Putnam patriot., 1915-05-14
SENATE PASSES
NEW SUNDAY BILL
Measure Permits Motion Pic
lures And Sports On Sabbath
Judiciary Committee Favors Change
Making lneurable Insanity Ground
for Legal eparation-Plans IN
der Way for Adjournment.

(Speeial Hartford Correspondence
Hartford. The senate passed. with.
out opposition. a bill TO permit Sunday
motion picture and Sunday sports for
which no admission fee is charged
Although the bill grants little. it is
taken on the whole as a step towards
a more liberal Sunday observance
The bin will, for one thing, settle the
question of Sunday tennis, Sunday
golf and Sunday amateur baseball 1t
will also permit the holding of enter.
tainments on Sunday when no ad
mission is Charged right, however.
which had never been seriously ques,
toned.
The change in the Sunday law. as
provided for in the bill. is as follows:
Election 2. The provisions of sec
ton l shall not be construed to pro,
hibit any amateur game. picture ex
hibition, concert or other amateur
recreation on Sunday, provided such
game, picture exhibition, concert OF
recreation shall not disturb public
worship or the public peace, and pro
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or received, directly or indirectly.
section 8. Sections /, 2 and OF
chapter 119 of the public acts of 1913
are hereby repealed"
New Divorce Law.
The judiciary committe reported &c
the senate an amendment to the dt
.vorce law which would make incurable
insanity a ground for divorce The
question of whether insanity should be
made a ground for divorce has beer
a much discussed one in Connecticut
for many years. It has been the prac
tice for the legislature to grant di.
yorees for incurabIe insanity, but the
legislatures of the state have never
seen fit to delegate that power to the
courts.
The bill provides that insanity may
be ground for divorce when both the
husband and the wife are residents OF
this state. if either has become incur.
ably insane after marriage and has
been legally confined in a hospital OF
asylum for the insane for at least i've
years next preceding the date OF the
bringing of the complaint of such &C
ton. A section provides that wher
a divorce is so granted that the eourl
on application of either party or th'
guardian of the insane spouse, or O
any person, town or municlpalit,
charged with the support OF the wife
or the insane husband, shall make al
order requiring support, but no oil
vorced wife shall receive support from
the estate of the insane former nus
band. is she re-marries.
All energies of the leaders of the
General Assembly from now on vii
be bent towards bringing about al
adjournment on May 18th without thu
customary last minute crush OF meas
ures.
It is expected that a resolution vii
go into both branches providing tina
no REPORTS of committees on bills il
hand will be received later than thu
end of the week. Passage of this reso
luton is anticipated. Passage of thi
resolution is anticipated. 1t is doubt
full if a measure of this kind has beef
used previously to expedite business
in a closing session. OF about eight
matters in the hands of committees
the bulk is reposing with two com
mittees, and those interested in then
do not know any particular desire
to get these matters reported. II Il
said that a number of bills are will
the interpretations committee, which
are being held back although hearings
have closed. The cities and borough'
committee has the Meriden ant
Stamford charter revisions but can
not report them as there are disagree
ments among those interested IN the
respective charters. Under the pro
posed resolution matters now in com
mittee stage will die there is not re
ported by Friday.
It is expected that an amendment
to the appropriation bill will be Offered
to provide 81 900 900 for state aid fol
town roads for the highway depart
ment. The sum of two millions was
cut out of the departments estimates
by the appropriations committee. Tn
der the bill as it now stands II /!
claimed no new highway construction
will be possible during the next two
years for lack of funds.
Another bill which is TO come in il
the general home rule bill which il
is understood gives wide latitude Z
a municipality accepting it as means
of revising its own charter. Cities
are not obliged to accept it, and it is
predicted that New Haven and Water
bury will prefer their own home rule
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