The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-30
CAPITOL SCENE OF
 GREAT ACTIVITY
Raft of Business Goes Through Both Branches of General
 Assembly

eSI odyS or the session was recorded at the Capitol yesterday when a raft of business went through both branch es of the General Assembly,
 In the House, a bill for a state farm TOT 1neDr1ates was rejected with the that a new bill will be in by the committed An other proposed health bill which was rejected was that providing that per- sons suffering from tuberculosis who are found on the streets should be committed to county sanitariums.
 A bond bill for Waterbury to per- init the issuing of police, fire sta tlons and water bonds; a bill chang wich and creating a board of finance and increasing the powers of the Ham cen selectmen were reported favorably by the cities and boroughs commit tee.
 Representative Baldwin. of Meriden, orfered an amendment to the bill reg ulating driving on the highway It provides that all vehicles using the highway shall display a red flag at least a foot sqaure in the day time The bill with it's amendment was made the order of the day for Thurs day. The bill as drawn provides that all vehicles other than motor vehicles shall carry light visible at 200 feet after nightfall.
 Representative Healy spoke against the bill requesting Congress to pro- pose to the states an amendment to the constitution for the election of a president and president by the people. It was declared carried after a division of the House by a vote
 of 11S to 9. Scores of mem bers did not vote.
 In the Senate resolution offered by Senator Perry was passed, providing a committee of five Senators and ten Representatives to confer and decide on the matter of session days. MT. Perry said that whatever recornmen- dations this committee should make to daily hours and week days should
 be considered as ruling. MT. McNeil thought the weak part of the resolu- tion was that it provides for a report. He said the report may be indefinitely delayed and nothing will be gained He believed the Senate should go ahead with it's work and show the Senator McDonough said that as a good Democrat he did not believe in night. sessions. AS a Democrat, he was against doing business under GOV CT of darkness. He favored the Perry resolution as did MT. Isbell and it was finally carried.
 The Senate passed a bill for a gem eral law under which State banks and trust companies may organize, in-i stead of asking for special charter. The debate was a resumption of that indulged in on two previous occasions and amendments which had been of fered and which were offered by Sen ators Isbell, McDonough, Perry and Quinn were under consideration. The amendments adopted provide that company shall have 12 months instead of six in which to complete organiza- tion without forfeiture of charter and reducing the par value of the capital stock necessary to start business by one-half, so that in places of 15,000 a bank may start with $25, 900 instead of $5O.OOO, and so on as provided in the original bill.
 Tn the House, MT. Stoddard, of Woodbridge, offered an amendment to the report of the committee on Fish and Game allowing persons over 16 years of age who are not aliens, to obtain hunters licenses. The amend ment provided that the hunter must first obtain permission of the land owner. The amendment was opposed by the committee. MT Johnson, of Holland said that only yesterday he found his fences cut to pieces by hunt CTS Mr. Kelly, of Windhann, said the present law protects fully the farmer and constitutes the land owner an of ficer to arrest trespassers. The de- bate was somewhat extended and 1t was finally rejected and the bill pass ed as originally reported.
 The House then took up the order of the day which was the bill provid- ing for 14 towns within the city of New Haven MT. Griswold, speaking for the committee, said that the ma iority felt that the proper method Of changing representation ins the House was through a constitutional amend ment. MT. Pardee, author of the bill, said he wished he had the ability to rise to the occasion. He said there was no question of the legality of the method of changing the representa- ton. He then took up the argument in favor of creating the new towns within the borders of municipalities. He quoted figures showing the ratio of representation which now exists andA the way in which a few towns with a few hundred voters entirely outweigh the representation of the majority of the population of The state The New Haven IA town bill was finally rejected by a voice vote in which there were only three mega lives heard This forecasted the fate of other bills calling for additional towns in Bridgeport, Meriden, Hart ford and Waterbury.
 When the bill incorporating four towns in Waterbury was taken up MT. Stebbs of Ansonia moved indefinite postponement. This brought fur ther debate and MT. Law1er of Hart ford, said that the Senate, even though it was controlled by the cities, was doing honor to itself and state. The vote on the motion to indefinitely postpone was doubted and upon g. ris~ ing vote the count showed 204 for and 30 against. The bill incorporating 10 towns in Hartford was immediately Indefinitely postponed as was that re- lating to Bridgeport.
 The Senate, by @ vote of 16 to 1, passed in concurrence with the House t17o tr.ol1er to pay coat room messenger and assistant superintendents of the capitol the legislative mileage at the close of the session.
 Resolutions already passed by the House appointing James F. Meskill judge at New Britain and George G. Griswo1d and Charles F. Lewis deputy judge at Berlin, were adopted There