Putnam patriot., 1915-04-23
WORK MUST BE
HURRIED NOW
Legislature win Find 1t Neces-
sary to Hold Afternoon Sessions
suFfRAGIsTs LIST SHORT
Surprise at Their Moderation in Pub
nsain9 only Small Number Of
hame5--Judieiary Committee
mas many Measures under
Consideration.

Hgsff ord IS Use Of the leaders OF
tile Genera Assembly said that after
noon seEs 0ns q the House and SEN
ate enough 90 be coming along soon
They are strictly correct. for the date
for me end Of the session is coming.
and s coming a good deal faster than
tie work supposed - be disposed Of.
And. dIreful thought. there is the com
n#t1ea On unfinished business with 4
hundred or more matters. Suppose
that II should conclude to report all
81 them fayorably and throw them
mon somewhat fustered Legisaturel
The carnage would be frightful.
A careful scrutiny of the work
done recently reveals but one qnes-
Lon of the first magnitude disposed
OF for the session and that is the
perennial or biennial qGe Jon OF
votes for women That took out an
eutBre day out, so far as the House
was concerned, but II has In years
mast and was expected TO. The only
/ feature Of II which was unexpected
was the suffrage publication OF
/ blacklist. which was interesting be
cause Of It's brevity When one reflects
thai the 4uffraeisfs might have added
! the entire 1913 votes one is inclined 10
be surprised al their moderation. The
rall call at actually compiled by the
clerk Is interesting reading.
And. lust ae the Judiciary committee
/ felt that 1T had finished it, hearings,
afone comes new line Of troubles
warranted not to shrink or fade. First
came the report OF the special com
mission on commissions and its rec.
Communications were. for one brlef
day. bulletined under the caption OF
| the committee on public health ana
safety. Then this assignment dfsap-
peared and II was wished on the Ju-
dietary committee. just why Is not
altogether clear. and now the Judiel-
ary committee will be able to add
several other specimens to its col
lection OF troubles There Is whole
flock of troubles. for instance, con
cealed under the innocent recomiaen-
datfons made as to the shell-fish com
mission and II may he that hearing
will let In food of light upon the
part Of the report devoted TO the
reorganization Of this commission,
| And then. there IS the iitney. The
iitnev has appeared with the sudden
ness of a plague of mosquitoes and
frantic cries for their regulation are
being made. mostly by brokers and
trolley companies At present their
announcements are 10 the effect that
IN greatest possible efforts are being
made in order to get the matter be-
fore the legislature now that the
/ limit for new business has expired
As matter of fact. the Emit for new
/ business has preeions little 10 do with
the case. II any lawyer thinks II has
he may probably lock IN the history
of the summer hotel license law pass
cd by the LEGISLATURE in 1871. The
limit for new business was fixed for
the arst week I'm February and no one
heard of the bill in question until
early summer Then 1t was passed
over. not 10 the committee on excise,
but TO the Judiciary committee, and
referred only to one specific hotel In
GrotoR. when the judiciary com
mittee reported It, out II came as
substitute for some other bill and
was so worded as TO apply to all sum
mer hotels and was passed II the
need for itney regulation is apparent
q bill providing for the necessary regu-
lation may be reported out as sub
stitute for a bill putting close sea
son on hard SHIELDED clans
II must be admitted that emergency
| - aFt 1aI fsNr
Perhaps the last time ANYTHING of the
sort appeared was in 1905 when enc
II Patterson Atwood appeared as a
claimant against few hundred ad=
ministratcrs or executors who had
failed to see to the fling or an inyen-
tory within the statutory time In or
der to prevent a rank injustice Il ap-
peared necessary 10 get emergency
/ legislation. Il was produced under the
leadership Of one Michael Kenealy.
! one Marcus II. Holeomh being then
speaker OF the House. II now appears
as Chapter pit of the Public Acts Of
| 1905 and Ii proved effectual. That
was purely emergency legislation and
Il proved effectual There win be
| frantic hearings before the ntney bill
Is reported, but probably one will
come out II may look somewhat UNI
| like the hill which went in because
the frantic gentlemen who are asking
for It are probably due TO learn that
there are two sides to the question
Noblemsn Applies for Citizenship.
For the first time. probably, in the
history OF Hartford. nObleman has
applied 20 the authorities here for
| IfnataA States citizenship The noble