The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-05

for each memorial will insure tribute that will suitable attest the states af- lection and admiration for it's distin guished sons. There are only two mem- bers of the state senate now living who were members of that body in 1879, when Senator Platt was first elected. These men are the Hon. John R. Hills of liar ord and ex-Senator Lines of Meriden Not only of the Connecticut delegati in congress at that time is now living All of the state officers have passed away, Chief Justice Tor rance of the supreme court being the last of the list. He was secretary of state at the time of Senator Platt's first election as United States senator. The Hon. Samuel Fessenden of Stamford, General Lucius A. Barbour of Hartford, Judge James P Platt of the United States district court, School Fund Com missioner Carnot O. Spencer and Charles P. Grosvenor of Pomfret are among the few house members now left, who took part in the great and decisive contest that resulted in Sena- tor Platt's selection It is worth while to look back now and then to the days of 1879 when the general assembly car- ried on it's roll some of the foremost names in Connecticut. They were days of great political issues, the effect of which is still felt in the state The Legislature of 1881, which elected Gen. eral Hawley for the first time, was composed also of men of high attain ments and character. Of the state off, cers of that year Governor Hobart IA Bigelow of New Haven, Lieutenant Governor William H. Bulkeley of Hart ford and State Treasurer David P. Nichols of Danbury have passed away MT Nichols died in office January ?, 1882, and Governor Bigelow appointed Commodore James D. Smith of Stam- ford in his place. The secretary of state, Charles E. Searles of Thompson. and the comptroller, Wheeloek T. Batcheller of Winsted are still living. The only members of the Connecticut delegation in congress at the time now diving is the Hon. John R. Buck of Hartford, His associates were Judge James Phelps of the Second, John T. | Waite of the Third and Frederick Miles of the Fourth district. The speaker of the house was the late Hon. William C.. Case of Granby, man of masterly leadership and attainments. With the election of Senators Platt and Haw- ley the state of Connecticut was placed on a high plane in the United State senate, It will not be possible for them or the men who elected them in the general assemblies of 1879 and 1881 to receive honors of too great an inter- est
 The farmers association will consider the demurrage bills at it's meeting in
 the capitol Wednesday, March 6. Sen ator Andrew N. Shepard of the Thirty
 fourth district, who has been sick at
 his home in Portland upwards of two
 weeks will be in the senate on Tuesday
 having recovered sufficiently to return
 to the capitol. There has been an un-
 usual amount of sickness in the legls-
 lature this winter Senator Archibald
 McNeil of Bridgeport has been kept
 from the senate some three weeks or
 account of illness and is now only able
 to be back in his seat. Senator D
 Luther Briggs of Middietown was out
 two weeks in February, suffering from an acute attack of quinsy He has ful. ly recovered, however, and is present daily at the hearings of the committee