Putnam patriot., 1911-08-04

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 .N"i or i@rbers certificates. There
 q lengthy discussion of rba hin 'Famp.ns the state banking dsnsrt. 'e}I which the house has tu,.ra5 H. al'i finally the senate foIlovea oit. but not until Senator t4.o,-,. iaa nade a spirited attack on tbe loh. Y. 7. which he accused of defeating tbis ". ''ef"uSe ii was favored hv himself -'uu Representative Whiton. who had "th heen prominent in securing nnh. 'c ats'itieS legislation in this session.
 Eminent Domain For coIleoe.
 Senator Mahan offered rasoI,,+,o, hieh has since stirred up a good deal 'l comment providing for the right or 'ilihent domain for the new Conneeti. ut college For Women aT New Ion lon He explained that urnnertv own. erS were holding at exorbitant prices roneFty there which the college au. hol1tleS needed. the owner asking '"ltsn for property which was in the TX list for S12.O0o and eouIdn't ba ila 10 be worth over S1S.o0O or s20.- F' al the most The senate passed le resolution despite Senator Dono- 'ans protests, and newspapers have ''llee been calling on the governor to et" II II the house passes 1t. as there aenS likelihood that it will.
 'ifRer business done by the senate on y edee~day, which was a busy day in .'' l#aer branch, was the passage of 1e bill providing for the annexation 5f part of Ellington 10 Rockville which failed of passage in the house an unfa7orahle report from the =o0Miftee and of the so called Nepaug water hill. which will permit the city f Hartford TO take for waiter s11nplv he water of the Nenaug river in New hartford. The senate received fa. 1orable report on a measure providing Tor payment to doorkeepers. messen- ferS and assistants to the sunerintend- ant of the capitol at the rate of S1oO q month instead af in lump sum at the And of the session. as now.
 Still Another lnvestiaation.
 A resolution providing still another commission was received on a favor #4hle rencrt from the judiciary commit tee, passed and sent along to the house under suspension of the rules. This commission is 10 investigate the advis. ability, legality and practicabiitY of state insurance department. It is to he appointed hy the governor and to report to the next general assembly.
 While all this was transpiring the house had done some business. II spent long time on The bill changing the close season for shore birds and finally passed it so as to make the close season from Jan. to Sept. 30 Then came the teachers certificate bin that old familiar, which Mr. Ensign of Simsbury of the committee or education says will make it's appear ance at every session until passed. II provides that teachers must have nor nal school certificates or pass the state board of education's examina tion The house rejected it after some discussion as other houses have done in the past
 The death damage bill was am order of the day, and considerable time was given to it, with the result that it final ly got into such a muddle that 1t was mad: the order of the day yesterday Judge Banks offered an amendment to the present. limit of 5000 for acciden- tai death by removing all limit. which makes the actual pecuniary damage the basis of recovery, and there was some discussion of Mir. Ensign's amend ment making the limit $10.000 Other amendments came in both before and after it was put over to this week. and the house ended by hardly knowing where 1t was at.
 Uniform Charter For Cities.
 A sturdy effort was made to have the measure providing for the tubercu- lin tests for all cattle brought into Connecticut recalled from the gover nor. the cattlemen who are opposed to it having been to the governor and learned thaf he would not veto the measure. bu1 Dr. Knight of Salisbury held up the appropriations committee from a proposed visit to some state in stitutions long enough to aid Chairman Russell of the agriculture committee in defeating tiss move. The vote was 6S to .51 agains1 recall.
 Thursday was not as busy day as Wednesday. but there were things ac- complished ! each house that day The .ss nate {, ashed out at some length she two reports from the judi ciarv committee, of which the major 9tv report is unfayorable, on bill which would cause lobbyists to regis ter. but finally tabled it. II passed Senator Reck's measure providing g uutfarm charter for cities on the com mission plan. Governor Baldwin sent in his veto of the biiI appropriatine S4 .0eo for Taylor's souvenir, his first veto of the session,
 The house passed the Siahan resolu tion giving the Connecticut College For Women the right to condemn lane by the process of eminent domain Yesterday an elort was made to re consider qhis measure, which it is free " predicted that the governor will veto. but this failee
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