The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-14

SpOnSibihty rest where it belongs. It any Likelihood of the Republicans in the lower branch making 8 party issue of certain measures. The members sition and with a fair degree of skill in leadership in the House there ought to be some good laws made next year without any serious friction.
 LEGISLATIVE LOBBYING.
 Oew Haven Journai-courier.)
 Lieutenant Governor -elect Tingier of ment that the Iieutenant-governor room in the state capitol will no long CT be thrown open ito the lobbyists and their friends as .. place of conven- tent refuge and practical conference. Almost in the same breath Comptrol- Ier-eIect Danny Dunn of Willirnamtic year be set aside for the use of the lobbyists
 Here we have a sexai-of1lcial asser- tion that in the past the retiring been freely used for lobby enterprises, and that where those rooms have been insufficient for the purposes of the 1ob- by additional rooms have been pro vided by the state comptrolIer. Of course they have been used in the way stated, but until now the lobby has never been told that it must look else where for quarters from which to di- rect their forces on the floor of the senate and on that of the House. We have indeed come upon interesting before it reaches Hartford If it is to be driven into the open and there made to ply its trade. the halls of leg Baldwin's second term may become as clean and wholesome as the halls of legislation in New Jersey have been under the single term of Governor Wilson.
 It is obvious, however, that Lieuten- Tngfer and Comptrol- Ter Dunn cannot be left to fight this Itself must come to their aid. Early in the session it should enact g. law providing for the registration of those counsel for petttiondng interests It is B very simple thing to do. Such a law certainly should not be objected nave had a year delightful for it's elirn- nation of the insolent political boss. l Let US have the year ahead of us made l sence of that crew of plotters and who know halls of legds- l alton only to exploit them and THE GRAND TRUNK SENSATION
 6springfeld Republican-)
 MT. MeIIen satirically says that the 1 astonishing order to stop work on the | | getts and Rhode Island, issued by the | presidents of the Grand Trunk from l Montreal, must be due to the weather. Mr. Chamberlain, president of the road | tself, announces that the suspension i If work for an indefinite period is Tue to the tight money market. pre- Journal speaking evidently for the | ,eopIe of Rhode Island. who are much | nterested in making the Grand Trunk | | competftoa. of the New Haven sys- ,nkI liar he ls, in all probability, the result of MT. | MeIlen's successful plotting since Charles M. Hays. former president of | oundering of the Titanic. The Jour | lal appeals to the interstate conn nerce commission ito prevent one of | he most shameful betrayals of the public ins the history of American | -aiFroa ding. :.
 If the Grand Trunk has really aiban- oned these railroad extensions in Mas Iachusetts and Rhode Island under | he circumstances as they now appear Q the public it cannot escape con fiction on the charge of the grosseaf Rhode Island from Palmer is half | quilt. Railroad bridges in many pla- | ,es have been constrlcted; city streets undergone many alterations to enable he road to have freight yards and passenger stations. It seems incred- abandoned, and left in i uch a state of contemplation, after he Rhode Island Legislature and the Massachusetts, authorities had granted o the Canadian road all the charter lights and facilities it desired in eaehing the sea
 We should regard the report as im- possible of belief but for two facts: Q 1 he money market may be tight, but [ is not tight enough to stop in this utilless style a small railroad exten- ion financed by so great and power ul a corporation as the Grand Trunk; 9, we printed yesterday morning the oIlowing significant dispatch from Concord, N. H.:
 A petition from the Sullivan County ailroad to the public service commits ion at Concord, N H., for an exten- ion of it's line from Claremont to Le- anon has been withdrawn. The rail- oad which is leased by the Boston nd Maine, had proposed to parallel n the New Hampshire banks of the river the tracks of the central Vermont railroad on the Yer lont side The Central Vermont is by the Grand Trunk Sys- am, The action of the New Haven com any in abandoning its scheme to par lIeI the Central Vermont railroad be- yeen the points named which was a hase of it's plan of retaliat tion, against { le Grand Trunk for invading Rhode sland and eastern Massachusetts, ornes precisely in conjunction with 1 le orders from Montreal to. stop ev- -ything in construction and lie idle ]