The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-27
MAY RECONVENE
 THE LEGISLATURE
GOVERNOR BALDWIN INITIATES AS MUCH IN HIS REMARKS PROROGUING THE GEN.
 ERAL ASSEMBLY,.
How Baldwin Regards the Work of the Session Ended Yesterday-Be- ieves Senatorial Districts Should Have Been Changed in Accordance With Law.

Governor Simeon E. Baldwin said | what is annexed in his closing words
 to the General Assembly, yesterday. before Secretary of State M. H. Rog- CTS of this city beseeched the Omnip- otent One to save the State of Con- | necticut. Evidently the Governor
 feels that the State should have been
 redistricted Senatorial. wise as well as
 Congressional wise, and it is because
 this was not done that he is consider
 ing the advisability of reconvening
 the Legislature The Governors clos
 ing words were:
 I MT. President, Mr. Speaker and Gen tlemen of the General Assembly: This joint convention concludes by | far the longest session ever held by
 the General Assembly of Connecticut
 You have given your assent to an
 amendment to the constitution pro- posed by the General Assembly of 1909,
 which, if ratified by the people, will
 prevent any future legislative session | from continuing beyond an early gate | in June. By letting your constituents | know from your own legislative ex- ] perience how necessary, in view of the growth of the State, the imposition of
 
 | you can remove all doubts as to it's approval by the people at the October town meetings, soon to be held. You have proposed for the consider ation of the next General Assembly another constitutional amendment, con- forbidding, for the future, special leg islation in eases where the same end can be as we'll accomplished by gen. erci statute.
 Law in it's nature is general and uni-
 versal; laying down one and the same rule for all, under similar conditions. Our General Statutes already cover most of the matters as to which changes in the general unwritten com
 mon law may. be deemed desirable.
 Freedom of incorporation has been fully secured, and you have wisely re-
 jected several petitions for special charter, because the same results could be had by resort to the General Statutes. Other petitions where there could be no incorporation without special charter as for banks and trust companies, you have granted, and the acts thus passed have repeated, one after another, at great length, the same identical provisions. general law as to the powers of all trust com panies would have made such repeti- tion unnecessary, and reduced the length of each charter by two-thirds. The passage of such laws, in the case -Of banks, trust companies and insur- ance companies, would be facilitated by the adoption of this constitutional amendment
 It will also perpetuate the policy which you have wisely adopted of re- fusing special divorces for causes not warranted by the General Statutes.
 Another amendment to our consti- tuition which you have proposed for the consideration of the next Assembly, requiring a two-thirds vote to over rule veto of the Governor, will, I believe, commend itself to the people and prove a useful preventive of un- necessary or ill-considered legislation. Your creation of a Public Utilities Commission will tend to relieve future General Assemblies from the consider administration of public service com panies which can be more satisfactor fly handled by small body exercising | quasi-judicial functions.
 While you have not thought fit to 1 proceed so far as I suggested in my inaugural message in the line of gen. eral public economy, and particularly | have seemed to me unnecessary offices, | thank you for the careful considera- | tion which you have given to all the | various recommendations which that | message contained.
 I thank also the chairmen of the | joint standing committees for the uni form attention and courtesy with | which they have received such sugges- tion of amendment, as I have from | time to time made to them personally, | in respect to the form and contents of | pending bills. In many instances causes of objection to bill have thus been removed which might otherwise | a ma if d11txy to withhold my approval of it.
 Most legislation on controverted | matters is apt to take the shape | eventually of a bundle of compromises. Many of the acts of this session came out at the end of the legislative, pro- cess very different in appearance from what they were when they were intro duced. It is probable. however, that they thus better represent the aver age judgment and common-sense of | our people.
 It is to be regretted that it proved | impossible for the two houses to agree on the terms of a proper workmens s | compensation act, but it is not sur- prising that this was the result, in view of the inherent difficulties of | bringing the positions of modern so- r ciology and social economy into ac- cord with all the guaranties of indi- vidual right to be found in our Amer ican constitutions
 It is better to have no change in the laws regulating the important subject of employers liability than to have them changed without due considera- tion of all the effects that might result from the new legislation A law prom ising a workman, injured in the course of his employment, a fixed compensa- tion automatically ascertained, would be delusion, unless he were sure of collecting it. It would seem that this assurance can be best afforded by some plan of insurance This is par