The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-15
NOTES FROM HARTFORD.
LABOR UNIONS TO BE HEARD
 MARCH tST.

c. J. DOnahue to Oppose Having Trade schOOls-security Company of New Haven and Its Guarantee Fund-BiIl
 de Fire Insurance Rates-SenatOr
 HOman's ChaIrmansHip-War Vet
 erans and the Cavalry Regiment
 Monument.
 Hartford, Feb. 14-The committee on education, of which Senator Luther is chairman, will give the labor unions a chance to be heard Friday afternoon, March 1, in opposition to the bill es- tablislling trade schools in the state quest for the hearing, and will speak as the representative of labor unions against the measure. The bill was in- ,troduced by President Luther. It is based on the report made two years ago by Lewis Sperry of Hartford, Isaac Straus of New Haven and J. H. Whit temore of Naugatuck in favor of trade schools.
 The insurance committee will give the Cecurity company of New Haven q hearing on Tuesday, February 19, un the bill giving the company power to increase its guarantee fund to an amount not exceeding $500, ,OOO. The guarantee fund now amounts to $lOO,- 900. The increase will give the com pany better facilities for meeting fire insurance emergencies.
 It is doubtful if the insurance com mittee will report favorably on the bill establishing commission for the regulation of fire insurance rates. The bill is favored by the State Business Mems association, but has the fire un- derwriters throughout the state as a unit against 1t.
 Senator Homan of New Haven has been made chairman of the committee lon new towns and probate districts, The committees first session was held Wednesday afternoon, for the purpose of making assignments.
 Senator Middletown of the corlnlit- tee on public health and safety also had a meeting Wednesday afternoon for assignments. There will be a good deal of business to be done by this committee. A large number of bills have been referred to 1t.
 John Andrews and Ebenezer Bishop of Boston, who were members of the First Connecticut cavalry during the Civil war, Were at the capitol Wednes- day afternoon to attend the hearing in favor of an appropriation of $12,0OO for a monument in honor of this cavalry regiment, which was in eighty-nine en- agreements during the war. MT. An- hrews enlisted from Southington, and rose from the ranks to a staff appoint ment under General Custer. He is an active business man in Boston, and has been a member of the general court of Massachusetts. MT. Bishop is also a prominent business man in Boston, having large interests under his con- trol He enlisted in the First cavalry from Woodstock, and served with gal lantry in the field, He was captured at Waterford, Va, in August, 1863, and was in the Confederate, prisons fifteen months, most of the time being spent in Andersonville. There isgone man living who was captured with him. Thomas Carver of Worcester. Mass. MT. Blsh- op belongs to an old and honored fam fly in Eastern Connecticut. He was a member of the general assembly in 1872, The new rules, which Speaker Iilson has prepared, will greatly fa- cilitate legislation in both houses. The principal feature is the power lodged with committees for disposing of bills that are of no practical value. Under the present rules every bill that is in- troducei has to be reported back to the two houses and acted on formally. The new rules would save an immense amount of time through the session.