Connecticut western news., 1911-02-23
CARLETON'S LETTER
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ously. He said to them that he meant to make MT. Robbins his appoinsee for old frie rdships sake and the assembly could reappolnt Howell Cheney of Man. appolntee on the board, if it wished. Senator Brinsmade has introduced resolution to do this, by the way.
 The trouble that has been projected, however, has to do with the fact that the present law concerning the state beard of education says that not more than two of it's members shall come from any congressional district. Resuming the judicial toga for the moment, Gov ernor Baldwin has stated on this point that the law very evidently doesn't mean that literally, for it would be absurd i; five men could not be chosen from four congressional districts and have it pro- bable that the governor would come from the same district as two of them or u @ governor and lieutenant governor from the some district, as now.
 This confusion really arises from the nasty framing of the law by which the 19l0legtslature legislated Secretary Hine off the board, leaving the governor and lieutenant governor ex officio members, giving the general assembly its same four appointees and one to the governor. This says the board "shall consist of seven members, not more than two of whom shall come from one congressional district" What it really means is that not more than two of the appointive members shall come from the same dis trict, replacing the old law which re- quired one of the legislatures four ap- pointees, when Secretary Hine made the | seventh member, to come from each dis. trict
 Less attention should be paid to this | quibble and more to the general lantern law requiring every vehicle out after dark to carry light, which has again been reported unfavorably and rejected in the House and will doubles be in the Senate simply because its friends didn't have gumption enough to get behind it. There is every reason in the woIld why every vehicle out at night should carry a light and none whatever why any one shouldn't, but session after session bills are introduced only to fail of passage be- cause of this laokadaisical treatment. Perhaps the greatest surprise of re- cent session days is coming out in favor ot a workmen's compensation act by the Connections Manufacturers association. They don't want the fellow servant law off the books and they are dead against the employers liability proposition, but they do want a work mems compensation act, though not as radical a one as the Socialists propose or as the German law. The Connecticut Federation of Labor, with which the Hartford labor unions are at odds, has through its president declared for the repeal of the fellow ser. want law and expressed itself as satisfied if only this can be accomplished. We shall have more on this subject Friday afternoon of this week, when the Judi ciary and Labor committees hold their next joint session.
 This Friday session is not the shadow of coming events, let me say. The reso- lution declaring for Friday sessions in the House languishes on the table and is hardly lieely to meet any better fate. There is no more sentiment for Friday sessions than ever and if they are tried little later, it is 8 certainty that cou. pie of nasty adjournments for lack of & quorum will put an end to them as usual Everybody talks about adjourn ment sine die in June and everybody who knows anything about 1t knows it won't happen. At that. the proposition to adjourn in April to next Januafy, which is the order of tho day for March 28. is not rapidly gaining friends. What may happen, however, would be Ad- journment till next fall or winter if the state of business in June shows that it would be September or October before adjournment could come if they kept at | it.
 One joke has been spoiled by the know ledge that it Isu't joke. When Sena tor Mitchell's bill adding Columbus Day to the list of legal holidays" was noticed everybody laughed and asked if he was some years late. He isn't. What the bill does is to add that holiday to the statute which names the holidays whic h are to be observed on Monday when their date falls on of Sunday. Oh, ho !