Norwich bulletin., 1915-05-11
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the general appropriation bill. Other committee unfavorable reports were placed in the discard and therefore ob- stacIes to early adjournment were re- moved. The unfinished business of the session of 1913. lodged in the office of the secretary of state will remain there without legislative action, in compliance with the report of the spe-
 ciaI committee on unfinished business. So that. from now on the main at tention can be given to matters on the calendar.
 Labor and Factory Inspection. An act was passed establishing a. state department of labor and factory
 inspection, in which shall be consol-
 dated the functions, prerogatives,
 powers and duties of the bureau of
 labor statistics and of the factory in
 spector, is created. which shall be un-
 der the direction and control of a com
 missioner of labor and factory inspec-
 tion, whose term of office shall be four years from the first day of July next
 succeeding his appointment. The con- missioner will receive salary of S4,000
 a year, and a deputy will receive a salary of $1,S00 and expenses.
 Club License in Peril.
 The committee of conference for the
 consideration of the licensing of so-
 cial clubs and fraternal associations
 and societies, to dispense intoxicating
 liquors to members. made report that
 the house should adhere to its action
 and that the senate should adopt the bill as passed inu the house. This
 means that the measure is liable to
 die between both houses, as the senate will probably also adhere to it's former action, which would not grant club privileges in no-Hcense towns.
 Chatham Colchester Bridge. ! rivers, through MT. Macdonald, unfa- vorably reported on the act for the counties of New London and Middle sex to assume the maintenance of the bridge over the Salmon river between the towns of Colchester and Chatham. which had been maintained by these towns since 1762. MT. Macdonald ex- p1ained that nearly all the senators and representatives from New London and Middlesex counties appeared in opposition at the hearing. The report
 was accepted and the bill rejected. An act was passed providing that the directors or trustees of any home or reformatory institution, with the advice and approval of the governor may discharge from such institution and transfer to the Connecticut School for Imbeciles. any minor who in their judgment is a proper subject for said school, and the superintendent there of shall receive and care for such minor as though regularly committed. i There shall be taxed by the comptrol- Ter two and One-half dollars a week for each week such minor shall remain at said school for imbeciles, and the su- perintendent of said school shall make a bill therefor quarterly and present it to the governor, upon whose ap- proval it shall be paid by the state treasurer, and the balance shall be paid by the parents or grandparents of ,,,,I,-1 per, by the town in which such minor belongs
 No Change in Work Hours The house concurred with the sen ate in rejecting the bill which would
 change from 58 to 55 hours a week as l the working schedule of women and
 minors in mercantile establishments. OIeomargarine Bill Killed. The amended bill in regard to the manufacture and sale of oIeomarga- rine indefinitely postponed in the sen ate, received like fate in the house. Collections by State.
 The senate disagreed with the house action in the bill which provided for the collection of money due the state, which carried with it a deputy attor-
 ney general authorized to collect and with a. salary attached of S1,800. The house insisted and committee of con- ference was decided upon. Messrs. Hyde of Manchester and Williamson of Darien were appointed to the com
 mittee.
 Norwich Colchester Hartford. An act was passed in concurrence with senate action amending the char fter of the Norwich, Colchester and that the time within which the Nor wich, Colchester and Hartford Trac- ton company, incorporated by a reso- lution passed at the January session of the general assembly, 1907, may con- struct it's railway is extended until December 1, 1916, and if the pub lie utilities commission shall find on that date that at least 25 per cent. of the lines of said corporation have
 been constructed, said rights shall be | extended and remain in force until the rising of the general assembly at | it's January session in 1917.
 Group Compensation Insurance. An act concerning workmen's com
 pensation insurance, which reads as
 follows, was passed:
 Section 1. Whenever any employer
 of labor as defined in chapter 138 of | the public acts of 1913 and amend
 ments thereto shall insure his Iia-
 bility under said act as a.mendde, with
 any company authorized to transact a | compensation insurance business in
 this state, the contract of insurance
 between such employer of labor and
 such insurer shall be. a contract for
 the benefit of any emp1oye who shall sustain an injury arising out of and
 in the course of his employment by
 such insured by reason of the bus mess operations described in the pol 1 icy while conducted at any working
 place therein. described or elsewhere
 in connection therewith, or in the event of such injury resulting in death, for the benefit of the dependents of such
 employe. Every such policy shall con-
 tain an agreement by the insurer to
 the effect that the insurer shall be di-
 rectly and primarily liable to the en-
 ploye and, in the event of his death
 to his dependents, to pay to him or tc them the compensation, if any, fo1
 which the employer is liable, provided
 payment in whole or in part of such
 compensation by either the employer
 or the insurer shall to the extent thereof be a bar to the recovery
 against the other of the amount SC paid.
 Sec. 3. When a claim for compen-
 sation by any such injured employe
 or the dependent of an injured em- ploye of an employer who has in-
 sured his liability as aforesaid, shall
 not result in a voluntary agreement and hearing before a compensation