The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-03
DR LEGISLATORS 1 LAY ASIDE DIGNITY Mock Session Which Sug- gests a Saloon Brawl. FIRE HOSE USED |ngry Statesman Throws Heavy Cuspidors at
 Members.
(Hartford Courant.l

5 ead or in the capitol, there would we been a hurry call for the police, as it was, the superintendent of e capitol is glad the building is still *anding and no complaint will be 2 ade to the authorities. The simple ] ct is, however, that the members * the house yesterday broke all rec Ids for lawlessness and reached their 4 &gh water mark when they manned Ne firehose and turned g stream of #rty water on their fellows, thor %ghly wetting everything and every #dy within thirty feet of the speakers
 sk.
 Superintendent sprague did his best
 ednesday night to reduce the nount of damage by removing the Nil files, journals and whatever books Nd pamphlets were lying within
 ach, but Yankee ingenuity overcanle
 is obstacle and there was plenty do- g as soon as the time came for doing
 and this time was not long in com
 g.
 When the House came to order it z Id business enough to last it for #lteen minutes, when a recess was or bred. Few of the members left the lll and the fun" began. It was mild
 first, consisting of the throwing of Snfetti, which is a harmless sort of 8nusement, and was therefore not bpular. Some of the members be- An walk-around, but this soon came
 an end as Representative Knight of zhlisbury accidentally struck his knee gainst a chair and went down like Toner Dean of Angeli's when the lat Sr made his famous point of order. #he injury to Dr. Knight was pain Nil, but was not of serious natrue. #While the utilities commission was seing considered the House preserved ] fair degree of order, though some | the debaters found that consider [ole noise was being made. It also secame evident that a half-bushel or &b of white beans had been brought 3lto the hall and when handful of Ehese had been thrown with consider i Zoly energy the person in range gen. E,ally knew that something had hap bned. The beans were not the only hing on the list, for the menu in 3uded peanuts, crullers, chestnuts and #arshmalloWs. The latter were es- Iecially favored, for they made good Ized white spots on the carpet af- ssr the member had trodden upon hem.
 Gut sugar and lemons were also in yidence and the time appeared ripe pr a novelty which was sprung. Mem *ers found towels in the cloak room Which they soaked in water and with mich they then gaily soaked" some nsuspecting member, the unfortu- late being generally the most quiet 8he in sight.
 8 The actual business of the session
 as finished shortly after recess when Epeaker Tilson allowed the House hembers to say whom they cared to E acrif1ce as presiding officer of the bock session which is sure to be held @n the last day. The lot fell by unanimous choice upon. Representa- i've Gardner, the Baptist clergyman
 From Southington, The noise when he ! polk the chair was deafening and the Hisorder never saw its counterpart ir Hartford outside a Democratic city Convention. MT. Gardner took it good Naturedly and, when freak reso- ltion was presented he turned il ver to the clerk who was supposed read it, but the reporters sitting sEithin four feet of him could not hear < sound from his lips.
 x But this was only one feature oi he show, for it had as many as g [ oxen centers of attraction going or ! It once. MT. Low, the democratic | lember from Norwalk, was used as g
 target by the members on his sidt
 the hall. MT. Higgins of Gov. Entry presented a teddy bear to MT
 llerton of Middlebury, who wa;
 ermed for the occasion the gentle. : nan from Addlebury. MT. Burbanl
 Suffield was not allowed to fee 2 bnesome for things came his way
 apidly. Finally solicitous friend 2 Eho sat back of him squirted a quan fty of water down the back of hi.
 eek. MT. Burbank acknowledged
 he attention in a graceful manner by | urling one of the heavy sheet iroi suspidores at the offender. It strucl Representative Sumner of Mansfiel, E Il the thumb and MT. Summer vii
 ave cause to remember MT. Burbanl
 t intervals for the next week or more
 Tn the meantime MT Gardner ha,
 lot been overlooked and the pla,
 radualiy worked up to natural an
 ogical climax. The gallery had be
 ome interested and a woman up ther
 prayed MT. Gardner, using plenty 0
 Eater, too. from a rubber bulb. A
 lr. Gardner Is bald he had no doub
 to the direction from which tn
 Eater came and he poured a glassfu
 rom the pitcher on the desk an
 hrew the contents up into the galler ! 9 the evident surprise of the specta < ors.
 In the meantime the desire to SC
 Il that was doing had drawn man
 n the front seats and at this junctur
 ome members were struck by tn
 plendor of a sudden thought. Tn
 esult was great They ran to tn
 asst elevator, pulled out the fire hos
 nd before a member had a chanc
 o rush for shelter Representative Ioyt of Derby and Atwood of Water
 own had dragged the line into tn
 all and a stream of water struck M
 Eardner, drenehing him. A rush wa
 made for the hose and the nozzle (
 described a circle which effeetuall
 prinkled all in the front of the hall.
 l. was the means of clearing tn
 House for the time being, but it wa & ot wholly pleasant to the victims, a