The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-28
PEOPLES
 yICToRY; LOBBY'S
 DEFEAT Representatives Disguised with Banks Failure to Fight Squarely Abandon Him Enmasse. Final vote in Favor of Pass age of Judson Bill Mus ters Scant Seventy-eight on Wrong Side. Childish Tactics of Impu- dent Third House Meet with Humiliating Failure Banks Throws Up Sponge on Last Vote.
tBy Our Staff Corres.)

Hartford, June 2S.-The triumph O1 a principle, the refusal to compromise the honor of the manhood suffrage of this commonwealth aptly describes the continuation in the House yester- day of the battle which has been waged for upwards of three years be- tween the reputable legislative repre- sentatives Of the freemen and the paid lobbyists of the public service corporations of the state.
 The Senate defeated the Federal income tax amendment 22 to 8. The House has not yet considered the resolution.
 It was a great fight. It was stuo- bornly contested; it was splendidly won. From the very first the advo- cates of an effective public utilities have been beset by seeming ly insurmountable odds but patience, perseverance and courage have been crowned with victory and well de- served victory it is.
 In many respects the victory which was achieved for the people of thIs most notable in all of the states leg islative history. Only those whos have been on the ground and who lave oh- served from day to day the machina- tions of the powerful influences which have been arrayed against. this leg islation have any adequate idea of the task which confronted those who determined to wrest the fair name of the state from the control of the inn pudent lobby which has for many years ruled with an iron hand.
 With respect to the size of the vote the achievement is most noteworthy. On the final recording as to whether the Judson bill which was twice O.. K.'d by the Senate should become the law of the state. the House voted 147 to 7s for the bill. For several hours during the day the astute leader of the Republican majority, Represents tive Fillmore s. Banks of Fairfield, en- deavored by the employment of all the tactics known to skilled parlia- mentarians to prevent the House from considering the Judson bill up- on it's merits.
 It is true that frequently during the debate as stated in these columns last evening, Judge Banks proclaim ed himself ready to vote for the Jud- son bill, although he exhausted every effort to prevent vote being taken upon that measure. Had his wishes prevailed he would not have been called upon to have kept his pledge to the House made when he prom ised to support the Judson bill if the Senate should reject his draft known as the Banks-Davenport amendme ent
 When he found that he could no longer induce the House to follow his leadership, and when it became ap- parent by the constantly increasing majorities against his motions as shown by the several test votes, ne threw up the sponge, to use bit of ring parlance, and publicly acknowl- edging that he had failed to bring about the kind of utilities bill which he believed would prove con stitutional he announced that he stood ready to support the Judson just, as 1t came from the Senate, without the change of even a comma.
 Before this announcement came from Leader Banks, the die had been cast and there was no longer even the shadow of doubt but that the House had made up it's mind to fol- low him no longer and was ready to concur with the Senate in passing a bill that has the distinction of being declared constitutional by such emi- nent members of the bar as Governor Simeon B. Baldwin, Judge Marcus L. Former Congressman Will COX, Lewis M .Sperry and others and which caused the lobbyists great mental anguish because according to their statements if it should become the law, it would promptly be kicked out of court because it was uncon- 
 The preconcerted plan of the op- ponents of the Judson bill to pre- Judfce the minds of the country mem bers of the House against its author. because of his humorous allusion in the course of the Senate debate to the effect that the agricultural mem bers of the House had constituted themselves a jury to pass upon the const1tutionality of the measure fail- ed miserably as every intelligent ob- server knew that it must
 Nevertheless, the state has been flooded with copies of a New Haven newspaper containing a carefully alluslon to the farmers was featured That part of the state press which has been hostile to an effective utili- ties bill from the commencement of the present session sought in devious ways to create sentiment against author of the Senate bill by appealing to the prejudices of the farmers in the House to resent the alleged in- suit offered to them by Judson in his Senate speech.
 That the promoters of this childish warfare at the 11th hour realized the futility of their move is clearly ap- parent in that absolutely none of the opponents of the Judson measure as much as even peeped a reference to Judson's remarks. The advocates of the Judson bill, a great many of whom were farmers, were prepared to have some fun at the expense of those who had intended to make it appear that Judson was their enemy. but inasmuch as no reference was made to the matter by the propon- ents of the Banks bill the Judson ter pass.
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