New Britain herald., 1923-04-07

of the house start to pick the codi- fieation to pieces. it will have hard sledding, It seems beyond the realm of possibilities that a great man, amendments will not be offered to the fish and game qualifications and Ii this is started. the house of rcpreAcn. tatiyes at least will have lively few days before the session adIourns.
 People who have been connected with the legislature for number oi years recall qualifications which have come In the last few days of the ses- sion and which have gone through because nobody had time to read them.
 l Motor Vehicle Laws.
 Tho motor vehicle laws will come in. but at present arc in tho hands of both the finance committee and tho committee on roads. bridges and rivers. Among the things to be dc- cided upon are the tax on gasoline which may be increased, tho tax on pleasure cars, which may be de- creased and tho tax on trucks. which will probably be increased, particu- | larly Non trucks outside tho state which during the past winter have combined with the weather to ruin the Connecticut roads.
 Highway C0mmissioncrship.
 The laws governing the appoint ment of the highway commissioner and the reorganization of this im- portant department should be submit- ted sometime this coming week, be- cause 1t requires very careful consid- cration. The committee on roads. bridges and rivers has been one of the hardest working committees dur ing the present session and ono of the principal matters which has come up before 1t is the question whether there shall be single-headed, three- headed or a commission of even larger numbers The committee has been in constant communication with the governor and with legislative leaders on this matter and while no executive session has decided on a final recommendation, it is believed that one will be made carly this coming week.
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 The committee on education vii! put through the bill providing for a commission to codify the school laws consisting of tho lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house. a member of the senate. two members of the house, a member to be named by the state board of education and two others to be named by the governor. This committee is to codify the pres- ent laws, make suggestions as to other laws and report to the next session of the general assembly.
 Vaccination Bills.
 The anti-vaccinationist were we'll on their way toward victory in the house this week when they tried to have the unfavorable reports of the committee on public health and safe ty defeated, which if they had been successful would have done away with compulsory vaccination in the state. Major Buckley. leader of the house. came to the assistance of the committee on public health and safe ty with the result that the bills were rejected.
 The opposition had better success in the senate curiously enough in a fight which was led by the senators from Bridgeport. In the senate the unfavorable reports presented at the same time other bills were reported in the house, were tabled and what will ultimately happen there is un- known If the house persists in this attitude, however, the safety of the present vaccination laws will be maintained, as the bills will fall be- tween the houses.
 One of the bills which took away from the board of education and put in the hands of the department of health the enforcement of the vac cination laws regarding school chill dren and which, as Senator Wilder said, he hoped would show way out of the present difficulties without weakening the vaccination laws to too great an extent, was recommitted in the senate and this same action was taken up in the house. It is ex- pected that substitute bill will be presented which will meet with tho approval of the state department of health and which will keep teeth in