Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1913-06-13
General Assembly

ooial Hartford Correspondence
-3,ps-,ford-The House found itself
-, zoe measures behind the senate
!, made a desperate effort to
.b M. The most worried man IN
"a whele assembly was Speaker
.sns,er over the possibility of not
io.shine on time and he worked hard
rava The members save time ia the
a..nosal of business. He declared
~. a vas time the members realized
-. The business of the state must be
no and they must make up their
Sirds that they must be prepared to
lie little sacrifice in the doing of
=, business. Otherwise, he said,
.haro would be a great deal of I'M
snished business and If that happen
= ,be people of the state would say
hot the house was a very inefficient
body.
Amends Good Roads Bill.
The house rejected the good roads
hiII calling for an appropriation of
AZ 0Oo 000 for roads and adopted In
s,ead the appropriations committee
report. appropriating 100000 for
-oads This means that the bill must
% back to the senate, which passed
he good roads bill There were only
balf dozen in favor of the S., 900 600
bill
The house also amended the gen
eral banking law which passed the
senate last week. The amendment
strikes cut from the law the clause
giving the bank commissioners the
right 70 pass upon applications for
hank charters. 1t provides that any
sns Who has the money and complies
with otter requirements may have a
charter The amendment sends the
hill back to the senate.
Pass Running Board Bill.
The house passed unanimously tho
running board bill after amending II
so that the instruction OF public
service employee on the enforcement
Of public utilities rule must be
knowingly and wilfully done.
One OF the biggest fights was over
two Orange matters, the acts estab-
fishing a police commission In the
town, and the act raising the salaries
of the town court officers. Represen-
tatiVe Sherman offered an amendment
10 the first providing that the civil
service section of the act should not
apply to summer policemen. He inti
mated that someone was trying to put
something over on the town. Repre-
sentative O'Keefe replied that he
would rather have the bin defeated
than so amended He said that the
bill protected republicans more than
democrats for it provides that all po-
, fcemen in office on October Is next
shall be placed under the civil service.
The amendment was rejected and the
bill adopted.
The house also rejected Mr.. Sher-
mans amendment to the bill raising
the salaries of the court officials. His
amendment would keep the judges
salaries where they are now but cut
the prosecuting attorneys salary to
$500 from $500 and raised the as
sistant's to from S40o to $500.
The labor committees divided re
port on the bill to compel the rail-
roads to give two days rest in fifteen
to telegraph operators in the train
operating department. of railroads was
taken up.
The debate was vigorous and Sen
ator Perry's amendment cutting out
the provision that the rest days should
be paid for was defeated to g.
The finance committees report In
creasing the succession and Inherit
ance taxes on estates over $1,000j000,
was taken up, although it had not
been printed and adopted. Senator
Weed explained, when senators pro-
tested of the haste, that the bin had
beer examined by two probate judges
and the tax commissioner, and ii was
all right. also, that as 1T was legal
matter, senators would not be much
the wiser after reading 1t.
To the law passed this session in
creasing the pay of militiamen and
commissioned officers, an amend
ment was accepted, making 1t effect
i've at once. so that the soldiers win
benefit Ly it in the summer camps.
The bill providing means and meth
DDS CT making effective in Connect
cut the popular election of United
States senators, in accord with rati-
fcation Of the federal amendment to
the constitution, wss adopted.
The senate adopted the bill for
civil service system for state en-
ployes, which had been prepared by
the judiciary committee.
The first bill in the house was the
general banking law, under which 1t
was sntended all banks and trust com
panies ia the future must organize
Representative Hall of Wilmington ex-
plained that it changed the entire
state policy toward the organization
of Milford opposed the bill. Repre-
sentative Stoddard of Woodbridge fav-
ored the bill. and Representative Az
ery Of Groton said the bill before the
house would tend to create a mono
pos
Representative Koppleman favored
the bill, and Representative Kyle OF
Stamford favored it. Representative
Bugbee of Windham also favored the
measure. Representative Evarts NOV
ed that the bill be indefinitely post
poned, but the motion was lost by
vote OF II to IA.
Representative Hyde of Manchester
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