The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-11
MILEAGE BILL OF SEN. PECK
 IS ADOPTED
Senate And House fin Concurrent Action On
 Question
Matter of Rail Road Transport alton Is Now Up tO GOV
 ernOT Baldwin

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 Hartford, March 1.-The General Assembly, to4az. had "a lot of blasi- ness on it's hands. The Rouse passed a bill compelling common carriers Co give free transportation to mer1hers of the legislature The Senate. ou ths other hand, passed q relief reagufe allowing members to begin s3ra.vlnes their constitutional mileage a11oTanea beginning with this month. Tho two measures passed each other in fraua- mission from one to the ofrer rrdy. The measure which was paEsd fz as follows:
 Section 1-During each regular aas- sion of the General Assembly each member thereof shall be entitled d8 receive from the treasurer Of the ssass as compensation and mileage the sum of $60 and one mileage each way as the rate of 25 cents mile within the first 10 days-of Februarys and -tfzMre- after the sum of $80 within ti1e-hrsf 1c days of each succeeding month until the sum of sSOO has been paid each member.
 Section 2-In case of final adjourn ment at a date earlier than the uax1- mum allowed by law, the balance re- mafning of $500 shall become dfse aad payable at once.
 Section 3Eectton e4s5 Of
 erai Assembly dfvIslon of all other acts and parts of sets f1- consistent herewith are hereby Fs- pealed.
 .ssectfon 4-This act shall take sg- feet from it's passage.1
 When the free pass bdu was taken up in the Senate, there was some de- bate on 1t and the matter was put to vote. the bill passing 1z Eo 1O Thfr puts the matter of free trangpor&aLtlals mp to Gov Baldwin
 Senator Lester o. Peek, in explain ing the measure said that sirnsiaF law was operating in New Jerssy- 1G was no-shsrdship to the railroad cDHH- pz1ry, sses said .-- While he perBcually could afford to pay his fAfes he te5E that the bill was in the interests rr many other members of the 1eBis1a- tor who had accepted the nCnzinatior with tl1e/ expectation that the usua1 practice of transportation wouId De followed
 The House completed it's roll call on the motion of Representative liar ris, of Sharon, to indefinitely pestpoue the Peck minority report on the 4e@- isIatiye mileage which would compel railroads to give free transportatl1n to-. members. As soon as Cfssrsa4sl Parsons had made. his prayer on Thursday, last, the roll call twice dzs~ closed no quorum which compelled the adjournment of the House Just be- fore that the House had rejected the bill providing for transportation iz- sued by the comptrOlIer as usual spgith any reaneSts f9r the same f0 De made in a way yet to be provided The Peck bill provides free transpoFta4ion by amending the charters Of all com mon carriers in the state. The roll call, today showed 240 members pres ent, necessary for choice 1OS. Those voting against definite postponemenr 1IOt for postponement 1O4, and the mo- ton was declared lost amid appia4aee. Representative LaNlers of Hartford then moved passage of the Peek re- port and Representative Wilson. or Bridgeport. had the previous question ordered so there was further de- bate The bill was passed 1os to a MT Bree, of New Haven, moved ra- consideration in the hope that 1t wClf4A prevail and the motion was voted down and the House ordered the Pee@ bill immediately sent to the SenarA4 Representative AIcorn4 of SufHetd then moved that when the House ad5ourna4 1. it stand adjourned until March 25- Atrz Koppe1man was against this F HanIey said it would be just as welE to adjourn until June as far as 0Hs- mess was concerned. Other RepT@- sentatives voiced their disapprOval cz such adjournment and the motion ~a@ lost
 Tn the House, there was a long de- bate on the personal. tax bin and ou roll call. repeal of the bill was refused by a large margin An unfavorabIe report on the New London harbor appropriation repeal bill in the Senate was ordered print ed The committee stood Il Co against repeal, Senator Peck being the only one for repeal.
 The Senate unanimously voted for James P. P.1Tobin, of East Hartford for state auditor.
 The following unfsvorable report was received: From the judiciary com nittee. make death the penaltF fer Kidnapping.
 Favorable reports were received as follows: Increasing the capital stock of the South Manchester Water Com pany to $75O,O00; extending the time for construction and changing the route of the Waterbury G MiIldale Tramway Company; extending ths time for the Norwalk & New Canaan Railway; extending the time for or ganizing the Summers Water Com pany.
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