Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-04-01
IN THE SENATE.
Rejected Bill Giving Governor Author
ity to Appoint Police Court Judges.

Hartford, March 31.-The committee
on judiciary reported unfavorably on
the BILL introduced by Senator Lewis
of the Thirty-fourth district, for the
adjustment of capital punishment.
The bill provides that the penalty for
murder shall be imprisonment for life,
but that every person who commits
murder, while under sentence of inn
prisOnment for life. shall be hanged
by the neck until dead"
On the motion of Senator Klett
the report of the committee was made
1890.
Reports of Committees.
Judiciary-Unfavor on bill re-
pealing the act creating the town court
of Norwalk relating to the appoint
ment of prosecuting attorney and
clerks by abe judges: repeating chap
tiers 4,70S, 4,709, 4,710, All and ALE
of the general statutes concerning the
appointment of members of state
board of mediation and arbitration;
concerning duties of probation officers
Bills rejected.
griculture--Favorable on bill con-
| corning the grading, packing and sale
of apples in standard closed packages
Calendar.
Officers of Savings Banks.
The following bill was passed:
| Section I. No more than three ex-
| ecutive officers Of any savings bank
shall be officers of any one bank OF
| discount or circulation, and no treas
urer of any savings bank having de-
! posits of over five hundred thousand
dollars shall be cashier of any banl
| of discount or circulation.
| Sec. .. For the purposes of thi:
| act, the directors of a bank of dis
count or circulation and the trustees
| of a savings bank shall not be con.
| sidered as officers.
Sec. 8. Section 3443 of the genera
| statutes is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effec
| from its passage.
| (Senator Talcott in the chair)
Amending Loan Shark Law.
The following bill was passed:
| Section one of chapter pa of th'
| public acts of 1914 is hereby amended
| to read as follows: No person, and NJ
| firm or corporation or agent thereof
| other than a paWnbroker as provided
| in chapter 235 of the public acts o
| 1905, shall, as guarantor or otherwise
| directly or Indirectly, loan money t
| any person and, directly or indirectl!
| charge, demand, accept or make an!
agreement to receive, therefor, inter
est at a rate greater than II per cen
| tum per annum.
Bill Reconsidered.
| Senator Alcorn moved that the sen
ate reconsider it's action in passin.
| the bill for the transfer of minors il
| reformatory institutions to the Schoo
for Imbeciles at LakeviIle. The mo
| ton passed and on the senator's mo
| ton the bill was tabled.
| Local Judges.
| The unfavorabie report of the com
mittee on the judiciary on the bill TO
| the nomination of judges of police ant
city courts by the governor was takel
| from the table on motion of Senate
Isbell, who moved the acceptance o
| the committees report and the rejec
| ton of the bill.
| The report of the committee was &C
| cepted and the bill rejected.
Reports of Committees.
! Public Health and Safety-Unfavor
able on bill concerning the use of fire
arms and dangerous toys by certain
minors; repeating the harbers' law
! Bills rejected.
| Judiciary-Unfavorab on bill con
| frming in the town of Westbrook tn
fee to certain land. Bill rejected.
No Friday Session.
| Senator Isbell announced that Their
would be no session on Friday.
The senate adjourned to Thursda,
at Ills.