The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-18
TO GET TO BUSINESS IN EARNEST NOW Civil Service Hearing On
 Wednesday Is Expected
 to Bring Fireworks RUSH OF BUSINESS IS. PROMISED THIS WEEK County Caucuses Scheduled for Tomorrow Afternoon
 On Commissionerships
, (speciaI to The Farmer. )

Hartford, Jan. 1S.-The General
 Assembly will get down to business in real earnest. this week. In addition
 to the raft of new business to be in
 troduced, the first hearings of the ses-
 sion are scheduled for Wednesday Iand Thursday.
 Some interesting developments are
 looked for Wednesday afternoon
 when the Judiciary committee will hold a, hearing on Senator Isbe1Ps
 proposed amendment to the Civil Ser vice Law. The amendment emascu- Iates the present law, as it leaves un- der the protection of the civil ser
 vice only one or two jobs of any con
 seuence in the State. The amend Democrats out of offices on which Republican workers had set their hearts, but which Attorney General Hinman ruled were under the protec- tive measures of the civil service. While there is little doubt that the Republican majority will jam the
 amendment through the committee
 and later through the General Assem- bly, there will be a considerable op- position voiced by the Civil Service Reform AsSOciaton. Prof. Henry W. F'arnan, president of that, organ izatfon, and Attorney Charles G. Mor- ris, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, will probably be heard from at the hearing in opposition to the amendment. Prof. Farnam in recent public statement said the amendment would make ''a farce'' of the law.
 Attorney. David E. Fitzgerald, chairman and Attorney P. B. O'Sulli- van, secretary, of the Democratic State Central Committee, also may be
 present to oppose the amendment. lon Thursday afterno9n, the Ju-. tdicfary committee will hold another 1 important hearing, on judicial nom l nations for short terms Most of
 recess appointments made by former Governor Baldwin expire on Wednes- day, and Tuesday has been set as the 1 last day on which nominations for the unexpired terms may be sent in- Many of the nominations have al
 ready been referred to the commit tee. Following the hearing Wednes-
 day, the committee will report imme- diate1y to the Senate on those nomin-
 ations to which there develops no op- position.
 It Is understood that Deputy Judge
 Frand l.. Wilder of Bridgeport will
 be renominated for the unexpired
 portion of his term. He will then
 serve until the first Monday in July, when his name will probably be l eliminated from the court officials by the nominations for the regular two
 year terms.
 There will be county caucuSeS on
 Tuesday afternoon to nominate candf-
 dates for county cornnissionerships Fairfield county's nominees probably
 will be Commissioner John BNophy, of Ridgeheld; Henry Crawford, of Greenwich; and Frank E. Ballard of Bridgeport.
 New Haven. county has developed 8
 serious fight over the commissioner
 ships, and now opposition threatens
 the renomination of Commissioner
 James J. Geddes and Jacob Walters, who have held office for many years.
 Among the candidates for the jobs in addition to Messrs. Geddes and Wal ters, are Mayor D. J. Donovan, of
 Meriden, John Wilkinson, of Orange;
 F. l.. Gaylord, of Ansonia; and D. l Walter Patten, of North Haven. 1 The resolution proposing a consti- tutional amendment for woman suf-
 frage will be presented in the house l tomorrow, and will be referred to the
 committees on Woman Suffrage and Constitutional Amendments. Hearings
 will be held later.
 Senator William H. Com1ey, jr., of
 Bridgeport, will introduce tomorrow
 several proposed amendments to the city charter, One of these provides for the maintenance of two taxing l districts, with the lines of the Second l district extended so as to include all but farmlands on the outskirts of the l rif