The daily gazette., 1881-04-08

ENTH WARD BILL-wM. MAXWELL
ALL o. K.-DivoRCEs-THE Law
LIBRARY-THE DIAMOND STATE GAS
BILL. .
DOVER, April Z, 1881.
Special correspondence OF the Gazette.
AS the session nears the time of ad-
journment sine die, grave expressions
exist as to the possibility of disposing
of all the measures now pending.
But / am assured by many that all the
bills can be disposed of in the time
yet remairing, provided that clerks
can procure a sufficient force for en-
rolling. Mr.. Bradford, chairman of
the Committee on Revised Statutes,
will be able to report all his bills in
the morning If an opportunity pre-
sents itself. MIR. Robinson, chairman
oil the Committee on Corporations,
has but one ON hand. The Senate
having to wait upon the House is not
80 near an end to its work. Most of
the bills to receive final action. are
House bills, and the consequence is
that the Senate will be longer at actual
work than the House. Yet upon the
whole it is reasonable to state that on
Saturday at some time the Legislature
of Delaware will distribute itself to
the various parts of her little St,te.
Many are the longings and signs of
these doughty Solons to be once more
with the family eircle-there to receive
the smiles of an approving wife and
the thousand ques ions of some pro-
missing boy, and lay back with the sat-
isfaction of Triumphant warrior Ie-
turned to his native land. And | tell
you it is a constant fight here. Not
only in the committee rooms with the
multitude of opinions ami ideas that
ale advanced but after the rising OF
committee when some exhuberant
lobbyist significantly tOuches you by
the arm and whispers ''lunch and
champagne" them comes he strugg 10
not to get enough-but not to get
too much. There is yet a more irri-
tating conflict in stole. Wien after a
short and troubled nights resi-, during
which time visions of he bright and
fantastic n,t before your seething
brain and dreams of the beautiful and
dread haunt your pillow, and The town
clock ringing like sixty alarm bells,
the man gently raps at your door,
which rap sounds like thunder rolling
ath y art the sultIy sky of a hot June
night, and says 1t is time to get up
Meister- you jump from bed into your
pants, think of the measure that is
the special order for The morning hour,
get your neck into awry, leave the
back of your collar unbo toned, rush
down stairs, bolt your breakfast and
enter the Legislative halls just in time
to hear some early bird, fresh and
Grip, firing into your most cherished
measures, you listen, try to divine
what he said before you entered, col
lect your wandering Thoughts, and as
soon AS he has partly demolished your
noble structure, fire away and finish
it. This is but faint picture of the
continual warfare, but space will not
allow us to further paint its truthful
realities.
AS was expected to-day the Senate
passed the Eleventh Ward bill. No
one was surprised, IN fact surprise and
disappointment would have followed
had there have been the faintest inti-
nation of a dissenting voice othe:
than that of Mr.. Belts.
Mr.. VIM. d. Maxwell may rest easy
now. The House quietly disposed Of
the bill pushed by The Kentucky Lot
terry Eottery and now the ''Orphana
House" and any other charitable insti-
tuition can secure funds by an easy and
harmless way, which by this bill
would have beeen swept from their
grasp. Had this bill not have been
SO sweeping in it's character it would
have been entertained with more favor
by the Legislature, but as it stood-as
was right-it was killed.
This has been gala day for divorce
cases in the Senate to-day at least
one half dozen were passed this after
noon. Mr.. Nc Whorter made speech
after speech touching the testimony as
delivered in the commit ee of which
he was chairman and fully explained
the points of Viralinterest. M.rCooch,
the avowed opponent of divorce called
the yeas and nays and voted against
every bill regardless of its merits.
Your correspondent thinks. the Senate
capable of being severely criticised as
to lis actions upon certain measures.
To-day q House joint resolution, in
creasing the amount oil the apprOpria-
tion to buy law text books and missing
volumes of the reports of various
States was, with debate, summarily
killed, This was most economical
and useful appropriation, one in which
the dignity and credit OF the Stale was
involved. But when a Senate joint
resolution giving to Massey and VOL
colt 5000 apiece for the legal phrase
ology of the refunding bill was pre-
seuLed we heard not a dissenting
voice, There are Sther instances in
which they have acted unwisely, but
this is the most glariDg and unreason-
able. The real work on the refundlng
bill was done by the committees Jndse
Comegys and Nathaniel Williams
The lawyers merely made 80 II would
not hold water. 1t is very easy mat
Ter for a timer to solder up eau, bat
10 get out the ore and smelL it and
make ready for lhe timer Is another
matter. We do not quarrel with The
appropriatiun but the direction in
winch il unerrin ly hoaed. II should