The daily gazette., 1883-02-01
STATE LAWMAKERS.
Yesterdays proceedings In Both Houses
of the Legislature.

been already telegraphed to the GAZETTE
The House passed the following bills: In.
cooperating the Gazette and Star Publish
ing Companies, and concerning
the George P. Whitaker Company
The following bills were introduced and
read; Senate bill amending the act provid-
ing for State Board of Health; House bill
in relation to the powers of the Levy Court;
Senate bills to Incorporate the johnson
Forge Company; to incorporate the Phila-
delphia and Smyrna Transportation Com
pany. The following bills were read a sec
ond time and properly referred: 70 iucor-
porate the Hickory Grove Cemetery Com
pany; to incorporate the Harrington Ii
brary Association; providing for the APP
pointment of State Board of Agriculture.
Mr.. Messick gave notice of an act to amend
section 2, chapter 354, volume 1G, Laws
Of Delaware, in relation TO the collec-
ton of taxes for school purposes. The
Committee on Foreign Relations presented
Joint resolution approving OF the propo-
sition to purchase the Temple Farm and
Moore House at Yorktown, and requesting
our Representatives In Congress to support
bill for such purpose. The resolution was
adopted. Petitions were presented from
Julia s. Morgan for divorce from her hus-
band; for stock laws in districts 6S and 18,
Sussex county. The bill to amend the
charter of the town Of Dover was defeated
by vote of II to d. 1t provides that in
stead of raising by taxation 81, 500 per year
to run the town the Council may levy
q tax not exceeding so cents on the hundred
dollars. The bill will probably be recon-
sidered and passed with a lower rate of
taxation. Three hundred copies of the State
Board Of Health report entire and ! 900
copies of that part relating to vaccination
were ordered to be printed. The report of
the joint Committee on Library was read
and recommitted with instructions to the
committee to report q bill embodying its
Of the Committee on Municipal Corpora
tions, reported back the new charter of sea-
ford: and moved that it be
returned to the authorities of
Seaford with instructions to cut down and
return to the Legislature so printed copies
of the bill after It has been thus abbreviated
to q reasonable length. The motion was
lost Speaker Bates gave notice Of the fol-
lowing bills An act relating to judg-
ments; an act to incorporate the j. NJ.
Pusey Company; an act limiting the time
during which judgments shall be lien on
real estate; an act to incorporate the Young
Mems Democratic Club of Wilmington.
IN THE SENATE.
Mr.. Mustard introduced the bill to amend
the pilotage law which contains no provis-
ions In addition to those already published
Mr.. Belts introduced bills to amend chapter
III, volume Is Laws of Delaware, to raise
revenue for the current expenses of the
State government (abolishing the provision
requiring lawyers, doctors, conVeyancers
and dentists to take out licenses) !;
Incorporating the Wilmington Glass
Company and the Wilmington Market
House Company; changing road in
Little Creek hundred, Sussex county. The
Senate passed bills as follows Act consoli-
dating the public schools of Smyrna House
bill Incorporating the Dover Glass Works !;
Incorporating the Pioneer Coach Company
The House amendment to Senate bill incor.
porating the Pusey & Scott Company was
concurred in. The bill providing for a new
road In Mispillion hundred was passed.
Mr.. Cooper In the afternoon introduced
his bill in relation to contested elections.
The bill provides that any eleetor of county
or hundred may contest an election for the
unfair election Of officers, ineligibility of the
claimant to office, forgery or attempted
bribery OF the elector, inspector, judge or
clerk, and Illegal votes. Notice of contest
must be filed within 20 days after the result
of the election is officially made known. 1t
will be sufficient to state generally in the
notice that enough Illegal votes were cast
to vitiate the claimant, but names Of alleged
illegal voters need not be given in the no.
tice. The Prothonotary shall direct such
cases and they shall be tried as any other case
except that there shall be no jury unless
one or both parties claim the right of Jury
trial The court may examine the ballots.
If the claimant proceeds in the legal manner
ard the offices are declared vacant, the per-
son proved to have the highest number of
votes is to be installed. In case such pro-
ceedings shall be taken as In vacancies that
have happened from other causes section IL
provides that any election prior to the pas
sage of this act may be contested under 1t If
the statement of the cause of contest be filed
within thirty days after the passage of this
act. Two hundred and fifty copies of the
bill were ordered to be printed.
THE LIQUOR LAW.
Just what move the Local Option people
intend to make, and how they will go about
it this time, has not yet transpired. 1t is un-
derstood that a good many yard-stick
lengths of petitions have been secured, but
these have not been sent In yet. Pamphlets,
arguing that prohibition is beneficial written
by President Daniels of the Maryland State
Temperance Alliance, have been laid on the
members desks, and 1t is understood that
the bill which the temperance men will in
sist upon being passed has been drawn by
q Wilmington lawyer.
The talk that the liquor men shave raised
$20, 900 to defeat local option" is declared
to be without foundation. The liquor men
are likely to ask for very little In the way of
amendment to the present law. They desire
to have the clause stricken out which re-
quired the securing of "a ''good and re-
spectacle citizens" as signers of license ap-
plications. An amendment which has also
been suggested is TO allow the owner of
hotel property, who lives In another
State, to make the usual oath before proper
officer In that State instead of being com
pelled to appear in person before the clerk
of the peace on the first day of court. What
may be done is the granting of e'free
liquor law,' that is, giving license to any
man who applies, and fixing the price at
$500 or S40O, and making violation of pro-
visions of the act forfeiture of the license
and imprisonment.
DIR. Kaiser and other members of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Philadelphia
Alumni Association of Delaware College
have been here talking in the interests
of that institution, and during the session
an effort will be made to secure aid from
the State. The needs of the college at
present are urgent, more particularly
in the line of enlarging and i'm
proving the buildings. The facts
that the State has given Delaware college so
little of late years, that it is a worthy instl-
tuition and certainly credit to the State,
and that other States have aided their insti-
tutious are among those used in the argu-
ments. One thing is certain Delaware
College will stand better chance with the
present Legislature than she stood with