The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-11
Democrats in the Senate,
Through Party Leader,
Tomorrow Will Cite I'm
fairness of Republicans in
Apportioning Plums.
No Recognition for Minor.
ity, Representatiing 1OO.-
600 Voters-Sen. Bartlett
Lands a Place on the Jud-
iciary Committee.
Especial to The Farmer)

Hartford, Jan. 11-Senator P.
B. O'Sullivan, Democratic Sem
ate leader, tomorrow will make
formal protest Of the Republic
can partys grab of all places on
important joint committees,
which were announced today.
Senator O'Sullivan will address
the Senate on the unfairness of
the move, gaining the floor to
speak on a matter Of personal
privilege.
The Democratic minority-ten SEN
ators representing 100000 v0tes-re-
ceived no consideration from the Re-
publican majority When a member
did get a committee assignment, it
was to an unimportant body that
probably will meet seldom, if ever,
during the, session.
The Democrats resentment of the
apportionment of committee jobs, was
made manifest after their announces
ment today, when Senator Kopple-
man CD of Hartford thus spoke to
Senator Lyman. president pro tenn,
who named the committees:
Senator, as a punster, you have no
peer In the olden days they used
to have court jester. Here we
don't need any,
Senator Koppleman was evidently
referring to Senator Lyman recent
request that senators designate the
committees to which they'd like to be
appointed. Few got their wish, it
became evident, when the list was an
nounced today.
Senator Frederic A. Bartlett, of
Bridgeport, won a place on the Ju-
dietary Committee, and was the only
Fairfield county Senator to grab a
job of any Importance. Senator
Klett, of New Eritain, heads that
committee.
The Senate members Of committees,
the first named being chairmen, fol-
low:
Agriculture, Rogers and Lyman; ap-
preparations, Boyd and Salmon;
banks, Brooks and Leonard; capitol
and grounds, Whitney CD and O'Con-
nell; cities and boroughs, Mead and
Tuttle; Claims, Hinckley and Cald-
well; congressional and senatorial dis
tricts, Caldwell and Grady, CD; con-
stitutionals amendments, Hall and
Doughan (D); education, Lyman and
Adams; excise, Spencer and Rolf; fish
and game, Adams and Whitney O);
forfeited rights, Williamson. and
Neebe O) humane institutions, Hall
and Williamson; incorporators, Stoe-
KEEL and Larkin insurance, Hunt and
Barnes; Judiciary, Klett and Bartlett;
Dor, Rolf and May; manufactures,
Larkin and Grady CD; military af-
affairs, Brooks and O'Sullivan CD; new
counties, Koppleman O), and Hurley
CD; new towns, Hunt and Larkin;
public health and safety, Bissell and
Salmon; railroads, Leonard and
Hinckley; roads, rivers and bridges,
Macdonald and Tuttle; shell fisheries,
Hinckley and Macdonald; state parks
and reservations, Bissell and Cald-
we'll; states prison, Barnes and Hunt;
woman. suffrage, Barnes and Ikopple-
man CD; state library, Williamson
and Hemenway D).
The chairman of :, the principal
House committees follow:
Agriculture, Brakeman, of Stratford,
appropriations, Eaton, of North Ha-
ven; banks, Ford, of Stamford: cap
itol furniture and grounds, Hammers
ley CD of Hartford: cities AND bor-
oughs. Vail, of Winchester; claims, c.
H. Clark, of Woodbridge; constitutions
al amendments (joint), Averill, Of
Washington; education, Cowles,, OF
Pennington: excise. D. E. Smith,: of
Chester federal relations, Martin. of
Orange; finance, Spencer, of Suffield;
fish and game, Keeny, of Soners; for
feited rights Candee, of Norwalk:
humane institutions. Russell. of Mid
dletown: interpretations, Talcott, OF
ernon; insurance. Head, of Stafford;
judiciary, Peasley, of Cheshire; labor,
F. H. Barnes, of Southington; manu-
facturies, Wilcox, of Stonington; milf
tary affairs, Rudd, of Salisbury; new
counties. Reel, of North Canaan; new
towns and probate districts, Hiscox of
Woodstock; public health and safety,
Higgins, of Coventry; railroads, Emo,
Of Simsbury; roads, bridges and riv-
ers, Watt, of Sharon; she'll fisheries,
Case, of Winchester; state parks and
reservations HuXford. of Stamford;
state prison, Hitchcock, OF Woodbury.;
woman suffrage, Coe, of Cornwall;
state library, Geary, of Waterford;
constitutional amendments, Barker, of
Branford.
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