New Britain herald., 1915-02-26
SUFfRAC|STS OUT IN
 FORCE AT CAPITOL
Votes for Women Literature DlStTl-
 buted to Legislators.

Hartford, Feb. 26.-The general as- sembly for the second time thls session did business on a Friday in spite of the predictions that the new ness of last weeks experience would soon wear off. Before it was time to call the house to order the appear aEces were that not many more than @ hundred members were in their seats. After the chapIain's prayer MT. Hyde, the majority leader, again by roh call put the members present on record as compliment to their fidelity. There were 136 members present. In the senate there was a majority also and Senator Isbell speaking on> the matter of personal provilege said that when as many as twenty-two members were present. at last Fridays session reports appeared in the newspapers that there was not a quorum present. Hc said it was un- fortunate that such misstatements should find their way into print.
 Members and others upon entering the capitol today weermet by young women and, girls in equal suffrage coIors who frequently distributed to them votes for women literature.
 . 'ONcTHOE INeN,eiNeS
 Governor Holcomb today received from the expressing clerk the Isbell bill amending the civil service law as adopted by the assembly.
 In the house the federal relations committee reported a resolution for memorial to congress in behalf of an amendment to the constitution of the United States, forbidding the practice nf al T1a f,aa a,1on ami np reported bill for Fairfield county tond issue to meet improvements on the court house at Bridgeport, the bonds to be issued by special com n:ittee of the County Bar association, in conjunction with the county com miSSioners. The feature of the bill is that it provides a sinking fund of five thousand dollars a year, or the com mittee may buy in the bonds. Re- ports from the interpretations com
 mittee included those permitting the Meriden Agricultural society to merge with the Meriden Grange, authoriz- ing the Kingsley Trust company
 (SkuH and Bones) at Yale to hold and use property of an amount not to ex- Ceeding S600 900 in value; and amend inG the charter of the Oakcliff ceme- tery at Dedby.
 The judiciary committee reported unfavorably many bills the general explanation being that the additional legislation on these particular sub- jects was unnecessary. Among the | bills were several relating to me- chanics' liens and foreign attach ments
 Game Bills UnfayorabIe.
 More game bills unfavorably re- ported included one to close wood cock shooting for ten years. MT Fenn, the house chairman, said the committee would have liked to make a close season, but as the situation was under control of the national commission the committee preferr d to leave it with the latter body By means of a substitute resolution the error which made James F. Brinck erhoff judge at Stamford was correct ed by his election as deputy judge.
 In the senate favorable reports in cluded those permitting the Anthony Trust company, a Yale society, to hold property without limit to value incorporating the Young Women's Christian association of New Lon don; incorporating the Travellers Fire Insurance company with a capital stock of S200,000; amending the charter of the American School for the Deaf at Hartford; and empower ing that institution to release a mort gage. From the committee on ju- dietary was received many unfavor- able reports among them a number of bills seeking to allow liens be- ing placed on monuments in cemc- teries, and another requiring the dis play of American flags in polling places during the hours of voting.
 From the calendar were adopted bills prohibiting the taking of perch less than six inches in length from Black pond and Middlefield reservoir, and allowing the insurance of live stock and other domestic animals