The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-31
LEGISLATIVE SYMPOSIUM
 MAKES IMPRESSION Popular Realization of Need for a Square Deal is
 Revealed. EDITORS EXPRESSIONS Whatever May be Needed, Present Legislative Sys-
 tenn Wrong.
EDITORS EXPRESSIONS

The interest provoked by the first installment of letters from members of the General Assembly was increased by the second and third installments printed in the widely read columns of The Journat-and Courier. It has been impossible, or appeared possibly mon- otonous to inquire of each one of the 290 members of that body their opin- ion of the weaknesses in organization and legislation practice which this year prolonged the session to August list.
 The plan followed was to select mem bers from each county in the state representing all political positions and vacations That 1t was a wise plan is shown by the fullness and complete ness of the replies. The conclusion reached as to the comparative value of annual and biennial sessions, the ne- cessity of prohibiting special legisla- ton and limiting the time a legislature may sit is as clear and comprehensive as if the question had been discussed on the floors of the senate and the house. While the impulsive vote is in favor of the revival of annual sessions, a vote of the general assembly itself would unquestionally show a prefer ence for the prohibition of special leg islation as a probable key to the pro- blem of endless and vexatious session. TO this extent the symposium of The Journal and Courier has performed an important public service,
 Later the opinions of other citizens of the state will be given, both those who have served the state under more popular conditions, and who are In charge of the great individual interest of the state. The judgments of these men are of the greatest importance in opening way to a legislative organl- zation which will expand rather than contract the confidence of the people. For the same reasons the comments of the state pen, which follow are of cor responding interest and importance.
 SYSTEMATIC WASTE OF TIME.
 (Waterbury American)
 MT. Banks has the convincing theory that the size of the state has something to do with our legislative conditions. It being possible for legislators to reach home every night, few stop in Hart- ford. They can't get back In the nor ming much before Ii o'clock. This spells the forenoon, and by 2 or 3 o'clock they are thinking of home again. Business well started is inter- rupted early in the afternoon and post poned, and something else is liable to crowd it out until so late in the ses- sion that the work already done has to be dono over again. As we have said before, the New Haven Journal and Courier's questions seemed to assume that the length of the legislative ses- sion is the worst thing to be remedied; at least the form of the questions puts that thought into the heads of most of the legislators who contribute to that papers symposium. AS MT. Banks, MT Gum, Dr. Luther and others de- clare, the length of the session is not so important If the work done jus tifies it, there is no complaint on that score It Is the persistent, syste- matic uneconomical waste of time that is one of the evils. But only one.