Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-05
Most Important Day of Assembly

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 MT. Eaton said the committee would be glad to cut out some appropriations, but were prevented by statutes. MT. King of South Windsor said the committee had given the bill careful attention and that the appropriation recommended was ample to care for the existing trunk line roads and to improve the same,
 Mir. Hall of Wilmington favored the Pendleton amendment, and said he was an advocate of good roads and believed the people should pay by direct tax and not increase the debt received. If there is any appropriation that benefits the small towns, it is tht appropriation fer roads. He would rather have a two and a half mill tax and get the good roads. We never had a man in any state department that served any bet ter than the present highway commits sioner, and he can make a dollar go as far and a little farther than any other state official.
 MT. Martin of Saybrook, of the hu- mane institution committee, stated that his committee had recommended need ed appropriations for humane institu l tions that are actually required. The money was needed more to aid the un- fortunates and the poor than a million for new roads.
 MT. Tinker of Montville spoke in fa- vor of the amendment and that noth- ing was needed more in state depart ments than good roads, and he hoped the amendment would pass.
 MT. Rogers of Litchfield did not be- lieve in marking time on the amend ment.
 Mr. Macdonald of Putnam said we l are in sad need for improved roads 1 and that 1t was a mistake to hold up road construction for two years. He disliked opposing the committee, but l he favored the amendment. l MT. Leavenworth of Wallingford was | opposed, as 1t meant material increase | in town tax or the issuance of bonds that must be paid some time by some | body. He said the state should go slow | and the members of the house exercise the same care they would to their own business and try and remain within the circle of income.
 Mr. Bowers of Manchester believed the present an opportune time to mark tunity to determine the improved road construction that Is sure to come. The | previous question, called for by MT. Martin of Orange, prevailed and the amendment offered by MT. Pendleton was put upon its passage and lost by a vote of 129 to 31.
 Another Million Amendment.
 MT. Peasley of Cheshire presented an amendment appropriating $1,000,000 for state-aid highways, saying that he believed in highway improvement by that method. He said he knew there
 
 amendment and therefore he had the courage to present the amendment even in the face of the opposition ex- pressed in the disposition of the other amendment for trunk line construction. | MT. Rogers of Litchfield said this amendment seems to be about the same kind of a bite and will probably meet the same fate as did the other amend ment.
 MT. Eaton of the committee on ap- | I1I>|T1 -iafi coid hi yh01o h1rCt had been thoroughly sifted and the ap- propriations recommended were the result of earnest and conscientious work.
 MT. Macdonald took occasion to deny a statement that had been made that the committee on roads, bridges and rivers had been ignored by the appro- priationS committee.
 This amendment was also defeated. The original bill was then passed. State and County Tax.
 An act concerning the laying of state currence with the senate which reads as follows:
 Section 1. Annually, on or before the first day of June, the state treas urer shall send to the town clerk of each town a statement of the amount of the value of the shares of stock of national banks and trust, investment and insurance companies owned by the residents of such town as determined by the board of equalization in accord ance with the provisions of sections 2331 and 2332 of the general statutes as amended. The sum of the assessment list of the town, the amount added to the grand list by the board of equaliza- ton, if any there be, and the amount of the value of thes hares of national banks, investment, trust and insurance companies as sent to the town clerk as aforesaid, shall be the grand list of such town upon which state and coun- 1 ty taxes shall be laid.
 1 Sec. 2. So much of chapter 250 of the public acts of 1911 as is incon- sistent herewith is hereby repealed.
 Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from it's passage.
 | Mir. Stoddard moved that the bill be tabled and printed in the journal. | Groton Land Accepted. An act was passed which provides that the offer of the owner of certain land in Groton adjoining the Fort Gris- wold tract to convey such land to the state. to be held with said Fort Gris- wold tract for the purpose of public park for the use of citizens of the United States, is accepted, and the comptroller is hereby authorized to accept a deed of the same and a deed of other adjacent land, if such adjacent land is purchased by the Fort Griswold tract commission, such deed to be in | such legal form as may. be approved by the attorney general. The Fort Griswold tract commission shall have the care and control of such land. Punishment of Prisoners.
 An act entitled an act concerning the Connecticut reformatory was pass ed in the house in concurrence with the senate which provides that every person who shall effect, or attempt to effect, the escape of any prisoner le- gally confined in the reformatory shall be imprisoned in the state prison not more than five years. Every person in the custody of an officer for trans portation to the reformatory who shall escape, or attempt to escape, and every person who shall attempt to escape from the reformatory, shall be impris- , oned in the state prison not more than ten years. Every inmate employed outside the bounds of the reformatory who shall attempt to escape shall be imprisoned for a term not longer than