Norwich bulletin., 1909-02-13
Number of Measures Put in in Both Houses
Totals About Fifteen Hundred
THE CONNECTICUT GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Has Business Enough Old Timers Predict to Keep Busy
Until About August-One Novel Bill Provides tor
the Sterilization of Criminals Neither the No-LIcense
People Nor the Liquor Element Rave Been ldie'

chuckle over. The measure coIlceAiSu
proposes to have the state take over
the Meriden peaks, in the vicinity OF
which is some Of the finest scenery IN
the New england states. The niger
in the wood pile IL the effort OF <. D.
Danaher of Meriden and others to get
again a charter they once possessed
for a cog road up West peak.
Limiting of Licenses.
The no-license people and the liquor
element have neither OF them beer ldle
in the introduction Of new measures
though the former have the advantage
numerically Among their more un-
usual propositions is the limiting OF
licenses in license towns to one to q
thousand of the population. closing all
liquor clubs By chasing them as COM
mon nuisances, to say nothing of a
straight prohibitory law, while early
closing for saloons, an anti-screen law,
prohibiting women from lettering ana
high license are represented by nu-
merous bills. The temperance people
proper as represented by H. H. Spoon
er, the temperance lobbyist whom ev-
erybody likes so well, do not father
as strong a limitation bill as ! to l,O0O
though they have limitation bills in.
One to a thousand is really the prop
osition Of Judge Waller of New Lon
don. and the bill applies only to towns
which return to license after having
been no-license for term. The judge
believes that his home city of New
London would vote no license once in
order to take advantage Of this law If
it became such,
Meantime the liquor people have put
in measures amending the so-called
five-signer bill passed on the last day
OF the 1907 session, which has ever
since been a thorn in the side of Brew
er Kendall Of New Haven. their lead
ing lobby worker, permitting hotel
keepers to sell Sundays to their guests
and allowing the licensing Of hotels in
no-license towns.
Plenty Of Auto Business to Consider.
= There are no radical automobile
measures, though the committee on
roads. bridges and rivers win have
plenty OF auto business to consider.
It is proposed, for one thing TO ere
ate an automobile commissioner at a
$1,000 salary who shall issue licenses
and revoke the same, thus taking
away from the Office of she secretary
of state work which never properly be-
longed there. Then it is proposed to
make The speed limit in the present law
vafiousiy different, and as low as ten
miles an hour within cities and Is in
towns within one mile radius OF the
postofice. 1t Is also proposed to take
special means Of protection at particu-
larly dangerous places on the roads
and to compel autos to stop entirely
and wait when they come to a street
car discharging passengers.
Two More Judges of Superior Court.
The first measure to be reported is
that authorizing the appointment of
two more judges Of the superior court
which passed the judiciary committee
without a dissenting vote and will un-
doubtedly pass both houses with ease
There was some sentiment among the
judges themselves for the appointment
of but one extra judge nov and another
two years from now, but this did not
get far when the temper of the COM
mittee was learned by them. That
Governor Lilley will appoint Judge
Burpee of Waterbury and States At
torney Williams of New Haven county
to fill the two, vacancies which occur
during his term is regarded as GER
tain. but who will get the two new
places is as yet a puzzle