Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-04-18


regular floating bar rooms since the in
PRODUCTION Of prohibition in that section.
Then he went on to speak OF the dis
oovery of America by Columbus aud
wound up by saying that he should vote
against this bill.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Representative Armstrong 10 In receipt
OF letters from William 3. Evans and W.
7. Warburton, EGGS, of Ejkton, on tine
workings Of the county commissioner
system in Cecil county. Mr.. Evans
writes "0ur experience demonstrates
that shTee commissioners for the county
are all that are necessary any more
would have o tendency TO oomplicate and
retsrd public business" Mr.. Warburton
writes: "We find three commissioners
all that Ia required, in fact the body
should be small. This system has been
In vogue here for many years, and we
consider it the best system that could be
devised. They appoint q clerk and
county treasurer, who receives all taxes
and disburses them upon ths order Of the
county commissioners. think Your
people will, after short experience, pre-
fer the system We have here TO the one
now In force with you"
An ex. commissioner of Cecil county
also writes saying that the present system
o. three commissioners is much prefer
able In every wey and more sstisf sctorg'
economical and effisisnt than the old
system If nine commissioners
ts bill is in committee and is likely
to be reported favorably in day or two.
THE MILITIA BILL.
aJjrsaU..r general Kenney says the
anti nliIsnn bll', Introduced by DR.. Rich
ardson, 10 as good hs knocked out. A
DoVerita vino is credited with the
paternity o. the bill says that what it
aims at il 10 wipe out the animal encamp-
nett; aud this because these encanp-
ments are waste Of money. You take
the people in these two lower counties"
says he "and they ore to man, without
respect to politics, opposed to this mil
itia business" Queer talk from Repub-
lican. Particularly ss General Ksnney
has shown that these eacsmpm ants are
pad for ont of fund drawn from the
government Tor military uses.
NO MuRpERErLL pRAwBRIDGE.
The biggest time Of the days session
was the Hynson-Dayis contest over the
Murderkill river drawdridge aud cause
way. The proposed bridge was to be
located at Coles Shoals, about three
miles below Frederick, and there was TO
bs consisting road bdilt across some
marsh land on each side OF the river. The
contest had bsen vending and gathering
volume for q month past, so that the two
members pemod were pretty we'll loaded
up and IL toDk them over half an hour
10 nnload, Tho debate was quite hui
morous Throughout, and What made
il flnnier was thst no othNr
member hA1 any personal knowledge Of
the ground and OF the merits Of TIE dis
cu9sioa. Tbeve we're from 900 TO 900
petitioners for the road and bridge, AMI
Ike remouslIunts, Mr.. iiyp5nn admitted,
wsTs almost as runrtous 1t was dsvel-
oped that tue marsh L. remarkable ia
various ways. Ex-Governor Hall stated
in letter to tho committee that man
could, with ore hsnd, push pole down
depth of 10 or Is iset all over this
marah sod that there we're portions OF IL
that might he described as floating sur
face, liable to be lifted up and swept
bodily away TN the surface Of the wates.
! Moro enbstsGtial objections urged by the
) OK gavarnor end by Levy Court Com
missioner hIagieu were that the bridge
would obs,tuct navigation and tina!
it and The causeway would cost an uncer-
pressed the opinion that it would take
from 80 to so years to build The road,
: aud that there waa mo telling where The
cost would end" but it would certainly
not go bolow $50, 600 at the very least.
, Commenting on these statements, &r.
Hynson scientifically expressed surprise
that the nl1skrsts were not afraid to cross
} and the festive mosquito TO slight upon
such Insecure morasa. The bill, which
had been unfsvurably reported by all the
committee exceDt Mf. Hynson, was earn.
estly championed by the latter gentle
J man, but it was n hopeless up hill fight
and, when the vote was taken, W. E
Davis rallied opponents to lay it out by {
! rising vols II s or 9to5.
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT BILL.
\ The committee in chsrge of tie
Australian ballot bill will meet 70 make
! up its report On that measure al 8 q. u
! to morrow. The report will, go fur al
! present indications go, be favorable. Il
, is beginning to seem probable that the
| Dorman ''purely of elections" bill will
embarrass the passage of this measure
through the Senate.
ON THE COMMISSION BILL.
Senator Donahoe said tonight. in reply
to your correspondents interrogatories
; that while he has not been disposed Il
! think very favorsbly OF the Whitemar
bill to substitute three county commits
sioners for the New Castle lew court
. yet he has not worked against that meas
0 ure in any wsy Rs yet. AS to wha'
3 course he will pursue il the bill reaches
8 the Senate he is not yet prepared to say
l de wants to look into the matter NOR
3 carefully before making up his mind
l There is growing disposition in tn
. Honse to SO amplify the bill as to make
apply to all three counties of the State.
THE AnLoPATHIc HOSPITAL.
= at the request Of Representative Gray
! and by courtesy of his tellow-members
the Senate bill incorporating the Della
ware Hospital was taken up out of tn
regular order of business this norninj
, and passed by the House, greatly to tn
satisfaction OF Mayor Harrington, VIII,
was present. This does for the allopoth
; what previously passed bill has done 70
the homoa )psths. Among the incorpor
/, ators named in the charter are Drs. L. p
: Bush, William r. Bullock and James A
! Draper, Job II. Jackson, George W
Bush, Mrs Mary II. Harrington, Mrs
! Elizabeth O. Rumford, Mrs. Victor duPon
and others.
. WATER BONDS.
a Wilmington's Council committee !
! down here to night asking for Legislative
1 authority to transfer $4,000 from tn
Water Department to the cIty's use. Til
q amount in question was appropriated t,
: pay of maturing water bonds, but coulc
: not be used for this purpose on accoun
!. of the sinking fund act President Farr
. reports that the Water Commissioners ar,
| -.t1i;.s. a., b,,J D.yar hY1t fhfo an NM