The daily gazette., 1879-03-19
THIRD EDITION
state Capital Gossip.

The Court House Bal, Already L,,sty
Infant, Will Soon be Able 10 Walk
It's Success Assured-Senator Rust
and the Railroad.
Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
DOVER, March l9.-Feverish anxiety
was depicted on the courtenances OF the
citiEecs OF Wilmington, who are advo-
eating Court House removal, all yester-
day forenoon and the all -absorbiDg topic
was on every lip. The corridor and lob
bies were overrun by the multitude and
whenever the Senate or House we're not
IN s. ssion the respect i've halls were well
filed with earnest urgers OF the passage
of the measure. 1t Is seldom that body
of men are seen more in earnest; 1t is not
often that You will find people who kept
to their task with snch vieor and per
sistency. Along the line of the New
Castle camp the fires burned family, and
there was apparently sort OF cessation
of enort in the opposition.
The bill was broached in the House
just after the calling to order for the af
ternoon session, amid breathless inter-
est. The faces Of good many Will
ming onians looked down upon the
House in ,an uneasy sort of way, and
scattered among them were occasional
members of the opposition looking
blankly concerned. The floor of the
chamber had great many more stand
ing and setting around than II usual and
there was crowd around the door
Mr.. Cochran showed his hand at once
and moved that the bill be printed in or
der, he said, that the people might know
what the measure meant. Mr.. Ware and
a...I et....
that the people OF the county were sure
IL well acquainted with the bill, as 1t had
been pending for a considerable length
OF time and had been fieely- ami sxten-
sively discussed by the newspapers. Nov
this was simply AN off-banded way of
putting off final action upon the bill and
the fact that nothing could be gained or
lost by postponement, did not seem to
have the weight with the members from
Kent and Sussex. Notwithsi andng
that all the New Castle members but Mr.
Lambson and Mr. Cochran opposed the
printing enough Of those from the lower
counties voted for it to give a majority.
Then Mr.. Cochran tried TO posip zone
the bill till next Tuesday and barely fail
ed; and then by a vote Of 6 to 10 the bill
was postponed till Thursday at 3 O'Clock
Your correspondent asked one of the
most level-headed of the Wilmington
men last night, what he thought the vote
cast upon the motions in relation to the
bill ind Gated, and he said: 1t simply in
dicates the ultimate success of the meas
ure, which is now assured and compare
lively easy. The voting for II by NJ essrs
Ware, Dean, Doran and Riggs and the
Speaker left only two in the New Cas-
te delegation arrayed In opposition to IT,.
Now your paper said some time ago that
the House would vote as did the New
Castle delegation. This If cour~e will be
tie case, and when it comes up finally on
Thursday, 1t will have, | doubt not, an
easy majority. | think this gentleman
Was right, because the hve New Castle
gentlemen who opposed postponement
are hot tue kind to go back after taxing
decided step, and many of the Kent
and Sussex members while voting for
the ro>tponement would have supported
the bill at the time had ii nal vote been
forced.
STILL AFTER TIM RAILROAD.
Senator Rust the chairman of the com.
m'ttee on railroad matters, tangled the
Senate all up yesterday morning ovel
an Intricate point of parliamentary prac
tlce aud made it 20 into q committee or
the whole before the cobwebs could bt
cleared away. Mr.. Rust has been untir
ing In efforts to secure q reduction anf
equalization Of freight charges by tn,
railroad and conceived the plan or pre-
senung bill some hat similar tu tut
Que now in the House, in order to make
the Senators give evidence Of their opin.
ion OF the subject. The committee On
the whole decide d to admit the bill and
II wa read the first time. The bill pro.
vldes for the appointment of one com.
miss. oner at q salary OF 81 600 Der yeAr