The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-09
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.
SENATE DISCUSSES ROADS AP-
 PROHIBITIONS.

June If as Flag Day-House Passes
 Bill to Create Commission Concerning Hartford AEmOry and Arsenal--BiH to
 Reduce Tax on Savings Banks Re-
 iected.
 Hartford, June S.-The senate turned
 out a good days work before the or
 der of the day was reached at F
 o'clock. The bills disposed of includ- i ed the resolution appropriating $25,O00 1 for the construction of seven vaults in i the capitol building in which state doc uments can be kept. The bill giving 1 the city of New Britain authority for ] issuing $200,00O sewer fund bonds and also powers for making important city ] Improvements was passed. General Atwood of Plainfield explained the bill 1 regulating the transportation of trout It forbids such transportation out of
 the state except from commercial
 hatcheries or live trout for stocking
 purposes. The bill was passed. The
 bill concerning the construction of a
 state armory at Meriden was continued
 to the next general assembly. Senator
 Clark, chairman of the committee on
 military affairs, said the way was not
 clear for building the armory this year,
 and he thought better chances would be reached two years from now. On mo-
 tion of Senator Bicknell, chairman of
 the committee on finance, the bill re-
 ducing the tax on savings banks was ] rejected.
 | The bill making changes in the poll l and military communication taxes which
 had been passed in the house, was talk en to the senate. Chairman Bickne1l of 1 the finance committee said there was
 no strenuous support of the bill at the committee hearings. The measure was i discussed at length by Senator Judson.
 The bill, he said, puts an absolutely 1 equitable share of the military estab- lishment expense on each town. The 1 town collectors of taxes at the pres
 ent time wink at the failures to pay the communication tax, said Senator Judson. l He approved of the act and thought ] the senate should concur with the house | in the passage of the bill. Senator ! Paige thought the measure ought to be 1 tabed for the calendar in order that 1t
 may be additionally studied by the 1 senators.
 On motion of Senator Judson the bill
 providing for Flag day was passed un- der suspension of the rules and trans mitted to the clerk on engrossed bills. 1 Flag day will come June IA, and it is
 desired to have the bill signed by the governor in time for the days observ-
 ance.
 l Senator Brennan called up the resolu- tion appropriating $400 in favor of John S. Carpenter of Chatham on account of
 Manassas; passed.
 I On report of the committee on senate appointments, Senator Smith of Middle l field, the trustees of the Norwich Hos l pital for the Insane; the trustees of the | Connecticut Agricultural College for
 Boys were reappointed.
 The Hon. Samuel Fessenden of Stam- ford was called, to the chair at this l juncture by Lieutenant Governor | Woodruff and presided through the re- | mainder of the session.
 The order of the day, being the bills concerning good roads in the state, was called for at 12 o'clock. There were two bills under consideration, one being
 reported adversely. The bill recom- mended by the committee designated $45,000 for improvements of public ! roads, $6,000 for salary of the commits
 sioner, $3,OOO for travelling expenses, $12O00 for office expenses and $20,000 for inspection of public roads, making the total $500,000. The substitute bill placed the total for the department for the two fiscal years at $651, ,000. It contain ed a provision that not more than $4, 300 shall be expended in any one
 town in any one year for highway im- provements. Senator Pattison said the amount recommended was the largest that the state had ever authorized. It was 300 per cent. larger than the sum appropriated two years ago. Senator Wooster offered amendments making the amount for public roads $500,000 and for inspection of public roads $50, ,000. He also offered an amendment making $5O,000 appropriation for filling in de- pressions in highways at the discretion of the commissioner and $10,000 for road repairs. The senator spoke at length on the amendments. Eventually, he said, the state under the amendments would recover the $60,O00 from the towns benefited. Senator Judson went over the ground advocated by Senator Wooster, who is chairman of the com mittee on roads. rivers and bridges. The main point was that the towns should ultimately be made to pay the cost of repairs and filling in of depres- &Continued on Eighth Page.)