The daily gazette., 1883-01-24

Board of Health bill so as TO increase the
4 appropriation; MIR. Cavender Of all amenu-
ment TO the uniform ballot law, aud Dr.
Mustard Of an amendment TO the act rpgu-
latlng plotage I'm the Delaware Bay BY
| this act 1t is proposed to meet provisions in
the bill of the Pennsylvania pilots now
pending at Harrisburg, which is hkrIy 10
be obnoxious TO the pilots holding licenses
/ under the laws Of this State. Mr..
Cooper introduced the bills, making coercion
at elections by employers an indictabie Of
tense, Incorporating the St. Mary's T. A. b.
Association and the Jacksen Lime and
Marble Company, and changing the lime
| for the cunning season. Mr.. Caverder iu-
troduced an act incorporating the Delmar-
via Fertilizer Company, and Mr.. Belts an
act incorporating the River 'front.' Land In
provement Company. Among the parties
named in the bill, which places the capital
stock IT 50,UOO-$l00 share-are U. z.
Purdy OF the National Dredging Company,
| w. q. Gibbons, Colonel Enoch Moore, Ji.,
| b. r. Townsend, E. I. Walton and Others.
The Senate passed the bills incorporating
the Robbins Hose Company OF Newpot I,
aud the Peninsula Bone aud FeI tiIizer
| Company, the House bill relating to the
new school house at Newark was read
1 hrst time aud the Rehobobh hotel bill was
referred to the Corporation Committee.
Mr.. Cooper called up for hual passage the
bill providing Tor the appointment OF com-
mission In lunacy by the court. IN cases Of
| criminals who exhibit symptoms of Insanity
i before sentence, and for their commitment
| TO the almshouse II Lney are found TO be in-
sane. MIR. Belts objected to the Liil, stating
as his reasons that the ends OF Justice might
| be defeated. DR.. Mustard did not altogether
| like its provisions and ON his motion it WAS
/ laid on the table.
A list OF reprieves, etc., made by ex-
Governor Hall since January 4, 1881, was
sent TO both Houses yesterday, read ana
| ordered to be spread on the journals. 1he
| list consists OF eight, aud the only one which
| will be read with interest Is that Of Jeremiah
Harrigan. On the respite OF Harrigan The
| docuhent says Execution on Friday, the
| 4th day of March, A. D.. 1882, VIII ch was
postponed until Friuay, December Is, 1852,
| between the hours OF ~ O'Clock, q. M, and
| 3 o'clock, p. m. On December Ii, 1882, the
1 Governor lurther postponed the execution
VI the sentence until Friday, the 14th day
/ Of December 1883, between the same hours.
1 The reasons for granting this further re-
| spite were thai facts discovered aft the
| trial and conviction OF the said Harrigan
| showed that Dennis Shea had been ON
terms OF criminal intimacy with the said
/ Harrigan's wife and which had been brought
/ TO the attention OF said larrigau, and that
| the said Shea was already engaged III CON
/ epiracy to take the said larrigau's liie, all
Ut which facts were supported 10y the atiida-
| Wits OF respectable cittzens OF New Castle
| county.
BILLS PENDING AND TO COME.
Yesterday was very busy one. The
/ House put In nearly six hours In open ses-
sion, aud the Senate only found time hang
heavy late in the AFTERNOON. A gre deal
of important work can now be heard OF aud
some very important measures are now
pending. The subject of representation is
exciting q good bit OF discussion. The
GAZETTE correspondent asked Speaker
Bates to-day when his bill to increase n
number and app1rtion the members of the
General Assembly, notice of which he gave
yesterday, would be introduced.
"Very soon," he answered, ''just as soon,
| in fact, as the bill eau properly be drawn"
"Will you wait uuul you receive the
the opinion Of the judiciary on the ques
tiOns put to them iu the joint resolution OF
Monday, before putting it in ."
"Oh, no. 1t Is not necessary for us to do
that. The views of the judiciary are
simply to guide US and any changes can be
made that the opinion may suggest. What
/ we want Is to get the matter before the
members, so that we can discuss IL fully
and come to some understanding abou: It
without acting In hasty manner"
1 1uc plil iOI pAOFOL4Cul vi OtluWdIC
streams, given notice oil by Mr.. Love, Is q
very amusing thing. 1t is supported by
| Messrs Draper aud Heverin OF Dover, and
| Mr.. Lowe Introduced It as an accommoda-
| ton, and does not favor it. 1t provides Tor
| the appropriation Of the oyster revenue,
| which amounts to something less than s., 600
| early, for the construction of II di iedging
machine. The oyster fund will probably be
turned into the school fund or app opriated
4 ~ ralO nphn mar Ma NJ
slider that a dredging machine will cost
at least $2O,0O0 they will be
inclined to smile. The act limit
Ing the Chrstiana hundred road tax,
introduced by Mr.. Justis, likes the amount
Ut IS 500. Last year II exceeded IS ,0OO, aud
many people complained. The amendment
to the charter OF the Wilmington and New
Castle Narrow Guage Railroad Company
provides, as ] telegraphed you yesterday,
Lhat hnes may be built to Edgemoor aud
New port, and allows the compony to in-
crease its capital stock to $500, ,000.- The
amendment to the Sussex Midland Railroad
| Company's charter. soon to be introduced
by Mr.. Dukes, is TO carry out on paper q
scheme which will probably never be carried
out In reality. The charter now provides tor
the construction VI q road from The Mary
latid line, where 1t joins branch running
to that point from Denton, to Georgetown,
and the proposed amendment is To continue
the road to some point near the Delaware
Breakwater where coal wharves are TO be
built. Coal and other freight is to be run
north to Baltimore bN way of Washington,
ferried ACROSS the Chi sapeake, aud at the
Breakwater loaded for foreign parts. 1t is
said that New York capitalists are backing
the thing. They have not turned up yet.
Some more important legislation is ex-
perted soon, as l have said. Mr.. Justis is
contemplating a law taxing telegraph poles
In the State, and then the Senate will soon
have before it an amendment to the usury
law. The present law provides that any one
charging a usurious rate OF interest, that
is above per cent, shall upon conviction
forfeit the principle and interest. In nearly
all the other States the law is much less
stringent, forieiting only the amount OF in
terest charged above 4 per cent. 1t is
claimed that the law drives capital from the
State, and some effort will be made to have
1t made to conform to that of other States
StOeckle's Bad Luck.