The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-12
VACANCIES IN CITY OFFICES
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Representative Malone, of Bristol, also appeared and said the messenger for Hartford county was capable man and was not paid commensurate to the work performed
 The bill providing for Il expression of opinion by electors on questions Of public policy at any general or special election" was taken up. The proposed measure provides that on the written petition signed by ten per cep,. of the voters of any townt city or borough it shall be the duty of the proper election officers to submit any question of pub lie policy to the electors of said town, city or borough at any general or spe- cial election. If the majority of the votes cast in any such election are in favor of such question the legislature or executive officers elected in any such election shall be considered instructed for such proposition
 Senator McNeil, of Bridgeport, was the first to speak in favor of the bill, and he quoted at length statistics to snow that many states of the Union have passed similar laws.
 Attorney Cullinan of Bridgeport, also spoke in favor of the bill. He said he would offer a substitute bill which would strike out that mandatory DOT ton of 1t which says that officers elected in such election shall be consid- cred instructed for such proposition MT. Cullinan said this was a conserva- tive step, not a radical one, and was in the interests of the best form of gov ernment. The bill was simply follow ing the mild provisions of the Illinois bill. It would require a constitutional amendment before a compulsory initi- alton and referendum could be had. It was advantageous for a member of the legislature to know public opinion on any matter. If the matter of trial by jury was left to the people an eXpres- sion of public opinion would result in guiding the members of the leglsla- ture.
 Hon. George M. Wallace of New Ha- ven alsospoke in favor of the bill and said if he had mithee would like to go over the work and show how the in- itiative and referendum was working all over the civilized world. The legis- lature he said, could not be up to date unless it took up the matter of initi- ative and referendum,
 MT. Wallace said that his under standing was that the judiciary com | mittee was composed of members who would treat the bill as statemen and not as peanut politicians. Mr. Wallace l said it was an outrage that we should | be governed by the small towns, and he l wanetd brought sut-this rotten bor- l ough system. MT. Bryan, he said, came ! back from abroad and hung municipal ownership around the neeks of the peo- pie like q miflstone. He said Mir. Bry- an made three beautiful speeches in Boston that sounded like an evangelist, but he wanetd to say that if Mir. Bry- an expects to run for president again he wants to talk about something else besides religion.
 Representative Phelan of Bridgeport also favored the bill Taxation with out representation was unjust he said, and this bill was an enetring wedge.
 Lynn W. Wilson of Bridgeport was another who spoke .ef length in favor of the bill, as did Attorney W. w. Ben | nett of the same city.
 c, J, Donahue of the Connecticut Federation of Labor was then heard and he cited several states that had adopted similar measures.
 Eugene Kendall of Bridgeport and Thomas J. Kelly of Meriden were also heard
 Anthony Carroll of New Haven ap- peared before the committee on three bills providing for the removal of City Attorney Simpson of New Haven and the judge of the city court of that city. After addressing few remarks to the ciinmittee, he was informed by the chairman that the committee had no power to remove the judge of a city court The committee expressed it's sympathy for Mir. Carroll and suggest ed that he bring impeachment pro- ceedlngs against the officials named. 1 This action of the committee prob ably wiids the matter up as far as the legislature Is concerned. The petitions | for removal of the New Haven officials was on account of an alleged neglect Of | duty.
 
 GHOSTIiY. NIGHT WATCHMAN.