The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-29
GOVERNOR WOODRUFF
 ATTACKED IN HOUSE Severely Criticised by MT. Burnes for Trolley
 Vetoes. HIS PENETRATION LOST MT. Banks Surprised at the Governors "Woeful Lack
 of Information. "

lof the day was called for, and the house took up for consideration the two reports on the calendar relating to the resolutions vetoed by the governor.
 One resolution incorporated the Wind sorville and East Hartford Street Rail-
 way company, and the other incorpo- rated the Waterbury and Mildae ETramway company. The reasons given
 by the governor for vetoing the meas ures were over-c capitalization and the right of eminent domain. In the dis
 pussion to-day the resolutions were con-
 sdered together.
 MT. Burnes of Greenwich, house
 chairman of the committee on rail-
 roads,, spoke at length on the subject.
 He began by saying that lie approach
 cs with fear and trembling because of
 inc great chasm between the exalted position of governor and the humble
 position of himself He spoke of his
 high regard for the office of governor.
 But when the governor takes he
 stand that because the people of Wind-
 sorvlle and Mapping have walked,
 they shall walk; and because they
 have always carried thelr produce in
 wagons. they shall continue to do SD,
 so long as he Is governor; and when
 he says to the people of Waterbury and
 vicinity who desire better trolley facil
 itles that he will do nothing for them
 10 improve their conditions then I lose
 nty veneration, not for the office of
 governor, but for the incumbent, who
 is there but temporarilym
 "The governor was member of pre-
 vious general assemblies, but I have
 yet to find a man who ever heard him
 arise and object to over capitalization. Because, to use the language of a
 member of. the other body, one large
 railway company has. skinned the
 cream of the trolley business of the
 state, must we now begin to issue such rigid charters that the small compan- l ies who desire them cannot do business { under them? Has the governor given
 good reasons for the allegations of : over capitalization? Has he consulted the benefit of his Information. The best engineers In the country will tell ? You 1t will cost $3OD6O a mile to build trolley roads; the railroad commission CTS report of the state show this. It will cost $300,00O to build the overhead
 work for the Waterbury and Milldale
 road, and. $5o,OoO fofsthe power house
 Where, then, can the governor find
 over-eapitalization?
 da mar EnaN, IfoftA Y,,,Y4b avnovtapna , the governor has had in trolley road building, but if he had much exper- fence he would not have sent in the , messages which he Fas.
 Developing trolley roads is "scarey
 business 1t is absolutely impossible to
 sell the stock of uHdeveloped street railway companies at any price. The linen, who put their money into these hazardous investments should be given
 chance to get their money back , These two railways must cross two
 falroads at grader Take away the
 right of eminent domain, and they can
 not do this and cannot be built. Trol- Ieys must, under certain conditions, go cross lots There was no objection on ; the part of the owners of the property ' b be crossed by the two roads.
 "In view of these conditions. it does j mot seem 10 me that the reasons given
 by the governor are sufficient, and I I move the passage of the resolutions. l the governors veto to the contrary not
 withstanding. tApplause).
 l MT. Banks of Fairfield said that dur 9 ing the week he has had two long con g fcrenees with the governor on the rese- Elutions vetoed, He was surprised at
 the woful lack of information of the
 governor on the matter as thereby dis i, closed
 r T know that there are many in the h the state who think that the governor I has become a-willlng agent of great e corporation in this state. I can say : that this is not the fact
 II can say this. because my confer g ences with the governor amounted al- : most to a cross examination. I found Q that the governor is sincere in his in- [ tentions, but his exeellency is of a y sweet temperament and confiding dis < position, and it would seem that he sometimes allows aattery and caiolery 9 to control his Judgment. Sometimes . wish l had something of that sweet e kind of disposition, but have not. l "The question as to who writes the y governors documents has often been T asked, ever since the memorable ad-
 dress in New Haven But whatever
 may be said of the authorship of the
 other documents, these two veto mes sages are so simple and ehild-like and 1. bland that plainly they did not origi- ' nate in the wise minds of men who
 desired to shape the matters under
 consideration. The views are so un-
 sophisticated that it cannot be imag- z ined that the wise minds who dictated 1, the other messages had anything to : do with these before us'
 . Mr. Banks read from a volume 3 which purported to give the first def- a nite exposition on the subject of emil nent domain, showing that in the time 7 of Grotius' private use. He quoted sev- taken for public use, He quoted sev- l eral authorities on the subject of emi- : nent domain, showing that the prin- - ciple is well established
 Why should not an electric rail- way nave the SdHle FlSHt or eminent
 domain as the railroad companies? I , asked this question of the governor, and in the language of the gentleman from Ncrwalk, he remained mute. You know what happened in the 2 Connecticut Western case You know how a trolley from Hartford to Spring l field was blocked by the Consolidated , because the connecting link could not