The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
LEGISLATURE
 TO BE BUSY
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(Continued from Page One.) The. big problems came to the front almost immediately, introduced in a general way through the medium of reports of heads of state departments. These showed the states financial condition, the great increase in cost of departmental and institutional up- keep, large deficiencies in appropria- tons of the last session, and need of ! q state policy to coordinate depart merits for economy, the need of a great sum of money to cary the state through the next two years, and a somewhat extensive overhauling of statute law to make it harm onize with constitutional Changes { While state financing is consid cred ] by nearly everyone as the biggest question there are others which will require a great deal of attention. Some of them are:
 The states attitude towards the !: trolley lines.
 Making excise law conform with the spirit of the Eighteenth amend : xnent.
 , Establishing by statute law the 1e- gai rights of women as to be in har- : fnony with the Nineteenth amend inent.
 Bringing into life a new military { establishment in conformity with the War Departments desires. [ . Welfare legislation which will cover :, the field of endeavor for the better ment of women and children. Establishing 9 policy towards Con- ' World War as supplementary to the present invested fund which is ad- , mfnistered for relief. { .. To change criminal laws to make Tnem, as many are claiming 'tfit the crime" as an incident of conditions which have existed of late. Overburdened courts may ask for ! rehef, and among the propositions put ttons Court to try non-support cases ana to hear to a limited extent di- { vorce actions. Another movement is ! to synchronfze Jurisdiction of common Pieas courts and to increase their ju- [ disdiction.
 With the incoming of the 1egisla- fure the men who are regarded as tne probable leaders in both branches said without hesitancy that the mid dle Of February will probably see the pody settled down to a hard three { days week grind, mostly in com mfttee stages. The sitting of both ! branches for the first three months I are not likely to occupy much time [ daily.
 {, Much of the new business, new pro- !! Jects for buildings. for salary in- ! creases, for highways, for the hun { for by bills which flow in by the hundred, will have to wait the result of deliberations of the appropriations and finance committee. The latter { will have it's task to find revenue which may be spent in objects ap- proved by the former. The soldiers bonus bill, of which there may be
 several calling for a. cash payment probably will have to await action { until the last days of the session.
 Some round figures already sub. f: nnitted by the state board of finance
 are these:
 For deficiencies, s1,750,0o0.
 For maintenance of state depart
 nents alone, S25,293,616.
 For new construction appropria.
 tions, S10,O06,343.
 Among items which will be put
 forward in a tentative way will be;
 Soldiers bonus, $5,500.00O; child wei
 fare program, $10O,000; a state con.
 stabulary. $33O,000; grant to schools
 $1,5O0,O0O.
 The state boards summing III
 would indicate that the Legislature
 will be asked to appropriate abou
 $40, ,000,0 for the next two year.
 with only about $20,000,000 revenue
 in sight.
 State Treasurer Gilpatric in his an.
 nua1 report said that oPe problem
 ahead was the finding of new sources
 of revenue. This task will fall upoI
 the finance committee.
 With the financial question to tn,
 front members trained in Legislative
 business say they see months of har(
 work ahead.