The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-10
GENERAL ASSEMBLY NOTES MANY POINTS OF INTEREST
 ABOUT THE MEMBERSHIP.

Rodgers of Danbury and the Miittar! Affairs Committee--Field Work O
 Boundary Lines Commission Th'
 Bar Examining Committee-An I'm
 teresting Yale Reunion - COIOne
 Skinner, of HartfOrd--Chaplain MOr.
 ris' "War Record"
 Hartford, Dec. 5.-The Preliminary
 Manual of the General Assembly will
 be sent out from the Secretary of
 States office by the middle of Decem-
 Der for correction and revision by the
 members. Twenty-four members of
 the House of 1905 have been returned
 and five senators. A number of mern-
 bers from the House of 1903 have
 been elected for the session of 1907, En-
 cluding the Hon. George M. Gum of
 Milford and Judge J. Raymond War
 ren Iuf Lyme. Michael J. Connor of
 Enfield, who aspired to be the demo- cratic leader of the house two years ago. is back for the coming session.
 It is not thought that he will try to contest the leadership of the demo- crats in the House with Representa- tive Gum, who has had experience in
 both branches of the General Assem-
 bly,, and is a parliamentary tactician of ability and resource. Naturally the democratic leadership will go to Rep resentatiye Gum. He is a Yale uni versity man. having graduated in the class of 1874. His prominence at the bar entities him to high honors in the House, including position on the ju- dietary committee.
 Nothing has been definitely settled yet concerning the House committee. ships The committee on military af- fairs, of which Edward Griswold of Gullford was House chairman two years ago, will probably be guided by new hands Representative Griswold has been returned to the House. but the infirmities of years will prevent his taking up the long and arduous work of the military committee. The chairmanshio of this committee has been assigned to a veteran of the civil war for years. Past Department Commander N. Burton Rogers of Dan- bury is mainly thought of for this ap- pointment. He was commander of the Grand Army in Connecticut in 1902, preceding United States Senator Nor gan G. Bulkeley in that position He served as a drummer boy in -aencral Hawley's regiment and is q nenber of the Danbury post and of the Army and Navy club of ConnY,tiaut. He is ! man of affairs and has large iadus- tria' interests und ar his direction III Danbury. He is ! public spirited cit izen and the Dany1tv Normal school Is the result manly ot his enterprise and courage in presenting it's claims in the legislatIre. Representative will be .an able lran in charge of the military commttee, which will have a large amount of work on it's hands through the session.
 The field work of the commissDsn on lines between Connecticut and Massachusetts was completed the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. The road or boundary stones now remain to ,e erected. One of these stones will be ,laced at each roadway, crossing the ines between Connecticut and Massa- There will be one hundred md thirty of them in all. They will be # granite, each stone being nine feet ong and one foot square The height .bove the surface will be four feet. A Providence firm has secured the con- ract for putting up these road stones. 1 The two states will pay the cost equal I y. Henry R. Buck of Hartford has )een the engineer on the part of Con i lectiout in charge of the boundary sur ey, which occupied the past two sum- ners. The Connecticut commission on | establishing the boundary has con- listed from the start of Governor Rob rts, Attorney General William A. King and Frank c. Sumner, who is a 1ember of the Hartford bridge com lission and of the Hartford board of nance. He is man of decided in- nee and prominence in Hartford inter- sts and has been valuable member the boundary commission. Governor oberts and Attorney-General KinC ave taken great interest in establish lg for generations to come the boun- aries between Connecticut and Massa- husetts.
 The members of the state bar exam ling committee, whose terms will ex- ire July 1, 1907, are Clarence E. Bacon Middletdwn, Judge Edwin B. Gager Derbp, Nathaniel R. Hart of Stam- 'Fd, Judge Samuel o. Prentice of the upreme court and George D.. Watrous New Haven. There will be a meet lg of the committee for the examina- on of applicants in the Supreme court ,om in tho State Capitol on Friday af- r Christmas. December 2S. The stan ard required by the state bar commit 'e is a high one, and cannot be aached except by long and faithful udy by the applicant The tendency
 to raise the standard making the oung lawyers gaining admission ito the IF in this state opponents of legal ed- 3ation and training. The young men the Connecticut bar will not suffer in 'mparison with the young practition- s throughout New England. Men 1e Charles Welles Gross, William ills Martby, John T. Robinson, Theo- ,re c. Case, William c. Hungerford nd Arthur L, Shipman of the Hart rd bar, all sons of noted legalists, ay be taken as representative of the gher legal standards now maintained y the Connecticut bar. The fathers of Iese young men, Charles E. Gross of -n nln rr -f 1onA at Vi. IL. IT.. rr, ]