The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-28
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.
HOUSE AMENDMENT TO SCHOOL
 BILL REJECTED BY SENATE.

New Board of DentsI COmmissiOners-
 State Hoard to Retain Supervision
 Speech fin Favor of Judicial Salary Bill by Senator Fessenden-Bfn FI-
 naIIy Passed-Other News from the Capitol.
 Hartford, June Ex-Governor Roberts appointed an entirely new board of den- tai commissioners this forenoon. The new commissioners are Gilbert M. Gris- wold of Hartford. Alfred E. Pores of Bridgeport, Howard G. Provost of West Winsted, David W. Johnson of New Haven and E. Prentiss of New London.
 Two of the old barber commission CTS were dropped. Dr. Henry Schneider of New Haven was retained. The new appointments are P. H. OBrien of New London and Peter Hummel of Bridge port.
 Lieutenant Governor Woodruff called | the senate to order at 11:15 and prayers
 was offered by Dr. Parker of the South l Congregational church. The appropria- | ton committee reported adversely on the petition of James F. Brannagan ct al., for an appropriation of $500 for granite coping inclosing soldiers monu- ment in St. Bernard cemetery, New Ha- ven.
 : Senator Paige was appointed on con- ference committee concerning the Derby court judgeship, involving the appoint
 ment of George, B. Clark and w. H. Barnett.
 On motion of Senator Fessenden the bill amending the charter of Stamford was taken from the table and placed on l its passage. Senator Fessender said the house amendments have the effect of completing the original measure. A referendum is attached to the bill, re- quirlng it to be submitted to the voters of the city. He approved of the bill and had taken part in it's preparation. On vote the bill was passed.
 The appropriations committee report ed in favor of $500 for the care of epf- leptics. On explanation of Senator Clark the bill providing for the pur- chase of two machine guns and equip ment to be located in Bridgeport.
 The resolution incorporating the Hartford and Middletown Street Rail- way company was amended in the way of conserving the rights of Middletown and North Haven and passed. Double tracks will not be allowed in Middle town except by municipal consent.
 In discussing the school bill Senator Phelan said the local school boards should not be interfered with by the state board of education. The house had amended the bill keeping supervi- sion in the hands of the town school boards. Senator Baker took the ground that towns should not take the public money without supervision by the state board. The senate decided with him il rejecting the house amendment. The bill was then passed >
 Senator Paige took the ground with regard to the judicial salary bill that judges of the courts are not officers of the state in the constitutional sense of tlat term. A decision which has been rendered by the Pennsylvania courts. he said, sustains this view. Senator Patti
 
 read authorities showing that judges of courts are state officers. Senator Judson defended the principles of the bill. He said the people of the state have approved off the increase in tho salaries of judges which was decided on by the legislature of 1903, making the salary of the chief justice $6,500 and of the associate judges $6,500. The law has been interpreted so as to, apply only to judges appointed after 1903. The present bill puts all the old judges on the same footing as the newly ap- pointed ones He felt that the consti- tuition prohibiting increase in the sal aries of state officers could not apply 1 to the judges of the courts who are designatel as judicial officers in the constitution. The judges of the least experience on the bench are receiving l increased salaries, while the judges,
 who have grown gray in the service, are l compelled to accept the old time com pensation. The passage of the bill in 1 the house by an overwhelming major. l ity was tribute to the character and I standing of the judges of Connecticut 1 Senator McGovern cited decisions of the l courts showing that the increase was i not legal. He said he should be obliged i to vote against the bill, representing l the interests of his constituents. Sen ator Donovan wittily inquired in the 1 language of a friend of Presiden i Cleveland: What is the constitution
 among friends?" He opposed the. meas ure in toto, holding that the constitu
 tion ought to be yielded to or be blowi
 out of the door, Senator Bicknell alsS held that the constitution should not b,
 disregarded It would be impossible fo
 him, he said, to vote for the bill in tn, light presented by the constitution
 Senator Fessenden took the floor it support of the bill. He thought oppos
 ing senators were laboring under d rnis
 apprehension. The reasons assigned hy
 Senators McGovern and Donovan fol opposing the bill were not well taken The question before the senate was: .'Does the proposed act contravene the provisions of the constitution?' He said ! that with eminent lawyers in the state b. bald tho IJiaw that fba hill doac ,ta@