The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-06

lpassed the House. Many bills fell by the wayside which was to be expected
 as there was much difference of opin-
 ion as to the wisdom of the legislation Involved, but the fight centered on a
 few measures and of which this story
 treats. Chief of these was the high
 license, or limitation bill, (H. B. 75)
 which failed the O'Brien individual
 bill which passed (H. B. 175). the side
 room bill and the women's lettering
 bill (both of which were passed).
 House a Poor Field.
 The house proved a poor field for
 missionary work by the liquor men
 and so the fight centered in the sen
 ate. Public attention was attracted to
 the fight by the peculiar attitude of
 the senator from the Twelfth, the ex-
 else committee chairman, who already
 Is under fire from the ministers as-
 sociation of the Norwalks, House bill
 75 (the high license bill) came into
 the senate with minority report un-
 favorable. The senator from the
 Twenty-f1fth inquired if there was a
 minority report. This latter could not
 be found, the chairman protesting not
 to have seen 1t since the hearing.
 Unprecedented Parliamentary Tangle
 The ensuing debate produced par
 liamentary tangle such as never before
 seen in the capitol. The senator from
 the Twenty-ffth rose and said he un-
 derstood the senator from the Twelfth
 to make motion so-and-son. The
 senator from the Third said he had heard the senator from the Twelfth
 make motion so and so. The sena-
 tor from the Second said he heard the motion so and so giving his yer
 sion of it. Then the senator from the
 Twenty ty-seventh said that the other
 senators must have been mistaken as
 he felt sure he had heard the senator
 from the Twelfth made this motion (repeating a motion). Throughout this farce the senator from the Twelfth
 said nothing. The aftermath of il was that report spread through the corridors that the senator from the : Twelfth had been promised by one 0, the lobbyists to be put in the running for controller on the republican ticket The tangle was ended by the major. ity report being tabled and a messen ger sent to the house clerk to see 1, the minority report had been passed according to the expressed opinion O. a senator. After recess word came :, back that the minority report was no in the possession of the house clerk The matter went over until the nex | day.
 Sent Envelope Tn.
 During the next days session thu chairman of the liquor dealers lobb, was seen to send an envelope to tn, chairman of the excise committee . The senator tore open the envelop, , and then by messenger. sent the con tents to the clerks desk A membe
 of the temperance lobby hustled tt
 the desk and found that it was tn, . missing minority report This bill wa ' killed, as was expected for the tenn : perance men had little idea of it t passage.
 The O'Brien Bill.
 Ntw we come tl h" C'Bril indiv ual license bill. This bf Wa; lost ? strayed or stolen five times in its in :, teresting clgeet It was pas sed afte 3S roll call votes, eleven 3f which wer : in the senate, When the ti.le to re
 port the bill the original (, uld no
 be found and the senate cha rman sail
 h4 could not make a cepart with Ut tn
 original bill. The house chairman sai : he would report tiie bill and then tn 8 original bill waJ found tucked away il 7 the desk of member, The bil afte l this was once lost between the tw, ] branches, was rejec;Gd twice, referre, 5 to the next session once and yet cam . back on conference committee reports s to be finally passed in an amendet 8 form. The greatest fight of the tenn e perance men had the liquor men beat y en in the senate. This was after tn 2 house had passed the bill. The senate l from the Twelfth moved the rejection 3 of the bill; lost, and then on his mo r tlon 1t was tabled. The day befor l Governors day the committee chair Q man called up the bill from the tabl ] but the senator from the First cale = attention to the fact that there was n quorum, so many senators having hur = ried away to take the train to Man g tic. The committee chairman durin e the time the bill was before the senat ! made five short explanations of il } mostly in brief sentences. He ono 1 said that all the provisions of the bi l were covered in existing laws, and fall = ed to reply when the senator from tn
 First asked him to point out what pro
 visions were covered by existing stat : ute. His last explanation was that tn 1 bill was a fight between the brewer | and the distillers" Once the bill wa
 rejected by vote of 19 to 16. Then tn I bill came back with the word "person S in place of 'elector." The motion c 3 the senator of the Twelfth was to in @ definitely postpone, This was lost a g was motion to recommit to the com = nlittee, This was the next to the las |, day of the legislative session. The sen . ate chamber was crowded with spec 8 tators, mostly house members.
 3 Closing Days of Fight.
 Recess was taken On redssemblln n a senator from New Haven moved [ 9 continue the matter to the next session . A senator changed his vote and tn motion passed, IT to 16. The next da g was to be the last of the session. Ina T night the liquor lobby met in one c
 the hotels to devise means to kill tn
 bill. A telephone message was sen }. for a certain man, but the messag l went wrong and the fact that a con ference was in progress became knowr o That conference decided to kill tw Q birds with one stone by placing tn l burden of rejection or passage upon tn -. presiding officer, and by this means in