New Britain herald., 1915-02-25
COMMISSION BILL IS
 fAV0RABLY REPORTED
10 heTg; Board of Bank and
 Building and Loan Offices.

made its appearance in the general aS-
 sem bly,. today when a favorable re-
 port was made by the committee on
 banks to the senate on the bill de-
 signed to consolidate the board of
 bank commissioners and the building and loan commissioner. The bill pro-
 vides for a single-headed commission
 with salary of s5,o0O, appointment
 to be made by the governor for four
 years with the advice and consent of
 She senate s The disposition of the legislature to N-permit the present game laws to re-
 main unchanged was indicated today When the house rejected an unfavor
 able report on all bills introduced to change conditions under which wood
 cock, partridge, quail, snipe and shore
 birds may be bagged. 4.
 Shooting of Ducks.
 MT. Fenn, house chairman of the fish and game commission stated that the committee will bring in bill to permit the shooting of duck one hour before sunrise and one hour after sum- $ set, and a bill to make the state laws on wild fowl conform to the federal regulation, but on all other birds bills f it was the opinion of the committee that no change in legislation is neces- 1 Fsary or desirable
 favorable report was made on the bfll for close season on grey squir- rels from Nov 24 to Oct. inclusive, limiting bag to six squirrels in one day or thirty in the season Other favorable reports included the follow ing: Adding wild belgian hares to the animals on which town may pay
 bounties; permitting Waterbury to is- sue S225,o00 in high school bonds and $2O0,000 in other school bonds; in- X Cooperating the Methodist Church Home for destitute aged people at New Haven; creating a department or finance in Branford; prohibiting tEe pasturing at large of bulls over one year of age.
 Bridge Committee Report.
 The special committee which inves- tigated the condition of the bridge l8between Derby and Shelton made a report which Went to the committee on roads, bridges and rivers. This included statement by State High way Commissioner Bennett to the eff } feet that the bridge is in very pooc condition mainly from the fact that the floor system, has rust eu away in several places, and also because the { bridge is generally subject to extreme vibration from loads passing over it. He says that tie engineer who ex- x .amined the bridge says it is impos- sible to say just how Iona, the bridge will be safe for travel. MT. Bennett { says that he is constrained to say that the bridge is unsafe and should be rebuilt or materially strengthened.
 i The contested election committee gave James s. Forbes of East Hart ford leave to withdraw on his petition for the seat now occupied by Repre- sentative Handel. The committed opened the ballot boxes and found }. that MT. Handel was elected by ten votes, which increased the official margin by six votes.
 Bill F'avorably Reported. ' Yin the senate a favorable report was made on the bill to consolidate the Hartford Business Mems associa- 5 ton and the Hartford Board of Trade. Other favorable reports in this branch SWere those on bills requiring treas urers of savings banks to publish at least once year in local newspapers Ta list of depositors and their de- posits whose accounts have not been
 hanged within twenty years; regu- hting the sale of mattresses and pill ows requiring printed form on each ao show how made and What it con- 6tains and whether or not it is Made Nover,'
 |1N The order of the day in the senate E was the resolution to have the Con- necticut legislature endorse the Ham Ill bill which purports to have the gov ernment pension civil service er1l- ployes s-
 Purcell Offers Amendment.
 Senator Purcell offered an amend ment striking out the words "Believ- ing to be just and proper measure He advocated the passage of the res olution though disagreeing with rhe idea of pensioning employees having less than twenty years of service. He called attention to the fact that five states. Ohio, New York, Massachu- sets, Maryland and California have already endorsed the Hamill bill, as we'll as 100 cities in the country many ], of tn em in the states mentioned, while the state of New Jersey now has before Lit a favorable report on this bill.
 Senator Futile said that an endorse f ment of the Hamill bill would be an # endorsement of pensions in civil life z and he opposed it.
 Motions Are Lost.
 5 Senator Purcell moved the bill be tabled and this was lost. He then { moved the passage of his amendment N and it was also lost. # Mr. Purcell asked for roll call # vote on the passage of the committees z report and it was not granted, the democrats being only able to muster # four votes out of thiriy-three. 8 AWhen the vote was taken on the