The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-18
ND ISSUE OF STATE
 BONDS FOR SOME TIME Those Recently Authorized Will Not be Needed for
 Another Year.
MONEY MARKET IS HIGH
Applications for Age Pensions, Numbering 2,500, For warded from This
 State.

SGate.
 Special to the Journal and Courier) | Hartford, Oct. 1S.-None of the state bonds, which were authorized by the legislature under act, approved July 30, l907 will be issued within the coming ten months, In the first place proceeds from the bonds will not be needed un- til year from now. In addition to that fact there is apprehension that difficulty would be met with in negot- iating the bonds at par for the pres ent. The issue Is to bear interest at 3 1-2 per cent. That Is not a high rate with the money market, in it's present The last bonds Issued by the state were put out in 1888, the issue being $1,3OO,OOO at 1-2 per cent. They were subject to recall by the treasurer on given notice, ten years was the time limit but before the end of that period the whole issue had been re- deemed, The new issue will bear date of october 1, 1907, and will be signed by the state treasurer. They will be by the comptroller and registered in the office of that official. That the state treasury will not need proceeds from the bonds for a year is a source of much complacency in the treasurers office.
 Age Pension Bill.
 Since the approval of the age pen sion bill by President Roosevelt, Feb ruary ', 1907, the adjutant generals office in this state has forwarded 2,5OO applications to Washington from sol diers in Connecticut to be put on tho old age list. At the present time the average number of applications is forty month The average number of pen sions granted under the act of last February is dozen day at the adju- tant generals office. Lorenzo D. Con- verse of the First Connecticut Cavalry Is in charge of the applications made through the office. having all the de- tails under his direction. The handling of 2,500 of them in the past eight months has involved a large amount of labor which has been most creditably performed.
 New Manuscript Records.
 The state librarian, George S. Goddard, has number of new folios of Connec- ticut manuscript records in prepara- ton, which will be of great value when completed. The records have been ool- lected since he became state librarian, succeeding Charles J. Hoadley. There are now in the state library one hun- dred and twenty folios of old state rec ords in manuscript that were collected | from 1S45 until 1850. Tn almost all cases the papers and documents in this collection are original None of them are unauthentie. They constitute a mine of Connecticut history that can not be found outside of the state H. brary. The papers are In the hand writing of hundreds of different per- sons. Some of the autographs of the revolutionary era are of great interest State Librarian Hoadley was a col. lector of old manuscripts and state pa pers, but chiefly on his own account MT. Goddard Is collector for the state and has co-operators in the work, not only in Connecticut, but in differen, parts of New England and the Middle and Western States. Wherever he 1. able to locate an old record or docu. meft pertaining to Connecticut tha' field Is made one of special research a once. In making up the new folios tht identity of contributors of papers ant records Is not lost sight of, but tht donors name is kept and in case! where the documents from value ant historic importance justify that course the folio is named in honor of the con
 tributor On this account there will bt an increased disposition on the part O collectors to place their papers in tht custody of the state. There is not prob ably an old family in Connecticut tha
 has not papers and records of publi
 interest enough to deserve a place il
 the Goddard follos
 Something Doirg.
 There is more doing in the seventl senatorial district 'at crescent than II all the rest of the districts in the stat, put together. The district comprise eleven town in Hartford county and i territorially one of the largest in tn, state It Is at present represented bj Howard A. Middleton of East Windsor whose services in the general asscmbl, this year were Of so much importanc, and value as to entltle him to the hon or of reelection. It is forty year since his town has had a member of tn
 senate prior to his election last No ven1ber. He carried the District by vote of 3,409, his plurality being 1,411 His majority in East Windsor was S1l Suf1eld gave him a majority of 275, En field 2lg, Simsbury PIP and Granby 151 Windsor Locks was tho only town il | the district that was carried by th
 democrats, At the town election thi
 month Windsor Locks elected the frs solectman for the first time in years and slil1ely to he found in the re ] publican column when the next senator
 ial election takes nlace. The vote O
 the town last year was only G3 agains Senator Mtddletown, That will be over > come without difficult" in case of hi l nomination. The political manipulation in the towns of Sufi1eld and Simbury which Senator Middletown carried las year by large majorities, is classed i favor of Congressman Lilley for tn 2 governorship, and in consequence
 against the renomination of the senate
 from East Windsor. There has bee workers in Stuffed and Simsbury. Tha , has created the excitement that is nov : agitating the district, but not to tn 7 impairment of Senator Middleton
 strength Representative Hugh \ lAleorn of Sutfleld, who is the Lille
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