Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-01-24
CAPITOL CHATTER.
Little Sidelights on Legislators and
Legislation.
Especial to The Bulletin.)

! manufacturer, with q big plant at
Daycille. This is his first experience
| he was member of tho lower body
| during the session of 1905.
| Representative Albert H. Lanphere,
| democrat, of Waterford, is the veter-
an OF the New London county delega-s
| ton in point of years of legislative
service. He was first elected for the
session of 1887, when Representative
Charles Lyman Stewart of North
| Stonington, youngest of the present
| county delegation. was three years of
age, and was ais a member of the
lower house In 1889. 1905 and 1905.
| This is his fifth session.
| If it were the custom to decorate
| members with service stripes, Repre-
sentative, William H. Hall of Willing
| ton, Tolland county. would wear
| sleeves la zebra The records indi-
cate that he has been elected to go
| to Hartford whenever he was willing
TO oblige. which was often. In 1898,
| 1895, 1897, he was in the house; in
| 1919 in the senate; in 1902 a member
of the constitutional convention; in
1906, 1903 and 1911 again in the house.
He is only AZ years of age, so he was
something of a youngster when he
first got on to the firing line.
Hon. GuiIford Smith, representing
the town of Windham, is a native of
the town that sends him to the legis-
lature and a descendant of Gov. Will
! lam Bradford of the Mayflower colony.
He is one of the most valuable MEM
bers of the Windham county delega-
ton. Over in his home town, which
includes the city of Willimantic. his
benefactionS to public institutions and
to charitable enterprises have been
such as to incite commendatory COM
H.
his third session.
Judge Hobart L. Hotchkiss Of New
Haven is going to be at least one of
the near-leaders on the democratic
side this session. He has been in the
limelight since the time of organiza-
ton. He has a seat well down toward
the front and in the immediate vicin-
ity of Mayor Daniel P. Dunn and Hon.
Lyman T. Tingier, the latter of YER
non, the three constituting battery
of the minority'S heavy artillery. Rep
resentative Hotchkiss does a lot of
talking, usually taking shot at what
ever may be up for consideration.
That Baltimore dyspeptic parior" is
the irreyerent way that one eastern
Connecticut member refers to the
quick lunch room on the fifth floor of
the capitol THE stuf's good enough,
know, and I haven't any particular
objection to the prices, but back home
they may take a notion not to send
me to Hartford next season, so I'll let
them wear out few thousand feet of
plank cooking steaks for me over at
IS while 1 am on the job
If straWs show which way the wind
blows, there is going to be some re-
trenchment in the way of expendi-
lures this year. The tendency seems
to be in effect that the pruning knife
needs a little exercise. Representa-
tive Banks of Fairfield, republican
leader of the house, last week pro-
tested against a resolution allowing
him $50 for organizing the house.
saying at the same time that while
he knew that it was customary to ap
propriate this amount, he felt that he
had not rendered a service that was
of that amount OF value. In the SEN
ate the discussion of gratuities indi-
Gates that a spirit of economy is also
rampant there and that an understand
ing as to just where that body stands
on that matter is desirable at the
earliest possible moment.
A forum for the exchange of ideas
upon legislation, for guesses on politi-
cal appointments nearly ready for dis
tribution, for bargaining for the sale
of cows and for the comparison of
is conducted each morning and eve
ming on the "legislative' trains in and
out of Hartford No vaudeville bill
was ever more varied than the list of
subjects that get into the converse
ton ION the way OUT and coming
home" IT is not idle talk. either:
some shrewd bargains are driven in
the haze of the rumbling, rocking
smokers.
An avalanche of measures will be
filed in both branches of the general
assembly during the session days of
this week There will be as many
more next week. February is the
last dav upon which new business may
be filed. There was general consent
to this time limit. although few of
the dilatory members wanted more
time to get their proposed bills in
shape. This legislature threatens to
actually get down to business as soon
as any one expected it would, and
possibly the short session that every
one is roofing for may become a real
ity.
There is special interest for the
members from eastern Windham coun-
ty in the revolving cannon that STANDS
within the capitol, first floor, south.
1t was taken from the Spanish cruis-
err Vizcaya. which. as a part of Ad-
1niral Cervera's fleet, was destroyed
off Santiago, July, 1898. The cannon
was presented to the state of Connec-
ticut by Admiral Caspar N. Goodrich,
retired, now resident in Pomfret,
where he has lived part of the time
for many years.