Putnam patriot., 1911-06-16
UTILITIES FIGHT
 IN SPOT LIGHT.
House of Representatives Great
 ly Stirred Over It
BILL lS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Banks Offers Substitute Drawn b Daniel Davenport - Johnson Not Weight Bill Strongly Opposed, but Cannot Be Downed - House Kill. Woman Suffrage.
fspeciaI correspondenee

I Especial respondence1
 Hartford. June II The talk about the corridors of the state capitol is that the present session of the general assembly is likely to exceed the rec ord made last year, when the longest session eyer ended Aug 24 The house has shown no disposition 10 hur ry. and yesterday, after tue senate had adjourned for lack of business to to- day and with more thaH forty matters on it's calendar 10 dispose of. the house held but Il short session and refused to sit iu the afternoon
 The most interesting matter In the house was the introduction by Judge Banks of Fairfield far Republican house lender If substitute fpr fbp so called minority uli for public utilities commission winch is believed tO obvlate Che objections to the miHar fly bill on constitutional grounds Gf |" try to do this This MS tubied for printing and will be considered by the house af the same lime with thP res of the bills on this subject which are the order of the day for tomorrow, and on which the house purposes Co spend n long day.
 The house put the final touches on the Johnson net weight package bill this morning, despite the earnest effort of Mir Miner of New Britain. who is in the wholesale grocery business to de feat it by means of the argument that this legislation ought to come from the federnl congress Instead of being en- acted by state legislatures. The low CT branch was determined to have such legislation on the book. however. and passed il with no slight gusto. nft- ier accepting the amendments of the senate which exempt from it's provi- .sions packages of confectionery and shelled nuts selling for less than Ii cents each, and also making the su perintendent of the state agricultural experiment station in New Haven the associate of the dairy and food com missioner in fixing the list of reason
 
 shall be provided
 The special hotel license bill which passed the senate received it's quietus In the house after numerous amend ments. some of which had passed the senate and some not had been reject ed. There was no more use trying to save this hill than to kill the net weight blll
 Last week. Wednesday. there were special orders in both branches, as there are on almost every day now. Probably no general assembly ever de layed the reports of it's important bust. ness until as late in the session as has been the case with the present one. The senate Wednesday had ms Its or der of the day the bill prohibiting the employment of minors under sixteen Tn certain hazardous occupations and also the SO called net weight package bill, the Johnson bill. which has occa- stoned so great interest during the ses sion.
 The debate on the former measure was not very lengthy. Senator Platt of Waterbury, who K himself Il manu facturer put In an amendment which was claimed to have the effect of kill ing the whole hill and this was reject ed, and later the bill was passed lt prohibits the employment of children under sixteen about machinery If vari ous kinds and ln the manufacture oI handling of explosives or dyestufs paints or colors and similar products prohibits the employment of fomalt workers at work which requires hen to stand the greater part ef the day and prohibits any person under cight cen having to do with Che operation of an elevator running more than 99o feet per minute.
 Net Weight Bill Passes.
 The net weight bin requires that manufacturers of foodsTuffs packed IT packages shall plainly mark on ths package the nct weight, measure ol numerical count of the eoutents. Mir Johnson of Manchester. who has spen his life in the grocery business. Whale sale and retail. and thoroughly under stands the luiluities of the shar wei.ht aud short measure packag which is purchased heeause 1t Is b. lieyed to he 8 more sanitary method o handling feodstufr~ and has wurke, out in detail how largely tbls system 1 responsible for the present high cos of living. has spent his session on t1I matter and k greatly ae.ishged at ta enactment If his mea~afe
 The Johnson bgll pa~sVd the hauee il She form reported mo0@N hy th committee and covered al pae kaSas D articles meant for food consumption The senate however, amended lt so a to exclude from its operations pack ages of confectionery sold at less thu' al cents each, The heaviest appaSi tion 10 the measure before the com uittee came from New Haven cand manufacturer who puts up his good in five and ten cent packages. and thi amendment was insdgated by hin Senator Woodruff tried to kill the bi altogether, and two or three amend nlenfs Of his proposing that the meas ure apply to loaves of bread and othe articles were rejected. There were bu four votes against the bill itself an Er aF AaTf lF q