Putnam patriot., 1911-06-16

eighteen months so far as if would affect goods packed previous to the efI- aetmeat of it. The bill had to go back Into the house because of the senate amendments. aud House Chairman Thompson of the committee on public health and safety which handled 1t. tried to get if through the house last Thursday. but the commotion over the effort To Pet the public utilities legisla- ton up previously had unsettled that body so that ii was fit for nothing but adjournment just at that time. There Is anticipated no difficulty in getting the house to accept the amendments. however
 House Kills Woman Suffrage.
 On "Wednesday the house had as its ,rder of the day the blll providing mu- nieipal suffrage for women, regardless of the property qualification, and the debate waved long aud eloquent Nearly every mna in the house who can talk on his feet or believes he can did lt. The senate had passed the bill. and the galleries, with every avail able space on the floor, were packed with women of every age and condi- ton of adornment hoping that the house would do the same-mOst of them, anyway though possibly there were present some of the women who have filed so many petitions against this legislation.
 The Rev Mir Range. member of the house from Guiford. made the main argument in favor of the bill. and MT. Chandler of Rocky IIill was perhaps the principal speaker against It. II took two or three hours to finally thrash the matter out. but in the end the house turned down the suffragists and suffragettes by vote of los to 49. result which was generally un- expected as to the size of the adverse vote. Two amendments to the bill were rejected, one providing that wo- men should be subject to military duty, put In by Mir. Hutchinson of Essex, and the other providing for referendum of the bill to the women who would be affected by It if II were | to become law, put in by Mir. Meltzer | of Bridgeport.
 Thursday the house got into per | feet gale over an effort to get the pub | lie utilities Legislation up at once with out the formality of having 1t go to | the calendar in the usual way. The | supporters of the minority bill made | this effort with the idea of taking all | possible advantage of the moral effect l <f ha taiO nf hn minnri- l ty bill and giving the majority bill | people no chance to get at members | over Sunday. It failed after a long and hot debate
 | Hot Public Utilities Debate. l Mir. Whiton of New London took up the matter and urged immediate con sideration for the rather tiimsy reason that he meant to attend college com | mencement this week and couldn't be | on hand to speak on the subject.
 Several members objected to imme- dinte consideration. some because the lunch hour was already at hand and | the debate would be apt to last into | the evening and others from spirit of fair play. which was offended hy this effort to cram the minority bill down the throat of the house While l Mir. Chandler of Rocky Hill was talk 1 Ing fin favor of the motion he was in terrupted by Mir Johnson of New | town, who in very forcihle way oh- 1 jected to the presence in the hall ot the house of q lawyer represeuttuc i interests which he claimed. were two ! tn , legislation He termed his entrance Into the hall as "sneaking in like a snake" and on the demand of mum Der of members who could not see where he pointed nnmed the man as ] Attorney &. C Morehouse of New Ha ven
 Johnson demanded that the floor he cleared. but this wasn't done even when afterward Nr Bingham inter rupted Judge Banks statement that he favored clearing the hall of the house of all hut members, senators and news paper men at such t'rne to challenge him with the remark that two wears ago when Banks was speaking h.
 cleared the had under similar circum
 stances only on the third request
 Banks said this wHsnt so and proved
 lt He made long spec h. in which he 3i3Ut especially oppose immediate action If members were willing to stay
 and see the business through that day
 buj be an urge the m n5onsuruuoualuy
 of the minority Mf questioned Gov
 aruor BaldWiu's authority eu the same
 legal lines on which be had four times
 been wrong during hls last years as
 chief justice of the supreme court and
 read letter from the Hon Daniel
 Davenport, one of the great conStitu-
 tioua lawyers of the country. Tn which
 the latter declared the bin to be utter
 ly unconstitutional and likely to be
 thrown out of any court.
 During the more or less general de.
 bate Mir Dunn of Willimantic made
 some of his customarily sensational re
 marks anent the advisability of set.
 ting the matter before the kings of
 the lobby could heat the telephone
 wires and use their autos to run about the state handing out the Hong green. !" and pr Knight of Salisbury vigorous. ly resented some insinuations of Judge