Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26
GOVERNOR SUSTAINED
By the House m His Veto of the Sum
 day Bill, Io6 to 94.


 day Bill, Io6 to S4.
 After protracted debate, the House last week sustained the governors veto of the Sunday bill, notwithstanding the fact that Speaker Banks and other able takers earnestly defended the measure. The vote for passage stood s4 to 1o6.
 When the bill was taken up, the gov ernor's message was read and the formal motion to reconsider was made.
 Mr. Burnes, of Greenwich, then moved passage, saying the bill had been care fully considered by the House and feaai- bls objection had been made there. Nothing in tho message appeared to warrant a change in the attitude of the House.
 MT. Chandler said the House had had a field day at his expense when he raised the same objection which had been made by the governor.
 It was true that the objection in the veto had been brought out, but Mir. Chandler said he did not know when he approved the bill that no appeal could be taken on these matters from the de. cision of local justice of the peace. If the House wanted to go on record in favor of local option, it might do so, but it certainly would not care to place the decision in the hands of a justice. Mir. Chandler pleaded for tho support of the veto and of the historic New England Sunday.
 MT. Dormitzsr said he agreed with MT. Chandler and said he wanted to of- fer an amendment, the one presented in the Senate by Senator Chase. MT. Dor mitzer read it. It places the oonstruo- tion of the phrase general welfare" up to the towns. He hoped the veto would be 'overridden in order that he might offer it.
 MT. Loos, of New Haven, favored the Dormitzer plan. Mir. Loos said he is president of Lutheran church associa- tion and the head of it's Sunday school, but he did not approve of using the law to uphold religion.
 MT. Marsh, of New Milford. who said he had become a firm believer in the House, hoped it would uphold the veto. MT. Burns. he intimated, was the only Methodist in the state who would stand for the bill.
 Mir. Dean of Canaan strongly opposed the bill and asked that the veto be Eus. tained. There was no use to repeal the law against theft because it is violated.
 The speaker from the floor said that he felt the House would sustain the veto and for that reason he felt it his duty to speak. The members should vote as they thought right. He paid compli. ment to the governor who found great responsibilities thrust upon him, and he has done his duty as he saw it.
 The speaker said he did not want tc adapt Sunday to the foreigner, but nothing in this bill did so. The best sentiment of the state was expressed in the dsfination of Sunday given in the bill and it was provided that secular work should not be done on that day Who would object to works of necessity the promotion of order, public health and public safety and who would object to work for tho general welfare? And that is all there was of the bill. Sunday baseball had been expressly stricken out from the bill and this fact would guide the courts to decision of thS question should it eyer bo brought up
 The speaker said he hated to be e criminal but he violated the law nearly every Sunday and he is prosecuting attorney. He can't stop reading the Sunday papers, or going horseback rid, ing. Mir. Payne wanted to know if the latter was not work of necessity and the speaker said it was not, for Q resident of his town had been arrested and convicted for that very offense.