Putnam patriot., 1911-08-04
Direct Primary Bill Passes.

The senate recessed at 1 o'clock for lunch and to be photographed. and when fl reassembled at 2:30 there was but small attendance, and the direct primaries b,ll. one of the orders of the day. was postponed. to be the or der of the day on Thursday. There are two reports from the Judiciary committee on this the majority report being unfavorable but again SaHator
 Judson k q S'@uer of the minority re port. and when the matter came III on Thursday morning he was success ful in getting the senate To pass thf bill. which was framed by Judge John H. Perry nf Fairfield. of the direct pri maries commission. which has for Sey aral years been each year reporting in favor of the adoption of ttis plan
 Senator Jud-on made q lens speech in favor of the bill. referring especial ly to the last Republican state conyen ton. which he said made Ii clear te him that Connecticut needed the diree' primary. Senators Fem. Peck and Brinsmade also favored it, as well as Senators McNeil and Spellacy of the Democrats. The latter was inclined to favor referendum to the people, how ever. None of the Democrats voted against the bill. which passed by a vote of % to ]. The senators voted as follows: Yeas Senators Spellacy, Fenn. HallOran. Marlowe. Mitchell. Shanley. Parker, Platt, Lawlor, Louns bury. Mahan, Avery, Park, Bartlett. McNen, Jr., Paddock, Peck, Judson. Donovan. Hammond Meara and Leon
 ard-22.
 Nays Senators Bailey, Dckerman. Marsden. Elliott and Ffisbie-5. Paired Senators Alsop for and Senator Woodruff fagainst; Senator Brinsmade forl and Senator Wright (againsb-4.
 Absent or not voting - Senators Pierce. Hooker. Foster and Barnum A
 Another matter which took up con. siderable of the senate's time was bill which provid 's that an insane or indigent person who has been sup ported by the state shall be liable for | the amount of such support and this shall he paid from such persons estate | If there Is any. Senator Spellaey Of fered an amendment in which 1t Is made possible for the attorney general | of the state to employ assistance in | the collection of such moneys and stated in it's support that the state would get back from SlO0. .0oo to S200, | l,x. hp n | ment was adopted and then the bill
 was passed
 | Tuberculosis Appropriations Up. The house spent lots of time doing | very little an Thursday, though 1t did | once agahSturn down the Litchfield l county lawyers who wish to have the | court records of that county moved l from Litehheld 10 Winsted This eff | fort has come before every general as l sembly for years. and usually Litch- l field county has members on the ju- | dietary committee Ia favor 1t or the | reverse. but the weight of sentiment | remains in favor of the old county
 seat at Eitchhe'd Various other mat | ters of more or less consequence.
 mostly less. were raken up by the
 house. which finally broke up in a near riot. with Judge Peek of Strat@
 ford in the chain. after passing a bill | which would oblige the New Haven
 road tp put hlek on it's schedules every
 rain discontinued for the past ten | years where similarly adequate pro.
 vision for traffic had not been provided 1 n seHe otAer way
 l The tubertu'o~iS appropriations were