Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-12
Especial to The Bulletin.)

Hartford, June. 11.-It is not true that the senate is in any position such that it can adjourn for a period of any length and thereby reprimand the house for it's sl0wness in getting busi- ness along. The senate Is just as slow in taking care of the business which comes to 1t as is the house. It has happened several times that matters which have caused a prolonged dis cussion and debate in the senate have gone through the house with little commotion, and vice versa, and this is about all of the difference between the two /houses up to date. Indeed, when the senate meets next Tuesday it will find on it's calendar a good deal more business than the house will, and the last of the week, unless the senate works with 6 good deal more faithful attention to business than it's acts have shown in the past, leaving it's talk out of the question, 1t will be confronted with a congestion worse than any which has existed upon the house calendar
 Great Session for HoIdups.
 Not only is this true, but it is also true that at no time has the foot of the calendar of the house been as con gested as has that of the senate for weeks past, and most of the matters
 
 what are technically known as hold ups" and are retained there for no very solid reason. Some log-rolling is to be done or somebody is to be placated or some matter on which & vote Is to be traded for a vote on one of these hasn't come along out of the danger zone in the house yet or some other more or less trivial reason-as the people of the state have every right to view 1t-is back of the de- lay. There aren't many holdups at the foot of the house calendar just now, though there have been more, for this is great session for that sort of thing.
 Excise Committee in Bad Shape.
 Lots of matters are being held back in committee. The excise committee is especially culpable in this. Some matters which were heard before that committee way back in February and March have not yet been the subject of consideration in executive session, and goodness knows when they will be or when the committee will be able to report on them. The excise commit tee is in the worst shape of any in years and has really no organization. The members of it include few who range themselves with the temperance cause and there is justification for Col
 
 York Herald at the beginning of the session about the interest with which the results of this committees work should be watched. but they don't seem to be able to get together. The com mittee had 6S matters referred to it and still has some 35 not reported up- on, though it's hearings are about fin ished. Only one matter of great mo- ment, that of the repeal of the five signer law, has been reported and acted upon and there are still bills affecting the limitation of licenses, the 200-foot law, the screen law, the law permitting hotels to sell Sundsy, and others on which there will be fights in one or the other house, or both, to come.
 Committees Have Lots of Work.
 The judiciary committee has still a good deal of work before it, though most of its hearings are over with. The Sunday law, the employers lia- bility law, the direct primary law, sec tion 3916-which is the electricity law, has caused such rumpus; these are some of the more important matters which are yet to be determined upon as to reports and got out of commit tee into one house or the other. Other committees have lots of work on hand yet-or, at least, lots of matters on WHICH they HdN6nL reported, though only the appropriations committee has hearings to any number still to be held and hearings are rapidly ap- preaching their end.
 Final Adjournment Far Away.
 Final adjournment seems as far away as ever and it is a fact that the work of the session was never so be- hind as is the case this time So many matters on which there is cer- tain to be a good stiff fight yet re- main to be fought out that there are likely to be special orders of the day