The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-13

was carried out and the state now has in it's possession the ground work for a superb armory Largely the credit for the achievement is due to Governor Roberts.
 Tn declining to take part in the ap- pointment of a chief justice succeeding the late Judge Torrance, which he could have made under a. precedent es- tablished by Governor L. A. Cooke in 1897, Governor Roberts has earned pub- lie approval throughout Connecticut. He has left the selection of the chief justice to his successor, whose action will be unbiased and untrammeled. Had Governor Roberts "butted in" un- der the Cooke precedent, some odd complications might have arisen for Governor Woodruff S solution. As it is, it will be an open field for the new gov. ernor. There are two supreme court appointments to be made by Governor Woodruff and one for the superior court bench. The term of Frederic B.. Hall of the supreme court will expire in July, 1907, and Alberto T. Roraback' S term in the superior court will expire at the same time.
 Governor Woodruff will have the ap- pointment of one railroad commission CT. The term of w. o. Seymour of Ridgefeld expires in July 1907. In this case the appointment is limited by statute to civil engineer. The com missioners whose terms will expire in 1907, and whose successors must be ap- pointed by the governor, with consent of the senate, are J. H. Macdonald of New Haven, Highways; George F. Kendall of Suffield, Banks; Morris c. Webster of New Britain, Building and Loan Associations; George e. Waldo of Bridgeport and William w. Atwater of New Haven, Shellfish; William H. Sco- vile of East Haddam, Labor Statistics; Theodore H. Mckenzie of Southington and s. B. Overlook of Pomfret, State Board of Health. George e. Waldo, of the Shellfish commission, is the editor of the Bridgeport Standard, which has invariably supported the republican party and candidates in the state He is a civil war veteran, having served in the Second Connecticut infantry, and is a member of Elias Howe, Jr., Post of the Grand Army in Bridgeport
 Colonel Frank w. Cheney, president of the Andersonville Monument com mission and Major George o. Whitney, also of the commission, have paid a visit to Sculptor Pratt in Boston, whose design for the monument was accepted last summer. The model has been completed and was inspected by Colonel Cheney and Major Whitney at the time of their visit. The work will be an honor to Connecticut, interpre- ting the taste, intelligence and patrio- tism of the state to all who may visit dersonville, where fourteen thousand Union prisoners of war are buried. It is now expected that the monument will be dedicated in May, 19O7 The list gof Connecticut men now living and present residents of the state, who have come here since the war having been prisoners at Andersonville, is not large. Altogether it will hardly exceed 1.-two hundred and thirty Of these An- dersonville survivors one hundred in round number belonged to the Six teenth Connecticut. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth regiments also had a large number in the stockade The monument that is to be erected by the commission is a state function, and the dedication will be attended by veterans and state officials.