The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-07
LAST STAND
 PREPARING House Leaders of Popular Side Ready to Fight Bat
 tie for People WILL OFFER SUB
 COMMITTEE BILL This Failing, They Will Try to Amend Barnum Bill Into Usefulness Believed that Matter Can Be Closed to Permit Adjourn
Believed that Matter Can Be Closed to Permit Adjourn
 ment in August
Especial from United Press.)


 Hartford. Aug. 7.-The insurgents 1T the House are very busy during tht interim in legislative sessions and vii have new plans to spring. Tuesday morning, by means of which they hope to bring some advantage to the min ority public utilities bill The first move will be an effort to get recon sideration of the measure and if this fails there will then be a motion tr amend the Barnum bill by substituting the sub-committee bill drafted by Representatives Scott, Hayes and Whiton of the select committee. This has been offered as an amendment to the amendment which includes the minority bill but not as an amendment to the Rarnum bill and Is therefore entirely in order as an amendment to that. The claim is made that there are members who voted against the minority bill who will not vote for the Barnum bill and on this is placed some hope that the subcommittee bill may attract more votes than did the min- ority bill.
 This subcommittee bill differs from the Barnum bill mainly in giving rec ommendatory supervision over rail- ways as we'll as service and capftaliza- ton and gives broad power to cor porations in regard to the latter. If the House again turns down the sub committee bill the next move will be to try and amend the Barnum bill. Numerous amendments are ready to be offered, among the more notable of which are those increasing the number of commissioners and their salary. giving the commission the power to fix rates. also powers over debenture Issuance of bonxiss debeiftire and con vertible bonds limited the issuance of bonds to 50 per cent. of the cost of constructing. as does the present law, and including construction and hold ing companies within it's scope of au- thority In other words whatever they have not been able to get in the minority and subcommittee bills the friends of these measures will try to have put into the Barnum bill.
 friends of the Barnum bill is simply to strengthen their lines and add to their forces and they need nothing else but a sufficient number of votes to pass in the House to be able to laugh at all the efforts of its enemies They freely assert that they now have more senators who will vote to ad- here to it in it's original form if it should be returned to the Senate from the House in amended form than voted for it when the vote was. IS to 13 in it's favor and that the House action will have no effect on the Senate.
 The whole matter should be conclud- ed in the House before that body ad- journs Tuesday and if the House passes anything other than the straight Barnum bill 1t will be rushed into the Senate and come up there the follow Ing morning. There is a possibility of the whole subject up next week, dependent almost entirely on what action the House takes. and if 2 I,i ;C ice for conclusion of all other matters before the legislature and final ad- iou-nment take place during the third week in this month.