Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1875-03-23

ARCHIE GIvEN's BILL HAS BAcK-sET-TBK
SCHOOL BILL THROUGH THE HoUsE-THE FREE
| LIQUOR BILL ON THE RAGGED EDaE-HAwKs AND
OWLS.
Special Correspondence of the Commercial.
Down, March 23.
Yesterday, the twelfth week of the session
opened with full House and but Six Senators
present. The afternoon in the House was the
busiest OF the session. and several important bills
were disposed Of. The first by special order.
WAS the
ARCHIE GIVEN REFUNDINa BILL
which was brought up by Mr.. Pyle, and pressed
to final issue, when all at once, aud much to
the surprise Of the friends of the bill, Mr.. Bggs
slipped in u motion to refer it to a special COM
mitiee of three, Which motion was carried 80
qulcky that but few OF the members seemed to
notice what had been done. The bill was refer
red to Messrs. Bggs, Voshell, and Houston, q
committee which II ID said will not report the bill
back again. aud Us IL cannot be called from the
hands OF tile committee under five days. it looks
as II the bill would be allowed long sleep.
The next bill of Importance was the new
FREE SCHOOL BILL,
which was put upon its final passage and agreed
to by vote of II yeas to nays.
True, the bill had been kicked about until it
had lost considerable part of its vitality, but
Secretary of State, State Auditor and State
Treasurer are to form State Board of Educa-
tiop, aud the Governor is to appoint State Su-
perntendent, who is to visit every school in the
and incorporated schools. He is to hold
Teachers Institute, once year in each
county, examine Candidates for teachers
and grant certificates, for all Of
which he is to receive $500 per aniium. Each
school district in New Castle and Kent county
is to raise not less than 800 tax, and in Sussex
county not less than S75 before the State ap-
preparation can be dra~,. This tax is to be
levied by the school commission ers Of each dis
trict without reference to vote OF the people.
Following close upon the heels of the school bill,
MIR. Pyle brought up the
FREE LIQUOR LICENSE BILL,
but to meet different fate from the School bill.
John w. Phillips attacked it as soon as it WAS
brought up. and moved an indefinite postpone
ment, which agreed to by vote OF II yeas
to 10 nays Mr. Pyle, finding his bill WAS killed,
rose to aquestion OF order-that as the motion to
indefinitely postpone was made once before,
and lost, it could not now be renewed. The
Speaker then decided the point we'll taken, Mr..
Phillips and Houston both stared that the pre-
vious vote for indefinite postponement was made
on the first reading Of the bill, and this being
the second reading, the motion was in order.
The Speaker however adhered to his decision,
aud as appeal was taken the vote on the adop-
ton Of the bill which WAS in the shape of an
amendment was taken and defeated by . vote
of 10 to TO- Mr.. Baldwin declining to vote.
1t was fully expected last night that Archie
Given would be down with fresh supply ,of
long -necked bottles with which to retrieve the
broken fortunes of the day, but in vain was he
looked for. Buchers timely arrival on tue field
OF Waterloo saved wellington, but Archibald, it
seems was no Bucher After the excitement
of the afternoon, on these important bills, the
Legislature turned its attention to the very
grave ssbject OF
HAWKS AND owLe, Y
which pests bill. champoned by Mr.. Lambden
Intended to destroy Mr. Baldwin put in plea
for those hawks and owls which destroyed the
mice Of New Castle county, and urge that on
their account his couuty should be exempt from
the provisions of the bill Mr.. B ggs thought
by all means it would be best to destroy the
pasky tlngs. especially for snsseS. else
there would be no chickens left and the
preachers would not stay there. The
bill was finally amended to let New Castle alone
and let Keut aud Sussex march to the slaughter
OF the birds Of prey. B. FL.