The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09
GENERAL ASSEMBLY Hearing on Open Week for Shooting Deer Is Ordered
 Next Tuesday
Governor Baldwin Signs Anti Free Lunch BiII--Effective
 July 1

1 Hartford, April 9-The proposal to
 have weeks shooting of deer in the | fall will be debated in the House next 1 Tuesday at noon, as the order of the
 day. The open season is favored by | the committee and the bill is now be-
 fore the House
 1 Gov. Baldwin will nominate Andrew
 F. Allen, of New Haven, to be Food
 and Dairy Commissioner to succeed 1 Commissioner Potter when his term 1 expires. The nomination will prob ably go in tomorrow
 | The House passed bill authoriz- 1 ing New Haven to issue $20O, 900 bonds
 for pavement purposes.
 After killing a bill removing pro- l lection on black birds, the House re-
 considered it's action and removed
 protection only on crow black birds Gov. Baldwin today signed the law abolishing free lunch in saloons after July l, next. He also signed 12 other 1 special acts and three public acts. The 1 House bill which was passed, yester- l day, ratifying the constitutional 1 amendment for the popular election
 of United States Senators, is being en-
 crossed. The action of the legisla- ture was reported to Washington by | the secretary of states office. The Senate, by a party vote, the Democrats in favor. today, adopted
 the resolution asking Congress to pro- pose to the states an amendment to
 the constitution for the election of the President and the Vice-President by a direct vote of the people.
 1 A favorable report was made for | the amendment of the charter of the l Bridgeport Trust Company.
 In the House, today, Speaker Web ster called MT. Thoms, of Waterbury, to the chair. When prayer was of- | fered there were scarcely 100 mem l bers in attendance. The committee | on new towns reported by a major ity against and by a minority in favor of the bill incorporating num- erous new towns in New Haven
 Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury and
 Meriden. These reports were tabled
 for calendar and printing. The min
 ority reports are signed by three members. MT. Magee said that the secretary
 is either worth $5,00O year or
 nothing and if there is anything the matter with him the assembly ought
 not to try to get at him in this way. He praised the member of the state board and said that the board rais- ed the salary and the assembly ought not to go back that action. MT. Wilson said it was bad prin- cfple to allow this board to fix sal
 aries and MT. Magee said that the
 gentlemen from Wilmington and Bridgeport were looking at the mat
 ter from the wrong point of view.
 MT. Hall said that he had no per sonaI objection to the raising of the salary but he did not like the prin-
 ciple involved in the method. By a
 rising vote of S9 to A the House
 suspended the rules. Just 89 votes
 were necessary to suspend the rules,
 and the resolution was sent to the
 education committee in concurrence.
 The judiciary committee reported
 unfavorab1y a bill which provides
 that no person, firm, corporation or
 association or employe thereof, shall make any false statement in any ad- tvertisement in the newspapers or a circular or by card, concerning the nature, method of production or for sale. The penalty is fixed at not less than $1O nor more than $500 for violation.
 The Cities and Boroughs committee will report adversely a bill offered by Representative Wilson to allow Bridgeport to manufacture and sell gas and electricity and to establish a municipal water plant.
 The Excise committee has unani- mousIy voted against limitations of saloons to one in a thousand in1Dajbit- ants. It has not decided on the bill to permit hotels of 25 rooms capacity to sell liquor on Sunday to bona fide guests, and it is likely a substitute bill will be reported covering this sit uation to some extent.
 The Excise committee has reported adversely the bill increasing licenses to $750, but it is expected that an ef- fort will be made in the House to pass this bill in spite of the commit tees action instead of trying to over turn the adverse report on the 1irnita- ton bill.