Norwich bulletin., 1919-02-05

ratifv the federaI Income IdN amend l ment nor len or eleven other amend ments to the federal constitution.
 They have got to take into consid- eration that this public be damned business has got to stop
 Senator Tough said that so per cent. Of the men and 90 per cent. of the women were in favor of the amendment. Speaking of the GO0, O0O men he asked what about 50,O00,0Q0 women?
 Senator Hurley said the amendment took from the electors of the state their rights to settle this question for themselves. He described the amend mcut as foul, vicious legislation
 Senator Hemenway said the demo- Crats of the senate had not Caucused on the amendment or on t1y other matter of legislation Though the dcmOcrasIc senators should vote against ratification they were not bound by any vote of a caucus There was bigger question than l!rohilbi- tion involved. He referred to tSe re- Tcrt Of tho Connecticut bar associa- ton which stated that the amendment was improperly before the state. He quoted the opinions Of former Presi- dent Taft the Rev. Newman Sm tn,
 
 prohibition.
 Senator Dillon said the federal gov ernmeEt controlled all the people dur ing the war, and if it hadn't the war would not have been won. Don't try to get away from the United States" ne urged. Some states tried that in ! '61. and they were forced back into the Union" Their soldier boys. he con | tinued, were not mad when they were deprived of liquor by the government. The only time they were mad was when they went after the Huns. He | believed that many of the democrats would vote for ratification. The bar association did not take action on the prohibition amendment. If the pro- ceedings in congress were in the na- ture of snap procedure, then all the amendments to the national cOnsti- | tuition We're adopted by snap proceed ! ure. Legislators should remove from 1 the path of the progress of civilization : the greatest evil that exist" No one I who had a heart that beats 2 who had ! a mind which thought could support ' the saloon. The saloon had no place . in America F'orty-fcur states have answered the opposition of former i President Taft and Cardinal Gibbons. | Senator Nazen said the question was squarely before the people of the state | when they voted for members of the ! general assembly last fall.
 Senator Brooks: 'T take off my hat | to anyone who is a total abstainer and ! who lives up to total abstinence and ! when ] made a reference to such a man ] had in mind the senator from the Twenty fifth Senator Dillon). The senator said ! wanted to put the ques-
 ton over for two years. Just let hin
 watch me vote and see whether I want
 10 dodge the question"
 The ayes and nays were as follows Ayes-Senators A. E. Bowers q Manchester. Fourth district: R. H Deming of West Hartford Fifth dis
 trict: A. II. House of Windsor. Seventi
 district: E. P. Golden of Meriden Thirteenth district; Watson $. Wood
 ruff of Orange, Fourteenth district
 Elisha Waterman of Lebanon, Twen tieth district: r. A. Bartlett of Bridge port, Twenty first district: A. l.. De
 laney of Bridgeport, Twenty -secont district John B. Dillon of Shelton Twenty fifth district; c. E. William
 son Of Darien. Twenty sixth district
 P. B. Tiffany of Winsted. Thirty frs
 district; Clifford K. Hough of Wash ingtCn, Thirty second district; E. W ! ildH'll Ol TlA'tudI1s OlS trict; W. II. Heald of Stafford, Thirty
 fifth district-14.
 Nays-Senators E. W. Broder (
 Hartford, First district; C. c. Hemen , way of Hartford, Second district | George W. Klett of New Britain. Sixt : district; C.. Herbert Bishop of Ne7 - Haven, Eighth district: Harry ], Leonard of New Haven, Ninth district ? D. J. Bailey of New Haven, Tenth dis U trict; D. M. Clyne of New Have
 Eleventh district; A. W. Marsden
 Madison, Twelfth district; Charles {
 Templeton of Waterbury, Fifteent % Sixteenth district: Raymond T. Frenc - of Seymour, Seventeenth district 70 William C. Fox of New Londo r Eighteenth district; W. B. Wilcox e Norwich. Nineteenth district; G. ] - Clark of Bridgeport Twenty third di. r trict; H. P. Bissell of Ridgefiel - Twenty fourth district; James
 Mead of Greenwich, Twenty O district; Archibald Macdonald of Pu a nam, Twenty eighth district; Sessiol - L. Adams of Pla>1fie1d, Twenty -nin- k district; John N. Brooks of Torringto = Thirtieth district; George F. Chapin - Cromwell, Thirty third district-20. d Absent-Senator Herman P Koppl  n Lieutenant Governor Wilson declart Q the amendment rejected.
 e The senate concurred with the hou Q and passed under suspension of rul -s a resolution raising a committee sss investigate matters relating to sta o paupers, hospitals and the Mansfie ,, Training school.
 ~ The senate also concurred with t U; u house in passing under suspension .o 't rules resolutions appointing coun ~ commissioners
 er The senate reoeded and concur It with the house in referring the bill r
 latfng to improvements In the Co is necticut river to the committee 'u federal relations.
 The senate adjourned to Wednesd ggL at HIS.
 te THE HOUSE. r. The business in the house on Tue