Putnam patriot., 1911-04-28

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 Days-sersts Approves New La59r
 caa7ralssIare- and H5ass Refases io-
 saeanee Investigation.
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 Hartford emm Agra 4 fae d2ha hfNrcu Governor HaHan and lIe eaaac. taa senate - ea la earHest. Aner fencing Nah hHa and finally passing tae nomination of Burton Mansfield of Nea Haven for lusur- aaee eemu sieHef and spending fae Jess time oH tle matter before mani mously approving of fhe nomination of Patrick II. eounoIley of BaHbUrg Co Be commissi of iaaor -taHsties the senate accepted the gauntlet to= day when the governor sent in the name of William H Caldwell of New Britain to succeed James IL Maedon nld as state highway commissioner Senator spelIacY. who Is Che minority member of the committee on exeeu= tive nominations succeeded iH having this matter of the governor nomina- tons made tbe order of the dag tH the senate for l2 o'clock tomorrow oA the ground that if The senate failed 10 turn out Macdonald and approve cad wei The governor ought To have time fo make another nomination. which the law doesn't permit him 10 to aflef May
 Republicans Support Macdonald.
 Immediately following lhe day =es sion the Republican senators cauensed and decided To stand by Macdonald and accept from the governor no other nomination than his Probably the course of action will be simply failing 4o act on the matter until the ten days nmit has been reached and chen simply retusing 10 approve the Cad well nomination, though il is possible that the matter may be taken up t0- morrow and disposed of according 10 the caucus agreement then. There are several other nominations of the governor which came in today 10 be acted upon. the more important being that of Frederick r Holt of Hartford so succeed William II. Corbin of New Britain as building and loan commis ationer and the reappointment of Nor. iris <. Lippitt as one of the two bank commissioners The latter was unex pect,4l and k regarded as an effort 10 get Republican support for the other nominations.
 No Insurance investigation.
 Despite earnest efforts on the part of Senators Mnhah, Donovan. MeNeil and others to have the senate stand by its original position in providing for an investigation of insurance rates by refusing to accept the unfayorable re port of the insurance committee on the subject and passing the minority report in favor of an investigation, the body receded and concurred with the house in accepting the unfavorable report and thus ending the effort for an investigation. The vote was n strict party matter and was 1S to II in favor of Senator Fenn's motion to recede and concur. He fig chairman of the joint committee on Insurance. Con siderable very pointed sarcasm as Co she great work put in by the insurance bobby since the senate declared for an Investigation marked the discussion Senator Bartlett of Bridgeport was the @nly Republican who voted with the Democrats.
 House Makes New Shad Law. The house had very busy day with | the shad bill which was Che order of | the day at II 30 As reported from the l committee on fish and game this bill 1 called for the closing of the tributaries 1 of Che Connecticut river to shad ash- ing from line drawn across the river l DetWeen NiddlctoWu and Portland | south 10 The month of the river but | sast week Representative Reynolds of | 3tust tiaddam put in an amendment | which closed aii the tributaries of the [ rivcr Me Huntington at Windsor. | sSha has been ilI represents eoasId | erahle constituency of shla fishermen i on ihe tauuugton river and Was 1 greatly opposed te this amendment. | and the house has been waiting for bis | geturn to dispoSe Vf Che matter
 He spoke II great length today. de fending The right of his people 10 fish | fhe smaller streams for shad which l h. sald are no more likely to spawn iu the tributaries than m tbe main rty Rr lie insisted that he wanted fair play. however and shouldn't favor shutting uP the down river rHhutarie, if there Was a single ,ote ie the house against this There were more speeches Tor the amendment than against II Bout il was finally defeated by the lese vote Of ,G to Sl Two or three different times during the discussion Eneaahers moved ta indefinitely post pcns and Mir Hutchinson of Essex Hnalls Eot this tt vote. and il was defeated
 Doesn't Go Into Effect at Once.
 fudge HotehRiss of New Haven of fssaa ST amendment which would est cut the operation of the measure i'm mediately on its passage because che eesson for shad opens the lst of May snd it would be unfair to put d law Into operation without some sort of notice te those affected by it This vas passed, and then the measure was passed as 1t came from the committee. shntung or the tributaries south of