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CONNECTICUT. 



Jarerrfir 1 That the interact* of the people require 

 the atablishroent of a Bute Bureau of Labor Sta- 

 . similar to that existing in the State of Mas- 



Mcfcnirtti whereby the condition and intantta of 

 the producing clawea may be fully understood. We 

 also demand that our representative* in Congress 

 UM their influence and vote* to establish a national 

 commission for the purpoee of gathering and prepar- 

 ing statistical an<l other information in reference to 

 the condition of the producing classes. 



Buolnd, That eight hours' daily labor is sufficient 

 for transacting the business of the country, and that 

 the improvements in the arts and seienoes should 

 tend to lessen the hours of manual labor, and that 

 women and children should not be employed in our 

 manufacturing establishments more than ten hours 

 a day. 



These resolutions were unanimously adopt- 

 ed, and the convention adjourned. 



The members of the Temperance Association 

 assembled in convention in January, 1873, 

 when they declared their object, and set forth 

 the means necessary for its realization, and 

 adopted the following platform : 



Rttolitd, That the great foe of modern Christian 

 civilization is the dram-shop ; that it violates the 

 law of God, and is hostile to the beat interests of 

 men, and therefore is a thing to be destroyed ; 'that 

 to despair of the possibility of its destruction, is to 

 lack faith in God and the moral power of good men. 

 We therefore believe that it can be destroyed, and 

 we are resolved, God helping us, that it shall be de 

 troyed. 



Jfuolttd, That all experience show* that the only 

 effective method of its destruction is by force of law, 

 bscked by the powers of moral sentiment, and sus- 

 tained by unintermitted moral effort, and the only 

 method of law that has been found to avail for this 

 is that of prohibition, enforced by the authority and 

 executed by the officers of the State. We therefore 

 condemn tbe action of the Legislature In refusing to 

 give effect to the prohibitory law of the State, by 

 the establishment of a police force for its execution, 

 and instead, repealing the law and substituting in 

 its place the tried-cut and broken-down experiment 

 of license, and we demand the renunciation of that 

 principle, and the reestablishment of a prohibitory 

 law, by a forc<j adequate to its execution. 



Rttolctd, That such a law should make liquor, held 

 for purposes of illegal sale, subject to seizure and 

 confiscation, and this not only as stored, but in tran- 

 sit, and the illegal traffic responsible for all damages' 

 resulting therefrom, and the repute of such sale 

 should be held valid ground of conviction and pun- 

 ishment. 



Rooted, That the liquor law of the last session 

 of the Legislature is a public fraud first, in that it 

 professes to leave the qucation of the sale of liquor 

 to be drunk as a beverage to the free and unembar- 

 rassed decision of the citizens of the several town-, 

 whereas it asociat with uch sale what is known 

 as the legitimate ml.-, and refuses tbe supply of li- 

 quors for medical and mechanical purposes, unless, 

 with this, the sale for common tippling purposes is 

 alto authorized, thu putting the towns under bonds 

 of their legitimate needs to allow the illegitimate 

 ale ; second, in that, while professing to give the 

 towns UM option of prohibiting the traffic within 

 their bounds, it furnishes them no effective means of 

 enforcing their decision, thus leaving their vote an 

 mpty form; third, in that it virtually pledge* 

 licensed dealers protection against the unlicensed 

 sale, which pledge it leaves unfulfilled, thus return- 

 ing no eqnivslnnt for the license-money received ; 

 fourth, in that that It threatens the unlicensed dealer* 

 with penalties which It fails to visit on them. Thtm 

 veryWly who trusts in It is cheated by It, and It is 

 time thtt UM coarse of this dishonesty were aban- 



doned as unworthy of the State, and that a square and 

 honest style of dealing with the traffic were inaugu- 

 rated in its place. 



Jietolr+1, That we indorse the bill now before Con- 

 gress prohibiting the manufacture, importation, and 

 sale of intoxicating liquors for drinking purp<mi-, 

 within those parts of the country subject to the na- 

 tional control, and demand its enactment into law. 



Jltfoltud, That we believe in all the good things in 

 which the other parties believe before election, and 

 which the dominant party of the country shows 

 such rare facility of forgetting as soon as the elec- 

 tion is over, viz. : civil service reform, integritv in 

 the administration of public affairs, decentraliza- 

 tion in the national Government, respect for the 

 rights of the Sates, national reconciliation, labor 

 reform, etc., and we pledge ourselves to enact them 

 into law so fast and so far as we are intrusted with 

 the power. 



The State election in April, 1878, resulted 

 in favor of the Democratic-Liberal Republican 

 ticket. The whole number of votes toM cast 

 for Governor was 86,881 ; of which Mr. Inger- 

 soll.the Democratic candidate, received 45,039 ; 

 the Temperance candidate, about 2,000 ; which 

 would leave less than 40,000 for Mr. Haven, 

 the Republican candidate. Three Republicans 

 and one Democrat were elected to Congress. 

 The Legislature was Democratic by a con- 

 siderable majority. 



On May 7th the General Assembly met at 

 Hartford, and opened their regular session. 

 Both Houses met in joint convention, and tho 

 Governor-elect appeared before them in person 

 and took the oath of office, as did also the Secre- 

 tary of State, the Treasurer, and the Controller, 

 successively. The Lieutenant-Governor had 

 previously taken his oath in the Senate, which 

 body he had also led into the Hall of Repre- 

 s.'iitatives for tbe joint convention, as its 

 president. 



The debt of the State was reduced in the 

 course of the last fiscal year $565,683.02, and 

 bonds Amounting to $623,400 were purchased, 

 which leaves outstanding, at the beginning of 

 May 1873, $5,095,900; with $788,078.0 on 

 hand in the Treasury. 



The revenue of the State on account of tho 

 civil list during the same year amounted, in tho 

 aggregate, to $2,084,405.24 ; the sources wliirh 

 most contributed to make np that stim having 

 been the two-mill tax on the towns, $75.888.- 

 77; the tax on savings-banks, $471, 222. 90; 

 the tax on railroad companies, $339,620.44; 

 and the tax on mutual insurance companies, 

 $805,670.88. 



Tho expenditures were $1,175,567.88. di- 

 vided as follows: salaries of executive officers 

 for the year, $5,700; of judicial officers, $59,- 

 050 ; cost of the General Assembly of the last 

 etsion, $92,276.18 ; judicial expenses, $185,- 

 *7::.74; contingent expenses, $146,823.34; 

 Board of Education, $8,985.81 ; Director of 

 State-prison, $600 ; State Purveyors, $3.42fi.- 

 60; families of volunteers, $108,448.85; ad- 

 vance to quartermn-tcr-comTal, $5,000; to 

 paymaster-general, $48,000; to adjntant-gen- 

 ral, $8,000; public buildings, $89,117.60; mis- 

 cellaneous amounts, $862,126.53. 



