The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-26
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 carry qualified motorman and con- ductor, failed as the railroads com mittee reported adversely on this bill which was rejected.
 As many town and boroughs have been unable to welcome returning soldiers and sailors through local celebrations out of a town or borough treasury and without obtaining pri- vate contributions, a bill was report ed today to legalize appropriations of public moneys for this purpose.
 Governor Holcomb named W. c.
 Cheney of Manchester, a state prison
 director for ahe balance of the term of James W. Cheney, resigned. The railroads committee disap proved of bills to require the heating of vestibules of closed trolley cars, and to make liable to penalty persons who ride on portions of a street car which may not be used by passengers. such as the bumpers and roof It favOrs granting time to the Putnam and Rhode Island company in which to organize.
 The House joined with the Senate in inviting General Edwards to visit the capitol on March '.
 Judgeship resolutions for W. B. 1 Colt and s. V. Prince at New London, L. A. Howard of Pennington, Jervis | D. Brown, Jr., and G. J. Smith at Mil ford were adopted.
 The woman's suffrage hearing will | be March 1 at ? ?. m. and on labor bills March 6 at the same hour. 1 The House adopted the bills to re- 1 store the governors staff to its former 1 personnel of coloneIs and major, and i to authorize Yale-in-China to issue l degrees.
 Among House bills adopted were l those to increase penalties for stealing vegetables and fruit from gardens, widening the scope of conviction for I misuse and theft of bottles, and pro- | viding for use of money in abadns the mosquito nuisance by towns which
 may do the preliminary surveying ,f 1 breeding areas which later are to be ] cleaned up by the state. | House favorable reports were on l bills for a finance board in Bethel, d | superintendent of highways in Fair l field, extending the time for organiz- ing the Danielson and Willimantic ! Street Railway Co.,; amending the ] charter of the Bristol & Milldale | Tramway Go.
 1 The senate received a favorable re- | port on the bill which provides that l the board of trustees of any state in stitution at which teachers are enn- ! ploye1 may be classed as Q public school and it's teachers may come un-
 der the teachers retirement system. | The senate members of the commits
 sion on the unemployed are Hazen of
 Haddam, Waterman of Lebanon and Cline of New Haven.
 Among bills carrying salary in creases approved and sent along to 1 the appropriations committee were these: Raise from s, GOO to $1O.O00 for the highway commissioner; q raise to ! $6 GOO for the motor vehicle commis- sioner with S, 600 for the deputy com
 missioner; with other salaries in that | department to be fixed by the com
 missioner.
 Favorable Senate reports included
 these: Increase of stock for the New
 Milford Electric Light company; to
 make specific the prison or Jail term
 upon conviction for aiding prostitu- tior instead of allowing an indeter- minute sentence; authorizing the
 Brid dgeport Gas Light company to is
 sue bonds; forbidding the use of loose leaf binders for public records; pro-
 vIding for six members of the public | health council in addition to the com
 missioner, the governor to appoint two
 members biennially; to require the
 bank commissioner to take trial bal
 ances in savings departments of trust
 companies as he does in savings banks.
 Today's session in each branch was
 the longest thus far and a very con- siderable amount of business was re- ported in by committees, both through favorable and unfavorabIe reports which number several score. The House had a heavy calendar which is
 frightened by adoption of a score of
 measures which previously had pass
 ed the Senate.