Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-01-18

BUSY SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE ON
TUESDAY - BILLS INTRODUCED - THE
DIVORCE NUISANCE.


BUSY SESSION or THE LEGfsLATukE ON
TUESDAY = BILLS INTRODUCED - THE
DIVORCE NUISANCE.
special Corrsspondsncs Of the JouREAT.
Down, Jan. 14.-Both Houses of the
Legislature met promptly at 3 O'Clock thls
afternoon. Immediately after meeting
the Speaker Of the House appointed the
standing committees, which should have
been appointed last week, aud the general
anxiety on the part of members caused by
the tardiness Of one who should have been
prompt If for no other reason than Tor
the purpose Of setting an excellent example,
was relieved.
Members of both Houses seem to have
been benefited by their short vacations
and have returned looking fresh and evl
IDENTITY prepared for work. Not only the
House, but the Senate, also, transacted con
siderable business during the afternoon,
very little of which, however, is OF gene
raj importance.
Lewis Thompson's bill to exempt from
execution process certain articles of per
sonal property is highly spoken Of and
will probably pass both branchts early IN
the session, after being slightly amended.
The bill Introduced by Squire Silver, to
prohibit the attachment Of wages or salary
| for personal labor, hire or service, Is an
excellent companion to Mr.. Thompson s
bill, and If both should become laws Della
aware's first step on the highway to reform
will have been made, and she Will be
credited with two wholesome laws by
those who stubbornly contend that the
enactments those laws are intended to take
the place of are II reproach TO the boosted
civilization and advancement with which
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senator Riddles bill for establishment
Of the odlous ten-cent tax law, was called
up in the Senate to day and its further
progress for the present checked by the
Chair ruling that a point of order made
Ly member that, as the bill affected the
revenue laws of the State, It was necessary
1t should originate in the House, was well
taken. Whether the proper construction
was put upon the constitutional provision
from which the ruling sprung, Or not,
will leave others to Judge. The provision
referred to says that bills intended 10 raist
revenue for the use of the ST tie shall orig
mate In the House, not that bills which
are intended to decrease the revenue by
the repeal of certain laws shall first he
proposed in the House.
The trouble will be obviated, moreover
at an early date, should the ruling In th,
Senate be sustained by the introduction
of the bill In the House.
In referring to Mr.. Riddles bill it II
minds me that DR.. Leslie has introduced
in the Senate a bill which has passed to d
second reading repeating the tax imposed
upon loan associations. This bill has not
been objected to, yet II is of the SAINT
nature as that proposed by Mr.. Riddle, /
one Is contrary to law the other certainly
is.
To those who have always been oppose,
to transforming the Legislature into
divorce court on grand scale every tw,
years | have cheering word. Man,
members with whom have recently con
versed are determined to discourage tn
practice Of persons who biennally appea
to the Legislature through lodg, pros y
sentimental petitions for the purpose o
getting rid of bad wife or worthless hus
band. If they get relief by special enact
+ ments they again soon form hasty alliance
f aud one or the other Of the contracting
parties is usually cheated, or at least think
J 30, and waits patiently for the Legislator
TO put asuuder what God hath joinet IL
gether. AS member of the House toll
me to day, the County Courts are the prop
er tribunals before which dissatisfied par
Q ties should rehearse their troubles, trial
' and fluctuations, and have their wrong
5 redressed, not the Legislature.
; The large number of petitions presente
i to-day for divorces have had tendeuc
e to still further disgust several members {
the House, and during the reading Of
= heart-rendiug petition rehearsing a W,
e mans wrongs, and praying for divorc,
; DR.. Hugh Martin could stand it no longe
y and moved the further reading Of the pei
e ton be dispensed with. The motion We
c unanimously adopted and similar motion
prevailed whenever divorce petition va
n presented W. 5. 2.