Connecticut western news., 1917-02-01
RECEIVES 1913 MEASURES
Nearly 2,ooo Bills Introduced Into thak
 Legislature.

session of the legislature; the Hartford Times thus summarizes the measurHrm~ proposed:
 The number of measurers introauex,A [, into the general assembly at this ssss- sinu up to the close of the time for now business was 1913, or l57 more trlan the number for the same period of tksm session of 1915. It is larger than tass, total of each session for number eE years past. It exceeds the number fo~ 1909 by 290, and of 1918, which was ! tine highest since. by fifteen,
 In the senate there were 732 mslla- urers introduced, divided as followsk Bills, 597; resolutions, 37; joint roso- lutions, "A; petitions, 24.
 There were introduced into the houxann I1Sl measurers classified as followRE Bills, l,0l9; resolutions, 30; joint rsso- lutions, 90, aud petitions, 42.
 An innocent looking bill was im- troduced in the senate, Friday afsew- noon, shortly before adjournment Iha apparent Innocence disguised a purpe@wp which will make the tax department uF the state and others sit up and tnk@ notice. The bill merely says thak. II III. and Parts ", chapter 29s, of the public acts of 1915 are hereby ra- pealed." In these parts, which it fw proposed to wipe of the statute hoo&H- are contained the provisions for thS taxing of water, gas, electric sna power companies at the rate of 11 p@~ cent, on their gross earnings, the iEn- position of tax of per cent, on tfs~ market value of the shares of capital eg stock insurance companies, and tho in- position of tax on the gross income sT miscellaneous corporations. ThsxaD taxes produced millions of dollars fdr tine state treasury since the last sessio3A- and they were the means of creating the enormous surplus of nearly So, 0OA.- 900 at present in the state treasury.
 There are many who think the bSEK offered. Friday, the last day for neu business, by Senator Bartlett of Bridge port, calling for an appropriation eF $3, 900, 900 was the most imporkan&. measure introduced. It is the prodn~&- of the collective wisdom of FairfeA6 county republicans, and on the evening before it was. introduced, was formallE approved at meeting of the county republican organization. It is of widss scope and is intended as panacsa fCm- all thealls of the state. The senkS-- ment in the state or an improvements in the laws governing the operatioa aA autoRobilies finds expression in a nump- Der of measurers, the principal one he- ing for the establishment of an auto mobile commission. There is biuf for woman's refopatory with prop osition to appropriate $4o0, ,0o0 for is as a starter, and another to carry out the idea of Governor Holcomb to loeak1a the institution at the Industrial Seh~sol for Girls and appointing a colnmissIiSzz to inquire into the matter.
 The state police are duly gratef$ for the introduction of bill which, I passed, will allow them to retire oz. half pay after twenty years servics. The tardiness of towns in the paymenk of their share of the cost of improving highways is recognized in a bill te, compel them to pay within thirty dayn after the cost is assessed.
 The excise laws and the county eon- mjssioners, who administer them, re-. ceive considerable attention in thc measures which are now before ktp general assembly via the senate. One bill proposes to take from the county commissioners the power to issue IT. censes gnd to create an excise board iu each city or town, to be appointed by the mayor or selectmen, to pass on ap- plicationS for licenses, another transfer the authority now exercised by county commissioner to the sheriffs whiln other measurers provide for the sale uF liquor in reputable hotels on Sundays the election of county commissioners by the people. and the renewal of IT, quor iicenes without requiring the 9D. plicent to appear before the couMgy' commissioners if he has observed tha. law in his business.
 Educational matters have receive8 considerable attention. Senator Boyd of Woodbury is the sponsor of hill revamping the system under which staSr average attendance grant is paid sos towns. The senator says the bill will not materially increase the amounb oF the grant Other bills are intended to increase the power of the state board nf education in the enforcement of tEtv school law and give the state board authority over the manner in which school buildings will be constructed.
 Out of a mass of nearly 1,200 biTis resolutions and other forms of legialA-. tion offered in the house, there IoCrn perhaps one hundred bills of impaA- ance, and much less than that number of primary importance to the w0lfarB of the state. The remark of an expsE1s- enced legislator, that the state would not be a serious loser if several hundrea. of the bills piled upon the desks of tlas clerks, were diverted to the cupaoiopa. waste baskets nearby, was not witheut when uttered on the olon- ing day 'or the reception of new basS-