New Britain herald., 1925-05-29
.TODAY'S DO|NGS
 AT THE CAPITOL
Senate to Meet Monday--OtheI
 Activities in Legislature

't"tS Nepi'vit iiaIlloIu' muy gJ. (AP)--The senate decided upon e Monday session as soop as 1t got under way today.
 The appropriations committee re- ported favorably al.5il to appropri. ate ss0,000 for purchase Of the Nor. gan c, Bulkeley house for state po- lice department which has been rented at $500 q month. It was adopted as was another resolution to pay ti5s5 sewer assessm ent at the New Britain Normal school.
 The senate concurred in adopting the general automobile bill with the house amendment which requires written notice of unpaid garage bin exceeding $50.
 Get No Damages
 Unfavorable reports were made on, claims of Peter D. McKenna, Jr., and Louis Martol for damages due to injuries received while at Cheshire reformatory. McKenna asked for s2b,000 and Martoi 5000. Senator Robbins for the claims committee said these bills were the most i'm. portant before the committee. He related the circumstances Of injuries received by both boys, the law which governs the granting of claims and the decision of the supreme court which upheld the age-long principle that the state may do no wrong"
 Senator Robbins for the commit tee said that under supreme court decision the state is not liable for injuries received by those in It's em- ploy, or those in its care. He said that while the state is thus exempt the state itself holds that employers may be liable for injury to those they employ. The senator thought the principle was wrong and that logical solution would be to bring the state within scope of the work mems compensation law Both bills were rejected.
 New Hospitals
 Resolutions were adopted giving the New Milford hospital $3.o00 and the Sharon hospital s2s000 addition al to previous appropriations of $4,- 900 and ss,000 respectively.
 The Hamlin Case
 The judiciary committee reported by majority and minority reports e to @ on the governors nomina- ton of Ebert B. Hamlin to be judge of the Litchfeld county court of common pleas. Senator Cronin said the committee held hearing and there was some opposition" to Mir. Hamlin, but on the other hand there was support by citizens of Litchfield county" He said there was no question that Mir. Hamlin has the qualifications to fill the office to which the governor has named him. He is lawyer of long standing. MT. Cronin said that it appeared the opposition to him was of a trivial and personal nature" He said that 1t was the sole right of the governor to make the ap- pointment but the situation had re- solved itself into this-that a few members of the legal fraternity ih LitcI1feid county wanted to take away this right because they favored lanother candidate. The senator said that no question was raised against Mir. Hamlin's fitness for the office and again asserted that the objections against him were trivial. He related some of, the evidence at the hearing and nloved passage of the favorable report.
 Senator Shaw said that Mir. Ham, lin'ss ability and integrity had not been assailed, and that 50 far as the claim was made that he was not popular with his neighbors it might be said that popularity is not al ways a qualification for a judge ship" He quoted instances of ad- ministration of justice wherein MT. Hamlin as a justice had sent man to jail who had been found drunk on his lawn, and another went 10 1 jail because he was smashing trees, ! and thought possibly these had something to do with the objections to the nominee. Senator George E, Hall asked Senator Shaw what the ! ground for objection to Mir. Hamlin was in the committee and Senator | Shaw said that "the boys on the | committee were against him. Sem .ator Anderson said that Mir. Ham . .lln's character had not been at tackled. After Senator Wilder had asked a question and Senator Shaw had replied, a ballot was taken and MT. Hamlin received 23 votes to six against. The resolution went to the house.
 Senate bills adopted were:
 Amending the Meriden charter so that the. associate judge Heretofore deputy) shall receive s1,5O0 salary.
 Authorizing sale of land at Clin- ton and Killingworth by the state board of fisheries and game.
 In Tho House.
 The house had for its first busi- ness today the amendment to the trunk line highway hill on which ad- Journfnent was taken by reason Of mo quorum" yesterday, the amend ment seeking 10 eliminate the 19- mile road from Easttord to West Wilmington called the John Buckley rond from the trunk line system as adopted in 1923. Mir. Tatem. of East l. ford. withdrew hls amendment and the bill was sent back to the com Tittee, doing away with a contest which was brewing all over the house. The committee to investigate the joint rules to see if they could be improved was continued until the next session.
 Eleven bills to validate irregulari- I ties in bills were rejected with eX- planatlon thar they would be covered in the omnibus" validating act. ,
 The bill amending the Stamford city charter was adopted.
 By resolution, Charles R. Dana I was appointed judge at Darien, and IT t..N