The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-01
ROUTINE BUSINESS IN
 HOUSE AND SENATE
Discussion of Bill Relating to Fire Escapes Occupies Time of House.
Special from United Press,


 Hartford, April 1.-The Senate got into a somewhat spirited debate when the measure providing for the exemp- tion of f1reproof hotels from the ope- ration of the law requiring rope f1re- escapes in hotels came up for consid- eration. Senator Phillips, chairman of the committee on public health and safety reported the matter favorably on behalf of the committee, stating that the only hotels affected were the Stratfeld and the Elton in Waterbury and fre-proof addition to the New Haven House about to be built.
 These buildings are all termed fire proof' and the proprietors do not wish to disfigure their rooms with insight ly ropes. Senator Luther objected to nasty consideration of the matter on the ground that the State ought to go slow in anything so nearly fundamen- tai. He said there exists but one fire proof building in the United States and that it ought not to be possible for forty or fifty local officials over the state to suspend the operation of this law at will. Senator Silliman sus- tained the committees view of the matter and Senator Blakeslee sided with Senator Luther. The bill was finally tabled at the request of Sen ator Phillips.
 The Senate concurred with the House in rejecting bill which pro- vides that savings banks shall pay in to the state treasury a tax equal to the amount of their deposits. so as to make their creditors good if they be- come insolvent. Among the matters favorably acted on are the following: resolution providing long service medals for national guard officers who have served ten years or more before the medals now in use were originat- ed.
 An act making the closed season for alewives from June 1st to March 1st An act extending the limits of the ty , of Middletown; an act providing that the care of Invalid soldiers, sailors and | paid for by the soldiers hospital board: an act permitting the factory inSpec- tors to order fre-escaDes on. factory buildings where necessary; several de- fciency appropriation bills; reso u- ton incorporating the corporation for the National Council of Congregational Churches of the United States; a r so- luiion author'z zing the New London Northern Railway to issue million and half of refund!ng bonds.
 Among the petitions rece we'd in the House was one from Stam Ord Barbers in favor of the measure repeating the present barber law; another from c tf- zens of Meriden in favor of a refer endGm vote on the prosecution of the liquor traffic; and two from wives and mothers of the Stamford favoring an enti-screen law. A resolut on gr nting the town of Portland all rights fu school property held by the several school districts before conso.fdatio l was passed by the House. Among the calendared matters which received fav- orable action were the reso,ut ons ap- propriating $4, 900 for Taylor legislative souvenirs of Connecticut; as al amending the law striped bass so as to make the legal length 12 inches in i stead of inches; resolution amend ing the charter of che Meriden Gas Light Company to permit it to operat ? in Southington and Chesapeake, and the act concerning split ng in public places which prohibits expectoratfng in restaurants and other public places, on the street and in the railways or pub lie passageways of offices and tene- ment buildings.