The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-08


 Bank BilI-AgriculturaI College Will
 Have its Day TO-morrow-The De- baters Who Have shone.
 Hartford, April S.-The legislature will enter on the fourth month of the session Tuesday. That fact will jus tify a sort of review of the work that has been transacted Aside from the passage of the so-called merger bill, asked for by the Consolidated road, no great public interests have been con- served thus far by legislative enact ment. The session has been signalized chiefly by the rejection of legislation that has been reported adversely from committees.
 The bill embracing Governor Wood ruff's recommendations in support of state purchasing agent is no doubt the chief one, up to the present time, that has been sent to the junk heap. The narrow escape of the Hooker savings bank bill, which embodies the govern ors ideas relative to the character or Investments by the trust companies, set a good many men thinking. Repre- sentative Hooker took advantage of the Farmers meeting Friday morning for
 N agreed upon, saving a part of the prin- ciple, if not the whole, of the original measure It will not be until 1912, if the substitute bill is finally enacted, that it will become wholly effective. At the end of that period the investments of trust companies will be under the same regulations as those controlling savings banks. The bill has been saved by the skin of it's teeth and there VIII be no glorifcation over it. Mir. Hooker was loyal in every way to the govern or's views, but the contest was an up- hill one from the start
 The new law that has been in embryo for two months concerning the bank commission is yet to be reported from the committee on banks. Meanwhile nothing has been definitely settled con- cernfng Commissioner KendalPs place, which, under the present law, becomes vacant July 1. But it is not expected in any quarter that Commissioner Ken dall will receive reappointment. But this will not initiate against his rec ord in the office. He has been highly regarded by the public and has the confidence of the savings bank officials from one end of the state to the other That confidence will not be shaken by his being dropped from the office.
 TYae status of the bill consolidating tha offices of expressing clerk and the clerk of bills and giving the incumbent If the office a life tenure is not favor- able. and the measure, which has been in the hands of the judiciary committee flor two months, will be attended by an adverse report. Such a fate will not be undeserved,
 Tae direct primary bill, which was recommended by the commission on corrupt practices, is still hanging fire There have been one or two hearings, bl1t no decision has been reached. NO insurance company in Hartford would issue a blanket policy on the bill, no matter what premium rate might be paid.
 Trolley road legislation has received much attention since the middle of Jan uary.
 T,e telephone measures that have oc- cupied the judiciary committee two weeks. will be argued Tuesday by coun- sel on both sides. The report of the State Business Mems association against the admission of independent telephone companies struck the keynote in the two weeks hearing. It will be month or more before report will be reached.
 The Friday sessions, whicD have been kept up by the house, have been of no Intrinsic value. Time and again quo- rum has not been present. But there is no criticism to be made by outsiders. Take, it all in all, the present house has done work of lasting value. Much of It has been of a negative character, but wisdom is often more effectively shown in negative than in positive action. The remainder of the session will be at tended by the same intelligence and Judgment that have characterized the work of the past three months.
 The agricultural college will have Its day Tuesday and will be in the house of its friends At last Thursdays hear. ing the college could well have ex- claimed. in the language of Caesar, as If saw men, who have professed the warmest confidence in it, grouped witf its adversaries: "Et tu Brutus.' But the scene will be changed on Tuesday Chairman Kingsbury, of the agricul' tural committed WHO introduced the bill embodying the recommendations oi Governor Woodruff, acted pro formf as committee chairman. MT Kings bury stated Friday in Hartford that ht as not in favor of changing the location of the college. A unification of inter ests was all that he desired. The col. lege has a warm place in the hearts o1 many In the state, who want 1t to re- main where 1t is. And there is no haz. ard in predicting that it will A num- ber of forensic battles have taken place an both houses this session. The house chairman of the judiciary committee Fillmore s. Banks of Fairfield; ex-Sen. ator George M. Gum, of Milford; Dr Higgins, of Coventry; Edward Gris. wold, of Guilford and E. w. Hooker of Hartford, are born controversialists