Daily Republican., 1881-03-29
FUUaTH FnLTiCA.
A4AIN the sRRRYnANDER.
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Eleventh. ward heme-Soeal
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DemOeFatic DiscOu rtesy over the
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Special Correspondence Of the Republican.
Dover, March 2s-A Republican has
no rights which Kent county legisla-
tor is hound 70 respect. Neither is he
entitled to courteous or decent treat
meut when the exigsncy Of party de.
msnd otherwise. This WAS shown
again to-day. The arrant impudenre OF
the Democratic side toward the New
Castle delegation which has characti.
"a the session until 1t has become q
matter Of common notoriety, cropped
out again in the House and this time il
w&s Of more pronounced nature than
ever before. Cshsll, OF Kent, was the
person who showed the discourtesy.
But he was only the cause. The whole
Democratic side was the agent, and
backed him up with the usual una
nimity from Williams, the Speaker,
down, with the exception of NesSrs.
Graham and A. C. Williams.
I'll subject was the Eleventh ward
straw ct which the drowning Whining
ton Democrats are clutchipg. The
gentleman from Mispillion has the mat
ter in charge, you know. That large
delegation of Wilmington ward politi.
clans, who came down here on the night
Of last Wednesday week, sfer holding
that secret meeting, (likely At one day
10 become famous, let me whisper, pu t
the infamous measure in his far. from
unwilling hands. The afternoon, Mr..
Cshall, as the special representative OF
the Wilmington Democracy, called it
up for a second reading. This done,
instead Of allowing 1t to 60 to the pro-
pei. committee, he moved 1t be refer RED
to special committee of three.
Mr.. Bradford objected and stated his
very acknowledgements briefly. There
weretwo standing committees who could
properly consider the bill-those on Cor.
poratiops and Revised Statutes. He
was a member Of both committees, but
really he h sd no desire to have anything
to do with the bill in question. All the
Wilmington bills heretofore acted upon
b bad been referred to the committee on
Statutes with one ar tWO
exceptions, and they had gone TO the
Corporations committee.
MIR. Bradford as readers Of tn Q papers
know by this time, is chairman Of tn e
Revised States committee. The object
Of Mr.. Cahsll's motion was therefore
very plain. 70 be sure Mr.. Cahall did
not want the bill to 60 to that commit. |
tee. In what he had to say In response
the MispilIion gentleman argued that
the committee on corporations was the
only proper one to consider the bill and
he had made the motion because the
Of that committee (Mr. Rob-
insor) was $50 full of work." (Hunt-
ing up petitions in defense Of Derrick
Norris, and that sort OF thing, you
know.)
Mr.. Bradford had little more 10 say. (
He directed the attention of House to
the fact that the bill was one purely
Wilmington and New Castle
1t was not right to appoint a
special CON mittee on the matter, the
chairman of which would in courtesy,
and usual practice, be the gentleman
who made the motion, Kent County
man.
Mr.. Robinson popped up and had a
word to say about being already swamp.
ed with business, aud Mr.. Bradford |
called for the ayes and nays which |
showed a solid Democratic vote with |
the exception of Msssrs. Graham and |
A. N. Williams, as stated, and 7. N.
Williams and Matthews were absent
at the time.
When the Speaker came to appoint
the committee, for wonder, he asked
Mr.. Bradford II he could serve. Mr.
Bradford very properly refused. This
was done privately, but it came out
soon after when the committee was an.
nounced. The Speaker ramsd Msssrs.
CahAll, Tomlinson and Townsend in
the order given.
Mr.. Townsend tried to get the floor
but DR.. Toulinson was ahead Of him
with request that he be excused, as
he was up to his eyes In the Norris
case. His req usst was granted and
Mr.. Staytop was named to fill the va.
csncy.
Then Mr.. Townsend declined. "Mr.
Speaker" said he, 81 would like TO be
excused from serving on the committee
partly because | knew nothing abo at
his matter, and partly because Mr..
Bradford, being the Representative
rom Wilmington, should have been
named instead Of me-"
Mr.. Townsend had not heard Of Mr..
Bradford declining to serve, but the
gentleman from Wilmington, always
1illing to correct false impression,
md TO do justice to and treat sll mem-
Ders fairly, explained the case.
"Oh, yes," cheerily interpolated
'psaker Williams. The gentleman de-
,lined, and said he had too much busi-
ness already.
"Allow me to correct you SIR" said
Mr.. Bradford politely, 81 said nothing
't the kind. Igavs no reasons. | did
not want to serve on the committee Gre
sted to consider the measure"
Mr.. Towrssud was then eAsused and
Mr.. Swsyne named to take Mr.. Town.
'snd's place, and there the matt-r
iropped. The reasons for this refer
snce ofthe bill do not need any expls-
nation. They are plain as day to
1t Was done deliberately
'or these reasons.
Mr.. Bradford is opposed to the bills.
He is chairman of the Committee on
Revised Statutes.
This committee Is the proper one to