The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-13
SENATE YIELDS TO PUBLIC
 OPINION AND CONCURS WITH
 HOUSE IN UTILITIES LEGISL ALTON
Special from United Press.)

Hartford, May 13.-The Senate today
 concurred with the House in turning thea public utilities commission matter over to a. special committee of two Senators and nine Representatives
 which must report on or before June Sth. This mater was the order of the
 day at 12 o'clock in the Senate and when that hour arrived the House had already adjourned and most of it's members, together with a large at tendance of the general public were crowded onto the floor and into the galleries of the Senate.
 Senator Fenn called the matter up promptly and explained that he under stood that the Senate was about to con- cur with the House and he hoped that such would be the case. Senator Searls then took up the subject on be- half of the Judiciary committee and made plain the nature of the several motions he was about to offer. He said he would move that the Senate accept the motion and reject the bill and would then ask that the motion be divided and that only the first part of it be put. If the presiding officer then declared that there was motion before the Senate he would withdraw the latter part of the motion Sen ator Searls followed out his procedure the Senate accepted the report of the committee and he withdrew that part of his motion referring to the rejec- tion of the bill. He then moved that the Senate concur with the House in passing the joint resolution providing for a joint committee and referring the whole subject to the committee.
 'T hope every Senator will vote in favor of this motion" said Senator Searls. "Whatever feelings I may have had originally regarding this matter and regarding the course which the House took with it have all van ished. If it is possible for more light kl, se rfoi,, ly should be, and no Senator should obstruct the action by which that can be brought about or throw anything in the way of the General Assembly's gaining every bit of further informa- ton if such exists-''
 Senator Searls explained the Judic- iary committees position in this mat ter and said that he was speaking with great care and accuracy when he said that the committee had been a unit as to this bill at the time the report was made. He did not mean to say that the committee was unanimous on the general proposition for that was not
 There were so many different opin- ions among the committee members that it had been felt that it wasn't distinct bill. He would represent even the majority sentiment of the judiciary committee. s Therefore, tie comaittee had simply reported adversely on this bill as the only thing it could do un- der the circumstances. Senator Searls asked to be pardoned if he related an anecdote of Henry Ward Beecher who went into a country church while vis- iting in the White Mountains one sum- mer and listened to the delivery by young preacher of a brilliant sermon which he himself had written. He con- graduated the young preacher after the service and said, t'You must have put in a great amount of work on that sermon,'' "Oh, no,'' said the young Di- vine, cit only took me an hour or two." We'll" said Beecher, "It may only have taken you an hour or two to get it ready for delivery but it took me a number of months of hard work to write it.'' This seemed to Senator He wished God speed to the new com mittee and thought perhaps it could do in an hour or day or two what it had taken the special committee two years and the judiciary committee sev- era1 months to consider.
 Senator Chase offered an amend ment to the House resolution giving the select committee one more week before making it's report which would bring this on June 18th but Senator Fenn, who was leading the fight for a commission, opposed this on the grounds that it would be dilatory in to go back to the House for action upon it. Senator Chase withdrew the amendment. Senators Blakeslee and Riddleton supported Senator SearlS' position and the resolution raising the select committee and referring the whole matter to it, was passed with out further discussion. l,