The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-02
UTILITIES FIGHT
 IS ON TOMORROW Legislature Likely to Sit All Through August as Things
 Look Now MAY BE 8 REPORTS
 INSTEAD OF TWO Chance Favor the Passage of the Barnum Bill by the Senate and Its Defeat is Predicted in the House Other Bills Pending.
Especial from United Press )


 | Hartford, Aug. 2.-The prospects of adjournment of the legislature either 1 this week or next have vanished and | there is no Likelihood of a final epd- up at Hartford before the end of this
 month. Indeed, the session may
 stretch over into September, as no
 one knows what the House is going to do with the public utilities ques- tion.
 The situation is going to be compli- cated there because of a second sub stitute in the form of the bill report ed to the full committee by the sub
 committee consisting of Messrs. Scott
 Hayes and Whiton, which was sup
 posed to be drawn according to the views of the committee and expected
 to be report ed when Senator Barnum
 had his bill drawn.
 This will not be introduced by a
 member of the special committee. at
 least not by a member of the sub-com-
 mittee, but by a prominent member who is prepared to fight for 1t as a compromise for the Barnum bill which
 is too conservative for the House and
 the minority bill, which Is too radi- cal for some members.
 The sub-committee's bill provides for the supervision of public utilities other than railroads and trolleyB by a second commission with recommend atory powers and covers rate making as well as capitalization and opera ton.
 The Senate takes up this question tomorrow and is hardly likely to take more than one day on 1t. There IS little doubt that the Barnum bill will pass that body by a good vote- Reconsideration has been suspended in the Senate and the Barnum and Mi nority bills will therefore go to the
 House the next day in the regular
 course where they will doubtless be ! 51 %l~A nf 1Nlad- day or Wednesday of next week. The House is apt to take more than one | day on them and is almost certain to pass something different than the go to the conference with little or no
 hope of agreement between the
 House though the Republican leaders
 are beginning to bestir themselves: 1t will undoubtedly be the third
 week in this month before the sub- ject is finally disposed of, however, | even if Goveruor Weeks doesn't come
 into. it as he is by no means likely ! to ao-
 | With the public utilities out of the | way the general assembly could read | fly wind up it's affairs the week after | if it cared to do so though by that
 time there might be a quorum in the | Senate and between now and then good deal of business will be done. | The Senate has for it's order of the
 day on Wednesday the electric repeal, tices act, the state tax of 1z mill, the
 personal tax and an important law af- | fecting junk dealers. The House must handle the new Sunday law, | equitable process after judgment, an- other public school bill and some nin- | or matters.
 There remain to be settled of the important matters now in conference,
 the employers liability bill, the amend I 1nents to the Uncas Power company | charter the state barber comfnission | bill and others. while several reports
 are still to come in both houses.
 There must also be threshed out the question of annual sessions and the | Constitutional amendment covering the income tax which has been sub- mitted by Congress.