The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-17
LEGISLATIVE WORK ABOUT COMPLETE;
 ADJOURN TUESDAY

Hartford May I7-It now appears
 certain that the General Assembly is
 likely to reach final adjournment to- i morrow with it's work out of the way. Two years ago, with evening sessions and no end of hurry, the session ran to the constitutional limit in June and then the leaders threw overheard more than 100 matters by continuing them to the present session. This year nothing will be continued. ac- cording to the present outlook
 There are two bills in which a | measurable degree of interest cen ters, the jitney bill and the one con- 1 corning the succession tax. This lat ter is plant which blossoms and l bears fruit at every session. Year after year a committee tinkers with | the succession tax and produces a bill which covers a, number of pages of l the file Then, like the dress of a l frugal woman, it has to be made over, and made over it is at the next ses- sion It is asserted that. this year
 the rates are raised somewhat, es- l pecially on bequests passing to
 strangers, which means that, if the l decedent gives money to relatives | with whom he has fought consistent | Iy for a lifetime, the state will only
 take cent out of each dollar, as- l suming that the estate, is under S5o,- i 900, but if he gives it to stranger who may have been dearer t0 him
 than a. brother, the state will take 5 l cents from each dollar. At least, a
 reading of the bill indicates as much,
 but. only Heaven and a, few probate
 judges are assumed to know what it l means.
 The iitney bill has been one of 1 the. few things which the judiciary l HkI.. L- hurry. Senator IsbeH introduced l two amendments to the original bill turned in by his committee, one giv- l ing the local authorities power to adopt ordinances, and requiring the
 state secretary to furnish a list of those licensed to operate jitneys to | the town Clerks of the various towns, l and the second adds. lover a stated
 route' to the sentence declaring that l "every firm or corporation engaged 1 in the business of transporting pass
 engers for hire,'' in any automobile,
 motor vehicle or other power driven vehicle shall be a common carrier." l The phrase lover a given route''
 comes in after the word. e-vehicle,''
 Senator salmon had two amend l ments. One provides that it shall
 not be necessary for the driver of a I vehicle, licensed as a common carrier l to have the license in or on the vehi= 1 c1e. It also provides for a special circular marker, five inches in dianae-
 ter, or rather, for five such markers, one to be carried in conspicuous
 place on the front of each motor ve- | hic1e. The second amendment pro- vides that t"This act shall not apply
 to any taxicab or livery motor vehicles nor to any motor vehicle in which 1 passengers are carried upon the pay | Fo if
 or over 10 cents.''
 i Senator Salmon was inclined to question the antecedents of Senator | IsbeIPs measures and amendments and the two senators held a confer ence Friday afternoon in an effort to
 get together. At present the Senate does not seem to. be harshly disposed toward the jitney and it is too late I in the session for either house to con- vert the other.
 This evening ought to be a fairly
 pleasant one at the Hartford Golf Club, when the Senate of 1915 will meet for it's va1edictory remarks. 1 Each Senator will. have the oppor- l tunity to remark that the session has
 been the event of his lifetime; that | he has made friendships of an endur- | ing nature, that his heart has been touched by the courtesy of the op- position, that he has been impressed 1 by the sagacity of the leaders and I the eloQuence of the chairmen of
 committees and, what will be true, by
 the calmness and good sense of the
 presiding officer. And then, under
 the influence of the soup and other
 stimulating v1ands, the senators will l reach other heights of eloquence when 1 they bestoW various gifts upon vari-
 ous folk. It will be a, great night al inc Golf C111h
 The House. not being on such inti-
 mate terms with evening dress, will do it's speechmaking and presentations tomorrow afternoon as soon as the work is out of the way sufficiently l to admit of it and before the joint
 session arrives and after the members l go home the Senate and House clerks
 will retire and sleep anywhere from
 two to three days.