The Connecticut labor news., 1921-05-27
STATE SENATORS BACK DOWN ON
 CIVIL CODE BILL
Why Didn't You Kick 1t?' the Wall After Measure Is
 Passed

Like lot of sheep waiting tor son,e one 10 lead them, the COnnec- ticut Senate sat mum on w edncSuay afternoon and passed i'll whisper, the Civil Administrator Code, WHICH every holder of d political plum under the present state nOn-ClNll oelVltS policy anticipated was to be Sulnrlar- ily dealt with in the Senate. But the Senate failed them solely because no one dared to lead the opposition and when the thing was all over ana recess declared they fguratlvely and verbally kicked each other about the lounging rooms. ,,
 w hy didn't you start Somethlng: was the cry of one opponent of the measure to another opponent.
 "Why didn't you start It yourself: !: What are you asking me tor was sample of the answer and the result was melody of wailing which shortly gave way to hope that the House might correct the Senate,s oversight, or lack of pluck, and Kill the bill. ,., ;,
 1t wasn't because the Senate dldn have a chance to voice It's opPosltlon' Senator Elmore $. Banks of Fairfield, chairman of the committee which mas sDent long months preparing the code. explained the bill, which simply brings departments Ot state govern rnents together in more business like way, makes vacations Ot two weeks the rule instead Ot as in some cases two months for certain people at the capitol, and provides ways ot doing the states big business m a way that will ensure the state getting it's moneys worth Then Senator Clark of Waterbury, as Lieutenant Governor Templeton was putting the question on it's passage, rose ana stated he understood there was some opposition to the bill and expressed a desire to hear 1t.
 Every senator was "busy" just at the moment although furtlve eyes were cast about the chamber in search for someone's rising to start the fire No one rose and after brief moment to allow any one to do so the chair man put the question. Some one sad ave" but no one said may" when that side was called for and the code was declared adopted. Then to make 1t sure that there wouldn't be any backsliding threafter, Senator Banks rose and moved that "the senate re, consider it's action, with the hope tha the motion would not prevail" Il didn't as no one dared even then tc start a rumpus, and the Senate wa: finally and officially on record as hay ing approved the code and the b1l was immediately sent to the House for action there.
 Two amendments were adopted one providing for the election by eaCf county delegation in the Legislature of a member of the advisory board O. the department of agriculture, and the other authorizing departments to cur tail such work as they deemed neCes sary to keep within the appropriation: granted them
 Senator Banks said the adoption O. the civil code would save the state 's great deal more than $I 100000, bu not necessarily in one year. This very session had appropriated hundreds O. thousands of dollars that could have been saved, he said, had there been : civil code in existence, including one of SI5OOOO for water supply
 He pointed out that there was one department in the capitol where the vacation period was two months anC that the code bill would fix uniform vacation period of two weeks. It wa: not aimed at any individual, he said The senator told that a certain insti tution-not one of the tuberculosi sanatoria-built sleeping porches o1 the wrong side of one of its build ings, then discovered an error and fel compelled to have them torn dowl and re-erected on the south side. H. said the state allowed $6o,ooo to commissioner to build new prison $2o,ooo more for architects fees ant incidental expenses approaching $1oo, 900 and the present session propose to dispose of the site and abando that project. The state would be for tunate, he said, if it got $2o,ooo bac from it's outlay.