Putnam patriot., 1911-07-14


 Hall The lieutenant govarnor aid ,,o, khew the secret purport of the bin when he commented on its hastv pas sage under suspension of the rules.
 Governor Sends Nominations.
 The senate on Thursday disposed of much of the matter on its calendar and the house did the same thonqh there Was little of an especially mo- mentous nature on either calendar. In the house Speaker Scott's absence be- cause or illness was provided against py the election of Representative Ihoms of Waterbury as speaker pro tenn.
 Governor Baldwin sent to the sen ate the nominations of William F. adwell of New Britain and Thomas F. Noone of Rockville as new mem- oers of the state commission on rivers ana hareors and renamed F. Y. Chap pell Of New London for two years and Edward H. Warner of Hartford and Oliver Gildersleeve of Portland for four years each.
 There came into the senate on this day from the special commission which has been Investigating state depart ments and commissions number of measures providing for the abolish ment of the state dairy and food com mission. the commissioner on domestic animals, state factory inspector and so on, all on adverse reports Some of these measures resulted from recon mendations in the inaugural message of Governor Baldwin All were made the order of the day for the senate for tomorrow at 11:30.
 On Thursday the senate had up the resolution which would take the ap- peintment of janitors of county court houses from the high sheriffs of the counties and give it to the county commissioners. This is the measure which caused so much commotion in the house and was finally indefinitely postponed because more than half the sheriffs are Democrats, while all of the county commissioners are Repub- licans. The senate debated it at some length and then concurred with the house action.
 The house got back from the senate the measure concerning the taxation of land taken by municipalities for water supply and after some juggling voted to insist on it's action in amend ing this so as to provide for its taxa ton and that of the structures on 1t on the basis fixed by local authorities and ask for committee of confer ence. Messrs. Carey of Southington and Magee of Watertown were ap- pointed house eonferees. The senate passed the measure as 1t came from the committee on finance, providing that this land be taxed on an average valuation for farming land in the town
 No Reduced Trolley Fares.
 A dozen or fifteen measures reduc- ing trolley fares in different parts of the state were reported unfayorably by the railroads committee, which has been holding them up to see what would become of the public utilities commission matter and were at length made the order of the day for today. The house also received a new Sunday law from the Judiciary committee which will permit sports and recrea- tions which are lawful week days ex- cept where an admission fee Is charg- ed or charge Is made for participat- ing In them. There is little change from the present Sunday law except in these particulars.
 An effort was made to adjourn over from last week to next week Tuesday instead of meeting this week at all and thus give the farmers a chance at their having and make 1t easier to stay through until the session can ao- iourn because 1t has actually complet- ed it's business, and 1t looked for time as though this might pass, though the house got into something of a mixup over 1t and was at one time in danger of meeting on the Fourth of July. This was finally lost. and adjournment was taken to thls morning. The senate has voted FL day session for this week.