Putnam patriot., 1911-06-23
SENATE AND
 HOUSE CLASH.
One FaVoTs JudsOn Measure,
 but Other DisapprOves.
BANKS BILL GOES THROUGH.

Lower Branch Put It Up to Upper to Accept a Measure Without Constitu-
 sional DisabIities--Amendme to Constitution Pass Senate, and House Rejects Excise Measures - Session
 Dragging On.
 Special Correspondeuce,l
 Hartford. June 21.-Senator Judson
 would have liked yesterday afternoon | to take up and dispose of the Banks public utilities bill right then, but he
 had agreed with Senator Mitchell be-
 fore the latter left for New Haven
 that this should not be done and the
 matter go over till today, and there
 were other senators who weren't will
 ing to spend yesterday afternoon on it.
 After getting the order of the day for today, the income tax amendment, put
 over to next Tuesday, he moved that
 it be the order of the day for today Tt noon. but this raised strenuous ob- jection on the part of Senators Wood l ruff, Marsden and Spellacy. and Sen ator Mahan moved to amend by mak- ing 1t tomorrow.
 Senators Brinsmade and Fenn were inclined to come back to immediate consideration, and Senator Judson was willing, suggesting that he would SC cure Senator Nitchell's rights by q pair. but the Mahan amendment was finally carried. and the matter will come up as the order of the day to- morrow at noon and doubtless take all the afternoon in settlement. though the minority bill supporters are very con
 fident of their ability to defeat the
 Banks bill
 Popular Election of Senators.
 The seven Democrats of the commit
 tee on federal relations presented Il majority report in favor of the popular election of United States senators and
 the four Republicans minority report against it. After considerable de bate ill the house yesterday that body passed the majority report. The house also passed constitutional amend ment providing for terms of four years for members of the house, two to be elected in 1912 and one every two years thereafter.
 Meantime the senate had been wres- ting with the bill providing for the sprinkling of that portion of the street between car tracks by trolley compa- nies As reported by the committee on cities and boroughs this would force the municipalities to furnish oil to the street car companies where they use oil as they now do water,
 but the house amended it so as to make the companies furnish their own oil The matter has two or three times been before the senate, and the companies have been fighting hard to be relieved of this, but the best fight that could be put up. by Chairman
 Bartlett of the committee availed
 nothing, and the senate passed the
 bill as amended by the house.
 It's other order of the day was bill raising the salary of the judge of the Fairfield county common pleas court Amendments were offered making this apply to every common pleas court in Connecticut, but all of them and the bill itself were lost.
 Last week nobody thought much of anything but the public utilities ques tion. The Banks bill, which proved later to have been drawn by Daniel Davenport in a way to avoid what were to him the unconstitutional fea- lures of the minority or Judson bill. while retaining all its good points, was printed and appeared first in the files Wednesday morning. At once the corridors buzzed with excited com ment, and later in the day Senator Judson issued a statement in which he condemned the new bill, which Judge Banks had offered in the house as substitute for the majority re-
 port of the judiciary committee. He
 said it was fully as weak as the ma
 iority report, but avoided the use of
 the word recommend" by the use of
 the word order" though rendering
 the orders of the commission only rec
 concentrations because it carefully re
 moved all penalties.
 Hot Unofficial Debate.
 Wednesday was also sgnalized by q
 very hot though unofficial debate in
 the hall of the house before the open
 ing of the session of that body be tween Benedict NJ. Holden of Hart
 ford who is active in support of the
 Banks bill, and Ralph 0. Wells of Hartford, the attorney for the State Business Mems association, who is credited with drafting the Judson bill. It was on Wednesday that the railroad mems joint legislative board circulat- ed it's open letter denouncing the mi
 nority bill too.
 Both houses did little business on Wednesday, though the day was real. lv the lull before Thursdays house session over the public utilities ques- tion. In the senate there were pass ed two amendments to the Connecticut constitution which originated with the
 session of 1909. One provides that the lieutenant governor shall act as gov ernor when the governor is incapaci- tated and supplies a lack in the con
 stitution which became apparent and