Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-12

Hartford, Conn, May 1i.-The veto aS Governor Lake on the Sunday ob
 servaaee bill which had been placed on the house table, was not taken up in that branch of the legislature today be- cause of lack of tisae- The sitting ex-
 tended well into the afternoon owing to discussion Of $i,60A,000 deficiency ap- prepPiatioR bill put in for the atate beard of control to pay bills contracted by de- partments and institutions. The confer enee of committee chairmen on the ques- i ton of expediating business and fix l ing date for recess had to be called off 1 and the house adjourned when it did to permit committee hearings to proceed. i The governors bill to legalize prefes-
 sional baseball on Sunday afterr oHs was the subject of much discussion ht the cor riders of the capitol It was not possible
 to note a decided drift of opinion one l way or the other,
 When the veto is taken ur the motion | will be on the question of the passage l of the bill notwithstanding. There will be no discussion of the hill itself, hence | the interest among the members was in | getting individual opinions on the veto 1 message. It is anticipated that the bill will be taken off the table the first thing 1 tomorrow.
 The long and vigorous debate for most
 of today's sitting In the house was led
 by Mir. Nickerson of Cornwall, who has
 been tahliRg bills for special appropri-
 atlons until, as he said. The could leek into them" This action began last week Ii and he continued it today on calendar matters from the appropriations commit
 tee until the board of control ene-million
 dollar hill was taken off the table by him. This is the bill which Governor
 Lake mentioned in a message yesterday
 as the one requiring immediate consider
 ! alton, as departments needed money and
 the state treasury was low.
 Mir. Nickerson offered an amendment which was finally accepted that the at-
 1 torney-general be required to pass upor
 l the various items in the list of depart mental and institutional deficits due tC eutgo greater than appropriations madC two years aT9, He claimed that the time had come . stop the practice of heads
 of departments spending more money
 than the general assembly had allotted
 them. He called attention to the pena statute which applied te heads of de
 partments and officers who spend mor' t than their limit,
 :, MT. Buckley opposed the amendnaen t swing that in every case the item wal I for money which had already been spent
 Th% bill would have 10 be paid and h' e did not believe that any officer of th' 2 state had spent money wrongly. Th' 2 deficits were due because of economic |; conditions over which no oe had control . The department heads two years ago ha |; 1 made their estimates and been alotte' /: money Conditions became such that q cost more to run department. The fac ?. i was put before Governor Heleomh an' ,. there was no remedy. The alteTnativ {, 1 would have been to stop the fuRctieUin t of the department or institution, Thi , y was impossible and to keep going bill = had to be contracted. The state boar '. of control had looked into these items An emergency exists which had to be me l. bv a previous allotment of $1.00o,0et and now this sum and possibly by sum
 l yet to be asked. MT, Buckley oppose T the amendment further because the pay B. inert of items would be held up durin 1' the inquiry.
 B. MT. Nickerson claimed that the amend
 ! ment gave opportunity for inquiry Int l- each item and admitted that some c B. them would be held in abeYaHee. :, member inquired why a law was nc I, made to punish an official who spend Z. more than this appropriation and NJ ], Nickersen said there was enough la'
 l now, but the statute which would send l. departrnent officer to prison is not aI is piled. MT Buckley held that there wa D. no crookedness in the spending of tn J. money. The officers were merely th s. victims of conditions unforeseen.
 k The amended bill was adopted and SCI 7. to the senate MT. Eaten of the apprt J. priations committee laid in as an a s. hibit list of the items contained in an is covered bythehin.
 4. The house after a debate reeommitte ,h the bill which would protect rabbits E. forbidding the use of ferTets.
 w The senate having rejected the hou! r hill te punish any official who alters V Q clock of which he has charge, or an ,s l person, concern or corporation eShiol = ing other than than standard time, :. e. The controversy over the time questi' H is thought by members to be ended