Evening journal., 1889-04-24
spERRY AND HASTINGS
Undertake to Pull in the
Scalps of Senator
HIGGINS AND SECRETARY BACH

-, tne Addicks BIN at Dover and Sue
coed to the Queens Taste--It was Re-
nnblican Funeral but the Democrats
Took Hand.
stat correspondence Of EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, April 30 This was certainly
the biggest day of the session by far
The first thing to cause any ripple was
The retraction of last nights action upon
the biennial election bill The friends Of
Senator Higgins worked hard during the
night to prevent this action but Messrs. |
Sperry and Hastings jumped in and with /
the aid Of the Democrats succeeded IN |
knocking out Delaware's s'Only" in bad |
shane. only three members standing by |
the Only. Just what the Republicans |
split over this would seem hard for an |
ordinary mortal to understand unless it
was simply desire upon part Of the
Bird people to administer castigation to
Higgins and the Democrats felt it was
1s# their funeral and helped them out
The Higgins people received their second
shock later in the day by the passage Of
the AddicI's bill, and their interference
with the biennial bill secured the neces-
sary fourteenth vote for this measure.
THE ADD1cKs BILL.
J Edwards Addicks should hasten to
present the Hon. Anthony Higgins with
q vote Of thanks for his aid in passing his
bill TO incorporate the Peninsula Invest
ment Company. Not that Anthony would
feel grateful for the aforesaid vote even
If it was delivered on a gold platter, but
he is entitled to them all the same.
The bill was called up in a very modest
way By Mr.. Morgan this morning He
r. Al. ~ - a IA
by Its number This had the effect Of
throwing everybody off the scent, but
when the first section had been read
Downham jumped up bristling all over
and he proceeded 70 let himself loose, he
threw charges Of Doodle right and left,
saw all manner Of calamities and dire,
deep-dyed and villaneons schemes in the
bill The Higgins representative worked
himself up to high pitch over the bill
and Delaware's "Only" himself could not
have done better had hebeen here When
Downham had finished Mr.. Eckles sailed
in and prepared to do the Georgetown
Accidental" NHe told him solid chunk
of truth when he snid that he owed his
seat in the House to the use Of DOODLE
W. i. Davis raised the point that the
gentlemen was out of order and the point
was not sustained Mr. Wallace then
plainly told him that he had grown tired
of his talk about Doodle. There had been
too much of it, The committee had ex-
amined the bill carefully and he for one
did not know of any Doodle and If there
was any the accidental must know
of it.
Then running debate ensued. The
Academia" got up so often that the
speaker was compelled to repress him by
intimating that If he continued he was
liable to talk to the end of the session.
The vote was taken and resulted as fol-
lows Ayes-Messrs. Armstrong, Biggs,
Brockson, Clark r. A. Davis, Eckles,
Gray Hynson, Lingo. Masten, Morgan,
DR. Richardson, Speaker Hoifecker-l4.
Nays-Messrs w T.. Davis, Downham.
Lodge, Maull, Sackett, Short White.
man..
When Mr. Gray name was called hs
arose and said: cat the beginning this
bill was to my mind very broad, as the,
claimed they had $12 000 900 at their dis
posal at interest amounting to 81, 600
day, and 1t was necessary that the
should have the bill, which caused me 3,
be rather suspicious Of the bill, but Al
their bill had been cut down from tim
to time ] have thought recently that
their bill was no broader than some othe
measures that we had passed. But
should not have voted for the measure
had not some very prominent Politician
on the part OF the Republicans takei
such an interest in the bill, which wa
clearly TO my mind nothing more thar
political jealousy. / mean by that tn
private secretary of Mr.. Higgins ha
come down here to interfere in the bien
nal election bill and / viii vote aye oi
this bill
Mr. Hynson also explained his vot
and said he had carefully considered tn
bill and would vote for IL because h
thought ii was right 1t was sub
sequently ascertained that Mr.. Hynson'
vote had in large measure been decide
upon by Mr., GrRy's explanation. Whe
It came the speakers turn to vote tn
bill had received thirteen votes and upo
him depended its fate. In voting for th
bill the speaker said. ut was evident I
the House that the speaker has 90 Civ
the casting vote, and in so doing th
chief incentive was that it was politica
petty jealously against the measure MOI
than the Doodle that was in It, and tha
my conscience was as clear upon tina
matter as 1t was upon any vote / hay
cast this session. Clark has alway
been counted against the bill and was,
it is said, up to last Thursday Thl
evening Senator Higgins summoned fou
members to Wilmington and proceedt
to lecture them upon the Addicks bill
Mr.. Clark resented this and come dow
in favor Of the bill The bill was TAX,
into the Senate and had two reading
IL will be passed tomorrow. The A
dicks people were in high glee this eve
ing over their success. The Democra
enjoyed the discontinue Of the Higgi
people highly and the anti Higgins peol
took lots Of grim satisfaction out Of I
success Of the bill.
STATE INSANE ASYLUM.
The next great event of the day '
the passage of the State Insane Asyll
bill by the House.
Mr. Biggs called up the bill and in
eloquent speech advocated it. He s.
tnat New Castle county not only Il
$50 600 on this bin but would payi90
cent. of the $1,000 to buy the pres'
building.
Mr. Sackett offered an amendment p
viding for the purchase Of the Suss
Insane building for $4,000 He said I
building was recently built and would
no use to the county If the insane W,
taken to New Castle county.
w E. Davis then offered a resoluti
providing for the purchase Of the X,
county asylum at $1,000 Mr.. CLARK p
tested in manly speech against Il