Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-05-12
STATE BOARD OF FINANCE CREATED
ActPassed in Both Houses of the General
Bill Passed the Senate is Defeated in the House
Measure Consolidating Labor and Factory Commits
sions Rejected in the Senate
Especial to- The Bulletin.)


Hartford. May 11.-Tuesday was Sc
iected house cleaning day in the house
Of representatives when all matters
on the table and the foot of the cal
endar were added TO the oroer OF the
day, in connection with the special or
der which WAS the act concerning the
| taxation Of railroad street railway,
fwater, gas, electric, power stock IN
! surance and miscellaneous corpora
Etions. Before the calendar was reach :
led. big batch of reports. favorable
land unfavorable, mostly the latter,
were received and the latter were re-
jected and the others tabled for cal
| endar and printing. When the house
just 7S2 bills In the file. This was the
sixty-ninth legislative day and, in a
way, it was in keeping with the eff
Gent work of the gallant Sixty ninth
of Civil war fame. Senator 1sbell is
DESTROYS of achieving a short session
son why next Tuesday has been select
ed as adjournment day. AS a, matter
of fact the session will be no shorter
than that Of a year ago, although the
adjournment will be reached earlier,
for there have been more Friday ses-
sions than ever before and Monday
sessions were introduced for a first
time. Had the legislature convened
daily at the appointed time this would
1 have been a record session for brevity,
days have been wasted from that
1 cause. 1t is not cock-sure that the
Legislature will adjourn next Tuesday
as planned.
Concerning Sunday Observance.
| The act concerning the observance
lof Sunday created a long discussion,
during which an amendment was pass
/ ed and later reconsidered, which
lchanged the penalty from a fine of
5000 to $25, with no imprisonment
clause, but the final result was a dis
agreement with the senate in failure
to pass the bill. The text follows:
| Section l. Any person who shall
tperform, or require an employee to per-
form any secular labor, or engage or
require an employe to engage in any
business, except works of necessity or
mercy. or keep open any store, shop,
warehouse or manufacturing or me
chanica1 establishment, except for the
sale of merchandise required by ne
cessity or mercy; or sell or expose for
sale any property except such as is
required by necessity or mercy; or
conduct or engage in any theatrical
play, picture show, concert, exhibit
ton, ball game, or entertainment for
which a price is offered, or admission
fee or other fee is charged, or directly
or indirectly required or exacted, be-
tween II o'clock Saturday night and
l II o'clock Sunday night shall be fined
not more than two hundred dollars,
or imprisoned not more than thirty
days, or both.
| Sec. 2. The provisions Of section org
shall not be construed to prohibit any
i amateur game. picture exhibition. con-
cert, or other amateur recreation on
! Sunday, provided such game, picture
! exhibition, concert, or recreation shall
not disturb public worship, or the pub
1 lie peace, and provided no fee for at
tendance is charged or received direct
lily or indirectly.
I Sec. 8. Sections one, two and three
| of chapter 119 of the public acts of
1913 are hereby repealed.
Minister Morton Protests.
Mr.. Morton, of Saybrook. Congre-
! gational minister, said the law con-
corning the Sabbath is a mighty old
| law and came from the mouth of God:
Jis grounded in the law of God, as old
/ as mans nature. If this law passes,
you are violating a law of mems ma
ture. Man is made for God as has
no rest until he rests in Him. A stat
ute law cannot stop the sun from shin
ing nor can it oppose mans nature.
The state has the right to help man
to preserve his nature in statute laws.
Keep the Sabbath laws as they are
and make strong men and strong wo-
men.
People Should Settle.
Mr.. Martin of Orange, said the Sun
day question would not be settled right
until it was settled by the people.
Times are changing. In the olden
times people worked out of doors, but
now most are employed in shops and
| need fresh air and recreation Our
present law is in a mixed-up condition
and is continually disregarded. He be-
lieved in due reverence of Sunday but
favored a law that was understand
able, but he would go farther and leave
4 Hnx rTI7n to
legislative restriction, and believed in
progressive legislation and a step for
, ward.
Mr.. Bowers Of Manchester stated
that the amendment passed in regard
| to the penalty had taken the teeth out
of the proposed law and he moved for
reconsideration of that amendment
Mr.. Peasley, Of Cheshire, who offered
the amendment, spoke in favor and
Mr.. Taylor of Danbury spoke in op-
/ position. Mr. Shaw of Redding sided
in with the gentleman from Danbury
| Mr. Rogers Of Litchf1eld said he IA
vored reconsideration and had voted
/, for the amendment under the Suppo-
sition that it made the penalty $780,
The amendment was reconsidered.
: Mr.. Emerson of Roxbury, a minister
: was permitted to speak on the main
proposition and was opposed to any
change in the existing Sunday law. Mr.
Backus of Thompson spoke in opposi-
ton to the bill and was opposed to
> liberalization Of the Sabbath and this
was an entering wedge that should
not be driven home.
Wanted Pcstponement.
Mr.. Reilly of Bridgeport said the
boys who collected coins On Sunday to
buy baseballs, did not commemorative
. the Sunday any more than did the
good deacons who passed the contri-
button plate in the churches and that
the bill adopted in the 1913 session
was good enough and moved for in
definite postponement.
Mr.. King of Fairfield favored the