The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-07
BALDWIN
 VETO UPON
 REST BILL Against Two Days Per Month For
 Operators
Veto for Loan Shark Bill and Glastonbury Schools
 Bill

The communications from Governor Baldwin are as follows:
 Hartford. June 7-Menorandurn to be filed with Senate bill No. 460, en- titled an act providing two days rest in each month for railroad employees.
 This is g. bill forbtddtng any rail- road from employing any train des- patcher or telegraph operators who are on duty seven days in the week without having at least two days of 24 hours each for rest every month.
 'One telegraph operator who ask ed me not to sign the biH says it would cost him one hundred and fifty dollars year. Another writes that it is entirely u18calIed for as they only work one-third of the time, the other two-thirds being rest and adds that 1t would endanger public safety to have new men brought in for two days month.
 'sI understand that there are six or seven hundred men in Connections whom this bill, if approved, would re- quire to be off duty once in fifteen days and 1t would obviously require some forty or fifty relief men to be employed to fill their places and TO- tate about from one part of the State to the other without an opportunity to become familiar with the conditions existing in any locality.
 eff there is any reason for changing the terms of employment of telegraph railroad operators, the public utilities commission has ample power.
 Memorandum to be filed with House bill No. 842, concerning license to loan money on security:
 tsTTais bill, which was passed on June 3rd, 1913 in one house and on June 4th, 1913 in the other, under a suspension of the rules, provides in tain license from the town clerk of his town annually at cost of $100; to produce his books and accounts for examination by the town clerk at least once a year.
 ssThe term loan broker Is a broad one. The person drawing the bill probably meant that it should only apply to loan brokers of a peculiar kind, sometimes popu1a-iy denomin- ated loan sharks but the terms are so broad that do not think ought to sign the bil1''
 Memorandum to be filed with House bfl1 No. 20S, entitled an act concerning the laying of an equalization tax for the resumption of district mana cement of schools.
 4eThis seems to be a Dill designed for the rights of the second school district of Glastonbury under a judg- ment which was secured from the su- perior court in Hartford county against the town of Glastonbury.
 By an amendment passed in both l houses in the two closing days of the session this section was struck out and a section substituted to the effect that the town of Glastonbury might aban- don the control of public schools within said town and re-establisn the district system of school manage ment
 T am of the opinion that the bill as presented to me is an objectionable piece of special legislation. 2 f1o-,Ar,a<r RaId. win yesterday vetoed another bill adopted by the last general assembly, that concerning the pollution of wa l ter supplies.
 l Tn his veto memorandum Governor Baldwin says: This bi11 gives the l state board of health power, if fl should find the public water supply of I any municipality impure. to notify the managers of the supply, and if on a hearing 1t finds that changes are nee essary in the source of supply or In l the mode of purifying the water, to order such changes, subject to an ap- peal to the superior court
 'tThe public utilities commission under the public acts of 1911, which created it, has the power, on com plaint of any defects in any portion 1 of the plant or equipment of any pub- lie service company, including water | companies, or of the manner of oper- ating the plant, by reasons of which ] the public health is endangered, to in- vestigate. and if it finds conditions to 1 be dangerous to public ssafety. make any order necessary to remedy 1t, sub. l ject to an appeal to the superior court 1 4tIt Is undesirable to have similar | powers in such a matter belonging tc two independent tribunals. It seems l to me that the public utilities com mission, having general Jurisdiction l of all public service companies, is the ir,z,r k<Sv r~< | inpurity in a, public water supply, and 1 that the bill now before me, whicE 1 was passed at the heel of the session l on June f. does not merit my approval
 1I therefore withhold my signature l Simeon F. Baldwin,
 ''Governor''