Putnam patriot., 1913-02-21
SMALL AMOUNT OF BUSINESS.
House Has Parliamentary Tsngie Over Report of Committee on Seating.

House Has Parliamentary Tangle Over
 Report of Committee on Seating. 4 parliamentary isugle was the sole
 feature Of the short session Of the house. The house had under eonsid- eration the report Of the committee on 1 the assignment of seats. When the rerort vas read Representative Storrs Of Ansonia wanted to amend the re- port by allowing Representative Dem ing Of ColebHook to remain in seat 24, which be had taken and was occupy ing. instead Of removing te seat IT. fo which the committee had assigned him Seat 24 was assigned in the re-
 port to Representative O'Keefe Of Orange Deming is a Republican, but he seemed 10 like his seat in A. which Is on the Democratic side Of the house.
 Representative caine Of Naugatuek opposed the amendment for the com
 nlttee and Representative Eyarts fa- vored He seemed 10 think that Dem ing was all right where he was. and declared if if was necessary to move a Democrat over to the Republican side Of the house the Republicans would see that he was well taken care Of
 There Was MiN-Up.
 When Speaker Webster. on viva voce vote. declared the amendment carried. the decision was doubted and division of the house followed. This showed the amendment carried by vote Of 75 10 TO. Then a motion was made that the report as amended be adopted Another division of the house vas ordered and this motion was lost 73 10 Il Then there was mixup The speaker declared there was no motion before the house, and after motion 10 adjourn had been defeated one of the Democratic mem bers moved that the vote by which the amendment was lost be reconsid- cred.
 Ruling of Speaker.
 Speaker Webster ruled that the mo- ton 10 reconsider must first be ap- piled to the motion to adopt the re- port as amended The Democrats did not want that motion reconsidered.  ceed until Representative Healey of Windsor Locks the Republican lead | CT came 10 the rescue. He said that l as he understood fl. the defeat of the report as amended carried down with l if the amendment, and he suggested 1 that motion 10 adopt the original re- ! port was then in order Such mo ton was put and carried, and with ] the adoption Of the report as the only business Of the day, outside of the consideration of few bills. on which l there had been mixed references, the | house adjourned.
 Senate's Short Session. The Senate was in session just 12 I minutes. The Senators also straight ened out some tangled references. in- cluding the bill to compel the railroad companies to furnish transportation to the members of the general assembly | for the constitutional mileage. This was referred to the committee on l railroads.
 l Senator Refuses to Shake Hands. Senator Lester o. Peck. of the l Twenty fourth district, and Senator l Frederick A Johnson, Of the Twen- l tieth district, both Democrats. but who
 were on opposite sides in the vote on l the confirmation of Mir. Caldwell for 1 highway commissioner. met in the | Senate chamber before the opening of ! the days session. Senator Johnson. 1 who was in the vote against Caldwell. extended his hand 10 Senator Peck, | saying:
 Senator. now that 1t is all over let ! us shake hands"
 q decline to shake hands with you How can l shake hands with man who has vilihed and tradueed the dem ocracy of the State on whose ticket he and l were elected? l will not shake hands with you" replied Senator Peck.
 Senator Johnson did not reply, but walked out of the Senate chamber.