Connecticut western news., 1911-03-23
CARLETON'S LETTER
MINOR JUDGESHIPS
 BOTHER LEGISLATURE

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 Macdonald. Carleton Thinks Bald
 win Politician Enough to do it.
 Hartford, March 21-No sessionh as ever made it more plain, probably, that these minor court judgeships have no place whatever in the general assembly violates the principle of home rule upon which city or borough government is founded, to begin with, and if this were not so, it Is thorough aud perfect nuisance to the legislature to have these local matters to settle. They string out all through the session aud attain more prominence than. any other class of legislation. while being nothing but local affairs of the purest kind in which no slngle soul ill tho capitol outside of the representatives from the town concerned. aud possibly though not always-the senator from that district, has the slightest real interest.
 They become very largely matters of politics and always are matters personal trading.
 One of these days somebody will propose plan which will change all this. It has been Oettered by taking the nominations away from the county cauouses. but that step, while accomplish. ing good was not in the right direction. 1 Wa haxro alxuayS baSikatad to alooE o,,r judiciary in thls state, but I believe the time IS coming when these local judge. ships will be balloted tor at the polls When it does the legislative session will not string out to September first, for nc other one thing does so much to pro long a session as thes9 judXeshiI matters.
 What Governor Baldwin is going t., do about the highway commissioner ship is as much a mystery as ever. On I know there are newspaper men win are sure they know what he's going [ do, but don't believe them; they ar blufing The only thing that anybod is reasonably sure of Is that he wont reappoint "Jim" MacDonald-and tha isn't certainty. I'm not sure bu Governor Baldwin is sutficientl accomplished politician to do just rjlat he could have anything else he wante' from this legislature if he slloulI-any thing at all. l Mcdonald has told his story to tn, NNNs 1fFN1f ffE1 du and it was by no means as sensationa a story as was expected. He didn', attack the interests back of the attack on him as it. was supposed he would ant. devoted great deal of his time to tha, trivial issue concerning the purchase by the town authorities of materials fol road repairs. He has yet to go before the Committee on Appropriations, how. ever, to get the $s,OOo. 900 that he wants and may tell more exciting story there.
 One thing that many believe should bt done in the case of the Connecticut good roads system will probably be brought up in one house or the other before WI are done with this subject, regardless of who the next commissioner Is, and that is a provision in the law which will compel the commissioner to build coal tar roads on all trunk lines hereafter He says he is experimenting with this class@of road, but the time has gone by for experimenting. The water bound macadam is utterly unfit for automobile traffic and 1t is a pure waste of money to lay it. Connecticut has got to have the coal tar or asphalt road. It hash { been perfected, but even with it's im- perfections, is the best thing we know and when we lay water bound macadnm we are literally throwing money to the winds.
 Representative Garde of Cromwell sounded the keynote on lhe deer question when he sad that no true sportsman wants to hunt deer ill this state. There is rather larger proportion of members registered as farmers in the House thls session than ever before, and how they did jump on Chairman Perrin when he proposed the scheme of the Fish and Game committee to have four-day open open season each year to shoot buck deer with a shotgun. If the Senate agrees, as it surely will our deer will not be killed except where doing damage during the six years following. June l. which is as it ought to be.
 CARLETON.
 Yale Alumni Fund