The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-08
CONCENTRATED
 OPPOSITION IS PREPARING
J Olnt Committee Meets to Arrange Program of
 Legislative Procedure
Civic Bodies Against Bills to Restrict Sale of Electric ity-AlsO Look Askance at COrbin's Bill for Taxa tiOn of Corporations.

For the purpose of securing concen- trated opposition before the legislature to the bill to prevent corporations en- gagged in manufacturing electricity and other commodities from selling the same to others in adjoining buildings a joint committee of the Business Mems Association. the Board of Trade and the Manufacturers Association will meet this evening. in the rooms of the last named organization.
 A member of the Manufacturers As sociation said this morning: "Our pur- pose in getting together on this matter Is to prevent one organization from duplicating the work of the other be- fore the General Assembly.
 we have asked Wallace G. Taylor of the Rowland Dry Goods Go. to ap- pear before us this evening for the purpose of explaining the bill and how which has surplus electricity and is supplying the Taylor property, with the same.
 .'An any fair minded business man has to do is to look over the proposed bill. which is fathered by New Haven parties who control a great deal of the electric business of the state. The bill says that corporations must not sell any commodity not specifically stated in it's charter or articles of associa- tion.'
 Just think what this means to a concern having considerable extra ter ritory. or floor space in their build ings. and extra power. heat or cleo triCity which they would like to sell Any concern wishing to take up manu- featuring in a small way. and to rent his power or electricity from another concern in the same building. could not do so.
 Some of the committee think that any corporation should have the right to furnish heat. power or light any where in the same block, leaving the right to lay wires in the street to the United Illuminating Co. But there are a number of citizens who are in ac- cord with Samuel H. Wheeler. who be- lieve that special legislation should be sought. giving individuals or corpora tionS the right to run cOnduitS across streets underground to supply light. heat and power to other buildings owned by themselves
 The joint committee which will be known as the committee on public utilities. is made up as follows: Busi- ness Mems Association. E. L. Graves, Angus H. Mckenzie. Charles L. Gay lord- James Feeley and S. E. Vincent; Board of Trade, Thomas H. Macdonald F. w. Read and two other members to be named this afternoon: Manufac- turers' Association. F. J. Kingsbury Jr.. s. T. Davis. Jr., George c. Ed, wards. Edgar W. Bassick, George M
 Members of the Manufacturers com mittee are in hopes of amplifying the work of the joint committee so that it will also oppose the tax equalization bill for corporations. fathered by State Tax Commissioner W. H. Corbin. The manufacturers are particularly opposed to that section of the bill which taxes the capital stock of a cor poration at it's market value. They claim this is putting a tax upon the good will of a concern.
 An open meeting of the New Haven Business Mems Association for the special purpose of discussing the bill Is called for Tuesday evening at banquet hall, New Haven, at 8 o'clock Ex-Governor Rollin s. Woodruff and Ralph O. Wells of Hart ford, who acted as secretary of the special commission appointed by Gov ernor Woodruff, which drafted the biH will speak on the measure.