad was as com plete as that of the Japanes in the Corean straitts and no doubt will be of as much public utility.
 The committee on appropriations made favorable report fo rthe com- mission on new buildings for the state
 to be located on Capital avenue, the
 committee recommending $10,OO0 fol
 continuing the work of the commission
 but making no recommendation fol the new buildings. The committee vii
 recommend $S6,o0O for construction o1
 vaults in the capitol, but will make nt recommendation for changes in the up per portions of the building,
 At the opening of the session morn ing there was good days work read! in each house. Only forty-five minutes
 had been arranged for the session il
 consequence of the outing that had beer planned by Senator Paige and not ;
 great deal of legislation was taken up
 The members of the general assembl!
 accompanied by Governor Roberts ant
 state officers in general left for Com bounce at 11:10 on special trolleys, ,beinl
 the guests of Senator Paige, who hat
 made elaborate preparations for tn
 day, One of the features of the occa
 sion was the attendance of Colts full
 band, that being provided for by tn
 host. Senator Paige left nothing un - done for the felicity of his guests. Tn outing was one of the pleasantes events in the history of the sesslor
 which has been signalized through wit the best, of good fellowship. There hay , been no frictions through the fiv months that have caused divisions or Il : nature. That fact was brought ou clearly in the occurrences that hay : taken place attending the day off by the legislators at Lake CompOlInce,