The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-18
GOVERNOR AND
SENATE REACH
DISAGREEMENT
Appointment of Insurance
Commissioner the Hitch
Assignments Before Com
mittees.
Especial from United Press.)


Hartford, Feb. 1s-The past week in
the General Assembly saw the Cover
nor and the Senate come to the ex-
pected tug Of war over appointments.
when he nominated Burton Mansfield
OF New Haven to be Insurance Com
missioner to succeed Col. Theodore
Macdonald. The Republican Senators
were still in doubt today how to treat
the situation which the Governors
political strategy forced on them.
They favor holding up executive nom.
ipations Of Importance and these Will
be held up until no more such ap-
pointments remain to be made. There
were held informal conferences this
week. and a formal conference on
these nominations was in the works
for the near future. There Will not
he held a formal caucus on this sub
ject. as some Republican Senators are
unwilling to be bound by the action
Of a caucus on these nominations. .
However. several have voluntarily
assured Col. Macdonald that they
would stand by him. The story went
the rounds that the nomination or
Mansfield was intended but TO carry
the administration around this diff
cult corner and that he would accept
only to resign after the rising of the
General Assembly. because of his In
ability to take the time from his vari-
Gus business interests to give to the
insurance department.
While a few important committees
have not yet transacted any business.
practically every committee is now or
ganized and at work. The 1ncorpora-
ton committee. which has to consider
nearly 125 matters. got in the first
reports. The committee has made it
an absolute rule to hold executive
sessions every day to decide on mat
tiers heard that day. Senator Bar
mum. its Senate chairman. expects
that his committee will be finished
with its hearing in six weeks. and he
expects little trouble with its recon-
mendations on the floors of both
houses
In general. however. the committee
work is far behind the record of other
sessions This is due in some meas
ure to the fact that many committees
which In other sessions have had the
most important business have this
session received matters of little ac-
count. and committees which usually
were made up simply to give places
10 members have been compelled to
deal with measures of moment.
AS this fact manifests itself the plan
OF adjourning over to next winter is
gaining friends. but 1t is hardly like
" that this adjournment will take
place before May or June There is
'of Republican leaders to look with
special favor on the early adjournment
proposition
The Judiciary committee expected,
last Thursday, to get at some meas
ures affecting some purely legal mat
tiers. but the discussion of employers
liability and workmen's compensation
in joint session with the Labor COM
mittee interfered. These joint ses-
sions viii be continued Friday. Feb.
"a The public hearing on public
utilities goes over to Feb. %. when
President Mellen Of the New Haven
road viii appear before the Judiciary
committee to discuss his court of COM
rnerce idea
Among the business yet to- be con-
sidered by the Judiciary committee is
Senator Mitchell's bill to make Column
bus Day a legal holiday. What the
hill really does Is to add that day to
the list Of legal holidays which under
a special statute are celebrated on
Monday when their date falls on Sun
day
No hearings have been assigned by
committees for next Wednesday,
Washington's Birthday. All have
taken for granted that there will be
no session on that day. but that there
viii be Friday session. the first such
70 be held by this General Assembly.
That there may be three session days
in the week. the Friday session must
be held. but IT Is not intended to set
a precedent
Next Tuesday. the Appropriations
committee will hold hearings on the
familiar proposition to provide for a
monument to the Connecticut Cavalry
Association at an expense of s25. 900,
and an appropriation for the dedica-
ton expense connected with the statue
Of Major General John Sedgwick On
Thursday the Connecticut Agricultural
College viii have it's innings. The
committee has put off to the second
week in March the evil day Of armory
hearings. when the committee starts
with the bills concerning the Bridge
port. Waterbury and Meriden build
ings- Tt is understood that there is
no disposition to spend much of the
States money on armories at this ses-
sion. or to provide for new ones except
at Danbury. where the soldiers are
without a decent home
Next Tuesday. also the committee
on Cities and Boroughs will take up
The measures affecting Derby and An
sonia and Thursday it will hear
collection includin~ Grofou Ctouv