Connecticut western news., 1911-03-30
CARLETON'S LETTER.
DOESN'T THINK ASSEMBLY
 WILL ADJOURN EARLY
Many Committees Still Have Impor- taht Business to Consider-Unser- taintY Still Exists Over the Case of Commissioner Him" Macdonald.


 Hartford, March 28-It seems to me that the man who has been sending out despatches stating that this was going to be shorter session that the last be- cause the committees were finishing up their business earlier can hardly have looked over the situation very thor oughly. It is to be hoped that the ses- sion will be shorter than that of 1909, are few indications that it will be very much shorter.
 Several com mittees are getting to- ward the end of their business, but the main reason for this is that they had on hand at the beginning far less business which prolongs the session. with the ex- ceptlon of the Judiciary committee. The Committees on Railroads, Iucorpora- tions and Roads, Bridges and Rivers have usually been much in the lime light and their matters have delayed the final adjournment. That won't be the case this time, for they each had far less ', than was customary and are getting to the end of what they had.
 For one thing, the public utilities com mission situation is going to prolong the session and is bound to, because the cor porations and the State Business Mems Association are so far apart. The latter has finally taken the position that it will hot compromise and is now holding up the game. The Judiciary committee supposed it had arranged & fine con- promise at conference between it and the conflicting interests, but found to it's surprise that the State Business Mems Association would not stand for the bill which gave the commission only recom- mandatory powers as regards th- New Haven road.
 These powers are similar to those possessed by the Massachusetts commits sion, bat it wasn't satisfactory to the busiless men to have this sort of com mission. As regards the lesser corpor,s. tions and the Southern New England Telephone company think they ara right, too. The telephone comp pany will do what it is forced to do only.
 With the two aides far aparE on khis point one can see little hope ot N suc- cessful compromise before tue commit tee, for the corporation, rsprese utatives I would not agree to certain other features which the business men will insist on if they get a concession along the line men- tioned. In the end it is going to be very hard to bring the two sides together, for the business mems association people ad- init that what they want is "a crack at Mellen."
 Suppose, then, that they are not brought together and the committee finally decided on . bill which suits it and it hopes will suit the House, for it is the House which is going to decide this subject; what happens? In the House the men who stand with one side or the other are even farther apart than before the committee and there is more pulling and hauling than two years ago With the result that the session is pro longed, that's all. think they'll finally
 
 in some form or other, but it may not b., till August.
 The same thing is true of the work mems compensation or employers iabil ity situation. Ia fact, these two are very different, but to legislators they are generally synonymous terms. The varying interests which have appeared before the joint committees on Judiciary and Labor have tried to frame com. promise measure and their efforts really consisted If Mayor Fishers attempting tO get them to accept his bill. They wouldn't do it and the committee wouldn't have accepted it if they had. So there we are. The committee have they are going to do.
 Don't see an early adjournment in that, do you? It doesn't take more than seven hundred matters to hold the Con- necticut general assembly up for weeks and weeks. I've seen one matter do it, inst one.
 Meantime Governor Baldwin, who en- deared himself to the newspaper men at the biennial dinner of the l aurel Club by the way he fell into the spirit of the evenings fun after coming there pre- pared to make a serious speech. is rest Ing easily on his oars and will send iu some more appointments when he gets to it. He has. until May l, another month.
 The best guessers are guessing that he will send Tn new highway commits siOner this week and 1 shall not be sur , pcised if they're right, When he does I think we shall see the Mcdonald Mans. ? field situation reversed. It looks as ii "Jim" MacDol aid had the Senate.
 CARLETON.