The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-02

| Senator Hooker said he could not
 agree With Senator Peck, who haG held up the bloodshed and carnag ge
 or Sunday baseball, but had said
 nothing about Sunday automobilina
 or golf. He said the people in the
 upper wards of Hartford could do
 about anything they wanted in their
 country clubs and golf links and in
 the1r automobiles, but the man who ] llVeo Tn a tenement with only a few cents to spend for carfare could shut
 himself upsi in his tenement.
 Since Hartford was shut up tight.
 ne sald, he knew of twenty "clubs''
 that had sprung up, where, under the | club rule, there were card games and
 drlnklng, and which were veritabIe dens of vice and wickedness. He said | he did not think it any more wicked TOT crowd of men to sit in the open ar and watch a ball game on Sunday
 than It was for the more favored ones
 10 dance about the state in automo-
 piles.
 Senator Judson said local option in
 the form provided by Senator Spellacy
 would make a political autocrat of
 every mayor in the State and would
 De pregnant with poliGcal abuses. If
 they wanted local option, they should nave the kind provided by the Fisher
 olil. and let the people at large vote on 1t, and not let a mayor tell a com munity of over 100, 900 people what they could do on Sunday.
 lie expressed surprise at Senator Pecks attitude and said there had been no more glaring irregularity in the enforcement of the Sunday law than in Danbury. He said while the Senator from the Twenty-fourth oc- cupies his upholstered pew in church and sat Or dozed during the sermon. drug stores within a stones throw were selling ice cream and cigars. | while stores nearby that also sold | those innocent things were raided by l count for Senator Peck's attitude in | only two ways-that by some occult | power he had been in communication With the shade of old John Calvin. or was merely suffering from an or olnary human nightmare.
 Assuming my bill becomes law" said Senator Judson, picture the de- pauches of ice cream and soda and cigars that will be possible but chiI- dren In pinafores now tripping into a store with penny on Sunday are now criminals under our laws.o He read letter from the president of l. he Bridgeport Pastors Association endorsing his bill
 senator Judson said it was hypo ;rlsV to say i've will wink at these violations of the law. but maintain 'ur high standard and high-ton mor- | |
 Senator Halloran said the Senate ' lad listened to hours of debate. and ' le did not believe a single vote had ( 'een changed. It was then o'clock I md he was informed that the Sena- ' or from the Twenty-second (McNeiD lad speech prepared that would 1 C axe thirty-f1ve minutes to deliver. S While he believed the Senator from he Twenty-second could deliver as v onvlnc1ng an argument as any one V T the Senate, he would move that he e e given permission to print his W beech in the journal and the Bridge t. ort Farmer
 Senator McNeil said he was glad [ be relieved of troubling the Senate ut that he might go on record in le journal, he would move for a ote by roll call when the vote on the f, i'll was taken. nj Senator Donovan spoke at length a: IT a liberal Sunday "Go back to ri eedem and trust your neighbor." he B lId He favored the referendum.
 senator Paddock supported and VI ,oke for the bill fashioned by sena 1T Judson which he said was an owed by 10000 workingmen in ridgeport. He made a strong and lllant fight for it's passage and was Ike that it did not receive in @ Senate vote. Al