Putnam patriot., 1913-05-09
General Assembly


 without the consent of the Legisla- ture. The bill had already passed the | house Senator Isbell tried to amend the bill so as to take out of 1t some words which might cause a conflict with the State laws, but the demo crats of the Senate, headed by Sen ators Quinn and Frolich were afraid that if the bill were amended and 1t went back to the House, as it must, if amended, 1t might be beaten in that body. It will be remembered that House Chairman King of the Judiciary Committee was riled because Repre- sentative T.ee sent the bill for the city plan commission to the foot Of the calendar At that time Mir. King moved to reconsider the favorable vote of the house upon the home rule measure and he lost by only five votes Therefore, the New Haven Senators were pot anxious to send the matter back to the House again.
 Amendment Defeated.
 The part of the bill objected 10 by Senator Isbell was the clause permit ting the electors to change the boun- diary lines of the wards of the city He claimed that under that clause the boundaries Of ward might be changed or new wards created and in this way the Senatorial districts would become confused and possibly some of the electors would be deprived Of vote for Senators. It was said after the vote on the amendment which was defeated r to 10, that Senator Quinn would oppose an amendment to the general law which would obviate any chance of such a clause.
 Another bill came near defeat in the house. This was the proposed State law forbidding the sale of heroin and all other habitforming drugs except upon a regular prescription which could be used but once and which must be recorded. The bill includes opium. laudanum. morphine, aconite and all sorts of drugs. There was in. stant objection from MT. Bugbee. of New Milford. who claimed that the inclusion Of aconite would work hardship on the farmers. Dr. Alcorn said the bill was too drastic and was not the kind of legislation the house should pass.
 To Plaeatc Farmers.
 The house had just rejected in sue cession four favorable reports of the committee on public health and safe ty and things looked squally for this bill when Representative Bree. of New Haven got the floor. He said the bill was primarily intended to meet the heroin evil in the large cities He protested that some legislation ought to be enacted to prevent the sale of this drug as the habit now had con siderable number of victims in its tolls and that a general law was the only way to meet 1t. In order to pla- cate the farmers he offered an amend ment eliminating aeonite from the pro visions of the bill Representative Eyarts of Milford said he thought the bill as amended included too many things but he declared that he would be perfectly willing to vote for spe- cial bill pertaining to heroin and some of the other habitforming drugs. He moved that the bill be recommitted to the committee for that purpose and the house so voted.
 Lantern Bill Rejected.
 The house rejected the measure in- tended to compel all horse-drawn ve- hicles to carry lights after sundown. The principal speech against it was made by Representative Kirchberger of Norris He said that it was born at meeting Of the Connecticut Auto mobile Association at the Hotel Elton in Waterbury. He declared that there was no earthly reason why the horse drawn vehicles should be further reg ulated fin favor of automobiles and added that he drove horse and he knew as every other driver of a horse knew that horses were perfectly will ing to give an auto more than half the road every time they met and that there was no such disposition upon the part of autos He declared that he didn't want to send his wife to church on Sunday nights with a lantern The house also rejected bin intended primarily to de away with the common drinking cups at the fountain in the State capitol Sena- tor MeNeil introduced a bill to repeal the law creating oyster police and mud dumuine inspectors. The bill was admitted although it was new business
 Money for Schools.
 The appropriations committee re- ported hill for S1S0,O00 for the sup port of tho Connecticut school for boys. and s250 .000 for the maintenance ot the new Connecticut reformatory for men
 The committee on judiciary report ed fayorably a hill providing that flags and banners in procession shall be carried at least ten feet In the rear of the United States flag.
 The military committee reported fAvorably a bill tof ,... hngford and the bill was sent ,o thG appropriations committee.
 Governor Baldwin appointed Horace Kelsey. of Westhrook to be shell fish commissioner for four years beginning luly 1 next