Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-01-06
DOYER.

House Cnucuses Yesterday After
nOOn-ApplHcants for Positions
Rust for speaker Of the senate and
Downing for Clerk Williams for
Speaker of the House and Marvel
for Oierk-Groedy Old SUSSEX.
Special Correspondence Of State Iournh
DOVER Jan. The men who are to
manage the legislative business of the
State for the next two or three months,
arrived, and got down to preparatory work
last night.
Applicants for the various positions In
the gift of the two houses were numerous.
but those who wanted to be Sergeant-at-
Arms were particularly 30. One of them
said, and there seemed from the promiscu-
Gus buttonholing going on to be solid
truth back of his assertion-thRt there
were three applicants to each legislator.
rHK SENATE CAUCUS.
The eight Democratic Senators went
into caucus about 8 O'clock last evening,
while the Republican Senator, Mr.. Belts,
walked through the corridor, holding q
perambulatipg caucus of his own. The
Senate caucus lasted about an hour and
seemed to be unev> ptful ard harmonious
Mr.. O. F, Rust, of North West Fork,
SUSSEX county, was chosen for Speaker on
the first ballot, Caleb S. Pennewill of
Kent being his competitor. Mr.. Rust is
one of the holding over members, and a
mau of mature Judgment, solid rather
than brilliant, and deliberate instead of
lmpetuons. He is large fruit grower,
and q man of considerable means. The
ballet stood; Rust, i; pennewill, 9;
blank, /.
For Clerk of Senate there we're Ave
ballots and five candidates; Hiram A
Downing of Georgetown, III. H. Colclszer,
George o. Shakespeare of Dover, Jacob
0 Wilson of Milford, and William Broad
way of Wyoming. Joseph Jervis of Farm
ipgton. Before proceeding to ballot, the
caucus adopted resolution that the CLERK
should receive no more than 300 for his
services. including everything.
The frat ballot is reported to have re-
suited: Colclszsr, 8; Downing, 2: Shake
speare, L; Wilson, (; Lewis, j Tni,
ballot WAS anaivz d as TO lows: For Ooi
,lpz4r, Coooh, Rust and McWhorter fo
| ID ,woiug, Conowsy and Horsey fo
Shakespeare, Pennewill; for Lewis, Har
rington for Wilson, Cooper.
The last ballot is reported, thus: Down
ng, 81 Uo'clazer. 9; Shakespeare, |
Aualyz d: For Downing. MoWhorter
oDoway, Horsey, Pennewil, Fl arlington
for Oolclsz4r, Oooch and Rust; for Shakes
peare. Cooper. Hiram A. Downing, tn
caucus nominee for clerk, is G +orge to WI
alsn, about 48 yeaIs old and has serve,
two terms as clerk of the Orphans Oour
If Sussex county.
Ar nj ha ~ To- O.,
Ieeut-st arms, the caucus seleott i jaime
IL Ss,terfield, of Harrington, who
poken of rs irst rate fellow and mot
ringster."
Harry Walls of Dover, was ohosen fc
page.
Rev B G Parker of Dover, Was chose
for chaplain.
TEE HoUsE CAUCUS.
The House caucus remained In sessio
until after midnight the stairways bein
ihronged all the time with anxious il
quirers absorbed In the question IAN,
thing from the House yeti
There we're various reasons given +,
the delay, the most plausible one beir
that the SUSSEX county men were fightin
haid for the speakership for which Il.
: Williams, of that county, WIS spoken
. as candidate. The Kent men we
equally bent upon having the speaker al
they succeeded in the end, Repear William
r being the caucus nominee. Besides Nj
, Williams, o. II Register and Alfred I
: Cahal were spoken of from Kent.
Reynear Williams, the successful appl
3 cant, is Milford man, who has BET
t 4torekeeper there for number of YEAR
/ ha 10 mn o. O,,t An anlI l,,a 81 4,
! to the Legislature last fall was his fir
appearance in public position, but he
q described rs man who makes up his mir
! quickly, then pitches right In and goes
stropg.
? For the clerksbip OF the House the
were several applicants, among them D.
Marvel. of Sussex a Kent county m,
: named Coyerdale, Nicholas Il johnson,
! Sussex, and MIS- Mary Ann Stewart.
: The fight was between Marvel al
johnson and was protracted, ending at Ia
in victory for the former.
g Mr.. Marvel is the leading editor of 4
SUSSEX journal and rising young lawv
E of Georgetown
= The most interesting feature ~ Ii
. contest WAS she candidacy of Mira. Ala
l Ann Stewart Mrs. Stewart is a wido
about 40 of age, with decided tenden
. TO eBtbohpo'ht;, a woman of close oh sery
:, ton aud unusual intelligence, and Gift
y with conversational powers Of no me
:, order. Ia fact, she IL very voluable al
although she sad she would not a
anyone TO vote for her she was l
backward III expressing in the presence
y senators the nope that she would recei
o their votes.
Mrs. Stewart halls from Greenwot
Sasstx couniy,on farm near which to,
II she was born and raised. She MARI
when quite yonng, but her husband did
y, prove good III inager, and when he di
'"tt her MS legacy, five young children
% flo bill aud farm 30 eucumbert d iha
:, hnd To be sold At sheritfs sale, but frieI
" assisted her to bid it III She has trave
=, some, addrtsHed NUMBER of woma
- nights meetings. and expresses herself
!, coni1ieht that the placing OF the ballot
WnmHn'5 hands Will tend
AZ make elections less bolster,
= and altogether more satisfacto
ts Ia her application, which she depu,ii
IA, Peter Robinson OF Sussex to present,
urged that women have already b.
az elected in some states for enerossm
nj clerks, and that there is nothing in
nj Delaware constitution to initiate agai
nd her appointment. In 1873 Mrs. Stew
N. carried on the Capitol aute here, and
~ WAS interested in several bills before
nj Legislature of that year She has
II. served ss vice president of the Womt
National Suffrage Association.
ay This other nominees OF the House eau
m were: Sergeant. at Arms L. A. JOSEF
i, Of SuLst I. GbpDiaiu R-y lprnu n
pe tinRton, Presbyterian clergyman
m Dover; Page, j. Benn.
NJ PROSPECTIVE LEGISLATION.
~ From the quantity of work cut out
u, coming session seems likely to be i
- lengthy aud Important.
~ One of the most interesting subject
-" the public will be the application of
- Delawere Western railroad for such anne
.'n meat to its charter as is rtquisite to EN-
a,' 1t TO reach the State line near New
e The ultimate Object of this is to make
;oa part of the Baltimore i Ohio's cont
~ plated through route to Philsdelp
80. the projected line Of which was amour
;,,a In EVERY EVENING several months 81
rhe recent complications and obstruct
which the Pennsylvania Central
thrown in the way of the Il o rail-
has rendered the construction of
route an absolute nc cessity to the IL
a.. road.
cott There is no reason TO suppose that Il
will be any objection to such legisla.
the Although the p, W Il b. CO. has, thrc
in its officers, denied that it took hand iu
snd late State election. the fact remains
on Superintendent Mile, OF the Della,