The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-26

Governor Woodruff and the Employers,
 Liability BiII-Insurance Committee Oragnizes-The Insurance Commis-
 sionership-The State PrIson-Un-
 claimed Savings Bank Deposits.
 Hartford. Jan. 25.-The legislature at it's present session will be asked to in- crease the number of trustees of the Connecticut Agricultural college, giv- ing the additional place to a graduate of the institution. Under the law that is now in force the alumni have only one representative on the board, Arr | thur J. Pierpont of Waterbury. The graduate member on the board will complete his term July 1, 1907. The idea of giving the graduates an addi- tional trustee is favored by the college. olcott r. King of South Windsor, who graduated from the college in 1896 and is one of it's most progressive repre- sentatives, has charge of the measure, and the necessary bill will be in the hands of the legislature next week. William M. Low of Norwalk, secretary of the committee on agriculture, has bill in the legislature providing for the establishment and maintenance of a model farm in Fairfield county, to be | b-v +1,o i station for purposes of scientific inves- tigation. The bill appropriates fifteen thousand dollars Of that sum five thousand dollars will be used for the | purchase of the farm. The balance will be used for laying out the farm and it's support for two years.
 It is understood by labor men at the Capitol that Governor Woodruff is back of the employers Liability bill that was introduced by Representative Frederick L. Lehr of New Haven. ' The whole problem of employers lia- bility is to be threshed out at this ses- sion. The statutes of different states on the subject will be the basis of the inquiry Governor Woodruff will iil- sist on making the inquiry as thorough as possible, with the view in mind that Connecticut shall have the best law that can be framed.
 The committee on insurance has or ganized with Frederick D. North of East Windsor as secretary, and will have it's first hearing of bills Wednes- day afternoon, January 30 The meas- ures that will be taken up at that time include the petition of the National Fire Insurance company to increase < it's capital to five million dollars, and I the petition of the Connecticut Fire to Increase to three million dollars. The I Travellers will ask authority to in- crease to ten million dollars. There is a general disposition all around for large increase in capital by the insur- ance companies.
 r. Insurance Commissioner Theron Up- son was not expecting reappointment, and he is feeling much satisfaction in Colonel Macdonald's success. The new commission, who will take office in July will find the department in the best condition that has been possible in l years The advent of Colonel Macdon- aid will ensure high order of admin- istration in the department, keeping up the records that were established by Burton Mansfield and Frederick A. Betts of New Haven. Both of these New Haven incumbents of the office made their mark in the insurance world.
 Representative John T. Welles of Wethersfeld, who has been made house chairman of the committee on state prison, comes of an old Wethers- field family, and understands fully the wants and needs of the institution. He is in full sympathy with the state 4 prison board of directors, and will coz operate with it in every way in keep ing up the ideals that have been in force the past few years.
 Comptroller Bradstreet has issued his first official report relating to u1- claimed deposits of twenty years standing in the savings banks of the state. The whole amount of these de- 1 posits is $137, ,49452, belonging to S,628 depositors. The amount unclaimed n the New Haven savings bank Is $20,- 2SOS6, belonging to 149 depositors. This is slightly in excess of the un- claimed deposits in the Society for Sa- wings in Hartford, which aggregate $2O, 99 But the number of deposit ' tors in the Society for Savings owning the amount is 498. The Connecticut savings bank of New Haven has un- claimed deposits to the amount of i $1,S41.4S, belonging to twenty-five de- positors The Merdden savings bank has $3,130.O1 of unclaimed deposits, owned by eighty 9depositors. The Nor wich savings bank has $17,910S4 un- claimed while the Savings Bank of New London has $1S,S26.51. The num- Der of depositors owning the un- claimed funds in the savings bank in New London is fifty-six while in the Norwich savings bank the number is forty-fve. The average sum belonging to each depositor in these two eastern Connecticut banks is large, much larger than in the Hartford and New Haven institutions for savings.