The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-30
HOUSE oRA1oRK.

It is probably due to inexperience in the halls of legislation that our be- wilderment is to be attributed, but we cannot for the life of us understand the purpose and significance of much of the oratory to which the house of Representatives is from time to time treated. We are especially mystified when Governor Woodruff, or the issues which he has made his own, are under discussion. Then we are carried bodily so far into the realm of fancy and fiction that there appears to fol- low suspension of our powers of ap- preciation.
 This was the case when we came to read calmly the debate in the house on Tuesday, with reference to the Cover nor's veto message of proposed charter trolley grants, which in the opinion of that official offered extraordinary op- portunities for high financing. Said Representative Burnes of Greenwich. the house chairman of the railroad committee: But when the Governor takes the stand that because the peo- pie of Windsorville and Mapping have walked, they shall walk; and because they have always carried their produce in wagons, they shall continue to do so, as long as he is governor; and when he says to the people of Water bury and vicinity, who desire better trolley facilities. that he will do mo- thing for them to improve their condi- tions, then I lose my veneratlon, hot for the office of governor, but for the incumbent, who, thank Heaven. is there but temporarily"
 Now unless we are going to proceed upon the theory Taleyrand encourag- ed, that speech Is useful only to con- ceal thought, this outburst on the part of the gentleman from Green wich, where lncautious speech appears to be especially manufactured for the market, cannot be taken seriously. It will be news to the people of the state that Governor Woodruff is bent upon compelling the residents of Windsor lville and Mapping to walk the rest of their lives while the people of other towns ride. We suspect the people of | Waterbury will learn for the first time of his determination to deprive them of additional facilities of trolley nature. We have taken the trouble to reread his message, and to reread his veto, but we do not find a single line justfying this bewildering attack of Representative Burnes. Mir. Banks of Bridgeport, the house leader, was In a much fairer mood when he gave his personal assurance that Governor Woodruff is not the willing agent of a great corporation in this statev This someway or other sounds better, if there was reason for limiting at any thing of the kind, and it fits into what I've understand to be President Mel- lens measure of the governor
 1 We should seriously like to inquire If Mir, Burnes and Mir. Banks, and the other members of the legislature who are in sympathy with their extraor- dinary attitude towards the governor, believe that he is intent upon any such scheme to deprive the people they de- fend of such trolley privileges as they want and believe will benefit their neighborhod? We should also like to in- i quire if they believe any good is being
 done the state of Connecticut by this
 unseenly drubbing of the governor in public? It may be that all this flutter-
 ing and indulgence in what to our be-
 wlldered mind looks like clap-trap is necessary and high service for the
 State, but that is not permissible
 view yet We are each day being
 forced more and more to the unpleas.
 ant conclusion that the situation or
 Capitol Hill Is far from credltable and
 far from dividend-paying in the sight
 of the people of this disturbed com.
 monwealth.