Putnam patriot., 1911-02-17
Special pondence. ]

ed In sens,e-House Considers Ad-
 ,ournmsnt to Next Winter In April
 Especial CorrespOndencs.I
 Hartford. Conn. Feb. l5 The state senate today settled the attitude of fhe Connecticut legislature on the Ca nadlan reciprocity treaty by passing ibe Banks resolution passed by the buuse last week by vote of 2I tO 6 The matter came up at the instance Of Senator Eenu. who said he hoped ae. ton would be deferred on il, however ss fine house WHs even then consider ing sending # committee Of recall 10 got II back There WAS a somewhat lengthy debate over this point. which ,uded in the senate voting to take t from the table. and tbe resolution in- dnrsing the reciprocal trade agreement in the treaty Was before Che senate.
 Senator Woodruff Ied the supporters ni thp resolution and Senator Alsap the aftaeE on it and on the treaty. HMh are extensive farmers and spoke from thai standpoint the argument against fhe treaty In Connecticut and made during the discussion by Senator ftHn being that f dis rlminatcs ih favor Of tbe manufacturer and against fna agricalturiSi
 Senator Woodruff upholds Treaty.
 Senator Noedlun could see 10 real taTdship iH the treaty He said thm 4 would ade.t Connecticut principally ae to fom commodities gats hay. pc fhioes and turnips If wouldn3 affect the price of oafs more than 1 cent T burheI if that and the Connecticut farmer WIS obliged to buy his oats ,-e..;;-. |. .,,iii,iitt tfuiiiui,i, ini-,- fL~m If the freight on hay was Ss-50 per lon. ns has been stated the Con nectient farmer who buys more than half of hls hay from outside the state ought to be able to compete with Ga= uadian hay The Canadian farmer can pnt his potatoes into Connecticut at g. barrel, and the Connecticut farm CT ought 10 be willing to do this, for fo attempt to get more is unfair to his brother who works In the factory Ca nadian turnips will come into Connee- tirut regardless of the price. for they nre sweeter and better owing to the climate in which they are raised
 ''rhe time has eome,' he concluded. when we have got to get behind President Taft and hold up his hands g. this matter. for he did not mnke this move until the conditions had made fl absolutely the thing to do
 Senator Alsop had copy Of the treaty in hand and brought out the fact that several senators who were ao positive in their statements about 3t had moi read il or seen It He went into his schedules in some detail to show how unfair he deemed if.
 Fem Reads Resol lutions.
 Tn opposing Il Senator Fem read resolutions from the state grange, the Connecticut Pomological society and he Hartford Market Gardeners asso= eiatioH condemning the treaty and said that his district was practically unanimous against it.
 The six senators who voted against ths resolution were Messrs, Fem, Hooker. Alsop and Elliott Republic ans. and Donovan and Foster Demo erats
 The senate also passed the Banks resolution providing for a special com mission to investigate combinations in restraint of trade in household com modties, foodstrffs, lee, coal. etc
 While the upper house was debating inc treaty resolution the house had up fhe matter of recall twice. but finally voted against it II passed resolu rion indorsing the Sulloway pension bin and held long discussion of the resolution under which the general assembly would adjourn in April t0 meet next January This was finally made the order If the day for March gs
 Governor Makes Nominations
 Governor Baldwin sent to the senate today his ir.t appointment of moment that of Burton Mansfield of New Haven Insurance commissioner from 3s.G to iSgf to hc insuwuJe coumis vioncr in place uf Colonel Theador, Macdonald tlc also sent the rcap0out ments of ir F. k Root or Hartford aud Lewis Sherp ot Fast Windsor te Yhe state board of beallh and Edward ii Rehh~ af Hartford te the state board of ed0ration Speaker Scott appointed as the house members of the special commission ob state printing Representatives Banks uf fairheld. Johnson of Manchester Bronson ot Washington aud Nolan of Hartford The last named is Demo crat
 The Republican senators have in formally greed 10 refuse to approve the nominations of Governor Baldwin for highway commissioner insurance commissioner and one of the bank commissioners, whose term runs out shis year fl he sends in the names of Democrats according to expectation and t ls pointed out that Co permit enough Republicans to vote with the Democrats to turn down Judge Welch would have been good tactical move
 Another matter which was masSco by the senate that day was the reso lution offered by Judge Banks ane passed by the house the day heforv providing commission of one senator t0 be appointed ny the president pro seni, and four members ef tue house to be appointed by the speaker tor the Jurpese of Investigating the whole Sui- 1ecfof state printing
 Thursday of iast week proved a far ly eNeniful day which started with the presentation to the house of res *lutien from pr. Knight of Salisbury