Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-02-14
FREAK MEASURES IN
 - LEGISLATURE KILLED.
Important Measures Received Attention To-Day The Senatorial Contest at Hartford Before Committee on Contested Elections To.Day-Former Representative Warren Talks About Legislature Cratuities.

Hartford, Feb 14,-The grindings of
 1he legislative mill produced grist of
 matters in the shape of committee rc.
 ports to-day which came before both
 branches of the general assembly for
 consideration. Many of these were un.
 favorable to proposed legislation and
 were promptly rejected. T he freak
 measures, of which number nade their appearance last week, it said, were awarded scant courtesy.
 me house was called to order at l2:3o by Speaker Holcomb. A favora- Die report was received from the com lnlttee on cities and boroughs concern. ing the amending of the charter of the city. of Hartford, affecting the duties of the collector and treasurer and ere atlng department of finance in sub stitnte report. The house concurrea with the senate 1n adopting under sus. pension of the rules the resolution ap. pointing Frederick E. Futile judge of the town court of Hamden.
 The senate was called to order as l2::3O and several members were ab- sent, Routine matters only were coil sidered. :.
 Hartford, Feb 14.--The contest over the third district senatorship came ur before the senate committee on con- tested elections this morning. The count or the returns of the ballots in the first ward was one of the disputed GfyjnfS bn inI,t oe .,l returns came in that Hogan had 635 votes and Haggerty, who was disput- ing Hogan's election, had 4S7. The second count gave Hogan still better lead, for the vote showed Hogan 635 and Haggerty 475. q gain of fourteen for Hogan.
 MT Hogan. democrat, was declared elected on election night by q majority of one vote. Frank A. Haggerty, re- publican, disputed his election on the ground of alleged discrepancies. The new count will now probably give Hogan the election by Il bigger mayor. ity.
 Former Representative J. Raymond Warren of Lyme writes as follows to the New London Day as to legislative gratuities: Prom time to time we no. tice an. article in the press of the state in relation to grsfting the salar- les of doorkeepers and messengers in the general assembly. No member of the house of representatives ever fought harder than myself against srafting, but I always laid the axe to the root of the tree and opposed such gratis as raising salaries of fat. con- missions and approprlating $lo,O0O for l smotherlng, life squeezing reception l to United States senator, and anoth- ] er S10,000 to the highway commission. CTS office to appoint four deputy in- spectoTs, and grating higher court judges salaries with s2.OO0 extra. and . sl,oOO for expenses; and many other smaller srafts. But never yet had the nerve to oppose q poor doorkeeper or messenger who asked for graft after standing as servant of the state for six months and witnessing :rafts of thousands upon thousands of dollars to we'll paid officials and liste,n. ing to very uncomplimentary remarks about themselves. verify believe that after everyone else has had their fist in the state treasury, these faith Ful servants are entitled to their share. Why not:'