The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-11
SURPRISES COMING
 AT HARTFORD Adverse Report From the Committee on Ap-
 propriations.
NOTFOR TRADEsCHOoLs
History of the Trade School Bill-Insane Pauper
 Matter.

Matter.
 l eelNmwoo eqL-'0I eunr pIopleH on appropriations will have number of surprises for the general assembly this week. The bill for the erection of a monument in honor of General Sedg- wick at Gettysburg, costing $25,OOO, will not be reported favorably except so far as a continuation to the next general assembly may be in that line. There has been disposition in favor of appointing commission on the pro- ject, consisting of United States Sem ator Bulkeley, ex-speaker Charles H. Pine of Ansonia, General Henry c. i Dwight of Hartford and Colonel Jeff frey Skinner of Winsted, giving the members full power to erect the mon ument But this is wholly unlikely to mature.
 The appropriations committee will report adversely on the bill authoriz- ing the purchase of the Eldredge col lection of war relics by the state. That project has been before the legislature for four years and has dazzled the minds of some old soldiers in the state. The state department of the Grand Army has advocated the purchase, but with futile results. While the collection is an admirable one in it. self, the price set upon it is too rich for Connecticut blood. The collection is rated by it's owner at $S0,OOO but not in the grand list.
 There will be an adverse report from the appropriations committee this week on the bill for trade schools in the state. The history of this meas ure has more or less public interest. The legislature of four years ago au- thorized commission to be raised concerning trade schools. Governor Chamberlain appointed Lewis sperry of Hartford, J. II. Whittemore of Nau- gatuck and Isaac straus of New Ha- ven. President Luther of Trinity col lege, who had made trade schools a subject of investigation, was called in as an adviser of the commission. He drafted tho report that was made to the general assembly in 1905, which was received at a late. hour in the session. There was no time to deal with 1t then and 1t was continued to the present general assembly. Presl- dent Luther has been in the saddle since the first of January as chair man of the education committee with his own handiwork to be remodelled and pounded into shape His ideas all along have been academic rather than practical. The bill is in such shape that the appropriations committee can not tell what sums would be de- manded from the treasury in carrying 1t into effect. The bill is opposed by a large labor element in the state which has made hard sledding for it from the start. It is hardly probable that it has as many friends in the leg islature now as 1t had at the beginning of the session.
 The East Hartford National Guard rife range, which the State bought two years ago, paying a large price for 1t, is not altogether an elephant on it's hands, but is likely to be- if the legis- lature does not devise means for dis posing of it. Representative Daniel B. Bidwell of East Hartford, who re- ceived three-fourths of the price paid by the state for the property, stands ready to buy it back, If the National Guard authorities win sell it MT. Bid wells constituents have made it not for him for months and are hostile to the continuance of the grange. Ad- jutant General Cole holds the view that the range is all that could be asked for and that 1t has special feat ures for rife practice by the First Regiment But for the purpose of keeping peace in East Hartford, he is inclined to enter into negotiations with Representative Bidwell, The legisla. ture has only short time left for de. { cidng what shall be done with the range property.
 l During the year ending May 30 the state ordered the erection of 264 head. stones at the graves of veterans. Since the marble headstones came into ust the state has had 5S54 set, pointing out the last resting places of the mer who filled it's quota from 1861 unti 1865. The setting of these marble