The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-10

Sec. .. Such commissioner, in con-
Quoting such an inquiry may order and
cause witnesses to be kept separate, so
that they cannot communicate with
one another until they shall have testi-
fed; no person other than such COM
missioner, the person requesting such
inquiry, and the witness under exami-
nation, shall be present at such inquiry
except by permission of such commits
sioner.
Sec. 8. Such commissioner in the
conduct of any such inquiry, may, in
his discretion, employ competent
stenographer to take down the exami-
nation of any witness, or witnesses.
and cause the stenographic notes of
such examination to be transcribed and
furnished to any proper prosecuting
officer having jurisdiction of the sub
ject matter of such inquiry; and such
commissioner may require the attend
ance and assistance at any such inqui-
ry, and in procuring the attendance of
witnesses, of any sheriff, deputy sher-
iff, state policeman, constable or police
officer, who shall be allowed such COM
pensation as such commissioner shall
deem reasonable.
Sec. 4. Any such commissioner con-
Quoting such inquiry shall be allowed
$500 per day for his time employed
therein, and also his necessary expen-
ses, and such commissioner shall re-
turn to the clerk of the superior court
of the county wherein such inquiry is
held, an account of all his fees, expen-
ses and payments incurred in the dis
charge of his duties, including witness
fees, which account said clerk shall
submit to the states attorney for such
county who shall endorse the same, if
correct, or such items thereof as are
correct, and the sums so endorsed shall
| be paid by the state on the order there
| for by such clerk,
80 DIR. SMYTH.
Gentlemen: appear in favor of
such amendments to the existing law
as in view of a credible information of
prevalent violations of it, and from all
the bills pending before you, together
with such consideration as may fur
Their be urged, the wisdom of your
committee may enable you to draft.
appear to ask your committee not
to place in the statlte-b book law upon
law, as in a moral show window, but to
determine what amendments may rem
der the existing laws effective.
For this practical end, as well as for
some other purposes, beyond this hear
ing, I have been making enquiries in
over hundred towns throughout the
state concerning the methods and the
extent of recent violations of the Cor
rupt Practices law. Although these in
quiries are not vet completed, vet in
| view of a considerable body of pre-
] sumptive and in some instances cir
+ cumstantial information which has al
ready come to me, 7 would call your
! attention to certain practical steps
/ which may be taken to secure the en-
| forcement of the law One decisive
| step forward, which T would urge
| should be taken, is in this direction,
viz: the drafting of some provisions
which shall lodge somewhere the pow
er and the responsibility of obtaining
| legal information concerning corrupt
practices; and that, too, not only at
elections, but also in the preliminary
caucuses, primaries and senatorial dis
trict conventions.
| Allow me therefore first to speak of
the immediate urgency for some action
4 in this direction, and then to suggest
certain amendments which might give
the state of Connecticut greater power
to bring to justice political violators OF
| the honor of the state. ..
In the last campaign, according to
4 information which think would not be
questioned, were at liberty to disclose
my authority for it, money met money
at the caucuses in considerably more
than hundred of the 1858 towns of the
state. AS one prominent candidate al
least has not seen fit to comply with
the law which requires all candidates
including candidates for the office Of
United States senator to make sworn