Norwich bulletin., 1909-06-24
SANITARY DISTRICT BILL,
 LOT OF AMENDMENTS.
Looks Now as if It Would Be Aeeept- able to Shore Property Owners in Eastern Connecticut.
Especial to The Bulletin )


 Hartford, June 23.-The sanitary districts bill came in for attention on the part of the house this morning, and it looks now as if it would be so all tered as to be acceptable to the shore property owners in eastern Connecti- cut, who have opposed the broad bill reported by the committee on public health and safety, which has lain at the foot of the calendar and on >the table in the house for some days past. Representative Hayes of Waterbury, who tabled the bill originally, brought it up this morning and offered a long and comprehensive set of amendments to it.
 One provides that sanitary district may be organized by any twenty-five persons owning property within its lines instead of ten, as the present bill makes it. This is changed to con form with the change which has been made in the law covering the organ ization of fire districts this session. Another amendment gives a vote to company or club which shall own property within the borders of the sanitary district Still another pro- vides that the legal voters of the dis trict shall include only the owners and occupants of houses, hotels or factories within the district. The ad- dition of hotels and factories is an inn portant one.
 The bill provides a possibility for the holding of the annual meeting of the district in the winter, but MT. Hayes offered another change to oblfge the holding of this in the months of July or August. so that it will not be pos sible for any clique within it's mem bership to hold meeting of the dis trict and take important action, in the winter, when majority of the members could not attend. The rules and regulations of the district, the laying of taxes and so on require a three-quarters vote of the legal voters of the district, by another amendment, which shuts out non-residents of the state, and there is an amendment un- der the terms of which the sanitary district can only be established after two thirds vote of the legal voters who will be included in it. S
 A very important amendment pro- vides that the amount of taxes to be any one year shall not exceed $5 and shall not exceed SEQ year on any hotel or factory.
 When the Hayes amendments had been read by Clerk Russell, Represen- tative Chandler of Rocky Hill offered an amendment which provided that nothing in this bill should be con-
  tablishment of any garbage or reduc- tion plant. It was feared that the Bridgeport By-Products company might in some way be concerned in this bill and under the terms of it might be able to get it's plant into East Lyme, by the vote of a sanitary district to be established there.
 Representative Fuller of Sufield in troduced still another amendment pro- viding that nothing in the act should be construed as giving the voters of any sanitary district any Jurisdiction over the sewers or drains or other san itary arrangements of any state in- stitution. This will, if passed, and the bill itself is passed, prevent any sum- lished in the vicinity of the state in- sane hospital at Norwich having any say as to the sanitary arrangements of Dr. Pollock's institution.
 After all these amendments had been introduced and read, Representa- tive Bishop of New Haven, who is a member of the committee on public to do with this bill, moved that it be tabled for the printing of all the which he was not pre- pared to pass on today. It is believed that he will be opposed to the passage of some of them, though there is no certainty las to just his position on the measure or what interests he thinks should be taken care of by it.
 This measure originated on the part of some Middletown and Middlesex county people who have summer homes at Westbrook and have been annoyed by a resident there who re- fuses to be restricted by certain nec- essary sanitary provisions which the rest of the cottagers feel should pre- vail, but it has become a general law and covers much more than was at first intended; just how much is not yet altogether certain. There is likely to be a lively time over it when 1t comes up in the house for final &C., tion