Daily Republican., 1881-02-18

Sr. vanBurkalOH BraSA the Rail-
road into the HOGse by sbe Ears
-rhe r, w. q u. Mem Ftsntin&
for Belsy, aud thai IL the CauSe

Special correspondence OF the REPUBLICAN,
DOVER, Feb. l7.-Interest without d
parallel has conferred around the State
House all day, and every body has
neen talking railroad necessarily
France, Brosdbsut & Co, and the in
tsmous lottery scheme OF % years
ago raised not q circumstance Of senu'
iue Sensation TO that which the Della,
ware Western bill has kicked MP. The
,ong aud rather interesting meeting o.
the House committee on corporations
asst night was eporgh TO ke'p the
whole day supplied with interesting
t2lk, but the Interest WIS increased
ten-fold when My. VanBurkalow intro
duced his resolution at the morning
session to increase the COMMITTEES or
corporations with two members from
Kent.
The committee on corporations was
composed Of five very capable men,
Messrs. Robinson, (chairman) Bradford
Pnling, Matthews and \. IL. Williams
Mr.. Register bad been member of The
committee, when it as first appoiutei
but lie had "tTaded eff" with Mr.. WI
'SMs, taxing that genteman's piaC,
upou the committee On Revised Ssa
mites. So i&r as the railroad question
is concerned the oommittee fsvors III,
Delaware Western bill, slm0st 81 i
nOT ataDds with the exception OF chair
man RoDlnon
The gentleman from South Murder
kill, who is very violent III his oTpoSi
ton to the bill, saw that it would be
greatly to the advantage Of lhs opposi
tlen to h2ye two more members GA The
committee Of their way of thiu6iDg,
Two members on the committee are
from New Castle and the rest from Sus
sex, aud so Mr.. VanBurkalow had q
subtertuEe, which looked almost like q
reasonable excuse to follow up his res.
olution with a speech, II which he
talked about an important charter"
before the COMMITTEES on corporations
aud the un'sirness of Kent county hav.
ing no hand in the game.
Thus, "lugged bodily in by the
ears" the railroad question came up
syentuallT for general discussion in
the uon8e. That was after the talk
had teen cut Of by the quick noon al
iOurpmant, and when the House met
ia the afternoon the first thing done
was the calling no of the resolution
wlou MIR, Bradford offered the amend
ment, adding MessrF. Hraham and Van
BurEal0W 10 the committee.
This would not do the other side, be-
cause liberal Nj. Graham is thought
e We iu favor OF ths new road, aid pr.
Fomins3u spoke IN opposition, chars-
ing that tbs substitute was an siTr0ut
to the speaker, showing a lack Of conf
deDcs Ia his discrimination IN cboo.-
Ing the two additional members.
MIR Bradford defended mis- action.
saying Re hal 30 intention Of rsflscuna
upon the speaker. he hsd been in
formed but !sw minutes before that
the speaker would he glad to ba re-
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,S l $3.50 -. coy LOO ~ o"'
Nv rn,'t,. ns "s,"s 'spn' se,''iS
dig st Mr.. 6radtord by fenarkiug tart,
~ shht sac E"'''..-eman from New Castle
'assamee much TO act On what he hal
heard without consulting the Speaker
Mr. Canal replied III the same strait
and then Mr., Bradford abruptly pa! RI
~ud t. these iGueudoes by stating
bat the resolution which he had jus
offered Eaa only been put in his nhnC
isx moments b.iore he offered il. He
had not selected tho gentlemen nance
IA the resolution and had hes tatet
about presenting the resolution bu
Ic1pdu5ed 20 do 20 under all oifcum
IelnDce3.
Before the debate on the resolution
e!osel Mr. Calm IN concluding ops c
bis speeches declared that he wOuL
show the people OF the Stale how h
lstood on the Railroad Question bstcY
tie session closed, And he did as Ia
isequrl will show.
! The vote upon the substitute wa
twelve to eight, the Speaker moi votip
and was declared lost, as it required
two-thirds vote ~ pass the resolution
the resolution oohtenp. at,ug a suspul
lsiOn of the rules. There was sou