CONNECTICUT. 



Among the measures that passed the House 

 but not the Senate were the following : 



To prevent dealings in options. 



To define the crimes of murder in the first and sec- 

 ond degrees. 



To forbid discrimination as to evidence in pension 

 cases on account of the official rank of witnesses. 



To ameliorate certain punishments for violation of 

 the internal-revenue laws. 



To dispense with proof of loyalty during the civil 

 war as a prerequisite for admission to the pension 

 roll. 



To protect the title of settlers on unsurveyed Gov- 

 ernment lands when found to be within the area of 

 railroad land grants. 



To give pension claimants the right to examine 

 papers on file in their case. 



Among the measures that passed the Senate 

 and not the House are the following: 



To increase pension for deafness and also for loss 

 of limb. 



To provide for the erection of public buildings in 

 cities where the postal receipts for three years pre- 

 ceding have reached $3,000 annually. 



To reclassify postal railway clerks. 



To reorganize various branches of the army with a 

 view of hastening promotions. 



To provide for free delivery of mail in small towns. 



To revise the system of public printing. 



To provide additional life-saving stations. 



To provide for the improvement of the Mississippi 

 river. 



To declare lands containing phosphates to be min- 

 eral lands, and subject to entry as such. 



To direct the Interstate Commerce Commission to 

 report the action of railroad companies in regard to 

 automatic couplers. 



Adjournment. The Congress adjourned on 

 Aug. 5, 1892. 



CONNECTICUT, a New England State, one of 

 the original thirteen ; ratified the national Con- 

 stitution Jan. 9, 1788; area, 4,990 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial 

 census, was 237,946 in 1790; 251,002 in 1800; 

 261,942 in 1810; 275,148 in 1820; 297,675 in 

 1830; 309.978 in 1840; 370,792 in 1850; 460,147 

 in 1860 ; 537,454 in 1870 ; 622,700 in 1880 ; and 

 746,258 in 1890. Capital, Hartford. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Morgan G. 

 Bulkeley, Republican, holding over after the ex- 

 piration of the term for which he was elected, in 

 consequence of the failure of the General As- 

 sembly to declare the result of the election of 

 November, 1890 ; Lieutenant-Governor, Samuel 

 E. Merwin, Republican ; Secretary of State, R. 

 Jay Walsh, Republican ; Treasurer, E. Stevens 

 Henry, Republican (the last-mentioned three of- 

 ficials held over under the same tenure as the 

 Governor) ; Comptroller, Nicholas Staub, Demo- 

 crat; Secretary of State Board of Education, 

 Charles D. Hine ; Insurance Commissioner, Orsa- 

 mus R. Fyler; Railroad Commissioners. George 

 M. Woodruff, William H. Haywood, William 0. 

 Seymour ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Charles B. Andrews ; Associate Justices, Elisha 

 Carpenter, Edward W. Seymour, who died on 

 Oct. 16, and David Toromce. There is one va- 

 cancy. During the year Judge Augustus H. 

 Penn, of the Superior Court, acted as one of the 

 justices of the Supreme Court, having been 

 designated for that service by the members of 

 the latter court until the vacancy caused by the 



failure of the General Assembly to confirm the 

 renomination of Justice Dwight Loomis should 

 be filled. 



"Valuations. The following table shows the 

 assessed valuation of property in each county 

 for 1891, compared with the valuation for 1890: 



Legislative Session and Election Contest. 



On Jan. 6 both Houses of the General Assem- 

 bly of 1891 reassembled at Hartford and again at- 

 tempted to settle the long-standing controversy 

 respecting the election of State officers. (For 

 the origin of this controversy, and the action of 

 the General Assembly therein during 1891, see 

 the "Annual Cyclopaedia " for 1891, page 234.) 

 Shortly before reassembling the legislators were 

 apprised of the decision of the State Supreme 

 Court in the case of Morris vs. Bulkeley, declar- 

 ing Gov. Bulkeley to be the legal Governor until 

 his successor should be legally qualified. In this 

 decision all parties acquiesced, but it failed to 

 cover the main points of difference between the 

 two Houses. Its only effect was to compel the 

 Democratic Senate to recognize and receive the 

 messages of Gov. Bulkeley, which before it had 

 declined to consider. Hitherto the Republican 

 House of Representatives had refused to join 

 with the Senate in declaring the election of any 

 of the Democratic candidates for State offices, 

 except the Comptroller, claiming that there 

 should first be an investigation of the returns. 

 In order to induce the House to recede from 

 this position, so far as the office of Secretary of 

 State was concerned, the Senate, on Jan. 7. passed 

 a resolution declaring John J. Phelan, the Demo- 

 cratic candidate, to be elected to that office, and 

 transmitted it to the House with a request 

 that a conference committee be appointed. The 

 House appointed such a committee, and both 

 branches then adjourned for one week. They 

 reassembled on Jan. 13, and adjourned to Jan. 

 20 without action. On the latter date only 5 

 Republicans and 118 Democrats were present at 

 the roll call of the House, and as there was no 

 quorum an adjournment of one week was de- 

 clared, at the end of which time another ad- 

 journment was made to Feb. 2. The Senate 

 met on Jan. 20 in full numbers, but after 

 fruitless discussion adjourned to Feb. 3. When 

 the House convened again on Feb. 2, nearly 

 every Republican again being absent, the Dem- 

 ocrats adopted a new line of policy. Imme- 

 diately after Speaker Paige had declared an 

 adjournment to the next day because no quo- 

 rum was present, Representative Walker called 

 the Democrats together, claiming that the 

 House was still in session, and that Speaker 

 Paige had no authority by law to declare such 

 an adjournment. They then proceeded to elect 

 a new speaker, clerk, and sergeant-at-arms, and 

 the last-mentioned officer Was instructed to com- 



