Putnam patriot., 1911-09-01
s1O,OOO LIMlT OF . DEATH DAMAGES
Conference Committee Brings Two Houses Together.
GOvEnROa'S VETO REJECTED.
Senate Refuses to Repeal Personal Tsx-souse Finally Refuses to Pass Any Legislation on Employers Lia- bIity and Wor~msn's Compensation. Final Adjournment Delayed
Especial Correspondence. ]

Especial Correspondence
 Hartford, Aug. %. The session ot the Connecticut legislature drag,s along. Both houses have passed il resolution providing for final adjourn. ment tomorrow, but there is no hope of that. and adjournment may not come until week after next Certainly 1t won't come until the latter part of next week, for the members wish to have their state mileage good to at tend the state fair in Hartford next week
 Yesterday was a big day in both houses. however The senate accepted the report of the conference commit tee on the 5000 death damages law. which was in favor Of raising the limit to $i0.0oo and placing a minimum Of 5000 Some of The senators. espe- cially Senator Judson. in a long speech made strenuous effort to have the senate recall party pledges, but the body believed its calm judgment su perior 10 any hasty expression in party platform.
 The vote OH the bill was as follows:
 Yeas Senators spellaey. Bailey. Mar. lowe Diekerman. Mitchell. Marsdrn. Parker Woodruff Platt LonnsbHry, Mahan. Avery. Park. Hammond Fl liott Barnum. l'risbie and Wright eighteen
 Nays Senators Hooker Penn AI9op TIaliorau Shanlcy LaWtor Bartlett MeNel Jr. Paddock. Peek Iudzan Donovan, Aleara Briusmadc and Leon ard
 Absent or not voting Senators Pierce and Foster
 Senators Donovan and LaWlor joined hands in fine effort to have the senate turn down the unfayorable report of the judiciary committee on q bill which would repeal the personal tax law of Connecticut, but their efforts were not attended by success. Of the thirty senators Tn the chamber but thirteen were willing to upset the committee, and il WIS accepted on the votes of the other seventeen.
 Governor Baldwin Overridden.
 Meantime the house was busying itself with many things, some eonse- quental and some not Among the former was the veto of the governor on the bill which provides for Il state pension of $30 year for every vet eran of the civil and Spanish wars and takes away the exemption of Sl, D00 which property owning veterans now enjoy. The old soldier seemed to have the call there today, and Gov ernor Baldwins effort to have the t.tr ,+fn ,f m situation was without avail. After lengthy discussion the veto was over ridden by vote of lJ0 to 27, and the bill passed on to the senate.
 Another measure which had eonsid- erable explanation from House Chair man Chandler of the special investi- gating committee, but which passed the house without n counted vote was that which requires that in this state bread and coal must be sold by weight
 The test on the employers liability workmen's compensation bill in the house came on the report of the con ference committee that no agreement .ould be reached and the frantic effort pn the part of the supporters of this proposition to have the lower branch accept substitute bin introduced by Mir. Chandler of Rocky Hill. There was n great amount of eloquence on his subject. but the house again turn ed down the bill by d heavy vote, and .hus ends the effort to get this sort of egislation from this general assembly. Last week was a three day week for the senate and four day week for the house. though neither did much of any lining on Thursday. when they ad' iourned in time to attend the dcdiea- lion of the new draWhridec between Did Lyme and old Saybrook at the mouth of Che Connecticut river The bigrest thing nf the senate,s day Wed aeSday was the defeat of the state taN by vote of 22 to [, after an eNhaus- live debate of Che subject which m ,iuded a very clear and lucid presentas dou of che condition of the states finances by Senate Chairman Peek Of .he appropriations committee in one of he speeches of the session.
 The finance committee had present sd favorable report on bill for aalf min state tax. but Senator Ham 
 nond. it's chairman. found no reasons io give fer laying this tax. while Sena or Peek took the lead and showed hat the eight million odd appropriated sv his committee for running expenses would he more than taken care of by he probable revenue and thut the five ,r six million for permanent improve xents would be taken care If hy the pond issue blll reported hy the finance committee. Connecticut's per capita ,ebt now is but S2.Ta, while that of massachusetts is S24. Connecticut has ,een paving for permanent improve nents of late Improvements for which ,ond issues were authorized, out of the running revenues of the state
 The veto by Governor Baldwin of he soldiers pension hill appears Co ,ave knocked out all reason for state tax and, though there were efforts [ defend it, they were without Vigor Q argument or solid reasoning. 80 tha fhe senate voted against the state la as follows:
 Yeas Senators Hooker, Alsop, Ba ley. Woodruff. Park. Judson, Han mond
 Says-Senators Spellaey, Fem, Maj lowe, Diekerman, Mitchell Marsdei Parker. Platt, Lawlor, Lounsbury Mahan. Avery, Bartlett, MeNeil, Jr Paddock, Peck, Donovan, Elliott, Bal