The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-28
PEOPLES VICTORY;
 LOBBY'S DEFEAT
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 motion of Leader Banks for the House to ask for committee of con. ! ference. Judge Lyman $. T1ng1er or Vernon. the Democratic leader of the | House was acting speaker in the ao-
 sence of Speaker Scott, who 1t was
 said, was unable to be present owing | to illness. Judge Tingier ruled that | the motion of Leader Banks for d committee of conference was in or
 der although Representative Meltzer of Bridgeport made the point that | before a motion to ask for a com | mittee of conference could be enter
 tained by the chair, the proper par l liamentary procedure was for some
 one to move that the House either
 reconsider its former vote, or move
 to adhere to it's former action.
 1 The consensus of opinion was that
 Representative Meltzer's point was we'll taken. but the chair ruled other | wise. It was noticeable that through out the entire discussion Judge | Tingier ruled in such a manner that the opponents of the Judson bill were 1 to be left without a leg to stand up- | on if any of them should attempt 10 say that the Democratic leader had abused his position. In fact, if any | thing. Judge Tingier's rulings rather | favored the opponents of the Senate bill.
 After Judge Banks had referred to | the statement made to him by Judge John H. Perry of Southport to the effect that he didn't regard the Sen ate bill as good legislation, Judge Banks called attention to a letter | from Judge Perry in yesterdays Hart ford Courant. Representative Daniel Dunn of Willimantic replied that he | had read letters from lawyers in the | "Courant" and he could not help but | observe that most of them were from those who were opposed to the Bus1- ifu tun Representative Frank W. Etheridge | of Thoma ston, who sits on the Judi ciary committee with Judge Banks reminded the latter that he under stood him to say in the debate last week that if the substitute bill which the House passed was rejected by the Senate he Banks, would take up the minority report and help pass 1t through the House.
 He did not think that the attitude of Banks in moving for committee
 of conference wasfulf1lling his pledge: Representative Lester O. Peck of Bedding, who has been most yigflant in defense of the Judson bill charged that Leader Banks T by his dilatory
 motions was endeavoring to escape from the pledge which he made to the House to support the Senate bill if his amendment failed to pass the Senate. MT. Peck stated that he did not believe that Representative Will liam H. Hall of Wilmington was cor rect in his statement to the House that Senator Judson and Ralph Q. Welles, the latter being counsel for the State Business Mems association were willing at this time that Banks
 motion for committee on confer ence should prevail. To him, he said, it looked as though Leader Banks was repudiating his pledge to the
 House. He insisted that if he were acting in good faith it was his duty
 now to keep the pledge he made.
 Representative Hall did not like the
 remarks of Representative Peck and
 together the two representatives
 and went over and had a conference
 with MT Welles. As a result of this,
 MT. Hall subsequently, stated, that
 what MT. Welles said he meant to
 infer was that there was no objection
 to the friends of the two bills holding
 an informal conference but that
 neither himself nor Senator Judson
 favored Banks motion for com
 mittee on conference. This ended the
 matter. 3
 of Danbury in opposing Banks mo-
 ton declared that Gov. Simeon E..
 Baldwin had been misrepresented up-
 on the floor of the House by a mem
 Der of that body when the Banks bill was passed. He denounced that kind
 VI state were tired of being hoodwinked
 by some of their chosen representa- tives. It was noticeable that Repre- sentative Hyde of Canterbury who made the statement in the House last week that Gov. Baldwin had told him he preferred the Banks bill to the Judson bill, sat silently when Repre- sentative Murphy charged that the Governor had been misrepresented.
 The remarks of Representative and Ex- Mayor Thoms of Waterbury were clear and convincing. He reminded Judge Banks of his pledge to stand by the minority bill if his bill did not pass the Senate. He said it was up to Leader Banks to make good his promise and not seek by dilatory on this important question. The gen. tleman from Fairfield, he said, has laid a great deal of stress on the question of this bills constitutionality, yet it was worthy of note, that out of the 31 lawyers in the House, B favor of the bill which he declared to be unconstitutional. He said he had examined the decisions in the Norwalk case, so called, also the case of Norton vs. the Shore Line Rail- way Co. which Judge Banks had cited to prove his contention that the Jud- son bill was unconstitutional. Mayor Thomas, who is a very good lawyer himself said he found nothing in the decisions in either of these cases which warranted the interpretation placed upon them by Banks
 It was then that he said that it was we'll known that any lawyer can make any law read any way that he wanted to-. He could not help but depIore the deliberate effort to pre- vent the House from having an op- portunity to consider the Judson bill upon its merits. At least, he said, we entitled to this much in all fairness He suggested to Judge Banks the propriety of his withdrawing his mo- tion for the appointment of a con ference committee and either make himself or permit some one else to make a motion for the House to re- cede and concur with the Senate This he contended would be a fair way to bring before the members of the House for consideration the bill passed twice by the Senate and a vote upon that question would show at once whether the House favored the Judson bill or not Judge Banks. however, declined to withdraw his motion. Representative Lucius E.. Whiton of New London echoed the sentiments of Represen- tatlve Thoms and said that to him 1t seemed most unfair and unjust to de- prive the members of the House of the chance to give expressions to their views upon the Senate bilI In- asmuch he said as it appeared that Leader Banks would not allow such an opportunity he would move that Banks motion for a committee on conference ho f1 1bIoI