Putnam patriot., 1911-08-11
HOUSi; REFUSES
 DIRECT PRIMARY
Senate Puts S1O,OOO Lint
 In Deaih Damages Bill.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE FREED
Tsytor's Legislative Souvenir Passes eosh Houses Over Governor's Veto. Al Members Working Hard to Fin isr Up Before September.

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 eosh Houses Over Coveroor's Veto.
 Al Members Working Hard to Fin
 isr Up Before September.
 fsp,eIa. asr5adeaeeI
 Hartford Na2 Hafh houses of tHe Couf tel- -eneral assembly started ! aev 4seea se~tefdlg a~ 1 though tuer -ally meant to go. 1 through before -seH ale- While the house was turuIa1 do@a tae diree i primaries bIll which Was passed D the senate last week and put 1p to it 1 the seaafe was regersiug the house OIL the S5og0 death damages bal, whiei thc h9ase passed la such form as f. entirely remove all hmits and qualifi 1 cations to q mans reeee er4Hg Tusl | da1s ses. 2" as the present law has II. 1 T6e senate ackcd on the Mahan amendment limiting the amount reeov l erabIe fo Slo.ggO and making tho mini | mum Sl 0O0 The sensation furnished | bg Judge Tmeier-s attack of last week l on the special commission t0 investi | gate the hiQi cost of living petercd out altogether when House Chairman ] Chaud ef of thc commission yesterday morning submitted statement of l the expenditures of the commission ] amounting tp some S7.000 for printing 1 iH the huuse journal, together with 1 tbe statement that the commission wa- 3 ioiut one and therefore not respen sib,c 10 aiiher house acting ~ingl ] Later Gat1 G5uses voted j1 discharge l fGe -He=ia. committee whose work Is done
 The direct primary bill didn't have a chauce in the hoa-e. The untavnrsbie report af majority of the Judiciary comm tfee Waz taGeu up and discussed bg Iudee Hanks the Republican lead CT. who characterized the direct pri mary as contrary tp the good old New | EHgiaud system which had stood the test of years aud urged that there l. no need of change ill Connecticut Judge 1iugier, the Democratic leader did what he could for the bill, which was litlle and was aided by MT Chandler of Rocky Hill The vote was | by roll eaIi and showed l3l against II to G0 for t, scarcely Republican voting for it
 Death Damages Measure.
 When the Mahan amendment to the 5000 death damages bill was first of | fered in the senate 1t made the min imum S5uO but oil senator Park $ sug eesHion hc made it S1 ,000. The matter was the subject of lengthy debate, l Tn which Senator ludson made one of the speeches of the session Iii the en- deavor to have the senate act ou the measure as had the house hy remav | Ing all limit but with m amendment he offered to make dependency the basis of judgment This amendment was practically the same as that of fered by Judge Banks in the house and which that body refused to adopt. The senate wouldn't have it either
 The various amendments offered in thu house werc also rejected but Sen atar Hahau's amendment is the same as tbut offered by Alr Ensign of Sims bury la the house, except for the min
 
 mcnt carried no minimum. Senator Mitchell qdoted Governor Baldwin to the caect that raising the limit would be living up to the Democratic plat form of last fall The vote on the Mahan amendment was by roll cal and came otlf ns follows
 Yeas Senators Pierce, Spellacy, Al sop, B8ury Marlowe, Diekermau. Mitchell, Aarsden Parker, Woodruff. Platt, LouH~bury Mahan. Park Me Neil. Jr. Hammond. Elliott Barnam. FriSbie Wright and Leonard 2l
 Nays Senators Fem, uulloran. ShauIey. I.aVfpr, Avery Bartlett Pad do k Feck ud-on. Donovan, Mesr;, and GrinSmsde t2
 Absent ar Nai Voting Senator Hooker and FusHsr .
 Then uc a,u,Hl'd bin was passed i and iUmcd "N transmitted back 70 the house under suspension of u,, rules
 The house also had up the Taylor legislative souvenir bin. which Gov eruor Baldwin vetoed and the senate | passed ever 6iS veto hY virtue of Lieu l tenant Governor Rlakeslees breaking a tic and passed fl over the veto or | the governor by roll call vote of III te 13. II turned down the hill which would permit picketiug in strikes atte' a short discussion in which an attempt | was made to lug in various lahol troubles in panhury and elsewher, aud the I.oewe lawsuit Roth house> went d considerable distance into theii calendars during the afternoon which followed recesses,
 The latter two days of last week the legislative week that k the haNs,' was obliged to go if alone the senate | having adjourned to this week bcGauS, ef we'll it said because of lack of business but that wasn't So There was seme business to be done hy one member and tobacco te be harvested by another. and so on.
 Investigating Ben Holden.
 The house did considerable business on Wednesday II took up it's calendar with serious purpose to get through il and did get more than halfway through, and quorum stayed in the house even after the afternoon recess Something of 6 sensation was provok ed by the introduction by Judge Tin gier the DetnoCra leader nf n rpSt