The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-28

Hartford, May 2s-In the House, the judiciary committee reported unfaVor- ably upon the Wilson resolution to investigate the New York. New Ha- ven & Hartford Railroad. MT. Will son said that the General Assembly had the right to know whether or not the State received it's just dues from the railroad company. There was so much diStur bance in the House that MT Wilson objected. The speaker
 called for order and then MT. Wilson resumed his speech, saying that the state would lose a million dollars in. taxes in the. next ten years. He said the president of the road testified that he had epecu1ated in the stock of the road, that he took $100,0o0 to $200,- GOO to use for political purposes. MT. Wilson said he wanted to know wheth- CT Republicans or Democrats got this money.
 He said it did not affect the dignity and honor of the House so much as the fact that the chief counsel of the road had testified that he had used the money so successfully in affecting the opinion of the General Assembly that he got an unanimous vote
 MT. Healy said that if Mir Wilson
 was sincere he would read the report of the interstate commerce conmis- sion He also said that the United States government had been investigat- ing the New York, New Haven x liar tford road and the government ex- perts could get far more information than the state could. The bill was re- jected by a vote of 127 to IA
 The Senate ordered the payment Of
 the bill incurred in the Hurley bribery investigation by special comm1tSee and the inquiry into the fitness of
 William H. Caldwell to be highway commissioned, the nomination having been rejected. The total Of the bill inn
 about $400.
 Upon the heels of the House action upon the bill to give the public ut1ll- ! ties commission supervision over the 1 securities issued by public service cor porations, Senator Perry, today, offer | ed an amendment in effect a substitute bill providing that the commission shall have oversight over all mergers or leases of these corporations. He said that therk was objection to per mitting the commission to have any thing to do with the stocks and bonds of the companies, but none so far as he knew to it's having supervision over
 the physical side of these corpora tions. He went on to say that the public Is demanding this legislation and he said that if it had been a law the United Electric Light & Water Company charter amendment which was passed, yesterday, would not have come before the General Assembly be- cause it would have been passed upon by the committee.
 Senator Gaylord spoke in favor of this amendment and the Senate ac- cepted and adopted the bill unani- mously, sending it to the House.
 In the Senate. the bill extending rights to the Norwich, Colchester & Hartford Traction Company to De cember, 1914 with a further exten- sion to the next General Assembly if 25 per cent. of the road is built, was adopted. The company is also given the right to increase it's capital stock to not exceeding s2,0o0.0G0.
 The amended Thames river bridge bill in which the state will receive the bridge and the railroad company is given the right to locate it's new bridge three hundred feet above the old one was adopted in concurrence. E The Wilson resolution for govern ment ownership of the New Haven road was rejecte,1 in concurrence.