Putnam patriot., 1911-02-17

sf.. senate under tras =4siissiOn ny suS- | pension 2: i..- s.-it-- IT was tabled al | The suggestion of Senate Leader Jud-
 son. who said that was ihe practice Of ' the committees now and he saw no | nse in passing a resolution regarding | it
 The house also passed in cOncurrenee | with the senate the resolution by which ' there is 10 be added to the joint com ! mittee on congressional and senatorial ! districts a Democratic senator This i committee will shortly get at the task i of redistricting the state ef COnnectE | cut into five congressional districts.
 and thus relieving the state of the h. eubus Of q congressman at large.
 Senate Appoints Commissioners. Meantime history had been In the making in the senate largely at the l hands of Democratic senators. The | county commissioner resolutions pass ] ed by the house on Tuesday had
 reached that body and were the priD- | tinal topic of discussion there. If was not until the senate had agreed with the house in turning down
 Messrs. Hopson and Potter, who were
 nominated for the places now held by County Commissioners Walter and Geddes of New Haven county. and had passed the resolutions appointing the latter two gentlemen and two or three other Republicans in other coun- ties for another term that the Demo | rrats made their stand
 When the resolution appointing Denis Mulvihill of Bridgeport a com
 missioner of Fairfield county as the choice of the Fairfield county Demo cratic caucus vas reached Senator McNeil Of Bridgeport protested against the rejection of the resolution after the manner of the house on the basis that the Fairfield county Democratic caucus had represented far more than
 majority of the voters of the county indeed. four-ffths of them-and this four-ffths was entitled to one county commissioner The law of majority
 rule seemed to him 10 demand this,
 and he moved the passage of the res olutlon.
 Senate Leader Judson, also from Fairfield county. arose to remark that plea for minority representation
 might have won his sympathy, but
 this argument about the rights of the
 Fairfield county caucus had nothing in f. Nor could he agree that eX Mayor
 Nulvihill WAS more competent to fili
 this office than the gentlemen at pres enf filling The Fairfield county com
 Mlssionerships Senator Spellacy then
 made T nlea foe minority representa-
 tidu. but too late. and Senator Dono- vHn somewhat weakened the Demo cratic cause hy the statement that the
 Fairfield county Democrats had moi
 been harmonious in their caucus.
 which was not really q caucus If all. nor their action unanimous
 Mahan's Democratic Argument.
 Minority Leader Mahan made
 brave effort OH behalf of the Demo
 erats in somewhat impassioned ar
 gument for the rights of the majority
 of the voters of Fairfield county He ikened the possible attitude of the Republican legislative leaders to that of the delegate to Republican na- tfonal convention who exclaimed. Aft CT all. what are we here for if not for the otfieesT
 "Gentlemen. you cannot keep this up." he cried "fhe people are taking | notice these days You may grab off these offices in Fairfield county. hop ing thus to strengthen your organiza | ton there, but I want to say to you
 f will not strengthen your party The people are observing what goes on here toe closely for that. Give Us a
 reason why the will of the majority
 If the voters of this county should be
 set aside"
 Senator Woodruff closed the debate
 by saying that when eX-Mayor Mul-
 vihill was first elected mayor of
 Bridgeport he believed SD thoroughly in majority rule that he cleaned out every Republican otiiceholder. even t0 the ianitors. and nu Republican was heard to md fault
 The Mulvlhill resolution was defeat ed by strict party vote of 20 to 10 fNtiiNlbI Nltlh'N lHtl SbuEut+ uN Al norIty Leader Tingier had In the house the reference of all the remaining res olutions to the judiciary committee but the Democratic senate leader. him self member of thnt committee. op posed this. "Whom can you trust if not the peoplef' he asked There k no need of reference to d committee for q hearing
 The Republican nominees for county commissioner. fifteen in number. Com missioner Niutou of Poland county having previously been elected, were theH elected as the resolutions hearinc their names C0me along. the Demo ,rats voting against each one
 The house committee on contested elections has been steadily sitting meruiuss 10 hear thc evidence in the moro than sgore uf eases before Il and Monday of this week opened the ballot boxes of Tarrington for d re- count Technlealities in the Australian ballot had nothing to do with the con test here. which was a plain matter of count Almost every other ease hinges on the new ballot The committee has voted to report against the contestants in the Bmnfotd. oxford and Coventry cases.