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membership. MT. Martin said that 1 feature was provided for in the bill i This amendment was withdrawn. | MT. Hough of Washington amended | to make the club fee $100 instead ot 1850, in order to make the fee Consist ent with the fees charged to saloons Some clubs do more business than some saloons. If clubs cannot afford l to pay the fee the members cannot afford to drink the liquor.
 MT. Foord of Stamford refuted the accusation that reputable clubs and saloons were on the same basis and was not at all surprised by the re- marks of some members from no-h- | cense towns. Club members have to pay for membership and liquor is not sold them for the money there is in 1t.
 | Mir. Martin said no additional rights were to be given clubs. but effort is being made for their regulation. IL had been suggested to the committee that club members be taxed. but that the committee considered it an injus- | tice. Mir. Martin said personally he favored larger fee. The Hough amendment increasing the club license fee was adopted by vote of 94 to II.
 MT. Isbell then spoke against the original bill. as it was not fair to the l licensed saloonkeepers. MT. Schults, of New Britain, declared the clubs should be regulated. as it had been said that minors had been served in clubs and that the saloonkeepers were blamed.
 | MT. Martin stated that there were one thousand clubs in the state who i pay a tax of $25 each to the federal government. The proposed law simply regulates clubs and gives the people the right of appeal as under the pres ent license law. The bill as amended was then put upon its passage and adopted.
 | Me Too, in the House. | The house concurred with the sen ate in approving the appointment of Charles D. Burnes and William Ham ersley as members of the state library committee. Concurrence also in slight amendments to the ballot law, of a corrective nature, and relative to the engineer of shellfish commissioners. | Sealers' Salaries Raise,
 The committee of the judiciary re- ported favorably an act which pro- vides for the appointment of a Sealer of weights and measures for each 1 county at an increased salary to $1,600, and such expenses as are al- lowed by the county commissioners.
 Moving Pictures Sundays.
 An act concerning the licensing o1 moving picture exhibitions was on the house calendar for action, Tuesday which provided that the warden and burgesses of any borough, the body authorized in any city to enact by laws therein, having a population of | more than ten thousand, or the board of selectmen of any town having a f population of more than ten thousand
 but not having within it's limits a city or borough with a population of more than ten thousand, is hereby author ized to enact bylaws authorizing the '. 0i+ ,Y@I borough, or the first selectman of such
 town to grant a license to any person firm, or corporation to conduct pub
 lie exhibitions of moving pictures be- tween the hours of seven and eleven o'clock on Sunday evening.
 | The act was rejected in the senate and freely discussed in the house, or majority and minority reports from the judiciary committee. It was explain ed that only one person, a moving pie ture man of New Britain, appeared before the committee in favor of the
 bill, while it was opposed by repre- sentatives of churches of all denom- Iinations, and kindred organizations MT. Morton, of Saybrook, in speaking in opposition, said that at least on one day in seven men ought to take of their hats to Almighty God. MT. Mor- ton is a minister and he was followed by another minister, MT. Emerson, o1 Roxbury, who was opposed to de- voting Sunday to money making pur- poses by moving picture showmen. MT
 Isbefl said the bill was class 1egis-
 lation and would tend to a wide-oper Sunday. MT. Rogers of Litchfield said | the proposed act was class Legislation unadulterated. The bill was rejected
 General Appropriation Bill.
 The act making appropriations fo1 expenses of the state for two years
 ending September 30, 1917, was taken from the calendar at the opening o1 i the afternoon session and several minor l amendments were offered and accept | ed in concurrence with the senate. MT Pendleton, of Preston, offered amend ment that $1,000,000 be appropriated for trunk line construction, thereby in creasing the total from $13,051, 1901 tc $14, ,0513 301. MT. Pendleton explained new work in trunk lines and he be- lieved there should not be abandon ment of the new construction. | MT. Eaton, of North Haven, argued that the committee had given this matter careful consideration and thai I this appropriation for construction, but that ample appropriation had been rec commended for repairs and reconstruc- tion.
 MT Aubrey of Meriden favored the amendment and said it was a back ward step to make the highway com missioner a repairman and to aAan- don the good roads movement. He sai6 if it was necessary to levy a tax le lit be so, as a one mill tax would raise a million and a quarter of dol l lars.
 MT. Stoddard said there was no doub
 but that there would be discussion il
 several features of the bill, while or others there would be no opposition and he made motion that those iteme that were not approved be taken up II 4 order. The motion was ruled out O. order pending action on the amend | ment.
 MT. Isbel1 opposed, stating that tht proposed increase meant a state ta1
 and a continued increase in the ex- pense of maintaining the highways.
 MT. Schultz of New Britain opposed
 on the ground of an increase in de. fciency, and that the state should GU it's garment according to the cloth. Ht favored support of the committee.
 MT. Hewes of Pennington said 1t wa:
 absurd to pass this appropriation bil l until it was definitely known what the | inncome of the state was to be, through the finance committee. He moved tha