Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-09
Hear ing 0n Public Utilities
ARGUMENTS FOR BiLL BEFORE
 JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
GRANGE MASTER SPEAKS
This Was Second Hearins--some De- : tails Criticised but None Yet Oppose
 Measure as Whole.
Especial to The Bulletin.)


 give the second hearing on the public utilities bill, the proposed court of commerce. and all other pending meas ures relative to the regulation of pub- lie service corporations. The hearing was quite as interesting as that of last week.
 introduced the Speakers.
 Normand F, Allen, chairman of the legislative committee of the State Bus special capacity directed the presenta- ton of the arguments in favor of the public utilities bill and introduced the speakers. who were representative of various cities, towns and sections of the state. The arguments presented were much the same in nature as those that have become familiar throughout Connecticut, and essentially no more than a part of what promises to be long drawn out proceedings 1n the con- sideration of the public utilities and kindred bills. As yet no speaker in opposition to the proposed measures has been heard; that is, in opposition to the whole.Criticism of the details came Wednesday,
 Spread Eagle oratory.
 A special feature of the hearing was a spread eagle oration from Senator Donovan and another more brief but snappy colloquy between Representa- tive Metzger of Bridgeport and Attor- ney E. c. Terry of New Haven, who took exception to a portion of Mr. Metzger's speech.
 Stood Up for AgricuIturists.
 Leonard H. Healey of Woodstock, master of the State grange, criticised the remark of a previous speaker that agriculture did not amount to much in Connecticut. He thought he could Ax1~ 4- -x, e,+cf fA nx,A prove to him tha; agriculture is no 'in- cubator chicken in this state.
 .ssss did not believe that all the or ganizations, in thist state that have passed resolutions in favor of pub lie utilities bill had fooled themselves. The State grange believes that three men on public utilities commission could do the work that would be re- quired of it as well as five. The grang- CTS are conservative people and they believe in economical administration.
 We believe suitable supervision in tlle way of recognizition is what we
 MT. Hea1ey told one or two good sto- ries to Illustrate his points, that were well received. He did not speak at length. occupying only about three minutes, but what he said was as the Representative of the thousands of grangers throughout the state
 Central Village Man Spoke Leng.
 F. F. Lendiwig of Central Village was another eastern Connecticut speaker. He took a few shots-quite ating a court of commerce, talking at such length that Senator Judson final ly suggested in very diplomatic way that, on account of the number of speakers to be heard it would be nec- essary for the speakers to curtail their remarks. Then MT. Lendewig talked some more, but finally quit. Those present sighed with relief
 From Norwich Business Mems Asso
 citation.
 T. c. Murphy, representing the Nor wich Business Mems association, said that the public service corporations gave a fairly satisfactory service in his city, He has been up to Hartford several times to appear before the rail- road committee, but although no op- position was ever made to the improve ments he had advocated nothing was ever done about them. He said that he was not there to attack the public service corporations doing business in his city.
 Good as Far as It Goes.
 The Connecticut company gave a good service as far as it went They ran satisfactory cars, kept them on time, but only on a schedule that suit ed their own convenience. They had under charters granted them taken streets several years ago to the exclu- sion of other companies, but had never laid foot of rails through them, all though these lines were demanded by the people. MT Punderford and MT. Leary of the Coonneeticut Company, MT Murphy said, were very agreeable gentlemen to meet. They had been at Norwich several times, but their promises to the people of that city have never been fulfilled. The people who live on the streets in Norwich where street railways are wanted have been able to get nothing better than prophecies MT Murphy said the peo- pie of Norwich expect some relief through the proposed bill and asked a favorable report from the committee.
 inadequate Express Service. He also touched upon the service rendered to Norwich by the Adams Express company, characterizing it as inadequate in particular respects, citing the facts that there is no north bound express service out of the city after 2.1O p. n. and that the system of delivering within the city is poor. This results in loss of business to the merchants MT Murphy told of one of the leading retail houses of the city writing to the local agentt of the Adams Express company on Nov. 20, asking for better afternoon service but the company had never even taken the trouble to reply. MT. Murphy said he would like to have the committee visit Norwich and investigate the con : ditions for themselves. The hearing was adjourned until Tuesday of next week.
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