Daily Republican., 1881-02-04
FOURTH EDITION.
STATE TOPICS Az ROVER.
Matters worthy Of Note 80 the
state Capitol, ~ Suggested by she
DOings Of Yesterday

b been buttonhOlipg and oaucussinS 10
: degree quite unusual, and consequent
a ly things presented an appearance o
a mora than passing livelineSs. AZ i
a was 80 near the close OF the week thi
4 might bs considered suggestive Of som'
7 important revelations on pending mat
. .ers bat such was BOT the case. II 3,
happened that everybody who hRc
business hit upon this day to trspsae
. it, and the various missions included
the meeting Of the Game Protective As
SociatloD. the opposition TO the wstel
: rights hill Of the Wilmington City
Council, the investigation Of the New
Castle branch Of the Farmers Bank
the PouGsrsy divorce case, railroad
mattsrs, &c. OF course this brought g
Sreat many.
rEoMlSENr PEOPLE
to Dover. Here are few OF their
names Charles b. Lore, ESQ, Victor
DUPONT, Esq., Preston Lea, Richard g.
Cooper, Deputy States Attorney
Alexander b. Cooper, William Green,
Wilbur T. Burnite, John W. Causey
Major James Z. Loiland, Henry CLAY
| Turner, Bsqr c. c. Stockley, Minos
iCouaway and host Of others. In CON
sequence the Capitol Hotel presented
an animated aspect at dinner time
particularly aud all day generally.
About the only thing Of "bona fde"
interest at the session to-day was Mr..
Registers notice in the House of the
ti.i to amend the act passed at last
session to regulate the expenditures Of
the New Castle Levy Court which may
be r9Gsrded in part as a sort of
pEacCRArIC c5UP p'RYAT.
Already good bit Of space has been
taken up in these columns with refer
enoe TO the act which this bill is IN.
tended to smsnd, passed last session
through the efforts of the raformatory
Dean despite the opposition Of many of
the bourbon stripe. II was passed af
ter many amendments with a surrep. |
uuou5 and intentional omission in sec |
ton 4 by which no date was fixed for
the publication Of the expenditures of
the Levy Court, A bill, introduced hy
M Pllling, is now pending to ameud
this, fixing the date early in February.
But Mr.. Register, Sho is a member from
Kent, has had his hands fuil in the
Levy Court Of his own county in times
past to keep free from cenaure without
with affairs Of the New Cas-
tie county Levy Court, gave notice Of a
bill, the NAN object OF which is 10 re.
peal section d. Whiob, il put in orera.
lion, will be very obnoxious to the De
Docrsts. The bill hss several other
provisions which, while neither ohie,.
.iouabIe nor unVi6e, are rather foIsisn
10 the original bill.
ThS RA!L29AD CONTEST
vas not very warm to-day. The pree-
'ncs Of Vice President John W. Davis
II The Baltimore L Ohio Compsnv, had
tendency to improve the cEauces of
be Delaware Western bill. Last night
ir. Davis had hearing before the i
members of the two houses, and ex +
lained the position OF his road, which
declared was heartily in sympathy
ith the bin pending in the Senate.
.r, Davis left for Baltimore this eve
ing.
Some time ago ! called attention to
10 iact that more railroad schemes
ere likely to be bT0aclpd. Al the
ms knew Of the matter, but conldl
OF speak definitely, net, however. :
wing to q lack Of Information. Now ?
ommon runOr is dealing with the most
Important Of them, and here it is: A y
rutleman connected with one of the +
lost roTer:ul ratIroai corporations of n
Ia country was here yesterday and n
)day and authorized 8 rtain leeal u
7ntlemsn 70 draw upon his company G.
)r big amount, 10 be used In counsel =,
'es and that sort OF thing, viii h are Q
eoessaFy in matters of legislation. v
he prcJsct is a new road between Bal. ~
more AID Philadelphia-tAe third act lp
y the way, which has been talked of y
taT-sud the Introduction Of the bill :,
'i1l depend upon the reception which liz
be Delaware We5tern bill is given BY u
le members. II the Delaware West.
IN bill IS killed, $50 the rumor runs, ) f
ls new bill will be introduced at once. y
nd d oepositwiIl be made in the Farm. :,
RS Bank here 10 the credit Of the \
.ster as q guarantee Of the good faith a
those back Q! the proj cot. Unless it
III be positively shown that this ia
ot genuine, il will have tendency TO
crt tie prospects OF the Delaware
'esterE,
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