Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 14, 1917, Page 15

Pepsin, . tie'in its action, brim in an easy, naturgl manner, it griping or other ‘or’ discom! is pleas- ant to the-taste, and can be obtained in any drug, store Mr. Robert LeForgee, 318 Kirkwood Houlevard, Déyenport, lowa, says he atwas gt Dr. Caldwell ‘epsin in the house for Paat Sidniaen years, and that by using it~occasionally as the need arises, ant in this way keeping his health good, (Special to The “Bulletin.) Hartford, April 13.—There was .a short session of the house on Friday, but more real business was transacted than on the ordinary legislative day. Every matter starred on the calendar for action was dJisposed of with un- anfmity, and it was the pleasure of the temporary speaker, MMr. Leete, of En-: field, to announce that there was no more business on the clerk’s desk. Then came the motion to adjorn un- til next Tuesday morning. Moving Picture Bill. The act concerning the sale of tick- ets to moving pictures and other en- tertainments, came from the senate passed, and was tabled for calendar. No Change Mad The act to amend the act concern- ing the state tuberculosis commission, reported unfavorably to the senate, re- ceived concurrence in the house. The only proposed change was to insert the word “adult” which was tully cov~ ered in the presént act. The Putnam Park. The tommittee on state parks and reservations, reported favorably _an sct making an appropriation for a new Building on the grounds of the Israel Putnam Camp Ground assoclation, and recommended the matter be referred fo the appropriation committee. The Agent's Salary. An act was passed which specifies that the salary of the agent of the Sonnecticut school for boys shall be Afteen hundred dollars per annum, and he shall be allowed eight hundrsd dollars per anmum for traveling ex- penses. Suppert of the Insane. An act amending an act concerning the support of persons committed to state institutions for the insane. amended so as to include epileptic and seeble minded, passed in the houss Friday. - Transfer of inmates. The airectors of the Conmecticut re- N : ASK FOR and GET H or Hck’s Maited Milk Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price. American House Special Rates to Theatrs Troupes, Traveling Men, Ete. Livery Connection Shetucket Street FARREL & SANDERSON, Pm- THERE 15 no advertising medium i Eastern Counecticut eaual to The Bul- tn for business results. DRESSES it has prolonged his life, and bronght ease and comfort. The bottle is packed. A trial LEGISLATURE MAINTAINS ITS SPEED House Cleared Desk of All Matters Starred for Action—Many ©* Measures of Interest to Eastern Connecticut Were Act- ed Upon—Senator Barnes Offered an Amendment That ‘Would Call for Marking of Cold Storage Eggs. formatory, A complete line of Suits, Coats, . Dresses and Skirts are shown COATS___ 8 “yeceived a fine line of Silks, 1 72€ - We have a big lot of $1.25 House Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is sold by everywhere, and - costs only fifty cents a bottle. To aveld im- itations and_ineffective substitutes be sure to get Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep- See that a facsimile of Dr. Cald- signature and his _portrait on the yellow carten in which pottle, fres of charge, oam be obtained by W. B. Caidwell, by an act passed, Thurs- day, are authorized to transfer, upon such terms:as they deem proper, any inmates of the reformatory who in their opinion will be bénefited by such transfer, to the Connecticut Junior Republic at Litchfield, provided such republic. may refuse to recetve such inmate. Concerning Homes. An amendment to the act concern- ing homes for children, provides that no orphan asylum, children’s home, or similar institution, ~ unless _specially chartered by the state, and no person or group of persons, whether incorpor- ated for the purpose or not, shall care for or board dependent children, under sixteen years of age, or other persons, in any number exceeding two at the same time in the same place, without a license obtained from the state board of charitles; prévided county commis- sioners, city boards of charity, select- men of towns and similar official bod- ies shall not be subject to the provis- ions of this act. General Automobile Law. Mr. Waitt, of the committee on roads, rivers and bridges, submitted the committee report on tne act con- cerning motor vehicles. It was tabled for calendar and printing.. This act is a voluminous document of 32:type- written pages and covers every phase of the operation of motor vehicles. Hospital Trustees. The act_concerning trustees of the Norwich State Hospital for the In- sane, came from the senate passed, and was tabled for calendar and print- ing. As was also an act concerning commitments to county homes so as o imclude children umder four years of age. The Sale of Firearms. The act concerning the sale of fire- arms, passed in the senate, was re- committed to the judiciary committee, on motion of Mr. Peasley. Commisioner of Game. Majority and minority reports came from the committee on fish and game, concerning the appointment of a com- missioner of fisheries and game. Ta- bled for calendar. Petition for Typewriters. Upon recommendation of the com- mittee on military affairs, which re- ported favorably the petition for the of a bill to furnish typewrit- ers to the Connecticut National Guard ana naval militia, was referred to _the committee on appropriations. The sum of 33,000 is recommended for the purpose of typewriting machines, one for each company, troop, battery or battalion commander, and two ma- chines to each headquarters organiza- tion, and one to each other officer as the adjutant general may direct. Sculptor Commissioners, Arthur L. Shipman of Hartford and Benedict Perrin of New Haven were reappointed for a term of six years, ‘ana n’s snipe snipe shall be from December August thirty-first _inclusive. ‘son, shall kill more than ten ‘or all of the species referred to saction in one day.. ‘Commsisioner of Motor Vehicles An act was passed which specfies that the governor shall appont, on or before May 1, 1917, (with the and consent of the senate), and - rennially thereafter, a of motor vehicles, who ‘for a term of four years from the day of June_in the year of his ap- pointment. The commissioner _shail ‘have sole charge of the enforcement of the statutes concerning motor ve- pactorm all dath the Scblaet Pate: form all duties on the tofore incumbent upon the sebretary iof state on these matters. Thé com- missioner shall receive a -salary of $4,000 2 year and expenses. The act provides for a deputy —commissioner at @ salary of $2,490, a chief inspec- tor at a salary of $1800, a chiet clerk at $2,000, an assistant clerk at $1,600, ‘and wuch other clerical assistance as may be necessary. Sajd_commissioner may make, alter or repeal regulations governing the ad- ministration of the motor vehicle laws, and may certify to the compliance of any devices in equipment _presented for his inspection or t to_the requirements of such laws. h reg- ulations shall take effect only when approved by the governor pub- lished in at least ofie newspaper print- ed ‘and published in each county of the state, aud such publication shall ‘e sufficient notice to all persons. Justices of the Peacs. Any person legally elected a justice of the peace at the November election held in 1916, according to an act passed Thursday, and whe- failed to take the oath of office within the time required by law. may take such eath on’or before June 1, 1917, provided no successor to such justice 'of the peace has been elected under the previs- fons of section 418 of the general statutes, Smelting in Groton. An act was passed which speeifies that no person shall take, or.assist in taKing or attempt to take any smelt from the waters of Palmer’s cove, Po- quonnoc river or Baker’s cove, or their tributaries, in the town of Groton, by means of a net, seine or tray. Any person who shdll violate any provis- ion of this act shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars for each of- fense. Chapter 248 of the public acts of 1915 _is repealed. Concerning Fire Escapes. The act amending an act concerning fire escapes, was amended so as to Include lodging houses. A ladder af- fixed to any of the promises described in the law, shall not be considersd a fire escape within the meaning of the act. The penalty s fixed at not less than $500, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both. Prison Contract Labor. The house concurred with the sen- ate in rejecting the bill which refer- red to a change in the system of con- tract labor in the state prison. nville Commission Plan. An act was passed authorizing the town of Plainville to establish a com- mission on town plan which author- izes the town to establish a commis- sion in town plan and bureau of as sessment and award, consisting of the first selectmen and officers and three electors of the town. The board of selectmen will appoint the members of the commission. Like ‘action was taken in regard to the town of New- ington. - The Bacon Academy. The trustees and proprietors of Ba- con academy, incorporated in 1503, by act passed in the house Thursday, are authorized to hold funds to the amount of $300,000, instead of $100,00 as for- merly. Boards of Finance. According to an act passed in the house Thursday any town may_ pro- vide for the establishment of a board of finance and prescribe the term of office of its members and its powers and duties. The board shall be com- Dosed of six electors and taxpayers who shall hold no salaried office- and serve without pa: Committee Rooms Remain. The amendment to the bill concern- ing elections, in regard to the seventy- five feet limit at polling places, and which would prevent the presence of committee rooms at polling places, passed in the sepate, was rejected. The bill was passed. Vocational Education. The committee on education repart- ed favorably an act accepting the provisions of an act of congress con- cerning vocational education._ Automobile Reflectors. An act passed in the house Thurs- day, in concurrence with the senate an wct which provides that every com- mercial motor vehicle not equipped with pneumatic tires and every com- mercial motor vehicle not equipped with pneumatic tires and every com- mercial motor vehicle so constructed that the operator is prevented from $12.00 to $22.50 $7.98 to $22.50 - ---$6.98 10 $25.00 furniture line. you buy. e a—mE o We are equipped to supply your every want in _th; Our stock is large, varied and complete. right here for your inspection before More than all, we stand behind every sale we make and you are satisfied all of the time SHEA = BURKE or_proposed public and refuse disposal plants, and may com- their operation in a manner which shall protect the public heaith, or may order thelr aleration, extension and replacement by other structures when necessary for the protection of the public health. After the passage of this act no public sewerage system or refuse disposal piant shall be built until the design of the same has been fled with the state board of heaith and approved by sald board. Office in Capitol. An amendatory act was passed which provides that the commission- ers of fisheries and game Shall have an office in the state capitol in which its records, papers and books shall preserved. be k Liquor License Period. The act concerning baliot on the li- quor license question was amended to read that ghe ballot shall be cast either in faffor of or against the grant- ing of licenses for the sale of spirit- uouns and intoxicating liquors and the vote then taken shall remain in full force until the first Mondny of the second month after its annulment by a new vote taken at an annual town meeting, upon petition and after due notice as aforesaid, which vote shall become operative on the first Monday of the second month next succeeding said town meeting, provided, in towns electing town officers biennially un- der the provisions of chapter 227 of the public acts of 197, and in which no town officers are eiscted annually, such ballot shall be taken only at the time and place of holding such bien- nial- election. Elisha Miller Fund. The committee on education reported unfavorably in the house Friday the act concerning the fund devised by Elisha_Miller, late of Lyme, deceased, for sehool purposes, and the report was accepted and the bill rejected. The bill stated that by the consolida tion of the school districts of the town of East Lyme it is impossible to apply the income of the Elisha Miller fund as directed by the resolutions adopted at the 1868 session of the legislature, If the bill had passed the trustees of the fund would pay over the fund to the town of East Lyme for the part | payment of the cost of construction of n schoolhouse to be Jocated within that part of the town of East Lyme which prior to the division of the town of Lyme was within the limits of the old Second Ecclesiastical society of Lyme. the schoolhouse to be designated as the Elisha Miller school. The report was accepted and bill rejected. Shore Line Company. An act, pending action in the general assembly, amending the charter of the Shore Line Electric Rallway company reads as foliows. Section 1. The Shore Line Electric Railway company is authorized to gen- erate and to sell electricity, excepting in_the towns of Windham and Cov- entry, to any company authorized Ly special charter to manufacture and sell the eame in any of the towns through which the lines owned or leased by it, said The Shore Line FElectric Raiiway company, now run, or to any municipal corporation or de partment thereof, in any of said towns, authorized by law to manufacture and sell electricity: provided the additional powers given said The Shore Line Blectric Railway company by this act shall not confer upon said The Shore Line Railway company the right to sell or the right to obtain the right to sell electricity in any of the towns wherein any existing company or municipality is now actually operating and engaged in the sale of elect except to any such company or municipality en- gaged in the sale of electricity, without first obtaining the consent in writing of such company or municipality so to do, which consent shall be approved by the public utilities commission; and, for the purpose of.exercising the rights nereby conferred, may transmit elec- tricity upon -any of the transmission iines” which it now hes the right to Itis maintain for raflway purposes, may establish, maintain and operate suit- ably constructed and supported con- ductors, including lines of poles and wires and properly supported cables, including all proper fixtures and ap- purtenances, on private lands with the consent of the owners thereof and may cross over or under any streams or waters, and subject to the provisions of sections 3904, 3905, 3306 and 3907 of the general statutes, along or across, upon, above or under the streets, high- ways and public grounds within said towns, or any of them. Nothing herein contained shall affect the rights or restrictions contained in _the act amending the charter of The Shore Line Electric Railway company, ap- proved June 4, 1913. Sec. 2. The Shore Line Electric Rail- . company is authorized subject to the approval of the public _utilities commission to acquire and hold the stock, bonds, property or franchises of any Connecticut corporation now .or- ganized or hereafter organized, and now furnishing or which may here- after furnish electric power in any part of the territory served by the street railway lines mnow owned or leased by it, and, subject to the ap- proval of the public utilities commis- sion, to Issue its notes or mortzage bonds in payment there. Sec. 3. The Shore Line Electric Rail- way company is authorized to increase its capital stock to an amount not ex- ceeding in the aggregate eight million dollars and to exchange such stock par for par for its notes or its debentures A and debentures B, provided such e change shall be subject to the approval of the public utilities commission, and provided no such stock sball be issued at less than par nor (except for such exchange for said notes or debentures) until the same shall have been paid for in cash or in property of the par value of the stock so issued. Such stock may be of such classes with su Dreference as to the payment of divi- ‘dends and as to the distribution of as- sets in case of the liquidation of the corporation and with such voting ower Gf any) as the stockholders of . the corporation by affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the stock is- sued and outstanding may determine. BRIDGEPORT BRASS COMPANY. This Concern Has a Branch in the City 3 of New London. ‘The Bridgeport Brass company, with a branch in New London, and which is seeking more land to increase the bus- iness facilities in that city, has an act before the legislature to authorize the increase of the capital stock and issue preferred stock. ‘The act reads as fol- ows: Section 1. The RBridgeport Brass company, a corporation organized un- der the provisions of a resolution ap- proved April 6, 1882, is authorized to increase from time to time its capital stock from its present amount of $2,- 000,000 to an amount not exceeding in the aggregate 35,000,000 by the issue of not more than 30,000 additional shares of capital stock of the par value of $100 each, which shall be is sued at not less than par and paid (orLau. notwithstanding contrary action You want to look well turned-out this Spring—and to get style with authority back of it. 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All or any part of said in- creased gapital stock may, if S0 pro- vided in the vote of the stockholders of said corporation authorizing such increase, be preferred stock with such preferences as shall be stated and ex- pressed in such vote. Such preferred stock may be without voting powers, or with limited voting -powers, may be without any right to subscribe or with limited rights to subscribe to stock of said corporation thereafter issued, and may be subject, as a whole or in part, to redemption at not less than par, provided the terms of such restrictions or limitations shall be stated and ex pressed in the vote of the stockholders of said corporation authorizing such increase. Sec. 3. The terms of said preferred stock, both of preference and limita- tion, "shall be incorporated into the certificate of increase required by the public acts to be filed in the office of the secretary of state in the case of the issue of preferred stock by co porations organized under speciai char- ters. New London City Court Section 73 of an act revising the charten of the city of New London, approved June 20, 1905, was amended and passed to read as follows: There shall be held in said city on the first Tuesday of each month, at the court room of the police court, a city court. The judge and assistant judge of the police court of said city shall be judge and assistant judge of the city court: and the clerk of said police court shall be clerk of the city, court. In case the judge, by reason of sick- ness, absence from the city, or other cause, shall be unable to perform the duties of his office, or in case he shall be disqualified, and the parties in_the cause shall not, by agreement In writ- ing, filed with the clerk of said court, waive all objections to his acting therein, said assistant judge shall ex- ercise the powers and perform ihs duties of said judge during the con- tinuance of such inability or disqu fication; and in case both the judge and assistant judge of said city court shall be for any reason unable to act, the clerk of said court. shall, in writ- ing, call in a qualified justice of the peace, residing in said town, who shall act as judge of said city court dufing the continuance of the inability to act of said judge and assistant judge: and when so acting eald justice- of the peace shall have the powers and be subject to the duties imposed by law upon ‘the judge of said ity court, and shall receive compensation at the rate provided for the assistant’ judge of sald city court. y IN THE SENATE. Barnes Would *Have Cold Storage Eggs Marked. Rev. E. B. Cross, pastor of the First Baptist church of New Britain, offered prayer in the senate Friday in the ab- sence of the chaplain, The senate on motion of Senator Rogers adhered to its action in recom- mitting the Dbill' for the licensing of Senator by the house. This action has the ef- fect of killing the bill. Motor Bill Passed. The senate on motion of Senator Macdonald concurred with the nouse in amending the bill for the creation of the office of commissioner of motor vehicles and as amended the bill was passed and, under suspension of rules, transmitted to the clerk on epgros: Diils. Liquor License F The bill authorizing the commission- ers of New Haven county to pay 5 per cent. of liquor licenses in the town of Meriden to the treasurer of the fire- men’s relief fund of that town was teken up. Senator Klett opposed ment to give the counties 25 per cent. of the license fees. He d it would mean a loss of $400,000 in revenue to the state. Senator Doughan said needed the money just as much as the state. At the New Haven county meeting on Thursday the sum of $12,- 000 was voted fof the promotion of agriculture in the county. New Haven County had an expensive jail problem on its hands. He said the commis- sion on taxation, of which former Gov- ernor Baldwin was a member, reported in favor of allowing the counties 25 per cent. of the license money. The amendment was rejected and the bill passed. Egg Bill. Senator Barnes offered an amend- ment to the bill concerning the keting of egzs. It provides that eggs placed in cold storage shall be marked, and that the w shall go into effect the amend- the counties April 1, 1918. The bill and amendment were tabled until Tuesday Not Reconsidered. Senator Broder moved that the ac- tion of the senate in accepting the un- favorable report of the committee on the investment of the school fund be reconsidered. Senator Hurley, chairman of the committee, and Senator Neebe, his coi- league, opposed the motion. Senator Hurley said State Treasurer Chamber- lain was in favor of allowing the pres- ent law to stand. The motion to reconsider was lost. Adjournment. The senate adjourned next at 11.30. CUMBERSOME PROCESSES OF ENGLISH COURTS Many Displeased at the, Way in Which Money and Time are Wasted. to Tuesday Tondon, April 13.—In these days when England is trying to make the best possible use of every ounce of her man_power, many persons find cause for displeasure at the way in which time and money are wasted in some of the cumbersome processes of the English courts. One case cited as a striking example of the wastage of manpower In the courts is that of a bartender put on trial at Windsor 9oy stealing a pot of honey, value ten cents. The case occupied a half day’s time of forty persons in the upper court, the ordinary po having been unable to deal Wi case because the man had a record a previous conviction. The forty persons whose tims we occupied lstening to the dry-as-d phrases of the legal red-tape <o nected with the trial included: T Recorder, the Mayor, the Clerk of th Peace, the Chief Conistable, the Ushe the Doorkeeper, the Crown Co and Solicitor, the Court Stenographe the Prosecutar, three court atte ants, thirteen grand juro tweive petty jurors, and two witnesses, T prisoner was sentenced to ome day imprisonment without _referring case to the jury. The cost of the cedure to the country was estimate at_about 200 pounds. The Recorder, in charging the gra jury, said it was a small matte summan so many people together an take them from their various occup tions. Probably many peopie Wb think it absurd. With that view himself agreed, but he said there we many people who took the other vie A Lively Tombatone. There is_ a tombstone in Cemetery, Harrison, Mo., that scientists. The tombstons comsists a_pedestal on which rests & ball granite two feet in diameter ol the exception of the spot that reste on the pedestal, the ball was give high polish. Now the ball has turme until the unpolished spot has move about one-sixty-fourth of the tance of the complete circle Harrisonville mathematician asce tained the exact hour the monum. was set and by his computation clares the ball will make one réve tion in one hundred years.—Milwaukes Journal. Futility of Legislation. Governor Harding has signed the bill providing that 49 pounds shall be the standard for a sack of flo Towa, but it does not say who w provide the price—Buritngton Ha eye. Bridgeport—The _condition of ¥ James B. Nihill, P. R, pastor Augustine’s church, who has beer at St. Vincent's hospital for the few weeks, suffering an attack of lur bago, is much improved. TRY THEM The next time you suffer with bilious- B or Toss of sppetie, (-