Putnam patriot., 1911-08-25

| house the week before with flying coi ars. a rider providing for an appro. ' priaf1u of sl6000 ro Ice expended on tbe drav iridyes of Fairfield county | bHt on Wednesday the house cut this l off and sent The dll balk to fhe upper branch The railroads committee got ahoher rap on the same day when i the house refused 70 refect the bill | providing a charter fer new trolley road between shelton and Bridgeport.
 History of Trolley Charter.
 This bill has had a peculiar history Ii was introduced before fhe com mittee bg Representative NoulthrOp of Huntingdon. in which the borough Of sheldon is located, as substitute for a fare bill which would cut cents off the through fare between Shelton and Bridgeport over the Connecticut company's present line through Strat- ford, which Mr. M0ulthrop put in but found he had no chance of getting favorably reported by this committee Three hearings have been held on if. Al the first there was no opposition. and the railroads committee reported the bill favorabiy.
 That is it voted to do this, but the favorable report was never read by the clerk of the house. though it went to the clerks desk from House Chair man Garde Before if was read the committee recalled it and assigned an- other hearing. there having developed opposition on the part of the Connect icut company. At the second hearing if was argued by counsel for the latter that the petition for this charter hadn't been advertised in accordance with the statutes and it was irregular to bring it in at the eleventh hour without giving interested parties chance to get opposition together.
 Mir Hatmaker of Salisbury, q mem Der of the committee, also brought up the point that it was new business and therefore not properly before the com. mittee The hearing finally ended. however, because there had not been filed with the committee the engineers maps and profles, which the statutes and the committee rules provide shall be filed Al another hearing these were in evidence. but Mir Hatmaker again raised his point of new business and Was aided bE thp Connecticut com panys counsel, and the committee voted fo throw out the bill on that around
 Z lre uHfaeerrble report came into he house Wednesday, The question wis divided and the report accepted lut the hill Hot rejected Judge Banks stood up for the charter. and Mr Meulthrop's bill was substituted for the fare bill and went to the calendar for printing.
 Democrats Fight Adjournment.
 Judge Banks Oh Wednesday offered resolution providing for final ad iournment Aug. 25. but this was vigor ously fought by the Democrats. who insisted that the business could not be finished by that time without throw ing matters overheard. After some heated discussion the Democratic lead er. Judge Tingier. moved to table, and this was carried. Judge Banks mo ton to take it from the table a mo ment later showed the lack of quorum.  and. though Speaker Scott adjourned The house for but five minutes. at 3;4o there was no quorum present and the house was adjourned to Thursday morning.
 The senate had meanwhile adjourn cd over to this week. and only the house was In session on Thursday. The final adjournment resolution which passed the senate on Tuesday. came up as the first matter Thursday morning. hut was tabled to await the advent of the Republican leader When it was later considered if was again abed, hut there was passed reso- lution which called for all committee reports to he in yesterday.
 The big matter in the house Thurs day was the bill providing for the is Sunnce of S5.OO0. .OOO of bonds hy the Connecticut River company. which has but $203. 300 capital stock outstanding. but owns property already to the amount of over million and cannot issue these bonds except to the extent of n per cent ol the cost of improve ments plus the same proportion of the worth of It's other real and personal property. There has been session long fight. which started long before this session and has been before other state legislatures and the national con gress and the Connecticut courts be tween this company, which Is owned hy the Collins of Windsor Locks and has operated there with a dnm and canal aud power plant for hundred vcars or SO and the Northern Con uectirut Power company. q corporation formed to exploit the water power ef the Connecticut rtyee. which hts since lbsorbsd the Enfield lisbt and Power eomn7ny and the Connecticut Cable .ompany and is itself held hy the Northern Securities company. Il hold Hng company.
 Various amendments were offered. and the northern Connecticut adher pnts in the house fought their prettieSt but no amendments passed the house md the hill passed by heavy ma tarity.
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